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Title: 2 month-experience of HRM 50 with partly suprising results Post by: Plato on February 04, 2012, 04:39:25 PM Hello there,
I own my Overtone HRM 50 for just over 2 month by now and have been playing it in our practice room most of the time (where I have the opportunity to test it even at higher volume levels). First of all: I still love it. It's the amp of my dreams, the one I have been looking for for decades. One thing I was insecure about was, if it wouldn't be too "special". Of course I love this typical Dumblelike-tone, but would it be versatile enough to fit the style of my band (from chimy-clean to marshally-lead)? - It did! And how it did. It is definitly the most versatile amp I've been playing over ever. The cleans are adorable and the lead tone (which I push a little with a booster when soloing) is screaming, whining and blooming like crazy. But ---- I had to switch off the hrm-tonestack to reach this degree of satisfaction. Not that the leadsound with hrm-tonestack on was bad, but a little bit to trebly and "narrow" for my taste. I am not a gifted technician, so to my great relief this mod was very easy. The second unexpected thing was, that to my surprise and against the advice of forum members, I don't find the C-lator, which I bought with my amp, very useful for the "sound-design". Certainly I definately need it, when I put reverb or delay into my amp's loop, but I've been reading plenty of post recommending the c-lator as a tool to influence the sound into a more "positively compressed" direction. I like the sound without the c-lator positivly better. I seems kindly chiselled, smakier (strange word) to me. But, like in many cases, this is probably only a question of taste. ...whatever: I still enjoy my amp, looking forward to many sessions and gigs to come with a sound I am finally satisfied with :-) Title: Re: 2 month-experience of HRM 50 with partly suprising results Post by: bobtastik on February 05, 2012, 10:42:22 AM I totally agree regarding the Kleinulator/Ceriulator, they do colour the original sound. I have found that some rack effects with gain switches on the reverse can be used with no noticable loss to the original tone. I personally use a Boss DDR-20, and have also used an Alessis Microverb 4 with no tone loss.
BTW, imho the HRM is the best amp bar none that I have had in 35 years of playing ! |