i don't have any good amp modeling plugins i'm afraid. but would you consider a fender deluxe reverb or twin reverb to be a decent amp? i borrow those all the time from work.

i'm pretty confident (even with my relatively limited experience) that you would rather go with the real thing every time if you had the chance to actually A/B the sounds together. a friend of mine from around here was just over the other day helping me record some gtr. he's a big fan of going direct in on his own tunes. anyway, he brought over his gear to show me how his gtr run through the right effects pedals would be so much better than the prs mccarty and deluxe reverb i borrowed from work. i was pretty open-minded about it, but when we did the comparison there wasn't really much to compare. of course it didn't help that the gtr he was using was a cheap strat knock-off.