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@DunedinDragon - followed your advice and set up a patch using blocks as per your instructions and yup - sounds fantastic. I pushed the gain slightly more than 3 which gave it a little more "life" but might dial that back down when playing with my frfr at volume. One other question - I'm using the Headrush FRFR - I know there are better quality FRFR options out there but it's within budget and I'm impressed with it so far. The only thing I haven't yet done is crank up the volume on it to really get an idea of how my patches sound. Are there any considerations when listening to patches at low volume that you should take into account for louder volume? As in, something like, "the high ends sound nice at low volume but they will need to be cut/increased at higher volume" that sort thing - so, building patches with higher volume in mind. Thanks again.

Wow - thanks for that. That's excellent advice. I'll give this a go when I get home tonight. That's also interesting putting the chorus and reverb after IR as, instinctively (maybe wrongly), I've been putting them between amp and cab/IR. Really appreciate the detailed feedback/advice. Thanks

Hi - recently bought an HX Stomp and yesterday bought the Ownhammer IR core tone bundle which, from what I've played around with so far, is excellent. That said - there are loads of possible settings on the Stomp and then hundreds of IR files from the Core Tone Bundle so I could do with some pointers as to patch set-up for the sounds I'm looking for. So - Stone Roses first allbum, The Strokes, Franz Ferdinand to name a few. Many of the Helix samples I've seen on youtube focus on heavy distorted/thrash guitar but I'm looking for the less heavy sound - more indie style. Any reccomendations on amp/IR choices to achieve this? I'm playing into a FRFR active speaker. One sound I'm really trying to nail is the guitar on She Bangs the Drums from the Stone Roses first album. Cheers.

Yes, thanks - I think that's where I'm headed...

Yes - I'm familiar with a few of the names/recommendations. So - just as a point of reference, I was using a Fender all-valve Bassbreaker 15 watt amp at band practice for a week or 2 and found it really struggled against a beat-up old Marshal Valvestate head going into a 4x12. I'm assuming one of the FRFR 112 style active speakers would give me more oomph than a 15watt valve amp?

Yes - I do agree having 2 x 12 in the same cab is a little limiting in terms of "stereo" - however, I've heard some of the Blackstar ID Core amps run 2 X 12" and have a reasonably pleasing stereo spread so just wondered...

Hello - first post here. I appreciate there are many posts on the subject of FRFR amps but I have quite a specific setup which I'm looking for advice on. I bought a HX Stomp a few days back - hooked it up into the Effects Return on my fender Bassbreaker, disabled any CAB blocks and had a play around - it sounded excellent. I then tried going into front of the Bassbreaker but making sure AMP/CAB blocks were disabled - still pretty good. I then tried hooking the HX Stomp up to my home stereo (it's a pretty decent setup - a fairly flat amp with some decent enough Wharfdales) - I dialled in some patches with AMP and CABs enabled (I figured the home stereo was "sort of" flat enough to try a full AMP/CAB patch. Wow - what a sound. It really felt that the HX Stomp was doing what it was supposed to do. My guitar sounded excellent - easily the best I've ever heard my guitar sound... just incredible. My question - I want that sound live. I want that sound from a unit with enough power/grunt to compete with a loud drummer and another guitar going through a 4x12. I also loved the stereo sound but appreciate that might not sound the same in a live/loud situation. So - in a perfect world I want - a FRFR active speaker running maybe 2 12" speakers in stereo. I want to be able to make use of the AMP/CAB blocks in my HX Stomp. The amp needs to have stereo input from my HX Stomp. The amp needs to be loud enough to cut through a band and it needs to not weigh a tonne. It would be good if the amp wasn't massively directional either as some of the gigs we'll be playing we'll probably only do vocals through the PA so the amp needs to work on its own. Does such an amp exist? That's my question.