Lovely work on the demos Guido. I wouldn't mind seeing your demos as videos after seeing some of your recent videos.
Posts by Antipodes
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Another great set, Guido. Glad you included the Bognar patches - some of my favorites from this set.
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The classic "smile curve" for bass Eq is as follows: boost at 80 Hz cut at 400 Hz and boost at 2.2kHz - if you are setting that up in a parametric Eq like the studio Eq in the KPA try fairly broad Q values and boosting and cutting by ~ 3dB and adjust to taste. The 400 Hz range contributes to muddiness in a mix and the boost at 2.2 kHz will help the bass cut through in a mix and articulate better.
I don't know how the production was done on your Cockney rebel tune - it could easily be just DI with some Eq and compression. When recordings were done with fewer tracks the simple solution of one mono bass DI track printed to tape was commonplace. Bass is often recorded with a blend of DI and a mic'ed up cab. You can blend the amp sound with the DI sound in the Kemper also - "direct mix %" in the Amplifier section. Compression is also widely used on bass to smooth bass levels and sculpt the sound.
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Very nice - thanks.
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HI Meambobbo - I setup your two lead patches so far - really happy with the results on HB and SC. You and Guido should team up!
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Gorgeous tones there. Would love to try your tweaks.
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The IIC profiles are excellent. I am amazed at how they sound with a Tele even - really full sound. Kudos.
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I use "AC/DC no fun" for playing hihgway to hell. It's in the Soundside-rig-pack. Downloadable at kemper-amps.com for free.
For me it's great at gigging volume. Tell me, what you are thinking of it.
I had a look but it's not in the Dec 2015 Soundside pack and I couldn't find it under that name elsewhere. Is it on soundside site perhaps? -
Sounds great - looking forward to trying them.
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Lovely lines and tone there, Frank. Thanks for sharing. Did you put the whole thing together in 20 mins?
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Great demos, Guido - very tasteful. Road Queen and Vendras come up really well.
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Store is working fine now.
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Sounds like you had the polarity reversed on the caps. Pretty much a guaranteed explosion.
I the case where the caps have been connected with reverse polarity, would it be likely to play for a while before going "bang" as described? Some transformers have multiple options for taps - it is possible in some circumstances to take double the AC voltage you are expecting - if your diodes don't blow, your caps will. -
Remember, it's a morph, with a fade-in and fade out - not, unless you wanted it to be, an "on- off"/either-or control. So, there shouldn't be a "thunk".
Well - I guess they could introduce an extra parameter - a "mix" parameter - for any plugin like this. At zero it would not effect the mix and at full scale it would be like it is with normal insertion - ie 100%. Then you get smoothing even without using what I first suggested - which was morphing between two settings of the same active plugin. -
But the Green Screamer even with the boost at 0 is still pretty gainy, not like having the module off. Oh well, we'll find out soon enough.
Yeah - I was thinking about that but I can't see any way you wouldn't get a loud 'thunk" when a plugin with some inherent signal gain - even at zero drive - kicked in during the morph. -
I see that morphing can change parameters in an effect that's already on, but what about having stomps turn on/off as part of the morph and how would that work with the in-between settings? I'm particularly thinking of the gain stomps. I can see this eliminating the need for solo boost performance slots.
My guess is you would need the boost inserted and turned on in both patches. Turn the boost level to zero in the low gain version and to your preferred max level in the other. Now you can morph between the two sounds with no discontinuity.
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Curious about the filter caps. If they are too old they are inclined to fail, if the voltage coming from the rectifier exceeds their capacity they will blow. Was the transformer and power supply parts set from a kit or was it scavenged parts?
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I like the most recent amp sets - the Vendras and M/Bs - I find lots of useful tones with both single coils and humbuckers. Those "Vendra" profiles are nice with clean single coil tones but they work pretty well for more distorted rock tones with LP/ humbuckers at higher input levels.
I wondered what the drivers in the Twin were? Are they Jensens, JBLs? And what era is the amp? In the early to mid 70s silverface twins were everywhere and singing lead tones were possible with overdrives etc. As I recall, Santana played a LP standard into a Twin around the Caravanserai era before he went with the Boogie (hotrodded fender princeton initially), and Jeff Beck played a twin on Blow by Blow.
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If you can, reamping using the SP/DIF I/O on the back of the kemper is going to save you two lots of conversions (D->A, A->D) and probably some latency too. It might also help with the limitations with mono signals in Reaper.