I have 2 headrush FRFR 108 speakers. Ive only needed one so far. I will stack the other with it when needed. Anything larger, and I'll just purchase the FRFR 112. I can route them all together and they double as great vocal/instrument monitors when not needed for bass. I don't see myself ever going back to a true analog board or a traditional head/cab setup.
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Hotone Ampero
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Ive tried several of the models one using the MARSHALL 900 head and some FUZZ ...go straight into my Hartke amp set clean -- its sounds really good in the roomPlease could you recommend a couple of them?
Since writing that ^^^ I've bought an Ampero and have enjoyed the results of experimenting with the settings for Fender Bassman (obvs!) and Twin Reverb. In both cases they've worked better with my P than my BB. As you say, careful EQing was needed.
I call it "gettin my LEMMY on! -- also works well with the FrYman Blonde Beauty .....
main tip I can state (others may have mentioned sorry if I repeat) -- set the thing to your EAR -- not your "normal real amp" settings .....those usually sound like ASS on the AMpero -- also the GLOBAL EQ and the drive pedals are REALLY your friends especially when going to an FX return of an actual amp in the room. also those setting will change when you go straight to the computer or editing software etc etc.
I say FORGET WHAY YA KNOW-- and EXPERIMENT WITH AMPERO!!! lol
I just got one for $360 (MP-100). I like it. It has XLR outs and a ground lift switch. I tried a Line 6 Pod Go for $500 and it had severe ground loop noise that bypassed the noise gate, it was unusable. That's why I got the Ampero, but it's really quiet, I don't even need to flip the ground lift. Must be a design flaw with the Pod Go, and it's flimsy, light plastic. The Ampero is solid and metal. The expression pedal is very small, but I don't use wah ever, so it's good as a volume pedal or to assign it to certain FX parameters.
I can get really nice clean/chorus tones with Ampero, something I've been struggling to pull off with a Boss ME-80 and Katana 50 amp, not very successfully. I think I do like the distortions on the Boss gear a lil better, at least the various metal (zone, core, etc.).
The Ampero has some bass amp/cab options, too, but they're not great. I prefer my Digitech BP355 for the bass still.
Ampero sounds a lot better straight to interface than the ME-80. But I still record mics on the amp plus the direct out of Ampero.
The touch screen is alright. It's easy to access everything and edit/save, but I wonder how long a touch screen will last... We all have "smart" phones, so we know the answer to that. But Hotone provides a program for PC/Mac to operate the Ampero via USB. Edit and save presets on the computer. So if the touch screen and all the knobs and footswitches break on it, it will still be fully functional via computer.
If a Line 6 Pod Go is worth $500 then this is definitely worth $360. It's superior physically, sounds just as good, and having XLR outs and ground lift while Line 6 Pod Go doesn't, you have to wonder how the one that's light and plastic with no XLRs can cost $500, and how does the $500 one get that bad noise so easily but the $360 one doesn't? (Neither does the ME-80 or the BP355.)
The Pod Go does have more extensive FX parameters, though, but what good is it if I can't use it?
I can get really nice clean/chorus tones with Ampero, something I've been struggling to pull off with a Boss ME-80 and Katana 50 amp, not very successfully. I think I do like the distortions on the Boss gear a lil better, at least the various metal (zone, core, etc.).
The Ampero has some bass amp/cab options, too, but they're not great. I prefer my Digitech BP355 for the bass still.
Ampero sounds a lot better straight to interface than the ME-80. But I still record mics on the amp plus the direct out of Ampero.
The touch screen is alright. It's easy to access everything and edit/save, but I wonder how long a touch screen will last... We all have "smart" phones, so we know the answer to that. But Hotone provides a program for PC/Mac to operate the Ampero via USB. Edit and save presets on the computer. So if the touch screen and all the knobs and footswitches break on it, it will still be fully functional via computer.
If a Line 6 Pod Go is worth $500 then this is definitely worth $360. It's superior physically, sounds just as good, and having XLR outs and ground lift while Line 6 Pod Go doesn't, you have to wonder how the one that's light and plastic with no XLRs can cost $500, and how does the $500 one get that bad noise so easily but the $360 one doesn't? (Neither does the ME-80 or the BP355.)
The Pod Go does have more extensive FX parameters, though, but what good is it if I can't use it?
Thanks for sharing this. I'm enamored with this pedal. I thought long and hard about the Headrush Gigboard but went with the Ampero because of price and all the bass-centric effects - still not a ton, but way more than the others. That MX5 from Headrush looks to be released to compete with it - Better processor but no XLR outputs.
I was very tempted by the Gigboard, but decided I would never make real use of its the much more complex functionality, and I would feel dismayed at underexploiting it.
Headrush also doesn't have a ground lift switch or a computer program for editing/saving presets via USB. So, what do you do when the touch screen goes out?
I really did want that Pod Go. I really like the complex FX parameters that could make fairly complex rhythms with delay, and chorus parameters I've never seen before. But that noise just made it unusable. I probably could have spent another $200-$300 for a power conditioner, but that's just too much. If I needed it for any other gear I have, but just the one thing, I might as well have got a $800 FX box if I had money like that. And it really should be metal, not plastic, for $500. Boss ME-80 is metal, Digitech BP355 is metal, Ampero is metal. All cost less than plastic Pod Go.
Agreed. With a C4 in front, I don't know what else I need (although I do have a red panda particle after the C4). I added a two button switch to create a "stomp box mode." Sounds great, looks great, is solid, and has so many features, constant firmware updates, and the ability to load your own IRs. Check out their website, they created tons of bass patches and new IRs. It's all free.
When I first got mine I grumbled about the how the 4 foot switches operate, they seemed more awkward than the 3 switches of the smaller Ampero One, but that was before I realised that you can individually reassign the functions of tapping them and holding them down etc. I was very glad to get rid of having to tap two switches simultaneously, and after playing around found a combination that worked very well for me.
That was found in the system settings. Also in that section is a universal 3 band eq. I've been wondering if that could be used as HPF and LPF? I would like to hear how / when / why people are using it.
That was found in the system settings. Also in that section is a universal 3 band eq. I've been wondering if that could be used as HPF and LPF? I would like to hear how / when / why people are using it.
Reading the Ampero manual but I didn't understand if it's possible to send simultaneously a no cab signal from the unbalanced output and a signal with cab simulation form the balenced output.
Anyone tried that?
Anyone tried that?
It looks like you can only turn cab off on the left and/or right output, but it affects the 1/4" and XLR outs. Pretty lame, because you wanna connect stereo XLR to a mixer with cab sim and mono 1/4" to an amp without.
I use mine with a Boss Katana 50 with cab sim on.
