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I seem to have settled on the Engl Fireball model as my go to amp.
In any case, people do get nice tones out of the Pod but it does take a lot of tweaking. I do wonder why Line6 seem to have filled the Pod with amps which out of the box are pretty much unusable! I suppose there must be some situations where they sound good without an eq block but I haven't found them!
is it crazy how saying sentences backwards creates backwards sentences saying how crazy it is?
For interest today I pulled my Orange TH-30 out of the cupboard and plugged straight into that...I thought it might be night and day and I'd end up binning the Pod but it really wasn't...it sounded good but not that good. Then I tried the Pod into the fx return of the Orange and that sounded...absolutely monster! Really great. Preferred it to the valve amp by quite a bit. Going back to the Harley Benton, it sounded a bit boxy and flat. Useable but not inspiring.
So, I'm really liking the flexibility of the Pod and through the Orange power amp it sounds really good. I think I might get a Magnum 44 for a lightweight rehearsal rig and use the Pod into the Orange for gigs.
I'd love to try a Helix or Kemper or Amplifire into the Orange power amp and just see if it is that much better...I might get one on 30 day return
This time around I have steered clear of lots of heavy eq-ing...just using the amp eq controls. It's not as flexible but much less of a rabbit hole.
And for the 4CM, the discovery that there is a separately stored volume value for the amp block, even when bypassed, has been a game changer. I don't notice any discernible tone suck now. Life in the old dog yet!
I have also been messing with going direct into a B-hype 8 FRFR speaker (which I bought a while ago to amplify electronic drums) and that sounds pretty decent too. I'm thinking that for rehearsal that might be the way to go...such an easy rig to carry!
is it crazy how saying sentences backwards creates backwards sentences saying how crazy it is?
Odd, coz I've never got on with fuzz pedals in real life