As I mentioned in my review of the Walrus ACS1, I am from the past. In most situations where I used to play, only the vocals went through the P.A. system. Now I live in a time and place where most of my opportunities to play live are in pubs or festivals where you're expected to run everything straight into the P.A. system. Took me a while to figure out, but a lot of the rhythm, lead, and steel guitar sounds I want to make can now be coaxed from little analog and digital boxes on a pedalboard. The Canvas Stereo is the missing link I needed at the end of the chain (tuner plus Greer Lightspeed, Carbon Copy, Fender Tre-Verb, Walrus ACS1 for example), and the result is brilliant. I miss the amps, but at least I get to play live again.