Posts by GearJocke

Quote from V8guitar

I can confirm as a married guitarist that the sooner you switch the language from "need" to "want" the quicker you get acceptance ( as you'll never get agreement)

I don't know why most women behave the same way no matter where in the world we live. After all they spend more money on shopping than men do. Ask them how much do they really need all the shoes and cloths they're shopping? So much they use once or twice or sometimes never and cost a fortune. But they love to nag on their husbands and boyfriends.

I don't have that problem. If I say I'm going to buy another guitar all she says which one? She never question my purchases and neither do I with her. We take care of our economy and bills and what we do after all is paid is up to ourself. I guess I'm lucky. I couldn't stand anyone question why I do for my money.

But I guess many of you guys are like me. 200$ for cloths? That hurts and so expensive. A new guitar for 2K? Okay that's a good bargain and I open up the wallet without blinking.

I haven't bothered and after watching this two hilarious videos I know for sure I will still keep not bother.

Sure you can tweak a lot. But for me, if it doesn't sound great as soon as I load one, I delete it. A tiny tweaking like a little more treble/presence, or a little less of it, sure. But more than that, no.

For me profiles work like any new pedal/effect, and that is it gives me new inspiration, new riffs. So that's one reason i check new profiles occasionally.

Quote from MuddySludge

The versatility of the Kemper brought me to the shocking realization I needed more guitars.

That was true for me too. You can have too many pedals but you can' t have enough of guitars.

Quote from V8guitar

I know I blither on about this but I don't get it...

Every time I've used an external drive pedal, its added noise and hassle. I then find myself unclear if I'm setting my amp to clean and using the pedal drive or balancing drives. I know the answer is you can do either but why? Most of the time ( and I'm talking about OD and gain pedals) you need them to make up for deficiencies in a single channel/limited channel amp. In the car world the premise is if you want a fast car, you start with a fast car, not try to turn a slow car into a fast one. I know its not as binary as that but I also don't think its much more than gain and eq...

In the analogue world it makes sense rather than run multi-amp set ups. In the digital world it seems less relevant.

I totally get the link back to the analogue world, the fun of trying new pedals...hey we've all had GAS, but I'm a bit relieved I've had now amp GAS since having a KPA..

That said, I am excited that the Kemper team will produce something to get the "pedal heads" ( and I mean that affectionately) revved up!

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I don't get any added noise with a external OD pedal if I put it in front of the kemper. Or did you use them in the loop?

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EVH 5150 (100W) Direct Amp profiles

Quote from joshriggs

When I had my Helix, I was constantly tweaking it because it always just sounded a bit flat. For the 3 weeks I had a Fractal FM3, I had to program it so much just to get it set up how I wanted it. Now that I have the Kemper Stage, I have a new problem - I have too many damn good rigs to choose from!

I play mostly instrumental post metal stuff, so I tend to gravitate towards higher gain amps with nice bite and upper mids. Howrver I also love clean, lush spacey tones, and a good modded Marshall sound for leads.

Just for high gain tones alone, there are some amazing factory rigs (5150, 5150III, Recto, Friedman). I've also bought some commercial rigs that are great. I can literally spend hours a day just tweaking tones because it's fun.

How the hell do you all just choose some rigs and get on with your lives? 🤣🤣🤣

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The first couple of months that was all I did, browsing profiles. But eventually I found some favv and was satisfied with that ....Nah who the hell am I trying to fool? After a couple of months I find a few other better favvs and...it never stops.

Never heard of this amp. I will give the profile a chance tomorrow.

No I haven't . But John Lord used amp for his organ sound. Distortion and overdrive pedals have been used in studios even for voices so the of course the kemper can be used for many things.

Quote from rspangler

Hello Kemper forum - I love my Kemper and the profiles I've accumulated (rarely use my tube amps anymore!) My "use case" is essentially recording tracks (Kemper to Presonus Quantum to Logic Pro X) that are going to be used on various streaming releases (iTunes/Spotify/etc.).

I love the sounds/tones I've been able to get! I'm curious - what tips and tricks can anyone offer for plugins that they use on their guitar tracks (EQ, compression, etc.) to really get them to sit properly in the mix and do them justice?

I play indie/post-punk rock, so it varies quite a bit in terms of tone and intensity. Thanks in advance for sharing your thoughts!

-Rob

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Well EQ is a must for mixing. In theory high and lowpass filter should be enough, but in reality, not enough. How, well it depends on the song. No one can tell you do this and that and it will sound good. It all depends on the sound(profile in this case), guitar and pickup(s)you use. I guess you already have a DAW and the stock plugins will do both for EQ and compression. If you need compression, well it may depend on your goal with a song, profiles used. Oh, and a quite expensive third party plugin so many pro use is soothe. It's kind of a dynamic EQ.

