Tourist: all sorts of sounds and tones. I have a few guitars. From single coil strat to LP and semi hollow. I like cleaner tones with a little bit of edge to them. You like the bad cat?
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I love the BatCat but it's extremely loud and sounds more like 30 watts than 15. Its features are pretty amazing - in fact some of the features are
only in the BadCat Cub series (the first pre-amp tube is footswitchable from 12AX7 to EF86 which completely changes the sound despite being only a single channel, and the entire concept of the K-Master, which allows you to run your preamp clean and get all your drive from your poweramp if you want).
For quieter, I'd look into a Fender Princeton Reverb (great cleans if you want dirt from a pedal), a Vox AC4HW with a Celestion Blue, one of the 5-watt Swart offerings, or one of the lower-watt Dr. Z amps (Maz 8 or M12).
Speaker sensitivity also has a lot to do with volume, too. A Celestion Blue is a much more efficient speaker than a lot of standard and therefore louder. For instance, a Blue has a sensitivity of 100dB whereas a Greenback only has a sensitivity of 98dB. That may not seem like much, but I believe if I'm remembering correctly, 6dB difference is a doubling in perceived volume (not linear). So 2 dB, just from different speakers, is a ton. I have Celestion Golds (100dB) and Celestion Creambacks (97dB) and can definitely tell the difference from one cab to the other.
Anyway, sorry if I barraged you with too much info, and sorry if you already knew any of this. Most of what I know comes from being a longtime lurker, sometimes poster on thegearpage.net, which is a gear forum (that has like 50x the amount of posters as we do here).
