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Hey Philip. Thx for the comment. Yeah if you had the power amp with it you could plug into your cab and just kill the speaker sim on it. One other thought I e had since making this video is most of the time with Kampala if I have a delay on, it’s on for the whole song which means I could put mod on the other footswitch on the POD express and do away with the footswitch altogether making it even more compact. And it’s so easy to program. It’s a huge thing. I’m making a review of he two notes Opus right now and while it sounds absolutely stellar there are so many options that every time I put it down for the night and come back to it the next day I’m tweaking it. There really isn’t that capacity with this which I think can be a really good thing.

I reach for it too. A lot. It delivers every time I use it. Stellar pedal.

Boo hoo indeed. Maximum boo and excessive hoo.

Hey. Thx for the comment. So I’d not even heard of the 65 OD!! That’s mad. Must try and get my hands on one. I think this is a great pedal to give your amp a vox flavor. Like, I was using a fender bassbreaker 18/30 at our band’s studio and while it’s a great amp it’s super clean at any sort of manageable volume. So I put this on front and it gave it a voxy edge of breakup tone. Worked really well and it’s so affordable. I since replaced the bassbreaker with an AC30 so I don’t need it anymore!

Hey. Thx for the comment. I’m not sure about that. Download them and try I suppose. For example the HX stomp has less blocks than the HX effects (I think) and the HX effects has no amp modeling. So it may not work.

You are most welcome!

Thx for the comment. I honestly can’t say I agree with you. But I suppose hats heavily dependent on what type of music we are both playing. I actually found the tones pretty useable. It’s the Uber basic functionality that makes it not instantly a pro spec gigging unit straight away. But it’s surprisingly close.

Happy Birthday. Enjoy!

Hey thx for the comment. I really loved everything about the idea of this guitar and honestly it’s not a bad guitar at all. It just didn’t do what I wanted it to do and it was too far away from what I wanted to make me want to mod it. It happens sometimes I guess.

Yeah I have to say I’ve been using it to reamp live recordings I’ve been doing with my band and it’s performed perfectly. Very impressive

Hey. Thx for the comment. I’ve come across the pocket GT before. Looks interesting. The Bluetooth pedals thing is very interesting too. I’m gonna check that out. The song is by my band Kampala. You can check us out at TH-cam.com/@kampalaband

Hey. Thx for the comment to be honest I’d say no. It’s too high gain.

@ thank u so much for the heads up! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

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If you’re looking for AC/DC tones I’d say look at the bogner blue pedal or the Mosley classic Mshall I just reviewed if you are in a budget.

@@TheGuitarEffect will sure to check it out!!!

Hey. No problem. If you go to the audio section of the Demo for the first part I’m playing direct to my interface. I’m going through a delay and reverb after the Mosky but other than that direct to the interface. Then a little later in the demo I turn a speaker sim on on the two notes revolt after the Mosky and the delay and reverb. That speaker sim improves the sound to my ears but it’s a personal preference not a must. Does that answer your question?

If you are using an amp you can either use this to make your amp sound like a Marshall by putting it in front of your amp’s preamp. Alternatively you can use it as your amps preamp by putting in the FX return. Either works. I don’t demo that in my demo I’m using it direct to my interface.

Thx for the comment. That’s what my sim is with my vids so I really like it when people find them helpful

Hey thx for the comment. I’ve t is a little bit annoying that I can’t use the boost independently in this. But it is such a brilliant pedal.

The old white box version I have has a knob labeled TREB instead of TONE and that one can also operate the boost separately.

Hey. Thx for the comment. The only time I had wierd noise with this was when I inadvertently hd the input set to the MacBooks onboard mic. Other than that it’s been very good.

Hey. Thx for the comment. So this is an interesting question. For me there is no competition the studiotone is Miles ahead. But there is a lot of personal taste involved in that. I significantly prefer the sound of the studiotone. I think the feature sets are comparable. If you ever wanted to go gigging you could easily do so with yeh studiotone’s 20 watts whereas it would be difficult to keep up with a drummer with the Laney’s 5 watts. However if you never intend to go gigging I’d check out a tube preamp. Like one of the Friedman ones or the Kock plexi one or the two notes revolt. They’re all great.

