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Gotta LOVE that Ethos! It saved me recently in Japan. Had to play thru an alien amp - Vox AC30 6TBX. A little twirling of the Ethos and... Ta Dah! Back in Kansas! And today, my old Marshall 50 watt died (bad power tubes I think) so I had to use my Magnatone for Strat, which is usually too swampy and dark. A little twirling of the Ethos and... snare roll... on the money Strat tone! Haven't used it direct yet, but thru amps it is worth five times what they cost. Richard Sales Sent from my IPad www.glasswing.com On Jun 16, 2011, at 7:55 PM, 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 >