HT-1R as an alternative to FlyRig5?

[tfs4473]

So here's the situation: I bought a Tech21 FlyRig5 to use as a back-up during live gigs to my Club 40 or Stage 60, and to use when playing on really small stages at small venues. It's really small, reasonably priced, and offered a lot of goodies (emulated Plexi, a boost feature, reverb, delay, etc.).

The problem is that despite all it has going for it, I can 't make the FlyRig5 sound good.

In your experience, can I use the HT-1R as an emergency back-up to my regular Blackstar amps if it's miked or DI'ed into the mix board? And it looks like a perfect mini-amp for going right into my DAW for home recording. (I use pedals a lot, so switching to OD or distortion would be done via pedals and not necessarily the amp.)

Thoughts and opinions?

Thanks.

Thom

[thephantum]

Assuming the venue you are playing has a PA system, there's no reason it won't work. The issue will be when you are playing a gig in a venue that has no PA...

[tfs4473]

thephantum:

Agreed. The same is true of the FlyRig5, which requires going into a PA (or powered speaker, another amp, etc.) to be used.

In addition to being a small backup for my regular amps (never needed to use it in that capacity, thankfully), I had been using The FlyRig5 for DI at small venues when stages are really tiny and even the Club 40 was too big. I had tried it for recording into my DAW, too, but it just didn't sound good to me, like using the Club 40's emulated out did.

Thanks for the input!

Thom

[tfs4473]

Well the little HT-1R arrived yesterday, and while it sounded great (especially the OD channel), there just isn't enough headroom with the clean channel to work for what I intended. It was worth a try, however.

I'm returning it and likely swapping for a HT-5R combo.

Live and learn, as they say.

Thom