Yeah I can. Incidentally it’s really easy to do. You just need to upload them in the editor software. One track per memory location

@theguitareffect how long can be the backing track per slot?

At least 5 mins.

I bought this pedal for that reason and from what I can find, there is no software available for uploading and downloading. I’ve msg’d them (in multiple places) without a reply. If anyone has a download location, I would appreciate it.

@@mojojeff hey. So there definitely is software. It may not be out yet though. Let me look into that and I’ll get back to you.

Hey. Thx for the comment. Yeah it’s just brilliant. I don’t even have it on any board at the moment but I’ll Never sell it. Too good at what it does.

Thx!

Hey. Thx for the comment! Appreciate that. It’s a great amp.

Hey. Thx for the comment. Really glad you found the video useful. It’s a good looper.

Hey. Thx for the comment. So interestingly, the deluxe reverb version of this has reverb but this doesn’t. I presume that is one reason for this not having reverb. Also, if I was using this it would be on a pedalboard and I’d want to put delay before reverb so it wouldn’t make sense for it to have recerb for me.

Hey Joe. Thx for the comment and the kind words. I think the main reason the RC5 in particular works as opposed to other loopers is the midi and the ability to name presets. It’s very good from that perspective. But this is just an entirely different thing. It’s excellent

You’re welcome! Thx for the comment.

Hey. Thx for the comment. Yeah I was aware of that actually but never pointed it out. Cheers.

Yeah I think so. But I’ve no qualms about it breaking.

Nice! Enjoy. Also with this you get a looper and delay. With the RC5 you just get a looper. So win win!

Hey. Thx for the comment. No it can’t. Definitely not. MXR make a headphone amp in pedal form. I’d say check that out.

Happy days! I’ve been using this a lot lately. It’s very good.

I actually put that exact pedalboard together for a bit. Works well alright. Especially as both units have FX loops.

@@TheGuitarEffect Do you have a video w that set up?..If so, please forward, I like a lot of your suggestions!

Hey. Sorry for the late reply. Here it is. th-cam.com/video/P_Tq4uYSews/w-d-xo.htmlsi=5trU8rbdyFV8fwn9

@@TheGuitarEffect Thanks!🤘🏾Happy New Year 🫡

Sorry mate. I don’t agree at all. We should all use the right amp obviously but the ODs, Dostortions and fuzzes on the HX make huge sense in a. Gigging context.

Ummm no. I don’t. I don’t tour with a major artist or for that matter am a major artist. The fractal stuff however good it may be is way beyond the money I should be spending on gigging gear given my income from music. Also 4 footswitches is not going to be enough for me.

Thx for the kind words!

Hey. Thx for the comment. Unfortunately as I generally play in a band I don’t really use a looper at all so I wouldn’t use or explore the looper functionality.

Hey. Thx for the comment. Absolutely correct. I do t really use loopers so I never focus on them.

Thx for the comment!

Hey. Thx for that. The intonation on that guitar needs attention. Just can’t get the time.

I have the opus. So I’ll try that . Thx mate. What IR were you using?

Hey. Thx so much for that comment. These are absolutely my favorite comments. Means a lot thx. So while we are all quite old 😢it’s very much my current band!!!! We’re called Kampala. We play in Ireland and a little in Germany. Where are you based. We just put a new single out actually. Best place to learn about us is our site. All our Music is streaming there and all our merch is there and our social links. Kampalaband.com

@@TheGuitarEffect I'm in the states but thought your band was great! It has a bit of Pale Saints in there as well haha. Will check it out!

Thx for that particular comment. That reaction is exactly why I made this video. It really in kind of surprising right?

Hey. Thx for the comment. I have the American sound too. It’s just a brilliant pedal. I’m so impressed with these. They are just so useful. I’ll definitely check out their simplifier clone.

