I'm going to be using this primarly for recording electric guitar direct but also for vocals. I'll be running my pedals through the tube pre into an ADA Microcab then into my emu 1212m.

feel free to recommend other preamps if you think both of these will suck with electric guitar.

I need some advice So, I am in the market to buy a new mic preamp. I have around $500 to spend and I was looking at two:

the dbx 376 - tube mic preamp, compressor, eq & de-esser; digital outs

ART Pro Channel - tube mic preamp, tube compressor, tube eq.