Bad.Seed
Well-known member
So, I'm super pumped on this piece of gear, however, not super pumped on the recorded tone, so let me preface with that.
I was lucky enough to pick up the Hot Mod V2 locally used. someone turned it in to my local shop I frequent, and I was able to score it for $100 out the door. I posted about it online, and David hit me up anc actually offered to add the bass and gain switches and update it to the newest version for free. I was pretty blown away by that.
He got it done the same day he received it, dropped it right back in the mail and here we are. I'm in love with what this thing does to my 2203x. I always had to double boost and fight a ton of noise and compression, or figure out how to keep the low end in my signal with the 2203x to get it to the gain level I was wanting. This eliminates that, and gets the amp to a point where all I need is a single boost out front, like all my other amps, to get the amp where I want it.
On the playback, I'm not sure what happened. I may have bumped the mic or cab, but the in the room sound was glorious. What the mic picked up seems to be on the super thick and slightly muddy side. It also sounds a good bit gainier than it did in the room. Seems really odd, but with the way I do my videos, a reshoot was just not in the picture. Some guys seem to be really enjoying it but I like things a bit tighter and brighter is all.
Also, David let me announce he will be doing an EVO model, which is now on a small PCB, which drives cost and production time down. He will be able to mae more of these and sell them at a lower cost, so I think they will become pretty popular once he rolls them out. He is sending me one to demo this month,
Anyways, let me know your thoughts on what you're hearing. I learned about this Mod from Rig Talk in the first place, curious to see if any of you fellas have one or how you think it sounds.
I was lucky enough to pick up the Hot Mod V2 locally used. someone turned it in to my local shop I frequent, and I was able to score it for $100 out the door. I posted about it online, and David hit me up anc actually offered to add the bass and gain switches and update it to the newest version for free. I was pretty blown away by that.
He got it done the same day he received it, dropped it right back in the mail and here we are. I'm in love with what this thing does to my 2203x. I always had to double boost and fight a ton of noise and compression, or figure out how to keep the low end in my signal with the 2203x to get it to the gain level I was wanting. This eliminates that, and gets the amp to a point where all I need is a single boost out front, like all my other amps, to get the amp where I want it.
On the playback, I'm not sure what happened. I may have bumped the mic or cab, but the in the room sound was glorious. What the mic picked up seems to be on the super thick and slightly muddy side. It also sounds a good bit gainier than it did in the room. Seems really odd, but with the way I do my videos, a reshoot was just not in the picture. Some guys seem to be really enjoying it but I like things a bit tighter and brighter is all.
Also, David let me announce he will be doing an EVO model, which is now on a small PCB, which drives cost and production time down. He will be able to mae more of these and sell them at a lower cost, so I think they will become pretty popular once he rolls them out. He is sending me one to demo this month,
Anyways, let me know your thoughts on what you're hearing. I learned about this Mod from Rig Talk in the first place, curious to see if any of you fellas have one or how you think it sounds.
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