So I took an impulsive punt (quite pleased with than pun!) on the Amt Pangaea that @John_A was selling in the classifieds, and I was wondering how best to set it up, and get some other ideas as to how other people would try using it. For those that don't know what it is, you load IR speaker impulses onto it to use it as a speaker (and I presume therefore also microphone) simulator.
For quite some time I've fancied an option to get the "feel" of tube amps, but the sound to be more like a recorded tone like what you get with modellers. Then get a modeller! I hear you cry. But I don't feel like they feel the same when playing and I like my amp, and I like to use drive and fuzz pedals which my Zoom g3/pod/Blackstar ID Core experience has suggested is much better into a proper amp.
So my intended set up was going to be something like:
Guitar & pedals => Amp* => Jettenuator set as a dummy load, line out (not emulated) to => Pangaea => Zoom G3 for reverb and post amp effects => headphones/monitors/computer for recording etc etc
*Main squeeze for cleans is a 68 PRRI, but I also currently have a Marshal JTM1 for crunchy sounds, this one may be changed though for something else
Would that be the best way around? Would the G3 be better before the cab sim? Though then I’d need to have something probably post Pangaea for headphone/monitor/interface, I guess a mixer.
One other variable I had considered was to trade off the crunchy amp and replace it with a guitar preamp like the Mesa or a Vox Over The Top Boost pedal into the cab sim
I’m hoping it sounds better than what I tried last night, which was the amps into the jettenuator then using the cab sim XLR output into a mixer into headphones. Didn’t sound much cop to me but that could be the mixer/headphones/both
Thanks all
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I've just spent an hour, or rather wasted an hour, trying to get this bloody thing set up in my room and it is impossible. I bought a load of those Redwirez speaker Sims and put them all on various different preset things so I could do as folks have said and try loads of them one after the other to choose a sound I like.
Setup was guitar, Kingsley Squire preamp, Pangaea, zoom g3 for reverb then headphone out to HiFi
Thank god I didn't do it to headphones as I would now be deaf in one ear. Firstly they don't sound very good but I'm sure that could be user error and that I need to fiddle around a bit too get a sound I like.
But most importantly I keep getting horribly loud blasting noises through it, mostly when playing bass strings but not always. Really fecking loud.
So now I'm convinced the unit is a dud so I can't even sell the useless piece of junk.
Am I doing something stupidly wrong here?
All I want is to be able to use my pedals into a preamp, then speaker Sim and reverb, and here it from my HiFi (the room is too small to use my amp really) likewise I'd just use a modelling thing like the g3 (which sounds a million times better than the Kingsley and Pangaea at the moment but I just can't use my drive pedals with it which I want to do)
So frustrating!!!
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If the Kingsley Squire is a valve preamp designed to drive a valve output stage it may well put out significantly above line level signals.
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It does also judder a lot on that horrible NRRRRRRRRRR noise as well
Edit: it was the same when I dummy loaded the Princeton too
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I'm sure it must be user error because every time I've used the Pangaea it has sounded awful which others have said they do not but I can't even flog the thing on now as I know it to be potentially faulty
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Do you know what the software version is? Mine sounded terrible until I updated the software.
Thank you all
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Hopefully that resolves it so I can then sell it
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I just copied them from the red wire files
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