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At this stage you should be excited!
I know I was and I still am.
You might be missing the opportunities here.
If you are willing to invest that bit of time to learn how it works, how you keep track of gain levels and how to work the dials to make it work for you, you’ll come to some good primers for yourself to build upon. Once I had found my favourite free online IR’s for cabinets for example, things started to come together. If you feel like experimenting, There aren’t much worthy competitors though. If you’re looking for a real multitool and not just a multi-effect, you won’t regret it!
I hope a story like mine puts in some weight on the positive side: I’m selling my Wampler pedals and my Strymon Flint because they became idle since I have the dwarf. I downsized my rig significantly. I’m now experimenting with vocals and acoustic guitar, I’ll be buying a midi keyboard because it has proven itself als a wicked midi machine as well.
In my Dwarf journal you can follow my journey and how I discovered, in baby steps, to use it both in front of an amp and as end-to-end system. How it servers my heavy metal and acoustic needs, How easy it is to line up files and create a backing track machine for rehearsals without drummer. How I record both dry and wet signals of my ideas. that way, you can keep both and re-amp. I record ideas or the band and @brummer already showed interest to work on a mutitrack recorder. (he already has a recorder plugin that you can link anywhere in your chain.
If you are absolutely NOT creative, there is always this excellent community that will be eager to help.
Run into a bug? post it on this board! Last time I posted something, it was fixed in a next release.
MOD might not be the big multinational but they listen to their community.
I came in here as a singing guitarist and learned a lot while I already contributed from day 1 myself.
Try the online MOD sandbox.
https://sandbox.moddevices.com/
you can use the file player to play a dry DI guitar signal, preloaded in there.
build a chain, hear in real time how it works.