Recent content by earachemyeye

Well that's a hell of a deal! And a great sounding amp to boot. Congrats.

Don't have an HB but FWIW I found the stock Mesa tubes to be a blanket of sorts. I liked a chinese 9th gen in V1 and V4 of my Nomad. Seemed to brighten it up a bit. Not sure about power toobs.

Whoa, hey, what? Resonance mod? What is that? There is a "Visual Reference to Nomad Mods" thread that could use some updating if you could be so kind? :D

Well get out the soldering gun if you buy a Nomad because that parallel effects loop will have to go bye bye. Mine did (POD500 user). It's now a serial loop. Don't care about the reverb since I've got a dozen outboard ones to choose from. I tried the 5:50 and thought it sounded pretty similar...

Yep. A boost, an OD pedal or 2, an eq and a compressor will give you just about any sound you need. I put el34's in mine for a more Marshallesque sound.

Maybe the tubes are just really bad :lol: :lol: :lol: Or your ears have a high freq. roll off :lol: :lol: :lol: ...just kidding. Sounds like you got a good one. I love mine (a 55 watter) and the mods that I did just made it better at least to my ears. I didn't do them all BTW. Welcome to...

Ok typically my settings on ch.3 go like this. Ch. gain = 9 o'clock - 11, Ch. master =9 to 11 o'clock (modern), Presence= 9 o'clock -2, Treble= 1'oclock, Mid= 9'oclock -11, Bass= 1 o'clock -3. Amp master = 9 o'clock to noon (noon is pretty darn loud). If I'm standing right on top of the amp it...

I'm not sure why you would want to run a gate in the effects loop. The loop being a parallel type and not a serial loop could cause issues since a part of the signal is always fed back in even at 100% wet. I would either mod the loop to serial or take the gate out of it. Too much clean sound...

I bit on Thelastleroy's offer to buy his Axxess unit and I'm really liking it. My quest for a single button push to change channels and multiple effects is finished. The pod500 works great with it. GOODBYE FU-2. I can also tell you that the switching is indeed latching not momentary. THANKYOU...

There you go. :D Never tried the gate in the loop. It's always out front. Don't know if it will work in the loop of the Nomad since it's a parallel type loop. You can always mod the loop though to make it serial. I did or else my pod would have been useless for delays and reverb and other stuff...

Like most amps in the 55 watt range the Nomads don't start getting punchy and full until it hurts your ears in the bedroom. At gig levels with different stomp boxes and some crafty eq-ing it's a monster of an amp. I've used mine in several different cover bands from classic rock to modern metal.

Yea that's the same one I have. To get as clean a boost as possible you have to keep the distortion knob real low, almost off. I would turn it up just enough to hear smidgen of distortion, then use the volume to hit the amp. The filter knob works like a backwards treble boost. More when set low...

FWIW here's my 2 cents. For a good tight chug on ch.3 (or ch.2) I never turn the gain past noon. I hit the front of it with a pedal to keep it tight. It responds excellent. I use several different pedal models in my pod500. I've also used the real ones too. The pod is just way more convenient...

I assume they would have to be latching in order to send midi on/off messages.

I use a podhd500 with my Nomad. It would be great to add a midi switcher to switch patches and channels at the same time with just one button push on the pod ie: get rid of the fu2. I know there are some switchers out there (miniamp gizmo) but I can't justify the cost or the 4 xtra channels. The...