Posts by SliderJeff

Quote from Vinny Burns

Be nice to hear some ‘normal’ profiles of a Mk series (although I do personally like them with the graphic in a nice sensible v shape).

Pretty much every profile of a MK series I have seen posted from people who sell profiles is downtuned metal. Hard to believe that these mk series were famous long before that from the likes of things like Santana, Toto Isolation, Brad Gillis with Night Ranger and even Gilmour on his Wall live solo sounds. Plus, all the LA sessions that were done back then with Mk series amps.
I have three Mk3 amps in my studio (one is my sons). Two blue stripes and one red stripe. I think they are fantastic amps.

Yeah, I'd LOVE someone to post some Watson/Gillis type tones for playing quintessential Night Ranger tunes like, "Don't Tell Me You Love Me", and "(You Can Still) Rock in America"!

#memories

#oldfart

#okboomer

#backwhenmusicontheradiowasgood

Ah, well that changes things, somewhat. I'd still use the compression techniques, obviously using the compressor in the Kemper to achieve this type of thing. Application of compression and some studio EQ to punch up certain freqs should help dial things in to be more "punchy"... at least that's my $0.02, as I'm not a live player... and barely a bedroom player, lately.

Have you checked out the Rig Exchange? There's a "Death Chuck Schuldin" profile there that might do the job for "Symbolic".

Thanks, Thumas!

cafadeon

Just FYI, this thread should be moved to the Commercial Announcements subforum, as this specific forum does NOT allow profile makers to create or post responses to threads per:

"This section is for all our users to discuss commercial third party rigs. Authors of those offerings are not allowed to open threads or post into existing threads. Any other form of commercial offering, raffle etc must also not take place here. If you're an author of a commercial pack discussed in here and you feel the need to comment you need to do this via PM to the poster in question.

Note: we've changed this policy in 4/18. In order to avoid confusion authors of commercial offerings must not post here at all."

You may want to move this thread yourself (if possible), otherwise I foresee the mods doing it for you.

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Your message matches mine exactly, except for the CRC code .... whatever the heck that is. Look at my posting and solution. It might help you maybe .... it's a long shot. But I've run into these problems with locking up on two different occasions now because of rig files that were corrupted as loaded.

Kemper with OS 7.1.22 locks up while browsing thru rigs

Not that this helps you, but the CRC is a type of checksum often used in firmware and software programming. Programmers use it to verify if firmware/software has loaded into the target device correctly. You will often see things like, "Bad CRC" or "CRC Error" when the loading of said software encounters an issue where the expected "everything is good" code does not match.

Yep, definitely getting that same Howe/Kotzen vibe, as well! /Martha Stewart voice "It's a GOOD thing!"

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I have an active base and I have to admit... I hate it. I always forget to pull out the cable and empty the two 9V blocks inside and it is only passiv useable, when I need it. 3 years didn't cure me from this mistake. Soundwise I like the Fishmans and pricewise would still be an option.

I actually started searching with DiMarzio. My ideas were like:

FRED - Satch Track - Pro Track
PAF 36th Anni - Chopper - Fast Track 1

I really like DiMarzios single coil sounds, especially the Area series and VV54 Pro, but also the Injector. Nevertheless with the humbuckers I have my selection problems (too many options for me ;-)). Tone Zone (sounds interesting) and AT-1 (higher output PAF 36th) are close to the Gravity Storm or Dominion which the DiMarzio Tech said are good to split. But aren't those too much output, compared to the single coil sized PUs?

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Cool! I guess one thing to keep in mind as far as the Fishman's go is that they sell a rechargeable battery pack to power them... so you wouldn't need to constantly be popping new batteries in if you go that.

In terms of the output of the DiMarzio's... yes, you MIGHT have an issue with matching the overall volume levels, but you MAY be able to mitigate this, in whole or in part, by playing with the pickup heights of the single-coil sized ones vs. the humbucker.

My Alder-body with maple cap Ibanez USBRG30 came with a Tone Zone in the bridge and a PAF Pro in the neck, originally. I swapped it out for the Petrucci "Awake"-era Steve's Special bridge and Air Norton Neck models... but that wasn't because they didn't sound good... I was just in full DT-worship mode. I have my MIJ Fender HM Strat setup with the Tone Zone and Humbucker From Hell Neck (with an additional HS-3 in the middle position) and those sound quite good in that basswood guitar (ala Petrucci's setup for "Images and Words").

As a comparison:

TZ - HFH = 375 - 226 = 149 mV difference

SS - AN = 390 - 270 = 120 mV difference

Given that those are stock combos used in a variety of guitars, my guess would be that, as long as you are 150 mV or less in terms of the difference, you should be fine. And like I said, you can use the pickup height as an additional way to dial in a little more or a little less volume to get them to match better.

Sorry I didn't go through the math for all the other combos you list, but here are the quick output voltages:

FRED - 305

Gravity Storm Bridge - 340

Dominion Bridge - 360

Fast Track-1 - 191

SatchTrack - 245

ProTrack - 275

The Chopper - 260

HTH!

Good call, MM! Yep, it SEEMS like there was a limit of 20 items in the cart before it errored out.

I'm not an SD guy, so I can't really help on that front. What I CAN say is that, assuming you are willing to spend some money for this reinvigoration, the Fishman Fluence series of pickups are AMAZING! I'd say go with a Classic Humbucker in the bridge and two of their SSA pickups in the middle and neck positions. You can see the typical configuration on the SSA page, but here it is, for reference:

HSS Positions:

• Position 1 (Bridge) — Bridge humbucker of choice

• Position 2 — Combines one coil from the bridge and middle with resonance shift for true in-between quack
• Position 3 — Vintage single coil tone
• Position 4 — Combines one coil from the middle and neck with resonance shift for true in-between quack
• Position 5 (Neck) — Vintage-voiced neck tone

Now, if you want strictly passive pickups, and without knowing what genre of music you play, I would recommend on the DiMarzio side of the fence:

Bridge: ToneZone or AT-1 (Andy Timmons)

Neck/Middle: Satch Track Neck model or Maybe the Injector Neck for a lower output choice

You could always use their pickup finder to kind of dial in their suggestions based on the details of your guitar and music style, as well:

https://www.dimarzio.com/pickup-picker

Hope that helps!

Quote from rik777

SliderJeff Have you tried them?

Nope, not yet. Family time took priority since I'm not one of the lucky ones that gets to work from home throughout the week.

Perhaps try compression, or bandwidth-limited compression to "even out" all 4 strings? I'm not a bass player, though I own one, but my understanding has always been that bass guitar is pretty heavily compressed to even out the volume from each string... particularly for players that favor their fingers over a pick. Just a thought.

https://www.musicianonamission.com/bass-compression-trick/

Nice! Thanks!

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This track is so awesome! Testament really kicking ass harder than ever before imho!

Hell yeah! Testament Legions Forever!!

I love Eden's Curse! Holy crap... I had no idea he played totally upside down and backwards. I think I had stroke just trying to wrap my head around watching his hands play power chords alone!

I dig FF, too.. though I'm more a "Mechanize" fan.

Thanks for sharing!

I *think* it's "The Looking Glass" off of their self titled disc. It definitely sounds like it's off that disc, either way.

Reaper for me, as well... at least once I stick the Kemper into my recording setup to replace my Axe-FX Standard which is currently in there, now.

Thanks, Steve!

Quote from Stakkato

Thank you for the profiles - they sound good!!

A question: What's the meaning of "MG" and "Klon"?

Greets

I'm guessing "MG" is "Medium Gain", and "HG" is "High Gain".

Klon is likely a Klon boost pedal in front of the amp.

HTH