EHX Effects Interface "Hardware Plugin"

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Assuming you already own an audio interface with an available in/out, yes, it would be a lot less expensive to just use a reamp box like a ProRMP. To use your pedal board as a track insert in your DAW, just connect the reamp box to your audio interface. No power required.

IMO the whole point of this isn’t just the HW side - it’s the integration with a plugin, and recall. Of course it’s possible to do with other gear but it’s finicky.

If you use a reamp box, you still need to have available channels on your interface, you need to make a HW insert, deal with delay compensation (which can get thrown off with different sample rates of certain plugin chains and needs checking).

The EH being seperate to your main interface, and having its own dedicated I/O, as well as having the the plugin for recall is the whole appeal.

 

[laxu]

So do I understand this right? The only real difference to a regular old audio interface is the plugin -> hardware box connection, allowing you to add insert fx from pedals etc without complicated routing setups.

 

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So do I understand this right? The only real difference to a regular old audio interface is the plugin -> hardware box connection, allowing you to add insert fx from pedals etc without complicated routing setups.

Essentially yes. It frees up 4 channels of AD/DA, and provides the necessary reamp/DI features, as well as a plugin to recall levels and configurations (like wet/dry).

Saves having to patch into particular channels, check delay compensation.

Stereo radial pedal reamp box (EXTC Stereo) is £450 or so and doesn’t have any conversion or plugins etc. Its handling line to instrument level and back again, with the level and mix bits.

Client Challenge

I have available channels but I’m always using them for different things. doing it in stereo means I need to have stereo pairs of reamp boxes (I have a few lehle’s), and identical inputs available. And then I have to remember the chain i’m using for each project.