Boswell, no need to be a smartass. The show was at the Pantages in Minny, which for a vaudeville theatre sounds surprisingly good. They stuck everyone on the floor in the LAST row though. I weaseled up to the balcony and clamped onto the balcony dfc about 35' from stage after being told not to. Same venue I got the heave-ho from at MMW in April. Same security too. Unfortunately, I think there were some PA issues, up front on the floor and actually further back in the balcony had less HF issues than where I was, which I realized way too late to do a thing about it. What I'm sayin' is that after taping maybe 20 Mule shows, and dealing with similar HF issues most every time, transformers can mask hf distortion to some degree. We can all agree the V3 doesn't mask anything. So no, I don't think there was user error.