Posts by gitarretyp

Quote from Cederick

The stock HR50 is too muddy for this sort of speed metal, the riffs just becomes blur if the sound isn't sharp enough.

I high and low pass filter most profiles, but especially higher gain metal profiles benefit from a high pass--and the same is done in the studio or FOH. You might try adding a high and low pass filter at ~80Hz and 9kHz. Also, you can try pulling a little out around 200 Hz and/or 400 Hz to clean up any boominess and further tighten palm mutes. Another trick, besides putting a boost in front of the amp, is to use a compressor in front of a moderate gain amp to maintain clarity.

I should have mentioned that my go to JCM800 style rigs for that kind of tone are slightly tweaked version of Deadlight's Jubilee Rock on the rig exchange and The Amp Factory's JCM800 hot mod pack, one of which is included in the factory content as ManRock 800.

The GP1000 profile Lasse Lammert provided in the below video can get pretty close, with the right cab.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6-K7_F0-r4

I think there's a bit of a nomenclature problem in this thread. The first harmonic is the fundamental, F. The second harmonic is 2F, the third is 3F, and so forth. The even harmonics are generally attributed to adding body or fullness to sound, while odd orders are often referred to as harsh and inharmonic. Even harmonics tend to be the prominent distortion content present in hifi tube amplifiers, which is partly why they are often referred to as sounding smooth compared to solid state, whose distortion spectrum is often dominated by odd order harmonics.

Looking carefully at Guitarist1977's tests, it's not just the second harmonic that is suppressed but all of the even harmonics are barely visible. I love my kemper, but these tests are quite simple to perform and the results are consistent across multiple profiles and users.

You might take a look at Mats Nermark's Trichorus rig settings as a starting point http://www.nermark.com/KPA_profiles.htm

There several Rhodes Gemini and Colossus profiles on the Rig Exchange.

I've encountered odd artifacts similar to what you are describing on a handful of profiles, and I found that the clarity parameter had the largest impact on its noticeability--values > 0 made the artifacts much more obvious. If the profile you are using has a non-zero clarity level, you might try adjusting back to zero to see if that helps.

Quote from flyingheelhook

30. Victory -> TAF has a whole victory amp bundle
31. Wizard -> Pete Turley (pete's profiles) has a Wizard pack; M. Britt's Heavy Pack: Wizard WRDS

The M Britt Wizard is actually a Modern Classic II, aka MCII. WRDS is on the faceplate of all Wizard amps. In the same M Britt "heavy pack" is a Victory V50.

Sounds great! I also have the pack and am very interested to see your tweaks.

Quote from e_del

very nice! I'll give a try,
but I think what I need is much simpler than that.
Having the rig files in a directory, and willing to select only those with a certain attribute, I'm thinking to a grep-like command (for those who speak Unix), so that I can easily manage subsets of files in the directory

something like
ls | grep [|||...]
so that I can easily move or make a list of the filenames with that precise attribute set...

grep -ilR <search params> * works fine for me (-i ignores case, -l suppresses unnecessary dialogue, and -R is recursive).

If you want to move the matched files, then this will work
grep -ilRZ <search params> * | xargs -0 -I{} mv {} <target directory>
-0 interprets \0 (spaces) correctly and -I{} mv {} reads the filename list.

I've had pretty good luck getting a Mayish tone using the AC30 HW profile by Reznor with a lead boost applied.