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Well that was easy. Thanks! :D

Hello all and happy "early" New Years! I recently sold my Fractal FM3 and bought a Line6 Catalyst100 (because they made me an offer I couldn't refuse!) The plan is to use it for practice mostly, but who knows I may use if for a gig and/or recording. One of the reasons I departed with the FM3 is that I am not a tweaker, whether it is a modeler or simple pedal, I am more of an out of the box (mostly :) ) kind of guy. That being said all I wanted to do was to program the LFS2 to simply turn the boost on or off on the amp or preset I am using. I looked up a video (attached) and it showed me what to do. BUT in order to turn the boost on or off I need to tap the right, Effect, button twice. This can't be right! But I can't see how to make it simply boost on/boost off. This old brain could use some help. Thanks! )

Thank you again, very cool piece of equipment! I don't think we (I know I'm not!) are quite ready for a silent stage, but that's really good to know! We actually have a dedicated, very well experienced FOH guy (he'll be the first to tell you!) so thankfully he is on top of things. The bulk of the gigs we do around here pretty much always have experienced FOH guys if it's not ours. But this is excellent information. I do have a Seymour Duncan Power Stage 170 but if the CAT isn't FRFR than I won't run it that way. Again. looking forward to this. Thanks!

Thank you RD2RK for a great answer that is technical but not so much that it went over my head :D (a low bar indeed!) While half watching football I did a random search on my phone and found another forum that answered a similar question. That's when I learned that there was no extension speaker output. I think that will be ok though. The band recently went to IEMs (still not a fan though) so they want stage volume down. Being that the CAT is not a tube/master volume amp I have a feeling that may work in my favor. Connect the XLR to the FOH and let the sound guy control the volume. If all goes as I suspect it might everyone should be very happy! I appreciate that the speakers are not FRFR. I have my Fractal FM3 for sale and so will no longer need my FRFR speakers, but I had the brilliant thought that if the CAT had them I could keep them. If not though I can sell them. Although selling 112 FRFR cabs locally is hard and I don't feel like shipping on REVERB so I was thinking of removing the FRFR speakers and swapping them with good guitar speakers and selling the FRFR speakers only which I should have a better chance at! I can't wait to get the amp! I have a good feeling that it is going to definitely work really well for practice and hopefully for gigging too! Thanks!

Hello all. I have rejoined the Line 6 community. I bought a Spyder when I started playing again back in 2003 or so. I have been gigging since then. I went from the Spyder to a Peavey Vyper Hybrid to a Carvin V3M, to a Mesa Boogie MV35, and to a Friedman Dirty Shirley 40W. I play in a band doing southern and classic rock. I wasn't getting the cleans I desired from the Friedman so I bought a Fractal FM3 and had a couple of 112 FRFR cabs built for it. I am not a tweaker and so I bought presets for the FM3. All was good but it still just wasn't there so I went back to gigging with the Friedman and all has been better (for me) since then. But since putting the FM3 up for sale, I don't have an amp at the studio for practice with the band. I brought my little Fender Frontman 65R but it doesn't sound good and when I use the OD channel it sounds terrible! So I started a search for a practice amp that could possibly double as a backup gigging amp. THEN I got an email from Reverb, from Line 6, with a deal for a Catalyst 100 that I could not refuse! So now I am waiting on delivery. It strikes me that essentially it is no different from the Fractal only in that it too is digital So my first question is: Is the 12" speaker in the Catalyst actually a guitar speaker or is it an FRFR? Seems to me to make sense that it would be an FRFR. The answer to that question will in fact dictate the answer to the second question. If the amp is good enough to gig with; I am used to using a 212 cab. I could add my Mesa B. mini slant 112 and then essentially have 212's for gigging or if the Catalyst has the FRFR then I could use 1 or 2 of my FRFR (passive) cabs and gig with two or three 12" speakers. The possibilites are exciting. I look forward to your thoughts. Thanks, KKB