[Higgs F. Boson]

I use the Presonus Inspire as well and love it. Most of the guitar tracks in my home recordings have been made with an SM57 aimed right at the cone of whatever amp happened to be around at the time. I've used a POD too but always went back to the SM57 on an amp.

HOWEVER...I recently stepped up to Logic from Garageband and I've really been impressed with the Guitar Amp Pro software modeler. I haven't done a lot of deep-tweaking yet, but the presets are much more impressive and realistic to me than the POD tones I've gotten in the past. Plus, with a dry, direct guitar signal, you have the ability to tweak the tones as much as you like after recording - something you cannot do when you mic an amp.