FastRedPonyCar
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Our band has started playing more small venues that don't have room for a full amp/cab setup and we've been slowly evolving to a pedalboard-only setup as an option for those places.
We run DI into our PA and use IEM's and if we have space, we will use FRFR's behind us for some stage sound.
I've played 2 shows with the Lion and OX stomp now and it sounds so stinking good.
For the last maybe 12 months, I've been using my Fractal FM3 and its awesome and can do basically everything but the sound of the old high gain marshall models just don't sound or feel quite right and I think that is what UA nailed with the Lion. Its got that messy/chaotic but still somehow clean and articulate structure that the Fractal/Helix/Quad Cortex/Kemper and a few of those "marshall in a box" pedals don't really quite get right.
I miss my 69 clone but it was basically unusable on stage or at home because of how stupid loud it had to be to sound great (even with a PPIV MV) and the Lion, for a DI/Recording tone, it absolutely nails what I always tried to get from my superlead clone.
