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Post by gitaryzt1985 on Jun 24, 2015 5:10:38 GMT -7
I am thinking about running the new Line 6 Firehawk FX through my M12. Does anyone have any experience with modelers like the HD500 or Firehawk through their Z's? I've found in the past that you do get a little tone suck, but other than that it isn't all that bad. I went crazy last year (sold my amps) and I gigged an HD500x at my church for over a year before I decided to go back to amps.
Reason being, I currently have a Strymon Timeline and a Timmy...that's basically it. It would cost me several hundred $$ to really build a pedal board to fit my needs at this point, and my BIGGEST need is the ability to play and record silently at night. I thought about getting the Cab Clone from Mesa, but that would cost $250-300 and then I still would need a couple more drives, mods, reverbs, ect ect.
So, I'm thinking about getting the Firehawk FX and running the Timmy and Strymon into it. I had GREAT results running external effects into my HD500. This gives me silent playing and recording ability, mods and reverb, and high gain modeling amps for less than I'd spend in the Cab Clone and a pedal board.
The other thing is that since the M12 is a pedal platform, it really might sound phenomenal when used in this respect and I could have an extremely versatile setup here. Or, tone suck could kill me and I end up returning it haha.
Thoughts?
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Post by walt on Jun 25, 2015 7:56:52 GMT -7
If your looking to record silently/quietly maybe your daw has decent effects you could add either pre or post?Just another option if your considering digital effects.
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Post by gitaryzt1985 on Jun 29, 2015 6:52:37 GMT -7
I tried the Firehawk FX through the M12 and I'm actually quite surprised. Once I got the levels all adjusted correctly, I realized that this thing is pretty handy. I can bypass all amp and cab models and use it as my pedalboard. The Timmy still sounds good in front, and the Tubescreamer model works great. The only "degradation" in sound I hear is that it is a little compressed, and I get a little high end loss. I turned up the treble a touch and this thing ROCKS. The other cool thing is that I can crank the M12 and lower the master on the Firehawk and get the tubes cranking...pretty cool.
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Post by dergit (Markus) on Jul 1, 2015 13:33:24 GMT -7
Don't do it. I briefly used a HD500 in the FX loop of my MAZ 18 until I was able to get my pedalboard where it needed to be... there's no comparison and I'm an advocate of modeling.
Get AmpliTube3 for home use. It has fairly decent MAZ 18 and ZWreck models for home recording. And then keep building that pedalboard. The Strymon Timeline is an excellent start and you wouldn't want to give that one up for a HD500 either, trust me.
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Post by John on Jul 4, 2015 6:43:31 GMT -7
Don't do it. I briefly used a HD500 in the FX loop of my MAZ 18 until I was able to get my pedalboard where it needed to be... there's no comparison and I'm an advocate of modeling. Get AmpliTube3 for home use. It has fairly decent MAZ 18 and ZWreck models for home recording. And then keep building that pedalboard. The Strymon Timeline is an excellent start and you wouldn't want to give that one up for a HD500 either, trust me. Personally, I wouldn't have put the HD500 in the effects loop of a maz....I would have put it out front.
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Post by dergit (Markus) on Jul 5, 2015 13:48:49 GMT -7
I used the 4 cable method so I could use the HD500s FX Loop function to place dirt etc before the amp and delays etc. in the MAZ's FX loop. Still... it kind of defeats to purpose of point-to-point hand-wired tube amps...
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