Posts by guitarj

I have had my Kemper since last summer. Honestly, I have been too busy to keep it always updated because the Kemper team has been cranking them out. I'm fine waiting a little longer for 3.0. If I had the the new remote already it would be a little disappointing to wait, surely not to get me started slinging insults. My Kemper with 2.7 is still awesome. I'm just thankful I'm with a product now where the developers actually care!! Keep up the great work Kemper team! I know this will be sorted out soon.

Thanks, another keeper!!

This is all without a doubt complete conjecture!

Please carry on

Another keeper! Wow, really like this one.

I know, a little late to the party. This one is still rockin anyway.

Quote from chrislisting

plus Tom king is a helluva guy, and I love supporting smaller, "local" business, especially for areas or interest I'm passionate about

so NEO WEDGE IS ON DA WAY! lol

Thats great to hear! Sounds like their not too hard to get a hold of after all. Now I have no excuses to not place an order .
Seriously though, I would be foolish to do anything now. I have been recovering from shoulder surgery and gearing up to go back to work in the oilfield and 100+ hour work weeks. Even my current Atomic fr wedge will be collecting dust soon! I plan to do this a couple more years then get out.

I could hardly justify my Kemper purchase, but the past couple months its been a joy to pick up one of my guitars. I don't regret the purchase. Maybe there will be a Kemper mark II in a couple years when I will try to be an active part time musician again, maybe not. If so, My Kemper will still be a superb option, or if I just have to have the latest and best, an upgrade will not be a financial issue.... Of course, more important than that, would be upgrading my atomic fr 50 wedge. Maybe there will be some decent used clr's floating around on the used market by then

i just think it looks cool! The 2 are identical in sound. Important thing with either one is to elevate it off the floor if possible

I know! I'm hopeless

I know the wedge cabinet is more versatile, but I think the cabinet looks killer. Its so tempting.

BTW, there are glowing reviews of the CLR all over these boards, fractual, Gear Page, etc.

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Idk what the threads early criticisms were about? Like are they current or is there a revision coming ?

viacabore, do you recommend the active neo cab for $1000?

are there no deals or sales? Just asking

Your obviously in the market now, so yes the CLR would be my first choice! DXR 10 would be my next....at least to try out.

I just don't need it now, and slow response/availability have reinforced my decision.

At one point, I was considering pulling the trigger on one of these. Not now! I just really don't need it now anyway. I can get by with my atomic fr and my studio monitors for the next couple years. I plan to get out of the oil and gas industry sometime at that point, and will have time for music again. With the developments here lately I have no issue waiting to see whats on the market by then. I'm sure there will be other entries in this market (already are), and more eager to service their customers.

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EQ up front is probably a more sound and precise way to tighten up gain. I'm probably a lot less experienced than many of you here, and with not as well trained studio ear. I really started using the 808 drive with previous gear I owned that needed a lot more help sonically. I started out using od to add gain to a clean amp. Having a love for high gain sounds also, really just happened upon using od in front of those, and later I discovered it was a common practice.

Honestly though, this Kemper is a huge step ahead of my previous gear... including a few tube amps. I really don't need to use od at all. If a profile isn't doing it for me, I just move on. I have learned a bit about doing more deep editing, but I just don't really need to. Maybe when I get serious about recording, and quit playing with my new toy, I may need to add some eq up front or even post. For now, I have been very content to run through profiles and enjoy sonic bliss. No pedals, and tweaking! Loving it!

Quote from Ingolf

... which is one the BIGGEST benefits of a TS, i.e. tightening the low-end

I guess in my experience the more transparent overdrive I have sounds better. tightening the sound without loosing any low end, but to be honest, I have no experience with Mesa amps, and the Mesa profiles I like best were profiled with pedals in front of them haha.

I will sure give the green scream a try the next time I'm tweaking a boomy profile. Thanks!

I think the green scream is very close to my tube screamer (modified with THE chip). My biggest gripe with a tube screamer is that it's not completely transparent as it tends to roll off some low end. The green scream is the same.

I have a virtual sound Jekyll an Hyde and it's completely transparent. With the gain on 0, love using it to tighten up high gain amp tones. I played around with the green scream, and can get nearly the same results just by dialing back the tone to about 8 or 9 am

You know, if I just don't bother checking out a dxr, or clr for that matter, then my ears won't know any better... Haha!! Sounds pretty good to me....

Thanks for the advice! Maybe I should sell.

The Atomic looks killer though...

Bought it the atomic fr last summer before I got the Kemper. Bad decision on my part. Could have gotten the dxr instead for what I paid if I would have done more research. Oh well, they are luxury items right now since I'm too busy to play out. I use my studio monitors along with the atomic at home with decent results, especially for tweaking profiles.

I stand corrected sir

I have the 2010 frfr powered wedge mentioned here. Obviously it's inferior to the CLR, but how about the dxr 10? Will it even compare to that?

Thank you! Got another keeper.