Hi all,
I loaded up my KPA with the latest beta firmware and based on Guitarnet70's hints of change in this area, plugged in to my Matrix GT800FX and Marshall 1936 Cab. I played through around 20-30 rigs with the cab bypassed (on the monitor out) before finally settling on one of the new JCM2000 profiles I downloaded from the rig exchange for about 1 hour of playing along with the new Slash album.
firstly the JCM2000 CH2 profile is great!
Secondly, my impressions were that everything sounds better using this method, I don't know what, if anything, has changed here but if you run this way I would certainly give it a try and see what you think. I tested everything from Rectifiers, Marshalls, Diezels, Fenders, Bogners, Vox everything sounded good. Before, if there was a lot of effect by the Mic placement or speaker type then this seemed to drastically affect the tone when running PA/Cab, the effect of this now seems less. The difference between DI profiles and regular profiles was much less also in this setup.
I guess this could be placebo effect I guess as there is no mention in the release notes and I didn't really fancy rolling back the firmware version just to check, all I care about is that it sounds great as is and I am very grateful to the developers for there work in this area
Cheers
Spence