Posts by GASbag

I keep going back for more. So far I have the Vox, Mesa, JCM 800, Orange, Bogner, and the JSX. First I thought these weren't for me and when the promotion came only bought the packs because I wanted 1 or 2 tones in the demo, usually the clean ones. I've even bought some packs where none of the demo tones really spoke to me (not bad tones but not what I'm after, the Bogner for instance), but I'm really glad I did buy them. Of the original description, "rich punch" and "silvery highs" could be dismissed as typical marketing puffery, but they describe well what I'm hearing and how I would describe the "house sound". I'll definitely buy more, and am looking forward to the Fender, to begin with.

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Appreciate that Guenter but disagree with your view on Ibanez having a weak sound. Thx for commenting that the profiles sound good with not just single coils though. I'll probably pick these up at some point but with so many profiles being heralded as the best at the moment, I'm in no huge rush

It's true there's a lot of hype on all forums, and it's something many of us learn the hard (expensive) way. At least buying profiles is cheaper and takes less space than guitars. For me these profiles are not supplanting what I have from TAF, Soundside and MBritt, but Bert's profiles have more than met my minimum expectation for me to be happy with the purchase. I haven't spent a huge amount of time with them yet (last week I also bought a Boss SY-300 that's been tugging at my sleeve), but I like almost every profile in that pack. Several are on my favorites folder already, and I've just scratched the surface exploring them. I also enjoy the range and quality of effect settings on these profiles. I'm just a bedroom hack and while I can use my ears, now I'm able to access the experience of professional players and studio engineers. The Dick Dale profile comes to mind -- not normally a tone I would seek out but that now I find myself enjoying -- and there's several others.

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Man, I'm going to have to buy these, aren't I.... Thanks @guenterhaas!!!

You know it's inevitable, so save yourself the struggle and do it now. I'm glad I did.

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I called Paypal and they told me that it has to work in Thailand..Thailand is on the list of Paypal countries.
I hope you can try it again. Would be great to have my profiles in Thailand !!

Bert
http://www.bmprofiles.com

Thanks. The problem / confusion occurred before that where there's a required field for one's country, and that list has only 30-40 countries. But as mentioned, those who have this issue can just pick something near them and once you're in Paypal it doesn't seem to be giving problems anymore. Maybe it also depends on the credit card issuer linked to PP, with the address verification, but it worked for me.

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I was trying to buy these but was unable to. Could you look at the list of countries? I'm in Thailand but it would be the same issue in a lot of other countries.

OK, I managed to make this work by entering my location as Bangkok, China. After all, I've received mail addressed like that before.

A nice bonus also that the system automatically deducts the 21% VAT if you're outside the EU, so it came to only just over 40 Euros. I'm on holiday now and won't be able to try them till the weekend, but they sound worth having. The 62 Showman sounds great in the clips, but aside from that this package covers many amps I don't have yet.

I was trying to buy these but was unable to. Could you look at the list of countries? I'm in Thailand but it would be the same issue in a lot of other countries.

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For a disco clean sound there is a free Kemper profile in one of the rig packs which is for the song Get Lucky by Daft Punk featuring Nile Rodgers I use this live for a few disco type songs and it fits very well search the Rig Exchange for "Get Lucky" I'm sure it will be on there

Yep, that's one of the Gundy Keller profiles. Go to the 2 or 4 position of a strat and you're there. His Gilmourish profile is very nice too.

Sounds to me more like a guitar/pickup problem than the Kemper.

Here it is:

^^^^ I went through my soundside profiles this morning (underrated IMO) and the same thought struck me about doing one amp at a time vs. big packs with 10-15 amps. I can imagine those big packs involving some chores, but doing a really special amp once in a while seems more fun and involving less stress or emotional investment. Up to Andy of course, but I second this motion!

I bought the Vox and Mesa Boogie. From the clips, the lower gain profiles are more my kind of thing, but I'll have fun trying the others. Sometimes what you expect isn't what the result becomes. One of the nice thing about the Kemper is it has surprised me with amps I didn't expect to like, and vice versa.

In Chrome I have the Dark Reader extension also. It makes it so that if you hit Shift+Alt+D it inverts the colors of the text fields (e.g., black background on white text). Photos still show in the correct colors. I use it all the time, including this forum. It's much less tiring on the eyes if you're doing a lot of reading.

Seeing Axe FX there cracks me up.

I've always wondered, how did you get those body resonance profiles?

I don't see how that could work. Someone could subscribe for one month, download everything, then cancel.

That looks like a must-have bundle. I'm glad to have many of your profiles (I guess close to 30 amps) and I hope it'll be a farewell like from classic rock bands who've been doing farewell tours since the 80s.

But tell us how you really feel. Don't hold back on us.

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I personally think Kemper as a company are not Marketing the KPA even half as good as the other companies including Fractal or Line 6. Line 6 are brilliant Marketer. If they had a product like the Kemper, I think they would have done a much better job marketing it, no offense to Kemper. Lucky for Kemper is that the great thing about the KPA is that it practically markets itself with its above average achievements as a tool like no other, but more has to be done to educate potential purchaser/Customers.

