bordonbert
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Join date : 2015-01-28
Age : 72
Location : Southern England
by bordonbert Mon Aug 07, 2023 6:53 am
I certainly haven't got any closer to a solution but then I don't have one to play with I'm afraid. Did you come up with any solution in the end Ondrejjj?
I've always been a simple Marshall guy with my very old single channel SL100 setup and its basic controls. I've never been a user (or lover) of a pedal based sound either, it's the living breathing guitar+amp+speaker tone that I love. Then I got a TM36 and was so impressed I moved on to my own GM36 which kicked me into the MIDI age for the first time. I will say that that is the way to go in future - as long as we don't lose sight of where our base tone comes from. The one real criticism I have of the H&K amps' usability is that problem of lack of visual info, just as you say. Wit the MIDI amp heads, when you kick in a new preset the pots stay where they are set. All of the settings will change but you have no visual clue as to what has changed to where. Of course there is the LED flash that you get if you twist the pots past their original setting but that isn't at all a practical way of finding out on stage is it? If you use one of the heads you have to accept that limitation. You have to trust your preset settings implicitly.
With the BS200 floor units there could be the ability to fit some sort of indicator of the settings, maybe a screen as you say. But that would change the philosophy of being "a standard BS200 amp with a FSM432 combined in a floor based unit". And of course it would change the price point. That may not be an issue to some of us users of their gear but they are a business and have to take that into account when pitching a new design. As a previous designer of electronic gear myself I am painfully aware that there are always compromises to be made. You can never just design in every feature you want in the exact way you want them to work. I think at the end of the day with our gear we just have to accept, "you pays your money and you takes your choice", and the BS200 Floor is just the same I'm afraid.
Does anyone else have any advice on this issue? How do other users balance their sound to get around this problem?
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