Good question... I love how my FM3 sounds coming out of my headphones and my 5" monitors. But the monitors are very directional and if you bend down a little or even turn your head sideways the sound gets muffled unless they are so loud they hurt your ears. I only sit three feet away from my monitors. They are very directional.Just to confirm, you’re not looking for a mic’d up amp right? I’m not trying to be snarky, but you’re coming back to IRs, and they are made with microphones…
Close or far mic’d, it’s utilizing a microphone. That’s not going to sound like a speaker in the room because it’s signal that’s actually been through a microphone.
I may be getting old and in the way, but I feel this has been covered to death on this forum.
All that said, obviously anyone can run anything they want and people have different requirements of realism. I have zero tolerance, so it’s very likely that I’m strongly biased beyond the average player. Maybe it’s like pickups, and you just have to spend the money and try some yourself.
Hope it helps.
I would recommend using your existing cab and try out the Fryette power amp with it. I think that will give you what you asked for at the beginning of this thread.Yeah, I think I need to look at different FRFR speaker solutions. I don't think the Headrush 12" is a good speaker to use for what I am trying to do.
I would recommend using your existing cab and try out the Fryette power amp with it. I think that will give you what you asked for at the beginning of this thread.
If you choose to try the FRFR route, let me know. I will send you those Celestions for free and only ask you cover the shipping. The only stipulation will be that if it’s not for you, you offer them to someone else’s on this forum and only charge them shipping.
I’m tired of people spending hard earned money to try out 100 things before settling on to the setup that works for them.
All right, you got it. If he doesn’t want them, they’re yours.Wow. How cool of you, Manny. If Fizz doesn't take you up on that offer I'd be thrilled to try them
out and pass them along as stipulated by you above.
Hey Manny, thanks for the offer... I think I'll take you up on that and if they don't work for me I'll contact @la noise and see if he still wants them at shipping cost. If he doesn't I'll offer them up here on the forum for anyone that wants to pay shipping to get them.I would recommend using your existing cab and try out the Fryette power amp with it. I think that will give you what you asked for at the beginning of this thread.
If you choose to try the FRFR route, let me know. I will send you those Celestions for free and only ask you cover the shipping. The only stipulation will be that if it’s not for you, you offer them to someone else’s on this forum and only charge them shipping.
I’m tired of people spending hard earned money to try out 100 things before settling on to the setup that works for them.
Hey Manny, thanks for the offer... I think I'll take you up on that and if they don't work for me I'll contact @la noise and see if he still wants them at shipping cost. If he doesn't I'll offer them up here on the forum for anyone that wants to pay shipping to get them.
Having that Fryette would work out either way for me too because I've seen guys use it to re-amp their tube amps so they can play at lower volumes and with stereo effects
Just chiming in....that's what I do with IRs.I wouldn’t worry too much about using a power amp/cab and ‘losing’ the IR’s. Sure, it negates the need for IR’s, but if you find a cab you dig, there’s so many tone-shaping capabilities in the Fractal stuff that you can make it sound how you want. I’m currently using a 2x12 with WGS Retro 30’s, which are a warmed up version of V30’s, sometimes I find myself cutting some more mids out of an amp than I normally would if it were paired with a mathing cab, or maybe adding a little top end, but that’s really it.
I know I can get the tones I’m going for a lot quicker without IR’s than with them.….and it also prevents me from going down IR rabbit holes when I hear something I’m not digging as much, I just tweak the output EQ in the amp block and I’m good to go.