Quote from Grale16v

I treated myself to a Kemper Toaster on my 50th birthday last month. Well it would have been rude not to treat oneself on such a special BD!

Previously searching through various amp sims and settled with Amplitube. Home user only but WOW the Kemper has not disappointed.

I actually fired up Amplitube the other day and realised just how good the Kemper is. The sound the feel

Take care all

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Welcome. After a couple of years I did the same and fired up Amplitube and even IR's because everyone should know ampsims own cabs sucks at least 90% of the time. And how thin, mediocre and uninspiring it sounded compared to the kemper. Once kemper you won't go back to ampsims.

I was big fan of Within Temptation until the last record that was a bit too popmetal for my taste and I only liked a few songs. Heard a few from the last and meh! They have passed their best before date for me.

Quote from creative360

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Not so. First of all the Tube Screamer came out in ‘83. I think the Klon was like 1993 or 1994.
The Klon is known for its soft buffer. The Tube Screamer is known for it compression and mids hump. Both are “prescribed” to goose the front of a semi-pushed amp, like a Deluxe Reverb on four or five, with single coil pickups. But tons of people have used them successfully at different settings and withhumbuckers.

Stevie Ray Vaughan used two Tube Screamers. I believe that’s where Trey Anastasio picked that trick up. One of his is at zero drive and the other is at full, both followed by I think a Dan Armstrong compressor.

Klon is sort of king of the “transparent” (not really) drives. But Analogman KOT, Boss Blues Driver and OD-1 .. are other early days standard-bearers. They’re all classic recipes. Obviously there are several more. Nobels ODR1 etc etc

Nothing wrong with a guitarist wantIng what he/she knows and is comfortable with. Even if what we hear in the end isn’t so different.

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Wrong! The tube screamer came out 1979 and was licensed from Maxon until 83.

Quote from jippitygem25

Zero gain, bumped level Klon would be up my alley, but I essentially do this with the Green Scream and I believe it has the similar effect. Does it not? From my understanding, isn't the green scream supposed to be that OD pedal, that you turn the volume all the way and tone half way and gain at 0 and it gives you that nice saturated tone?

Sure but you can use any OD pedal and no one will ever know which pedal you used. It's the same with pickups. It might be just a tiny bit that difference between A and B but you experience that B sounds a little better than A. But when another player uses A you experience that that sounds better. Well at least for him/her. So is the original Klon pedal very few have acually used, the holy grail of tones. Of course not. But myths are created and have their own life. Brands keep on making sure myths continue for marketing. It's like Ibanez. The original one was a licensed product from Maxon. But does that make the majority of guitar players buying Maxon? No they want the Ibanez tube-screamer. It doens't matter that it doesn't sound excactly like the original. The same is true with the tone wood bs. This is how psychology works. Tell ppl something and that's what they will believe and hear and make them believe they're not already biased based on the knowledge they've heard is true. This is true no matter if it's music or anything else commercial product or politics. Make them believe what you want them to believe and you have a customer or a voter. Hopefully for the rest of their lifes.

Tills Chimera pack. You get both the profiles and the cabs as cab presets and and that's somehting no one else has done even till now. They're really good.

This comparison is a bad joke. Take a good plugin and take a bad-mediocre kemper profile and voila, the plugin sounds better. Everyone here can do that. Oh, and I love the first guy's comment "Just watching the wave profiles it's easy to see the Kemper is way more compressed.." I mean if you can't see the difference between a DI track and a processed track, maybe you shouldn't comment at all and he can't be guitar player either.

Quote from FarleyUK

I'm really excited for the QC - I'm in the second wave of pre-orders. My concern is similar to the plugins though, and as dmatthews mentions above - all demos are all CHUGGCHUGGAWAAAAAAAHHHHH. Completely loses nuances in demos, and it just seems a competition to show how heavy it can sound.

You're right. But who has more videos on YT with ampsims, kempers, axe-fx? So this is expected.

Quote from V8guitar

I think we can all agree that if you like/use OD pedals then the built in ones do not compete with the high end pedals ( Klon etc).

For me ( and it is just me - I'm not a pedal guy) I think you can get the same effect through a different Amp/gain level/eq. I've never found an OD pedal that I go "wow" that transforms my sound into something new. Along with the additional noise , balancing the gain structures between the amp, additional pedal board space, power blocks, true bypass vs buffered...just not for me.

Anyway, I seriously hope they do upgrade the OD pedals for those that want them and perhaps I might then be converted

Maybe you will be converted. But you will try them and like them, You will like them.

Quote from V8guitar

I feel the same BUT many people want those boutique OD pedals....personally Amps give me the gain structure and flavours I need..

And there's a myth that boutique amps och pedals are better. Not true. We'll see what the pedal update will be like soon.