Hopefully I can help provide some insight on the Reality cabs for any curious viewers. I purchased a two Reality cabs, one with Stereo Activier, and one without. My rig: Quad Cortex with built-in speaker models, and York Audio IRs. This stereo rig is an absolute monster in terms of tone. My friend and I have A/B tested it in the room with a Two-Rock stereo rig in vertical 212 format, and the Barefaced went toe-to-toe in a magnificent way. I also have been running a Boss GM-800 synth into the rig over the past two weeks; this is where the FRFR nature really shines through. I am able to scene swap on QC from synth, to guitar, to synth plus guitar, and it takes all the tone and creates a beautiful product where all sounds feel as they should. Alex and the team have created something in the Reality that all guitarists should be looking forward to trying. You won't be disappointed once you have a chance to really mess around with one of these (preferably two 😅... it's a ton of fun).
The moment I played my Activier Reality I was 100% sold on their tech. I immediately and happily sold the Headrush 12" monitor. It's not even fair to compare the two speakers 😅
Thank you for the video. I was most interested in the comparison between FRFR and DI, as I have yet to find an FRFR that closely matches the DI. I think that if, in this recording, a room microphone were set up at a distance from the FRFR but perpendicular to the speaker, it would be possible to compare the DI to the FRFR. Nevertheless, it seems to me that these two sounds are quite close. I'm increasingly leaning towards Barefaced :) Best regards
Can I trade you all of the other FRFR speakers I've bought for one? I put my Kemper, Headrush, HX Stomp, and Tonex one on the shelf and bought a Monoprice Laney Cub 12R clone which sounds better live than any of them.
Im very interested in checking out the powered FRFR - about to go into a digital modelling set up and this seems like a perfect monitoring solution whilst sending the DI out to FOH Going from my old 212 cab to a single 12 FRFR seems like a daunting prospect though haha.
On an IRs don't you hear a cab with a specific microphone in a specific position ? Because hearing the full speaker with our ears should sound different then :/
@@BarefacedAudio it is "incomplete" compare to the whole Cab but it is what we all hear on record and live in the PA so we hear that more than full cab most of the time I think
@@BarefacedAudio yeah sure :D On a Quad Cortex there is 2 mics "only" It is great and easier for people that are not studio geek but there is a lot more that can be used on a cab I don't know if room mic is used that often in metal :/
