I ordered the 2X12 HK Cabinet, MKIII Midi Controller, and the Grandmeister Deluxe 40. Everything showed up yesterday.
So far I'm happy with everything. I can get all the sounds I want out of the head and cabinet. I'm in a 90's Alternative Grunge Cover Band.
I'm coming from a Fender Mustang III V2 amp. There are something's I'm used to on this amp that may not work for this new one. With that said I like the Grandmeister a lot so far. It sounds great and there are a lot of things I like about it already. I like the tone much better than a modeling amp, the sounds are a lot less harsh and notes pronounced compared to a modeling amp, I like that it doesn't make any noise when switching channels, and the affects are much better than a modeling amp. So far so good........
These are the things I need to figure out....
1) I may use several patches for 1 song (1 for Rhythm, maybe 1 for a special modulation for one lead run, and maybe 1 for a lead with more volume). So lets say I program the 1st three patches on the Grandmeister for the first song. If I program the next 2 patches for the next song to easily change between these 2 patches it would be between banks. This would not work well... If I keep 1 song per bank that would only allow for 32 songs which would not be enough. I'm not sure how I'm going to work around this. I may have to change the way I think about using patches.
Any Suggestions? How do you use your presets?
2) I'm disappointed that I can not control the master volume using an expression pedal on this amp. I do this on the fender mustang III to make adjustments to the volume of all the patches on the fly. I either need to buy an analog volume pedal and put it in the effects loop as they suggested in their documentation or not worry about it and just adjust it on the amp itself.
So far I'm happy and it's built well.
Thx SMS
So far I'm happy with everything. I can get all the sounds I want out of the head and cabinet. I'm in a 90's Alternative Grunge Cover Band.
I'm coming from a Fender Mustang III V2 amp. There are something's I'm used to on this amp that may not work for this new one. With that said I like the Grandmeister a lot so far. It sounds great and there are a lot of things I like about it already. I like the tone much better than a modeling amp, the sounds are a lot less harsh and notes pronounced compared to a modeling amp, I like that it doesn't make any noise when switching channels, and the affects are much better than a modeling amp. So far so good........
These are the things I need to figure out....
1) I may use several patches for 1 song (1 for Rhythm, maybe 1 for a special modulation for one lead run, and maybe 1 for a lead with more volume). So lets say I program the 1st three patches on the Grandmeister for the first song. If I program the next 2 patches for the next song to easily change between these 2 patches it would be between banks. This would not work well... If I keep 1 song per bank that would only allow for 32 songs which would not be enough. I'm not sure how I'm going to work around this. I may have to change the way I think about using patches.
Any Suggestions? How do you use your presets?
2) I'm disappointed that I can not control the master volume using an expression pedal on this amp. I do this on the fender mustang III to make adjustments to the volume of all the patches on the fly. I either need to buy an analog volume pedal and put it in the effects loop as they suggested in their documentation or not worry about it and just adjust it on the amp itself.
So far I'm happy and it's built well.
Thx SMS
Last edited by sms380 on Tue Dec 13, 2016 4:35 pm; edited 1 time in total (Reason for editing : typo)