Firehawk Issues fixed now a days?

[GrampaBob]

Hiya I'm considering a firehawk FX but I'm reading lots of chat from older threads and no doubt old revisions about bluetooth issues and lag between patches....has all this been resolved now a days?  I have an HD500 so I'm weighing my options.  I'm just using 4CM and my amp so using the processor for FX really alone, no amp sims.  No need for loopers, variax stuff etc.  I have an M9 on my pedal board so I use this as the same but small versioned for small gigs.  Thnx.

[Kilrahi]

I have a Firehawk 1500, which was basically created by Line 6 taking a Firehawk HD and mating it with an amp.

 

I absolutely love the thing.  I never have issues with blue tooth, and switching between patches is fluid enough for me.

 

I owned a HD500X, and while it allowed for more complexity, it was not even close to as user friendly as the Firehawk. I sold it to pay for my Firehawk and I've never looked back.

[gunpointmetal]

On 10/5/2018 at 9:04 AM, GrampaBob said:

Hiya I'm considering a firehawk FX but I'm reading lots of chat from older threads and no doubt old revisions about bluetooth issues and lag between patches....has all this been resolved now a days?  I have an HD500 so I'm weighing my options.  I'm just using 4CM and my amp so using the processor for FX really alone, no amp sims.  No need for loopers, variax stuff etc.  I have an M9 on my pedal board so I use this as the same but small versioned for small gigs.  Thnx.

There is a still a "noticeable" patch lag between presets, about the same as the HD500. Mine doesn't automatically start playing audio when bluetooth is connected anymore, so they must have fixed that on the app, and I've never had drop out issues, but I'm never more than 10' from the floor unit when I'm editing tones anyways. The only thing I think they need to fix is the fixed block placement for the compressor block. A compressor after a high-gain amp is fine for recording, not so much for live use, though.