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a very nice DAW...finally !

I'm about to replace my DAW and I've been having serious "Pro Tools or not Pro Tools"-anxiety for some time now. I'm a producer and songwriter so I need this for my own production suite, I don't run a commercial studio. I use Logic and if I would get Pro Tools it would be for the hardware only. My decision - not Pro Tools ! Why ..?

How much of a preamp's tone is reduced when it's run a

Is running my cheap-ass mackie's mic preamps at unity gain going to reduce the affect they have on the tone of the input in any way?

Naturally, I'm going to avoid this whenever I can, but how close does leaving a preamp at unity gain correspond to a true bypass scenario?