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Yeah that's how I used the fender mustang (output of firehawk straight into the fx return of the mustang) the mustang is good with modellers used that way in my experience, at least when you consider how cheap it is, as I said earlier I got a great sound that way. I decided to move to a full range speaker because I wanted to be able to output straight to the pa and know that I was hearing what the audience hears, also I wanted to be able to use the same tones to record direct. I hear that if you have a tube power section in your amp it can sound even better as that adds a bit of warmth to the whole thing but I never tried the firehawk that way as my tube amp got sold some time ago

I have used 4cm but I haven't gigged with it a lot and I decided to go down the route of a powered speaker but for different reasons than the sound When I used 4cm I found the stomps worked well positioned in front of the preamp , you can of course use your existing pedals in front if you find you prefer their sound, you can integrate real pedals in with the firehawk , but you won't know if you like it until you try it, I decided early on that I really liked the sound of just the firehawk and I used a fender mustang iii as a power amp, I got some really great sounds that way , another thing I noticed when doing my research into this unit is there aren't that many good sounding YouTube videos about, don't let that put you off , in my opinion it sounds better than the hd500 If I were you I'd download the app and have a look at the available effects and have a play with the chain, I know you won't be able to hear how it sounds but you will get an idea of how you can put a chain together and if you can include the types of effects you want

Wow that's strange

Not sure that's gonna work with a harmonica

Does anybody have any experience of using the epsi with the firehawk, I remember seeing that the 2 units fit together really nice and I happened across a few YouTube videos where it totally transforms the sound of a zoom g3 and an 11 rack, makes everything sound much more lifelike and realistic in the videos

Yeah typically the sound your shooting for is a mic'd cab being played back through a good system, or at least that's what the modeller is designed to do so generally speaking its a more polished finished sound , you're effectively having more control over how the audience hears you because your supplying the sound guy with the finished article , he might adjust eq slightly to compensate for the room that's all

Thanks for posting the video , very interesting, I find the eq the hardest to dial in without having the spectrum analyser to look at for reference, it's a 4 band semi parametric eq on the firehawk and fortunately the parameters are in dB and hz so it's not total guesswork Is there any rule of thumb when cutting highs and lows to remove harshness? Like do you have a starting point for your high shelf? I'm guessing maybe start at 5k and bring it down until I hear the tone slightly too dark and then edge it back a bit? I'm pretty new to eq so don't assume I know stuff if you can help (Just a quick background on why I'm so interested in the eq, I'm using the firehawk and couldn't be happier with the tone through headphones, all my patches are exactly where I want them sound wise, however when I run into my lt3 speaker for rehearsals it sounds very harsh or boomy or both, I was hoping if I cut the highs and lows with eq I might get lucky and find a setting for the eq that works across all my patches, is that realistic or is it likely to be very different for each patch) Thanks

Hi could you point me in the direction of those eq videos please? I'm using a firehawk but a video or 2 about the eq would be a help Thanks

The speaker is mono yes, it only has 1 speaker and 1 horn you would need 2 l2m speakers to get true stereo I can't speak for the dual amp thing but both amp models would be coming from the same speaker so I'm not sure how distinct the 2 amps would be in relation to each other But if you use 2 amps to give a thicker sound then yeah it will still sound thick once you've dialled in your patch to the speaker of course

Hi, does anybody have any tips about setting the parametric eq block when using a FRFR monitor for amplification, I'm talking about using it to cut the highs and lows which are a problem for me, at the moment they are making my tone harsh

What you described about the pickups, I get that sometimes but I just click on the correct pickup to correct it , not sure if it has something to do with which pickups were active originally on the patch your editing. I haven't messed around with alternate tunings yet

Yeah I think on stage It's a bit of a luxury , might sound great here and there but lost in the mix most of the time, sometimes the sound guy might insist on running direct back to his board in stereo, I guess it gives him something to play with but I'm not sure any of the audience ever noticed I'd gone all dolby

Studio monitor headphones tend not to be wireless, with all that electrical equipment about interference could be a big issue plus performance can decrease alongside the battery level so you'd be constantly second guessing if you were really hearing an accurate reproduction in sound You could always get a decent quality extension cable and run it well out of the way behind you

An app based thing would be cool, something with a few fx and a recorder you could put down ideas with by plugging your guitar into the phone

It's definitely easier to get a warm sound through a conventional cab, but like others have said once you have your patches dialled in right the clarity is so much better , guitar amps to me sound like they have a thick blanket over them and using FrFr is like removing that blanket

The point of an FrFr speaker is that the guitar cab has already been modelled so you want your amplifying method to be as neutral as possible so that you are hearing what the modeller intended without any colouration from poweramps and guitar speakers The upshot of this is that if you are happy with your sound out of an on stage FrFr you can send a feed direct to the house pa instead of micing up a cab , and be safe in the knowledge that the crowd are hearing exactly what you're hearing on stage Well that's the theory at least Another bonus is that acoustics sound better through FrFr

It has less to do with the headphones and more to do with the way we perceive frequencies at louder volumesYou almost always need a completely different eq on live patches vs headphone patches

I just dragged the strat file into the preset position I wanted it in (custom 2) I did it quite a few times and it didn't work , I think it's something to do with which tab you have selected at the top left of the screen, going from memory though

Thanks I'll look into that I'm still experimenting

Forgot to say that I'm running in line mode the whole time

OK thanks for the help So yes it is expected that the volume is reduced in the line outs compared to the headphone socket But the tone should be fairly similar and it's definitely not, although I am only getting half the signal as I don't have any adapters to sum the 2 line outs into one cable Do you think I should hear any difference using the xlr out? Is there any preference over line outs vs xlr when connecting to the l3t? I was leaving that output free to connect straight to the house pa when possible so haven't tried it, I'll dig out a cable tomorrow and try it It wouldn't be so frustrating were it not for the fact that my headphone tones are literally blowing my mind, everything sounds so warm and lush , but then through the lt3 it's cold and harsh

Hi , I'm using a firehawk fx guitar processor and I noticed while using a small practice amp that using the headphone out jack gave a much nicer sound than using the 1/4 line outs I want to try connecting to my stagesource lt3 this way to see how it sounds but I don't want to risk damaging the speaker, would I be OK to do this? I would have thought that the headphone out and line out would sound quite similar but the line out has very pronounced treble and much quieter, if something did go wrong is there a protective circuit of some kind in the lt3 or will I just toast the drivers? Thanks for reading

You click on the looper block by putting your finger on the looper block , this opens up the looper playback settings

I've been digging around on the global interweb and it seems a lot of people are saying that the headphone out and the 1/4 inch out should sound about the same, they are not referring to the firehawk but the hd500, I couldn't find much that was specific to the firehawk. My outputs definitely sound very different Might do a flash

I was messing about at home, somebody bought me a little speaker that looks like an amp , it's only 5 watts but in the interest of science I hooked it up to the firehawk Actually it sounded pretty good when plugged into the headphone jack on the firehawk (well much better than expected) So then I tried it in the 1/4 inch line out and it sounded terrible, beyond terrible actually , it was quieter and much , much more harsh sounding, all the high frequencies seemed very overdone Now this is the exact same problem I've had when swapping between headphones and my lt3 speaker (yes I don't expect them to sound exactly the same) So two questions 1) do I have a problem with the firehawk or is it expected? (Both left and right 1/4 inch outs sound the same , way too much treble) 2) can I run out of the headphone jack into the lt3 speaker without hurting anything? (I haven't tried this yet but I'm expecting it to sound much better Thanks for any help