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Mongillo19 said:
Someone talk me out of selling my FB100. It just doesn't get the love it deserves between the 6505 and Recto.

I also find it to have a very scooped sound and gets lost in the mix very easily.
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I can see the overlap between those two amps. How do you usually run treble and presence? With my 25 I mix it up a bit with either one or the other lower/higher if you get what I mean. Then dial in the mids as needed.

Give the amp another chance I would say!
 
Mongillo19 said:
Yeah I knew it was going to sound silly when I typed it out 😂

Idk what it is about the FB but yeah idk it just sounds thin to me. I should probably look up some settings.
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I didn't jive with the Fireball either. For what it's worth.

I could not get one sound out of it I liked. :idk
 
The Fireball isn‘t my favourite amp either - not because of lacking mids but because I find the low mids somehow bloated and the low end a little bit too woofy and compressed. That‘s why I prefer the Artist Edition. It is less compressed, punchier and doesn‘t have that low mid bloat. In fact it‘s a quite scooped (but in a good way) little Thrash machine. :D
 
TheTrueZoltan! said:
The Fireball isn‘t my favourite amp either - not because of lacking mids but because I find the low mids somehow bloated and the low end a little bit too woofy and compressed. That‘s why I prefer the Artist Edition. It is less compressed, punchier and doesn‘t have that low mid bloat. In fact it‘s a quite scooped (but in a good way) little Thrash machine. :D
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Ah yeah, I’ve gotten so used to my always-on EQ in the loop but I can see what you mean. When I turn off the EQ and the freqs I cut out comes back it’s definitely low mids woofy. Probably one of the best gear purchases I’ve made, an Ibanez Pentatone EQ which is fair priced and has five adjustable bands with Q-dials. I found the worst sounding frequency spaces and just toned them down a bit. Made a huge difference.
 
Mongillo19 said:
Yeah I knew it was going to sound silly when I typed it out 😂

Idk what it is about the FB but yeah idk it just sounds thin to me. I should probably look up some settings.
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In my experience the trick with the Fireball is to dial back the bass to clear up the low mids and turn up the mids and treble. When I had a Fireball these settings worked best for me: Bass 2-3, Middle 6,5-7, Treble 6,5-7, turn the Mid Boost off (you don‘t want that boxy 400 Hz boost) and be careful with the Presence. Try these settings before selling the amp.
 
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