Guitar & bass plugins with LP8 - several look good, but which to choose?

I record a lot of guitar & bass parts in a range of styles. Rather then continue to lug hardware around and record parts 'wet', I'm keen on getting a plug-in system for guitar and bass so I can record 'dry' and then experiment with different effects, amps etc in Logic.
Looking at the various options, NI Guitar Rig 3, IK Multimedia Amplitude (and Ampeg SVX) and the Line6 Gearbox Gold bundle all seem to do what I want.
But which to choose? I know that preferences will largely be subjective, but I would be grateful to hear from users of any and all of these systems to hear their views.
Which has the best array of sounds? The best sound quality? Do any of them use vast amounts of processing power and - most importantly - do any of thsm suffer from major latency problems when software monitoring?
All thoughts will be gratefully received to help me make a considered judgement on which to choose!
Thanks

I have all the ones you've mentioned except the Line 6.
They all can sound equally good (or equally bad, depending on how much you've used real amps!) and seem to react about the same as far as latency is concerned.
The Logic Gtr amp can get some great sounds, although all of the amp models vary widely in tone and volume, so you really have to tweak. It's the easiest by far on the cpu.
The Ampeg SVX is killer on bass. Much better than the gtr amp sims are on gtr.
But with all of the IK Multimedia products I get a terrible buffer burp at the beginning of tracks.
It's like it won't clear the buffer from the previous pass until you burp it by quickly looping the first few blank bars before the track starts. I get this with T-Racks, Amplitube and SVX.
Guitar Rig 3 has the most toys to play with.
Pull up some of the Logic presets and see how they are using the Distortion plugins before the amp.
Turn off the limiters and gates. You also have a very wide range of colors to choose from with Logic's native plugs.
If you have to use plugins, then whatever you do, don't go back and forth between real tube amps and pedals. It's much easier that way to convince yourself that you almost have real tone.

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