This is a report for any beginner who may be curious about e-violins because this is a curious story.  The report is not an endorsement or tutorial of any kind.  The bottom line may be that it is difficult to tell which equipment will work best and careful research makes sense before buying anything.

I have a guitar amp with 4 equalizer channels and reverb.  I also have a ZOOM G1Nx effects box.  Altogether, this can make a lot of racket with all kinds of rock distortions but that's not my favorite thing.  Maybe the worse part is that there was a lot of string noise depending  on exactly how the controls were set (piezo pickup).  The e-violin is a Bridge Aquila.

Just on a whim I played the violin into a small PA amplifier ("LIL PA" 10w amp from Pignose).  The amplifier had limited bandwidth of 65 hz to 20 khz so it was no surprise that violin sound quality was lost.  BUT, most of the string noise was also gone.

I figured I would add the G1Nx to the setup and I was totally floored.  I have only heard such sounds from large studio setups and never from anything I have personally tried before.  Just beautiful!  And, the string noise continued to be suppressed.  I only tried 3 or 4 G1Nx patches so there is a lot to do.

I can't believe I have a sound I will finally like