Live Albums suck - I have a couple of great live albums that would be well served by applying some EQ filtering. And whether you call it genre or whatever, it is basically assigning a preset to a particular EQ model. The Empeg has the ability to save many EQ presets. I'm sure we could call them "2k plus 5 DB" or something, but thats a little too awkward for me. If that preset is best served by a "Rock" label, then why not?

This whole thing is entirely subjective - I'm sure there is a fair amount of users out there who like the added color of reverb too. I don't particularly care for it, but as was mentioned, all you are doing is remixing what an engineer/producer thought the music should sound like. They add all kinds of effects, why shouldn't we. I don't pick up my guitar without some EQ, some reverb, some distortion, or other artificially induced coloring. I add it to fit the room or what I want it to sound like at that point. Whats the difference? Quality is an entirely different issue - I agree the lower end reverb rooms are cheesy, but I bet it could be done well.

Just spouting...

Joe