Hello all,I really like Eventide's iconic reverb, chorus, delay, modulation, pitch-shifting effects... I have their bundle plug-ins and I am thinking how to incorporate them to my live guitar rig. The obvious thing to do would be to buy these H9 boxes but I think, why on earth on 2018 not to use the laptop to replace the digital stompboxes? “and then reamped and straight to the amplifier. I am not concerned at using a laptop because: it's introducing a lot of complexity that can go wrong, , foot controller to control the presets on the laptop, switching from one effect to another, activation key for vst's, looks ugly, whatsoever... I am concerned with the fact that even with maximum computer horsepower, latency would still be a serious issue. I am concerned as well with the fact that the output of my soundcard (Motu Ultralite) even reamped with a proper box, could entail serious impedance/sound problems when entering the guitar amp (let's say an amp with a big clean headroom), I guess it could be even further problematic if I put a fuzz box between my guitar and the Hi-Imput of the audio interface. Is this a serious feasible route? Any experiences?Thanks!

I've just discovered this and looks awesome: https://orangeamps.com/news/orange-ampl ... -teleport/

It would be fun to step on a laptop...

M my first thought that in 2018 there s still some way this will reduce your chances of getting laid

Nate Dort wrote:16 bits gives you 96 dB of dynamic range. That's almost certainly greater than most guitar amplifiers. Impedance matching isn't rocket surgery and can be dealt with easily enough.Latency is always a factor, but it seems like people are able to get it down to a manageable level. Remember you get 10ms of latency just by standing 10 ft away from your amp.As far as looking cool goes, I recommend doing whatever you damn well please and be Through Being Cool. Besides, if what you are doing is cool, then however you look while you're doing it is cool.

When going this route you will find that guitar players who pretty much want to work with 1950 tech is not the place to look for solutions. DJs most of whom work with laptops and pretty much want all the bells and whistles modern tech can provide will be where you want to go.I have done this in the past in a pinch although I generally would use an ipad or iPhone these days when I can to do a show and I don't have my gear around.For output you could try this Radial USB Direct box designed for DJs;http://www.radialeng.com/product/usb-pro/This Radial box takes USB in converts to 24bit/96kHz digital audio and pumps out to balanced stereo XLR outputs. Soundmen in the past had to deal with a lot of issues with computer audio being hard to control and too hot this box fixes that issue and is used a lot by the DJ community to plug and play.For input you should use a sapphire or ijam type thing to go from 1/2 inch to USB.To control boxes with your feet you could go a lot of ways but here is an example of a cheap solution I might use.Bugera FSB106A 6-button Footswitch for Bugera TriRecThis footswitch is $50 and is midi compliant. This is a midi to Bluetooth adapter.Plug in the adapter and you will now be able to turn on and off your stomp boxes with midi wireless.Here is a more expensive and cooler route $300 midi controlleror attach this korg controller on your guitar with some velcro $65 comes with Bluetooth installed.

projectMalamute wrote:That Orange thing appears to just be a mono USB interface with a high impedance input and output. They seem pretty confident that it will run on anything so it's probably standard compliant. Which is nice.However: it's16 bits, which sucks. Especially if it's going to live on a tweaker's guitar pedal board, where huge and unpredictable volume swings are the norm. That's 1/256th the (theoretical) dynamic range of every other audio interface one would consider in 2018.If it costs more than 20 or 30 bucks I'd look elsewhere.16 bits gives you 96 dB of dynamic range. That's almost certainly greater than most guitar amplifiers.

Don't get a laptop then. Get a rackmount PC case, and build a PC.

MPrado wrote:Hello all,I really like Eventide's iconic reverb, chorus, delay, modulation, pitch-shifting effects... I have their bundle plug-ins and I am thinking how to incorporate them to my live guitar rig. The obvious thing to do would be to buy these H9 boxes but I think, why on earth on 2018 not to use the laptop to replace the digital stompboxes? “and then reamped and straight to the amplifier. I am not concerned at using a laptop because: it's introducing a lot of complexity that can go wrong, , foot controller to control the presets on the laptop, switching from one effect to another, activation key for vst's, looks ugly, whatsoever... I am concerned with the fact that even with maximum computer horsepower, latency would still be a serious issue. I am concerned as well with the fact that the output of my soundcard (Motu Ultralite) even reamped with a proper box, could entail serious impedance/sound problems when entering the guitar amp (let's say an amp with a big clean headroom), I guess it could be even further problematic if I put a fuzz box between my guitar and the Hi-Imput of the audio interface. Is this a serious feasible route? Any experiences?Thanks!Basically, because of how cheap PC is...A rackmount PC case, makes it transportable but, you need a monitor...too, and those are not hard to find used...BUT, it's only a matter of several hundred dollars instead of a thousand or more dollars...A monitor that's transportable...go back to Dell, 2004

https://www.amazon.com/Gator-Audio-Rack ... B0018THE60https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product. ... 6811219023Put a PC in that case. Couple Advantages. Dell 2004 18" Monitor going new for around $69 Bucks. Think about it like this: a Powerbook with a 17" screen... versus an 18" inches Dell flat-screen. That case is cooler looking, number one, cheaper, number two, better, number three, because all of the PC components are easy to replace or upgrade, and more rugged... or you can conceal it so nobody knows there a PC running.