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Added a hotone soul press II, which will double up as a wah and expression pedal for the Ampero II once the TRS cable arrives. Planning on using the soul pess to control a volume pedal on the ampero II, and do a sort of manual tap tempo tremelo. If it works the source audio tap tempo button will be going; the tap tempo trem on my C4 just doesn't tap in as you'd expect, and we don't use a click so it's a disaster to keep it in time! The octabvre nearly went too, as the C4 does a fantastic impression of it! But I'll end up buying a controller with the proceeds to be able to go to that patch anyways, so may as well keep the 3 leaf!

That's a good shout! Strings made a MASSIVE difference on mine, the set that was on were awful!

The Aguilar tone hammer sounds good! I'm stuck between that and the tube power amp that's on there. Both sound great! No cab and no IR mode are both really useful, too! You can turn the cab sim or IR off for 1 output, and leave it on for another. No doubt the helix will follow suit, but sure you had to use a send block to achieve that on the line 6 gear

I saw that on a Facebook group! Exciting, although I'll admit I've found great results just using the tube Poweramp on there... I noticed it's listed as a drive, Id have thought it's be classed as a preamp! Hopefully they've modelled the whole thing and not just it's driven tones! Intrigued by the no cab function as well... It'll be great if you can turn off the cab without having to run 2 paths to different outputs or use send blocks etc 🤞

Pedalboard edit no: 1264902 Removed tuner, ehx hotwax, and nux MLD pre amp and replaced with the hotone ampero II stomp. Literally no reason for changing except gas and I really fancied the hotone unit! The NUX pre was fantastic, and I hadn't experienced any of usual issues. The hot wax has also become my favourite drive for bass, it's a brilliant pedal that's an absolute dark horse. If I didn't need the gated fuzz in the ultrawave, and all 6 presets in my C4 I think I'd have booted them instead of the hotwax!

Very true! I think I just need to learn to work within its limitations, a dual footswitch may be on the horizon... If you could mix the customisation of the hx stomp (individual parameter assignments to footswitches, led colour changes, free reign with what goes on what path etc) and the form factor and sound quality of the hotone, it'd be the perfect unit!

I'll check those videos out soon, appreciate you linking them! I don't like the idea of spending another hundy on a controller though as you're into hx stomp XL territory, which has a lot more bass ready amps etc 🤔 Gigged it last night, and made the fatal mistake of building patches via headphones and expecting them to translate to live 😬... Wasn't hugely impressed with the sound, but it's not exactly a fair test really... The touchscreen was far superior to use than anything I've experienced with the hx stomp in the past so that's a plus, but with a room full of wedding guests, I didn't really have time to re-jig everything There was also a bit of frantic tapdancing going between patch and stomp mode, too. That'll take some working out 🤣

I was tempted to get the midi switch they do, but I've set up 4 patches and I seem to have enough with the 3! I have a couple of niggles, and a couple of things I need to suss but over all it sounds fantastic through headphones! Definitely sounds more "alive" to me than the hx stomp did (YMMV). Incase anyone's interested, main niggles are... 1) The 6 effects on path A and 6 on B isn't every well thought out when splitting. 2) I HATE that I can't press two footswitches at once to turn one effect off and another on at the same time! It automatically scrolls through banks with no way of changing that I can see! 3) As intuitive as the touch screen is; I'd have liked an effects screen layout similar to the hx stomp XL and Helix LT!

Thanks for the detailed response! I'd read some of the pitch effects were poor, luckily that's not the aim for me... I'm mostly looking for good amp/cab sims and convincing drives (as I plan to ditch the amp and go FOH and IEMs) with access to filters and modulations for future requirements. More bass amps would've been nice, but too much choice on the hx stomp always hindered me, so one nice amp sim should hopefully work a treat! I plan on integrating it with my C4 and ultrawave, and analogue octaver in the effects loop. Do you use any sort of external controller with yours?

Thread resurrection! Do you still use your Ampero 2 @stewblack? I'm thinking of one of these instead of the HX stomp... I like the idea of the touch screen and reports of better sound quality. Just wondering what your take is after a few months?

Not sure what language you're even speaking at this point! 🤣 For the more simple folks (like myself) they exchanged the notched volume control for a normal non-notched control. There was a big volume jump between notches 2 and 3...

Unbelievably loud! I found between notches 2 and 3 it went from too quiet to too loud, spoke to Orange though and after a bit of protest from Andertons, Orange changed the control out for a linear pot under warranty. Fantastic sound and fantastic service to boot!

I'd throw the orange little bass thing into the mix... different sound to the terror bass, and sounds huge (not just for it's size). 500W and I never have it above 9 o clock. Orange customer service can't beat either. Adjustable mid freq, and the most musical signal knob compressor I've used that really adds weight and warmth. As previously mentioned, you're unfortunately going to get nothing but peoples preferences here (mine included). If it's any help, I've had ALOT of amps before landing at the little bass thing, some highlights were: Aguilar TH500, lovely warm tubey character with natural sounding saturation. Although I find the Little bass thing to sound a bit "fuller". Mark bass LM Vintage 1000, great big warm tube tone, sounded great with the gain pushed - Loved this tonally as much as I love my Little bass thing, but there were QC issues. GK 700/1001RB-II - Discontinued, but available used - Relatively heavy A/B heads, sound huge with more "heft" than you can shake a stick at.. I found the 1001RBII a bit too clinical for me, but the 700RB sounds legendary pushed! My 1001RBII lasted 15 years heavily gigging before having issues (which resolved them selves anyways). Hope this helps!

Thanks for the shout, pal! Preamps can feel like a bit of a minefield, the Le bass is a great choice but as mentioned, for what you're looking for you're spoilt for choice really 🙂

Appreciate the input everyone! We're looking at the RCF Evox 12s, the HK Polar 12s, and the Electro Voice EV 30M at the moment, pretty varied prices and the new drummer is insisting 12s won't be enough subwise, but these systems all seem awesome!

I'll check it out, thanks for the shout! 🙂 New drummer's car IS the second car 😬 Replacing the alto seems like the easiest option (it's an awful flubby sounding thing). Out of interest, which sub do you use? Do you just use the one sub?

Did think of that, bit too big of an outlay though unfortunately; we've been lucky in that our last 2 drummers both happened to have their own vans!

At the moment I get my cab, 2 basses, pedal board, amp head, cable bag, 2 speakers, 1 monitor, desk and backdrop... Still leave quite a bit for the second car (our keyboard players set up is pretty big) between the kit, sub etc etc it's just going to be a bit much I suspect

Hey everyone! My band are in a bit of a tricky situation, our drummer (and man with the van) has told us he's leaving in June, which means we're without a van! We're now in a situation where we need to try and downscale our equipment to transport between two cars, main issue being the p.a. We've always worked with two RCF Art712(I think) and a single big alto sub... We're either going to have to get two smaller subs, or maybe a full p.a. rig! Anyone else transport gear in cars and if so... Any recommendations for p.a. or possibly just sub set ups?

That's a shame! Nothing worse than an underwhelming new gear day! I really enjoy mine, but I came from a tube pre so found the clarity refreshing. I had no issues with WAV IR files, I just click the empty slot, click the upload button and choose my file, even at 96Khz (or whatever the official number is). They upload straight away.

If it's any help, only issue I encountered was using a cheaper usb cable. When I swapped to a better quality one it worked fine. Just follow the instructions; especially the update ones, and you can't go wrong!

I'll rephrase... "Off the shelf for idiots"

Wow, that sounds very involved though; far too much for my tiny brain to comprehend... I was hoping you'd found an off the shelf alternative to the Disaster area stuff.