davebyers44

Had my first gig last night with mine. Can't report any static. I'm not a high gain guy but use some overdrive in classic rock thing on some songs. Didn't have that experience.

I'd love to see some more in depth acoustic guitar tones. That's the one thing I would be the most interested in.

Yea, I get some weird tones also especially on patches with effects. I get the delay also. Will try having the ipad not synced and see if that improves that delay of changing presets. In general I'm feeling good about the firehawk so far. Dave

The app is pretty nice. It didn't shut down a couple times but this being 1.0 version I expect that will change and improve. I thought the tuner on the firehawk was very good. Sounds pretty good also. App is pretty straight forward. Dave

Got mine yesterday. Kicked the tires last night and this morning. First gig is this Friday with it. I mainly use a few sounds: - Fenderish clean with tube screamer add on with footswitch - Marshallish plexi grit with some tube gain footswitch - Acoustic guitar sim so I don't have to drag out another guitar - wah kick in option - volume at 65% and 100% to go from rhythm to solo - delay to kick in on solos - chorus or simila to kick in when it needs it This pedal seems to cover those needs fairly well. History: Guitarists since the late 70's using tube amps. Lugged around the twin on top of a 4x12 cause it looked and sounded cool. Then I got old... lol! The cool factor wore off. Now I want as light and qucik a load in as possible. Tried the 1x12 tube combo but that needed floor pedals to really cover all the tones. To much stuff! I've went back and forth from digitech, boss and L6 pedals. Did the single stomp and big multis. Have done the older and newer L6 beans, HD500 etc. I like that this pedal is smaller than the huge pod hd500. I like that it has the pedals though unlike the bean version. I even tried that with the add on 4 button/volume fs. Ahh! I'm just tired of chasing tones honestly. Lastly I was hot on a Sans Amp FL5. Awesome little cool pedal. The clean just wasn't fender sparkle enough. The plexi was ok but I longed for more of a tube screamerish kick in. So I mounted it to a pedaltrain and added pedals with it. They actually played nicely together but I just couldn't nail down the sound. I was still missing the fenderish clean and wasn't digging totally the overdrive. Seemed silly cramming all of the pedals on a 24" pedaltrain. Oh yea, I even did the jamup thing. Jamup is a cool app for ios. Sounds are cool but I needed to have a pedal on the floor. They're coming out with a blue tooth pedal someday but I need it now. Also, as an older guitarist messing with my phone or ipad all the time wasn't my thing. I like that the firehwak has a decent # of guitarists amp knobs to reach down and twist when the sound is a bit bright, delay to short etc. So I heard about the firehawk. Really already knew the sounds from the pod hd500 and bean I had. But loved it's sixe and also that the ipad could edit it. Was a MAJOR PITA to connect to a pc/mac to edit or fool around with the screens to me. This fits on the 24" pedaltrain I have and gives me just enough room to keep the wireless reciever and vocal tc helicon effects pedal on there. I'm trying to resolve myself to suck it up and go with this. Like I said, I'm just tired of chasing down pedals and trying this and that all the time. Wasting time playing. ;-) A shout out to DC Music Store where I got mine. Thoughts on the firehawk after a few hours: Clean is decent. Marshall-ish sounds are decent. TS and overdrive stomp sounds are ok. Acoustic guitar I'm not feeling is as good as I heard from the Boss GT100 and it's little brother. They seem to have the one emulator but I'd like to see L6 dive into the acoustic a good bit more. Seemed to be the weakest tone emulated. First gig is Friday so hopefully it will sound decent in the pa. Effects are pretty decent. Haven't dug to deep into the wah yet but the delay, verb stuff was decent enough. The connection to the ipad concerns me a bit. Lost conection a couple times and had to fiddle around. My hope is that once my sounds are set I won't have to mess with them live. I do take an ipad for lyrics to gigs. I use a powered WSC K12 for band monitor as well as my keyboard and guitar's monitor. No amp. I really wouldn't have time to mess with things other than on a break and hopefully that won't happen at least after I get basic levels set. One other thing I'll point out. IN the headphones I noticed a lag between changing presets. Not adding stomp pedals in and out but when switching presets. I sure wish that wasn't the case. Would be a pain going from a rhythm to a solo and switching to another preset for a lead with that weird short pause. Also, especially with presets with lots of effecst I noted a pop or weird tone that was a bit loud that happened when switching presets. Going direct to a sound system this could be a pain and I hope this is someting that can be eiminated. Also, on one preset I attempted to set the minimum and max volumes but regardless of what I set it ignored it and insists on full volume. Yea, the pedal was turned on in the screen. Weird. Tried it several times. Worked fine on every other preset also. So I ended up changing a different preset to be like that presets sound and overwrote it. Problem solved. Just odd. So so far I'm sorta pleased and looking forward to the hope of this solving the tone problem. At least for a few years... Good start. If L6 will tidy up the acoustic guitar tones,eliminate the pause and pops from switching presets this pedal can do the job. Dave Byers davebyersmusic.com