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Yes man the Ethos is the best preamp ive tried so far going directly into the board! even better i run it through a little compact 60 watt AER acoustic guitar amp and then into the board man with my gretsch through those what a sound! and portable enough to take in the train,plus your back spine will smile again,thats why my 50 watt koch sits in my room ever since! i m with Bill,i think im done with the multi fx proccessors thing,is a bit tiresome having to travel through menus to tweak simple and essential things like EQs in patches, i ve had multi fx proccesors for years,my first one the korg A3 and then the the Roland GP100 which i kept ofr a long long time,the i finally updated to a GT 10 but recently i realized that it had been collecting dust and ive gone back to basics,one tone and fx,perhaps the fact that ive been playing acoustic guitar for a few years now has made me strip down. So i ended up selling my GT10 and right now im happy with a basic setup, the ethos preamp and the M9. On the software side i have to say though that im impressed with guitar rig,though ive always been hardware i actually like the guitar tones better than all of those hardware mulit fx proccessors, If i run it through the rme 400 and then directly into the board and setup the buffer size correctly i get no dramatic latency issues and it makes a great guitar amp emulator and proccessor, though ive still yet to try it live! Luis On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 4:55 AM, William Walker <billwalker@baymoon.com> wrote: > As a fellow tone snob I feel your pain, I'm still stuck in hardware mode > and I'm able to do what you want with out involving a computer, but there > are few hardware choices available that can do multiple loops and mine, > the > LP-1 is currently out of production and the roland rc 50 has been > discontinued. When the time comes for me to move to software I will still > continue to use a small hardware front end and smaller floor looper as > both > a safety net and also because I still prefer analog, even solid state > over > modeling for guitar tones. To wit, my Custom Tones Ethos preamp offers > a > scant two channels of guitar tone, essentially a clean and a dirty > channel > with an extra boost on the dirty channel, but it has an excellent speaker > emulator output, so I can get great guitar tones even if I have to run > direct. Its like a dumble amp in a box, and I'm fortunate enough to have > played a few in my time. Effects are another matter as i can really see > putting a lap top to good use with both pre and post effects. Right now I > tend to have my effects pre loop when playing live and honestly I like > the > fact that my ethos and M-9 and timefactor and other effects are easy to > change on the fly, the frustration I have found with all in one > modeling/effects amps is how clumsy they have tended to be when needing > to > change eq and parameter settings on the fly. To much bass for the room? > what > are you going to do, tweak every preset you have created each time you > move > to a new one? i think the new modeling amp choices are much better than > when I was using them , and they have addressed a number of these issues, > but they still feel and sound a bit flat to my ears. Plus I'm a bit > tired of > endless menus, and LCD screens. Time spent editing effects parameters and > learning new platforms is time not making music, and currently I'm more > interested in making music with the tools I have, which as of yet have > not > proved limiting. So if I was making the leap, I think i'd keep as much > analog front end as possible, but keep it simple, and use a combo of > Abelton > and Mobius, becaues cool people in the know said so, and because Jeff > Larson has a dog almost as cute as mine , and what ever cool plugs I > could > get my hands on, I would start to integrate...slowly. I'd start with > some > Expert Sleepers stuff, because Os makes cool plugins, and I'd become > an > absolute pest to many of you on this list. > Bill > > -- www.luis-angulo.com