Krispen Hartung
Member
I absolutely love the Friedman HBE amp in the Axe III, more so than the FAS Mod and FAS 6160. I love how it sounds using my neck pickup...something about the amp makes a duel coil sound really transparent and clean like a single coil, even at high gain....BUT, I notice that the Friedman HBE amp model produces a lot of white noise, significantly more noticeable than other amps (all all the primary EQ and tone shaping parameters at similar settings. Is there some advanced setting in the amp that might be contributing to this, or is it just built into the model?