jellodog
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The Pedal Baby
I've done the Class D power amp thing for a while and that's okay. Still doesn't quite have the dynamics, although they're not too bad... and I'm not sure I love the high end. So I'm also interested in trying out a Class A/B with my FM3 Fasbox.
Question for @JiveTurkey : At The Other Place™ you said that the PB adds too much colour for your liking, which indicated to me that it's a no go. You've experimented with so much more gear than I have, so your opinion carries a great deal of weight with me.
Plenty of people have said that the PB is not 100% flat and that it has an upper mids hump. I can even hear that mids hump in all the online demos.
Others have said that they have simply added a PEQ block with a suitable mids cut at the end of their signal chain to counteract that hump, and that it sounded good with thier modeller. If that's all that's required, then I'd still like to try the PB. Now I don't know what to believe.
@JiveTurkey - when you said "color", were you only referring to the mids hump or was there something else, some other sort of colour that made the PB untenable as a power amp for you?
There's also the FX return of the Orange Terror Stamp. Super cheap, Class A/B, and still more power and headroom than I'd ever need at home (@Ola The Swede got it up to 109 dB with a 4x12). But I've seen one report saying that there was a lot of hum doing this with a modeller.
Matrix
In addition to the various issues the company appears to be having right now with product availability and customer support / repairs, I don't want to be spending that kind of money at this stage for my experiments with Class A/B power amps. Also, this is for my own amusement and enjoyment at home - I don't need pro level gigging stuff at this time (although I do seem to have a bunch of that gear already haha).
Katana Sauce
Maybe @Alex Kenivel is right? Maybe there's no Katana Sauce after all, and that it was just the speaker colouration all along
I've avoided the Katana since it came out, but at it's very affordable price point, and just to satisfy my Class A/B curiosity, perhaps the Katana Head's A/B power amp is exactly what I need. I don't need the shitty Boss cabinet or speakers in the combo, but if the power amp is decent enough for the price then why not the head?
I'm not interested in "FRFR" at this stage (maybe later). I mean, I'll use IRs for recording ofc, but when playing for my own enjoyment, I like Amp where I'm at.
I've done the Class D power amp thing for a while and that's okay. Still doesn't quite have the dynamics, although they're not too bad... and I'm not sure I love the high end. So I'm also interested in trying out a Class A/B with my FM3 Fasbox.
Question for @JiveTurkey : At The Other Place™ you said that the PB adds too much colour for your liking, which indicated to me that it's a no go. You've experimented with so much more gear than I have, so your opinion carries a great deal of weight with me.
Plenty of people have said that the PB is not 100% flat and that it has an upper mids hump. I can even hear that mids hump in all the online demos.
Others have said that they have simply added a PEQ block with a suitable mids cut at the end of their signal chain to counteract that hump, and that it sounded good with thier modeller. If that's all that's required, then I'd still like to try the PB. Now I don't know what to believe.
@JiveTurkey - when you said "color", were you only referring to the mids hump or was there something else, some other sort of colour that made the PB untenable as a power amp for you?
There's also the FX return of the Orange Terror Stamp. Super cheap, Class A/B, and still more power and headroom than I'd ever need at home (@Ola The Swede got it up to 109 dB with a 4x12). But I've seen one report saying that there was a lot of hum doing this with a modeller.
Matrix
In addition to the various issues the company appears to be having right now with product availability and customer support / repairs, I don't want to be spending that kind of money at this stage for my experiments with Class A/B power amps. Also, this is for my own amusement and enjoyment at home - I don't need pro level gigging stuff at this time (although I do seem to have a bunch of that gear already haha).
Katana Sauce
Maybe @Alex Kenivel is right? Maybe there's no Katana Sauce after all, and that it was just the speaker colouration all along
I've avoided the Katana since it came out, but at it's very affordable price point, and just to satisfy my Class A/B curiosity, perhaps the Katana Head's A/B power amp is exactly what I need. I don't need the shitty Boss cabinet or speakers in the combo, but if the power amp is decent enough for the price then why not the head?
I'm not interested in "FRFR" at this stage (maybe later). I mean, I'll use IRs for recording ofc, but when playing for my own enjoyment, I like Amp where I'm at.
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