how are you switching the profiles?
Are you in Browse or Performance mode?
Do you see that the profiles should be changed? So does the UI change but the sound (profile) does not?
Posts by MonkeyPeanutButter
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Welcome.
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I go from a really spacy sound (2 delays, 2 chorus, massive amounts of reverb and relatively low amounts of gain and the tones ring like 10 seconds) to a gainsound that is still wide but where I can play rythm.
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@Nikos
Let me try to explain why I believe that it is very hard to shock a whole society today.
Today in western countries you have way more personal freedoms than you had 30 years ago.
One of the main values of this day is to be tolerant and to accept each other. Whatever your race, religion or sexuality may be.
Maybe this sounds strange but I believe that because we have more freedom we have less things to rebel against. There are less and less people that have one particular mindset that you can easily shock.
In today's standard it isn't shocking what the rebels of your youth did. And I'm glad and thankful to live in this generation that was shaped by the generation before me.Edit: Deleted something that could be offensive
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Exactly.You nailed it.
Now..do we have any players today who have the guts to at least try being somehow a "rebell";Doing things exclusivly their own way while they dont care about anything;Like Hendrix,Santana or Slash did;Or do we have today kids who are just educated in school & universities to become the next "soldier for career" without any desire for being a "rebell" at all;Kids who think that being a "Hippster" is the highest degree of being allowed by the society for showing their "desire for revolution";
Actually the whole PR of our times is about to be "mediocre".We live in a mediocracy.
And you cant do any "marketing" with this spirit.And this is the reason we still see Slash on 99 out of 100 posters for Gibson & Marshall for the last 25 years and not a Bonamassa.
Being a "rebell" is actually the "basic requirement" for doing revolutionary things against old thinking,old ways of doing art & music and I honestly would like to see more of this "rebellion" today with the kids.As long as this is not the case everything will continue to sink and fall more and more into stereotypes and clichés..most of all this is the case for music and specially "rocknroll".
Well maybe it's because I'm still young... but I don't think that everything is that bad nowadays.
We do have many musicians that do things that haven't been done before. Do you call that a rebellion? I don't know.
Politics and Music is maybe not as strongly connected as it was back then. But there still have been big bands with many political themes. SOAD comes to mind.
Your whole point about having to be a rebell to be able to be in marketing doesn't make sense to me.
I never saw these old rockheroes as rebels. And I believe neither do any of the other people in their early 20s.
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the best tip I can give you is to search the forum. There are so many good tips for live tone that I can't combine in a single response.
The most useful tip of the many out there for me was to not overdo it with a massive amount of profiles.
I play in a cover band and for my first few gigs I used like 30-40 different profiles. Not just slightly adjusted but totally different profiles. Maybe someone with imense experience can pull this of but for me it was very difficult to hear myself sometimes because of the different cutting through the mix ability of the individual profiles.
If you got the time check every Song or Performance with the full band before the gig and adjust volume, treble and presence.
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Can you tell me which store it is?
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welcome and thanks for sharing your story
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Just be sure to not buy the crossgrade version if you don't have EZ Drummer 2.
The lower price sounds a bit too low for a normal SD2. The only thing I could find for that price was the crossgrade.edit: fixed a typo
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What cooler is this @MonkeyPeanutButter? Is it for 1155 socket?
It's an "Alpenföhn Brocken 2 PCGH"
It works for the 1155 as well.
https://www.alternate.de/Alpen…hler/html/product/1199694?Just make sure you have the space in your case. It is crazy tall. I also had to get low profile RAM to install this Brocken (chunk).
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Here is my list:
-Yamaha HS5 9/10
-Yamaha HS 8s Subwoofer 8/10
-EZ Drummer 2 7/10
-A new CPU cooler to be able to hear the music while Mixing. actually one of the most important pieces of gear I bought for myself this year. Otherwise the monitors would not have been worth it. 10/10
-Intel i5 6600 8/10
-PC Case Nanoxia Deep Silence 1 Rev B. 7/10
-DiMarzio Titan Bridge 9/10
-Cubase Elements Upgrade 7->8. 5/10
-A few commercial Profiles by TAF 8/10
-Revived my first and oldest electric guitar by bringing it to a luthier. 8/10
-Taking drum lessons in exchange for guitar lessons (I know this isn't gear but something I did) 6/10 -
make sure you are on the latest OS for the Kemper. Especially some Betas had some Midi-Problems.
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very interesting. That would be something I would watch/listen to.
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For EZ Drummer, there is a special offer these days: you get on library for free.
What would you say, which additional library is goog for rock/pop?Just don't get the one labeled Rock/Pop if you want new sounds. Those are the liberties of EZ Drummer 1. They are not bad but sound not so good in comparison to the other ezx.
You get all the Midi of EZ1 with them though so that's nice.
I think you just have to listen to the material that is online. I own the Progressive EZX and the Post-Rock and I like both of em. But the normal 2 kits included are in my opinion very good as well.
I think the Toontrackstuff in general is nice to browse through online.
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I bought EZ Drummer 2 2 weeks ago here is my opinion:
It sounds way better than the packs that came with Cubase Elements 8 (Groove Agent SE4).
I love the Tap 2 Find feature. It is just so simple to find good beats. But I 'had' to buy some Midipacks to get more grooves.
The only thing that annoys me is that you can't change the meter inside the program inside a Song. So if you have a Song which changes from 4/4 to 7/8 or something like that the Miditimeline within the Program becomes rather useless. But because you can just drag and drop the midi files into your DAW it isn't that bad. Maybe changing meters isn't seen as something an EZ software should be capable of -
just don't get the cheapest of them and you'll probably be fine.
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I think the 5s and the Yamaha Subwoofer HS8S should be more than enough combined. Especially for a small room.
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Maybe some day you'll be able to get the HS8s to compliment them. The HS5 aren't bad in the base department for a 5 inch speaker. But the HS8s makes them way more fun.
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I own the Yamaha HS5 and they are really lacking low end on their own. So I got the HS8s recently to make up for the lack of bass. Of course the HS5 and the HS8s combined are not that low budget but sound phenomenal to my ears. But I don't have any experience in other Monitors so... yeah.
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make shure you got the newest OS installed. The delays improved massively!
I play in a cover band with my Kemper and we play the song "shut up and dance"
The intro is U2-like Delay. A Dual Delay with one delay set to 8ths and one delay set to dotted 8ths.
OS 5 allowed me to sell my strymons