Re: [Harp-L] Gigged straight to the PA with a Line 6 HD500

[Boris Plotnikov <ploboris@xxxxxxxxx>]

What do you mean as ampeg amp? Flip flop? I use Line POD HD bean for year
and I still not happy with tone, especially straight to PA.
08.06.2013 17:31 пользователь "Dan Hazen" <bluesmandan76@xxxxxxxxx> написал:

> Yesterday our band played for the Elvis Fest in Tupelo. I had to carry
> extra gear for the drummer, plus mixing/sound gear, so I didn't have enough
> room in the car for my amp, too. So I decided to try taking my Line 6
> HD500, and go straight to the board. I've had it for a couple of years (for
> guitar), and I had messed around with it at home for harmonica, and had a
> nice sound set up on it, but had never gigged with it.
>
> I had it set up with a noise gate, running stereo to a pair of Bass Ampeg
> sims (gain at 37%), with two different cabinet sims (one dark, one bright),
> a hint of triplet timed slapback, and the expression pedal as a 12 dB
> volume boost for solos. The noise gate took care of feedback issues. The
> dual Ampegs made the sound thick like I want. The volume pedal made solos
> really stand out.
>
> I'm pretty die hard for my tube amps, but I have to say... the HD500
> outperformed them. No feedback, controllable presence and volume, great
> tone, lightweight. I was impressed.
>
> I was especially impressed with the volume boost. It's different than
> turning up the volume knob on the microphone, because that's just pre-gain
> volume, so you hit your gain tubes with more juice and get more compression
> and distortion, and not necessarily much more volume... it's certainly not
> the "same tone but louder" when you do that, unless you have your tube amp
> set up really clean with lots of headroom (and I like a bit of dirt). When
> you goose the mic's volume and send a hotter signal to an already dirty
> amp, you get more dirt, but not much more volume. Your tone changes in an
> undesirable way to get that louder sound. But with the HD500 I was
> controlling output volume, not input volume (like putting a volume pedal in
> the fx loop of an amplifier), so my tone remained intact, but got louder
> when I wanted it to. It was great.
>
> I still want my tube amps for smaller gigs where I don't need to go out to
> the PA, but for any situation where I would want to mic the amp... I think
> the HD500 will be superior. I'm gonna skip the middle man and go straight
> to the board.
>