Quite a bit of R&D went into the mic eliminator design. I think most of the cabinet simulator direct boxes do not include the sound of the microphone in the equation. In other words, they all simulate the frequency response of the cabinet but not the actual signal that is coming out of the SM57 or whichever mic is used. When listening to the Mic Eliminator, we set up a number of the direct boxes and a couple of different mics and were able to listen to them all just by bringing up the correct channels on the console. We tweaked the Mic Eliminator to sound like the best live mic tone. I think it sounds excellent. Too bad more people don't know about it because it is a really cool and useful feature.
Egnater