Posts by Slippery-Jim

@drew_fx

Thankx for the comments, particularly with respect to you loving the Kemper.

And with all this information from someone who's well up there in the field - about the inability of the Kemper to compete as a standalone to a personal benchmark from someone who knows what he's talking about., we'll all just have to go out and buy ourselves a Helix - won't we guys and girls? If I had 6k to spare I'd go for it too... I'd hook it up to an H&K Tubemaster driving my Tube Thomsen 2 x 12 Greenback cabinet and have quite a few options too... Might even mike it and store it on the Kemper

Seems a shame you're not sticking around to give us some more advice about the Kemper... but then sometimes one has to move on...

Welcome Merkava!

S-J

I like them a lot too - so much gain - but still the fantastic sweetness comes through... Just tried them with my LP... Sweet...
Thanks to you paults!
S-J

Yeah, that sound is so... Oriental wow! Blows my socks off!

S-J.

That list is really useful - is it on the "wiki" ?

S-J

Yeah! I´ll second that!
Keep it coming!
S-J

Quote from Danger

If you suck, no amount of fancy gear will help! I try to think back to Gene Krupa, ok not a guitarist but... What that man could do with the simplest of kits was stunning to say the least. Whatever gear you like to toy around with is fine, I suppose that's why I like doing sound I get to play with all of it. And very soon I will add the Kemper amp to my toy box. But I realize that the measure of the instrumentalist doesn't lie as much with the gear as with the talent. Only a truly talented artist can make a fine work of art with the most basic equipment.
personally I fall well short of this category!

Me too, but I'm still having fun!

S-J

Yessiree!

S-J

@drew_fx No, indeed you are not a troll - thanx for the open conversation.
I guess I was being too direct - APOLOGIES - let´s get a few beers in - the Oktoberfest is coming... We have enough space for you to crash!
S-J

Yeah! Me too!

Quote from burningyen

Yeah, sad to see people so religious about guitar gear.

@burningyen Ben, that's really calling the kettle black when I see the phrase "My NEW Pink Floyd TRIBUTE"... Who's God here?

@mbenigni aside from the fact that I don't police the internet, as you so wrongly imply, you are apparently not aware of the painful and detrimental effects of slagging other people's gear off on their own user forum. Where's your sense of decorum Bro? If you want a never-ending, resource draining thread then I've said my piece to deaf ears and I'll get my coat...

I'm so sad...
Goodbye cruel world...
S-J

Quote from drew_fx

It sounds great to me. I'm probably going to sell my Kemper and get a Helix, because I still mostly use a real amp for recording and live performance. I only use the Kemper for late night headphone playing.

And I could really do with the live workflow side of things with the Helix. It's much more versatile than the Kemper imho, even *if* the amp modelling isn't quite as good - which no one can say for sure right now, but my gut feel is that it isn't true.

DNF = DO NOT FEED - even if drew_fx's has a valid point.

We don't need a troll to find this and drool over the thread - I'm fed up enough of mopping up my dog's saliva - but a troll's - yuck!

S-J

Mine just came when it did... Kemper Time is relative. If you behave as if you already have it, it´ll come quicker - maybe even before you´ve ordered it...
Remember, a watched pot never boils...

S-J

Quote from mbenigni

I was pretty underwhelmed with the Soundcloud page as well, but I understand these Variax demos were made with a Helix, and I'll go on record as saying they sound great to me.

http://line6.com/variax-modeling-guitars/sound/

Turncoat... How could you? You´ll go blind...

@e51v50h

Chill Chill Chill man!
It's on its way soon!
And its worth the wait...
S-J

Quote from DonPetersen

the Hyper Chorus is a 6-voice chorus. with the amount parameter you can scale it down to 4 if that's more to your liking

Jeez you guys, let's keep the Kemper simple!

What it can do well is capture the soul of the tube/valve amplifier. That's what this genie is really for.
What's wrong with connecting a few effects pedals etc.? I don't understand why you wanna confuse the genie in the bottle by adding so many "fashionable" new fangled back-door man type effects (please excuse me, I've been workin' from 7 to 11 every night since I've been lovin'... )...
I'll get my coat ...

S-J

That finish - when then it's gotta be in flames!!!!!

Quote from viabcroce

LOL-2

LOL-3

I really think that the Kemper gives a better "feel" when you're playing the kind of stuff I do.

You know, at home, late at night after watching something like "From Dusk Till Dawn" or "The Twilight Zone"... 1 single malt, a little water no ice... Add an FRFR Kemper, Foot controller LP or Strat.

The perfect mix. Who needs more hype/complexity? Unless of course, your life blood depends on it...

S-J

Quote from Zapman

You never know who's watching

Absolutely Zapman!