I am still using the hog a lot because it is very cool.

dreamguy…nice post….I would humbly disagree with the notion that once you get a digital pedal righ then it will be the same even 5 years later…

I belive that as we move into 64bits (and what not) eventually we can really get a amp sound with software….

emulations and or modeled stuff is getting pretty good….I am a big fan of universal audio’s stuff….and I would love to give focusrite’s modelled pres/com/eq a try…

at the same time…it seem that a lot of guitar pedal makers are still giving us pretty weak stuff….I would mention the ones I am thinking of but that would be rude…then again maybe roland could do a little better…I won’t mentiuon any others..and I only mentioned roland because I use a ton of thier stuff and have a huge respect for a lot of their gear but some of their pedals….

EHX has always been great and they really put a lot into what they do….no if ands or buts, I just hope they will take as big a step as cost will allow to give us the best quality so the digital stuff will be close to the analog…and in the future maybe even better…

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To compare them with high end converters is really like comparing apples with pears. They are guitar pedals for christ’s sake!

I humbly disagree…..I only say high end convertors because analoge still sound best IMHO…I belive that tech is getting really close…(I just got NI guitar rig 4 and IMHO it sound much better ther 3)…so, I still favor a amp and mic…or an analog pedal

and as we move forward with 64bit processing and we can get the pedals to run at a 32bit floating point and at 96 the digital stuff should became very close to the analog…

but, if no one says “hey X” we want great sounding dugital stuff…we could have a repeate of the late 80s when every one was so overtaken by the functionality of the digital stuff as to forgive the tonality of it…of course these are my thoughts (and worries)

(and eventhough I really like the HOG, I do find it a bit lacking in tonality…not enough to take it baxk but enough for me to wish it was a bit more organic…)

(first, I want to say, I see EH putting out more digital pedals and I worry that one day they will only be offering digital pedals so that is way I am even mentioning this concern of mine)

I do not mean to angry anyone…I am humble and do really love EH….in my limited experience…of seriously trying the 2880 and of owning the HOG…and checking out the holy grail…I have found that (once again in my limited humbly experience) the converters (I am assuming) are not as good as my high end gear….yes, comparing the two worlds are not fair but at this point I believe that the tech is so high there is no reason not to convert at higher rates….

also, another example is say between my TC nova delay and say the 2880….I still believe that the TC is a bit better in the whole analog to digital thing but, as someone who is very picky…I still believe that the TC robs a bit of tone…

now there is a: cost to usefulness to tone equation….

I love EH and I wish they would just get the conversion done at a higher rate and with as little jitter as possible…

peace

and I will have to check out the cathedral

ok….did place evrything after (not using comp at this moment) and it worked better…I am still getting some allising but, again I do enjoy what the pedal can do…I will say that I am not 100% happy with the tone but I am going to keep it so, I am not super disatisfied either…it can do some really cool things but, I am not sure my money was as well spent as I would of liked…I guess I could of gone the midi route but the HOG does track better and setting up all the functionality would be a lot of work…not too mention a control surface to do the same thing also would take a bunch of work….

over all I do not like any EHs pedals that are not analoge but, I will live with this one…

peace

a lot of support for the riddle….