Benny2130 Posted August 11, 2016 Share Posted August 11, 2016 Hi all, Just after opinions from the experienced in this department. I purchased this pedal (hd300) to minimise the amount of gear I needed at a gig. When setting up your tones at home or jamming at practice via a quad box and power amp how can you be sure that when you go to an xlr connection through the PA will it be similar, a little nervous this pedal has taken quite a bit of work to get it to an unreal tone that I wanted just a little nervous it will change drastically when going through the pa on stage.. As a back up for now if I can't be sure of the tone I'll take my power amp just in case and go through the cabinet.. Your thoughts? Am I just being paranoid haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruisinon2 Posted August 11, 2016 Share Posted August 11, 2016 No, you're not paranoid...and rightly concerned. A power amp and cabinet have a very different frequency response compared to a PA. Patches created with a traditional guitar amp are likely to sound VERY different through a PA...boomy and/or harsh and brittle, due to a much flatter and broader frequency response. You have to tweak your patches through whatever you intend to use live, or something as similar as you can get in terms of frequency response. Otherwise you're likely to have issues. There are a ton of FRFR speaker options now, ranging in price from quite reasonable to the absurd...there are more than a few threads around here that discuss them at length. A decent pair of studio monitors, or flat-response studio headphones are other options for playing at home and creating your tones...but trying to bounce from guitar amp to PA and back again, is gonna be a disaster...trust me. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eenymason Posted August 11, 2016 Share Posted August 11, 2016 Hi all, Just after opinions from the experienced in this department. I purchased this pedal (hd300) to minimise the amount of gear I needed at a gig. When setting up your tones at home or jamming at practice via a quad box and power amp how can you be sure that when you go to an xlr connection through the PA will it be similar, a little nervous this pedal has taken quite a bit of work to get it to an unreal tone that I wanted just a little nervous it will change drastically when going through the pa on stage.. As a back up for now if I can't be sure of the tone I'll take my power amp just in case and go through the cabinet.. Your thoughts? Am I just being paranoid haha If you have the tone you want through your (old school) power amp and cab, then stay old school and mic the cab instead of using xlr to the board. Although, if you're going full sims in the HD (i.e. cab/mic) why not try xlr to the board and see what the sound-person thinks. If you're only using amp sims, then def mic the cab you're using. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benny2130 Posted August 11, 2016 Author Share Posted August 11, 2016 Well luckily enough we have a PA in the band that I could use today, the guy who drives it and sings through it must of put reverb or something on it because my patch had what sounded like reverb... And buggered if I was touching his channel (yeah we all get a little moody with knob twisters) I was really impressed at my patch through my old school set up, but being a little weary of using a pa that had been set up by the singer for his vocals ( I used his xlr cord and channel ) I didn't want to adjust settings at the mixer ignoring the echo it sounded really good! I'm using everything through my old school setup in the patch ever the power amp side of it and getting an awesome tone (for the music we play anyway).... Hopefully when the singer who owns and sets up the pa gets back from his holiday he can set up a channel for me because It sounded like there was way more potential for tones running through that pa then my cab/power amp set up! At least that way I can setup one for jamming in the cab power amp and one for pa on stage but hopefully I can bail out of the cab and power amp all together and just run into the pa. cab and power amp sold = brand new guitar!!! Hahaha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pianoguyy Posted August 11, 2016 Share Posted August 11, 2016 If you mic your cab, the PA sound is not going to be the same as what you hear. So, no matter what you do, it is going to end up sounding different. But, it will sound closest to the same if you using a PA And, here is a tip --- Do not sell an amp to buy a guitar. Sell the amp and buy a 2nd Pod. Use one. Have one as backup. You never know what something will go wrong. And since they are hella-small, they will easily fit into your vehicle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.