Hey thx so much for the comment. I really appreciate it when people take the time to write long messages. So the interesting thing is while the pedal sounds outrageously good and is as you said infinitely tweakable the lack of a screen kinda just makes it redundant for me. Even though I might only use 3 or 4 presets it just doesn’t work if I can’t see which one I’m on.

@ totally fair. With a switcher it doesn’t inconvenience me much but I have a new band and rig, which will once again require me to do some editing. That’s really the downside; it IS immensely powerful but with the one series you gotta do some stuff under the hood to get what you need, and it’s a lot less convenient in that sense than say, an HX or analog pedal. It was a lifesaver in my stereo amp rig though

Hey. Hx for the comment. Well I can’t speak for anyone else but in my case I’m using the guitar the way I want to use it. Like I think its character suits the use case I’m using it for which happens to be a slow atmospheric song. That’s all really.

Hey. Thx for the comment. It really is a stellar piece of kit. I love it. Do you mind me asking which type of effects do you feel are better in the fractal and how?

I much prefer nearly all the effects on the Fractal with maybe the exception being pitch shifting, but given Digitech’s involvement with Yamaha and Line 6 that probably isn’t surprising. The reverbs/delays are genuinely studio standard akin to Eventide or Lexicon rack units and even modern VSTs like Valhalla, I am a reverb snob though. Helix effects are fine in a live setting, though I have found things like the phasers flangers and chorus’s don’t cut as well in a mix compared to the fractal. I think the ability to modulate individual parameters on the fractal algorithms using standalone LFOs, ADSRs and envelope followers sets the Fractal apart too; For example to create a decent autowah In HX effects I had to use the Empress Zoia’s envelope follower over MIDI to create something similar to the Fractal. In terms of Drives I think HX Effects and Fractal are pretty close, though the Fractal is more tweakable. I do think HX Effects has some unusual effects like feedbacker and tessolator which you can’t replicate in the Fractal world easily. I do wish that Yamaha would allow Line 6 to add a Symphonic chorus model though. Nice to see an Irish TH-camr though it’s been a long time since I have visited my family there.

Thx for the response. I must admit I simply find the price of the fractal stuff simply doesn’t apply to the level of gigs I play. Like I just can’t justify the expense given the level my band is at. I love the HX effects and I have 3 other boards for various purposes but I’d say the HX effects and the ES8 I have are the only effects I’ve ever spent more than €200 on. I get the recerb snob thing. It’s very popular at the minute. To the extent where there is a pretty big movement of ambient guitar music as a result of the emergence of big verb. Not my thing. But I get the appeal. I’m not really an effect snob of any kind. I am an insufferable music snob though!!

@@TheGuitarEffect I do understand want you mean about justifying the cost relative to the gigs you do. We only do covers in pubs and clubs from 1980s which are heavily processed and I am passionate about making the experience for the audience (and me) the best it can be so I really wanted to play live in stereo or wet dry wet. The great thing is that now there are great pieces of gear like HX effects at every price point. The way I justified the Fractal was thinking that it replaced my whole signal chain including the amp. When I totted up the value of my existing pedalboard plus the amplifier it was nearly £3,500 so £1400 for a secondhand FM9 was frankly a bargain. The same goes for a Helix of course. My previous Axe FX was a version 2 and only cost £750.

Yeah I can completely see how that makes sense when you replace everything. I play originals mostly I was playing in a wedding band too for about 15 years but I put and end to it recently. Just couldn’t do it anymore. I have a 00’s tribute band that does music from 2000 -2010 that’s just getting off the ground now. That’s gonna be my earner. Great great fun. I do t think I’ll go ampless. I’m just not into the experience on stage. I feel you get much better sound but lose all the power and drama. I get the practical positives of it though. I take it you are in the UK then. Thx for the Irish TH-camr comment I appreciate it. Happy Christmas

Ten four rubber ducky. Oh ya.

Hey thx mate. If I’m honest I’m not a connoisseur of specific 70s and 80s tones. I’m a Grunge head through and through! But it did sound less sludgy than the mudhoney.