clearly, a rip off of line 6, and worst of all, more expensive...I do not get it

Listening to the samples, it sound an average multi effect unit. There are better than this for the price range, try an AXE FX around the same value. I think just the "pro-tool" name is going to fool lots of people in the market. About the quality, only time will tell us the real truth. If the price was less than $400, I'd give it a try, only after hearing the true reviewers, not those parties who has interest to promote any shit and give 10/10 for any garbage.

Yes, I took I risk(LOL as the crowd chants sucker). Yes I may find myself disappointed later. I'm a student finishing the Masters Pro Tools coarse at Berklee currently. For my needs as a guitar player recording exclusively with Pro Tools, I've personally found most other amp software/interface options only slightly improved over each other as they progress from version 2,3, Gold, Platinum, the farm to plantation series etc.

My opinion solely...

Sure analog is king, no dispute with that at all. If I could go back in my wayback machine to 2" tape and a great room, I'd sign up. But given that my studio uses PT 8 LE. I said, "...what the hell"

If I find the Eleven Rack turns out to be a loser, I'll come back and report why I think it falls short (and a shortcut to my Ebay listing...)LOL! If I think Eleven Rack has merit, I'll report why I think it's better or what specifically is better.

Since I started playing guitar 30 years ago, I've bought tens of thousands of dollars worth of "The new thing" for better sound. Whether something was a "rip off" really never had a thing to do with cost. It had to do with performance. If it works, people will buy it. My interest was peeked by the re-amp curcuit and having a DSP interface to offload the processing load of the effects while recording. Besides, I wanna see for myself how good it is.

I have spent the past two evenings checking out a unit. First off, I'm not a Pro Tools fan or hater (I prefer Ableton Live and Cubase for DAWs). Second, I haven't had a enough time to really put it thru its paces. That said, this thing sounds pretty darn good. I don't know if it is the modeling or the "true z" input they are using that loads your pickups (probably a combo of both), but it sounds good running thru an amp (old Supro and old Fender blackface copy), studio monitors (Blue Sky), and headphones. Dead simple to use (lights up to show what parameters/effects are engaged on each preset).

I'm not a huge fan of the clean sounds, but haven't tried rolling my own yet. I really like the distortion tones. They cover everything well, not just the completely in your face, high gain sounds. I have an Eastwood copy of the old Harmony's that are great for slide and I couldn't believe how good it sounded through the Eleven Rack. I use Soft Tube, IK (mostly the Fender version), and Line 6 modeling and the Eleven holds its own easily IMHO. Also, the tape echo effects really stand out for me. I haven't even hooked this up as an interface yet so can't comment on that side. It also has a re-amping function that I haven't tried. You can record an "effected" and clean signal at the same time and then use the eleven to send the "DI'd" channel back out into an amp, tweak to your content, and mic it up. The converters sound really good (I typically run through an Apogee Duet). You might not need everything this box does, but if you do need DSP based amp models, a recording interface (with PT LE or any DAW), and a reamp unit, I think the $899 is a fair price, but 900 is a good amount of cash if you already have a nice interface, modeling software, or POD.

I do wish it had an analog path for your guitar, so you could plug into the unit but essentially bypass the Eleven and play straight into your own amp, and bring the Eleven in (and the AD conversion needed to run thru the modeling) when you want, footswitch style. Also, I haven't done a lot of fast preset switching, but sometimes it seems the switching might be a bit slow if you were playing live, I'll have to test that more and hook up a MIDI pedal. That being said I have very little to find fault with so far. Pretty darn cool box.

We have someone (a guy much better at guitar and who has probably played through every single real amp the Eleven is modeling) reviewing it for us (audioMIDI). So far his initial impressions are positive too.

-Doug

9 bills is not a lot of money for good tone considering the price of "good amps"..

Any decent hand made quality amp with "feel and reaction" will run you "at least" 1000 dollars and to that add effects cables stomp boxes etc... and your talking 2000 bucks.. now thats for "one" amp...

for guys using multiple amps its going to cost you plus $1000 per amp...

Plus you have to carry all that stuff around, the shipping and cost, plus tube amps break when shipped,

so $899 for a decent tone in a compact unit aint bad. I'm thinking about getting one... What I will probably do is run this through a tube preamp and then through a tube combo... then it will be usuable for me.. I use "a lot of gain" but shape that gain into flowing colorful articulate notes.. (well at least I try :)

If you want to hear my tone Google up Awesome John.

This unit could save me from carrying a ton of stuff.
I am thinking about buying this unit...
Every line 6 product I ever played sounded more geared to younger inexperienced players.. we old farts want authentic great tone. I just spent $7000 on my last 3 amps.
I aint fooling around :)
$899 for this gizmo is cheap in comparrison.
lets see maybe I will buy this and give it a try..
got to pay the rent too :) Maybe I will contact them to be an endorser..

more crap amp sims.....my advice buy a proper amp!

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