Mongillo19
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I didn't really spell it out too well
St. Rock Amperium: Owners Club
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Owner & fan of the unit / company. About 2 weeks for it to arrive. Maybe a day or two less.
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It's OK. The parcel is somewhere on Air hub. When it will arrive to the USA the status will be changed.
It's standard behavior.
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It takes awhile to update. It's on its way
and it is the holiday seasonHI, I just received mine, so, I have a question for you guys (owners), the preamps sounds amazing, but I'm having trouble with the POW section, every load (defaultt ReactiIR or something) I try sounds horrible through my "FRFR", there's any way to bypass that load section or bypass the colouring in that block? Im using OH Ir'sI won't need any of it. (unless I plan on using headphones) Normally it will go:
Amperium SEND > Broughton EQ > Boss DM-2W > Samson amp > guitar cab
If I need additional FX I have plenty of pedals in the closet.
Playing the clean on the Mark III last night got me jonesing for Fender tones so started looking at a Cyber Deluxe. Then looked at the price of the St. Rock - $607.06 to my front door, everything included!
If I can score a half dozen or so (or more) of highly usable PREs for less than the cost of two small Strymon pedals? Easy peasy.
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Yeah there should be the on off toggle when you click on the POW block that will turn it on or off.
That's strange it sounds so bad through an "FRFR"! Maybe make sure you are hitting "default power amp" on the pre model when you change to make sure it's matching accordingly
Nevermid, I just found a passive option in the Load section of the POW block, that removed the coloration. NOW sound even better lol, The React IR shouldn't be the default one @st.Rock
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Which load are you using now
what's your favorite pre so far?I’m using passive load at the time, I find it more natural, The EVH pres, the recto 2 ch, the ACs and some of the Friedmans sounds better than the same pres of my fm3 is hard to believe reallyWhich load are you using now
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Do you have the same perception?And here I was thinking that today was gonna be chill around here......
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I opened the box to check out the construction (SOLID AS F*CK!!) and then wrapped it back up to ship to Mongo.
Based on everything I've read I totally understand the Amperium being compared with the other top dogs.
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I agree it's on par with FAS as far as raw amp tones (but I haven't played all the models). It obviously doesn't have the same feature set but it's a great sounding device
Yes, I mean, Im talking about the sound, every other aspect falls from fm3 (and the price too)
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I plan on creating a pedalboard out of it to fill any gaps. The basic effects are there tho and do the job
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Hm...
You can send a bank file here - and then we can say what is wrong.
Poweramp section is very important part of sound IMHO.
But the main problem is wrong IR's - need to use flat IR's if you using any load type except a passive.
I wrote here (on forum) how to understand if IR's include an impedance curve or not.
Some amps, like plexi can't sound correct without a power amp.
Better than fm3? I've been entertaining the idea of getting one of these and selling my fm3 then...it really sounds better! I'm especially interested of friedman and any marshall like tones, and for metal mesa too.
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It's going to be very subjective. All tone is.
You just have to see what needs you have. I think we've chatted before but I believe you'd benefit from having both to compare and selling the one you decide against