If Kemper was to produce more videos about the many varied uses of the KPA, they truly would put every other modeler or preamp to shame. I consider myself an educated consumer and I dug up so much information and read products manual (AXE FX II, Kemper and tried maybe every vst plugin out there etc etc.) and the league that the Kemper is in is simply above the rest. I might be a little more aware than the casual user, but there's a need to bring many of the feature that the Kemper is capable of accomplishing in real focus and not as a simple exchange in the user forum. You might call it hyperbole because you haven't looked a little bit further to what the Kemper can do today and compared t what's out there including plugins.

I don't intend to write a novel here but someone at kemper should and I'll just give you one or two simple scenarios. . Kemper is capable of Dynamic convolution. If you ever heard of Nebula (a plugin platform) where some users send an hour long test tone into a preamp to capture characteristic of some EQ or preamp. Kemper test tone, if you can call it that, is about 20 seconds and it capture dynamic and distortion or overdrive that isn't captured by Nebula (Nebula captures reverb, Kemper doesn't but we so far didn't buy the kemper for the reverb, even though I personaly think the next or a future update will allow users to capture or profile reverbs as it seems a natural progression in the evolution of the Profiler)

Kemper with the latest firmware can, among many things, profile direct, amp or preamp which means even if you like to keep using your tube amp that you love, you can create a merged profile, keep your tube head at home, take the kemper to you gig, connect to power amp/onboard or outboard, use the same speaker cabinet as the one you use with the head, send a signal to FOH and one to the cabinet, and you have completely replaced your tube amp with identical setup where you don't have to worry about a microphone and you have captured the sound of you beloved amp forever, that even if it broke down beyond repair and if repaired can't sound the same way the you like, you have saved your tone forever!

There are many other scenarios that truly will make other products look like ancient toys with properly produced videos, but this knowledge is shared in this forum where many users are aware but many others are simply happy with the kemper as it was initially released (that also offered many solutions to all types of guitar players, who own or don't own tube amps)

Line 6 has improved their modeling for sure, but I personally just bought the KPA about 1.5 months ago and decided not to wait for the Helix, because, they and Fractal are not showing any rational signs that they're there yet. When you see either of them post demonstration videos of their modeled amps compared with their digital counterparts, that would be the hint that they're getting there or close enough.

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On the topic of this product being undermarketed, and being up against some unusually fierce competition, I think one way this unit could still do well is by having large banks of really superb sounding presets, by genre, to appeal to guys who want just great sound right out of the box. Like someone else said recently on this forum, there should be a full-time job called "preset creator" because it's almost the norm that these units ship with bad presets. It's like they put so much time in the technology, that by the time they get that finished, they're exhausted and just want to ship it out the door ASAP. Now the field is getting pretty flat in terms of technology, but there will always be people who just want to scroll through presets, and just want 10-20 great sounds. ISP may have the 1980s covered already (and it's enough to interest me), but if they could pull this off for a couple other genres/eras, it may still do well in a sleeper kind of way.

We came to discussing the Theta Pro DSP in the Axe8 thread, so rather than hijack that, and to give some spotlight to this great unit, I'll continue here.

I agree the sounds in that Ethan Brosh video are so eighties, and I love it for that. I must have listened to that demo 20 times now. I really don't feel I need it or want the clutter, but I may end up buying one next time there's a 20% sale (like every 6 weeks, hah).

Since it came up it's only a preamp with FX and cab sim, I was wondering what they have it connected to. Someone from the company responds in the comments:

Hi Gino, thanks for your comment! This is Buck from ISP Technologies and you are correct, we recorded this from the output of a mixer to a CD recorder and then synchronized the CD audio track with the video. The THETA PRO was connected from the direct outputs (XLR) of the THETA PRO to microphone XLR inputs on the mixer so this is what our direct outputs with our speaker sims sound like..

I put a long post here but then realized I'm hijacking this thread, AND the Theta Pro DSP deserves its own thread, so I'll continue here:

ISP Technologies THETA PRO DSP

(thread should come with a 1980s warning. )

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Theta Pro DSP.

Cabs have woodiness and thump. Chorus on cleans is insane.

That's my best guess, 'Bagger.

Yep, that's the one. Unfortunately I don't see that unit selling well at all with all the competition out there, and it seems the company isn't even trying to market it.

What's kind of surprising to me (as someone who hasn't studied the technical details) is that I expected the next big thing to be an upgrade from the Axe FX II, basically the FX III. Turns out that even the II was overkill from a hardware point of view, other than for a few people who want synth type tones, double-amping, etc. But Cliff is an inventive guy, so I wouldn't prepare to bury the FX II yet. He'll probably keep evolving the product using the hardware available, putting more space again between the FX II and the AX8.

For myself, zero regrets or buyer's remorse about my Kemper. The only modeler I have a teeny bit of interest in because the demo sounded so good isn't the Helix, Ax8 or Amplifire, but... Guess anyone?