Dry when recording. Bit of space always. Some delay usually better than reverb.
Posts by CJGOMEZ
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Welcome to the Forum.
Great bunch of people here and a wealth of knowledge too.
I feel the same. I quit music altogether for a few years; I wouldn't play even an E chord! I'd never turned pro and was frustrated, though I had and still have a good day job that provides me with an outlet for my creative drive (not always, though). But music is my love and always comes back. So I started playing again and met the Kemper, and this great forum. CJ.
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Thanks. That sound was special.
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Thanks a lot. I'll try them soon. Keep it up.
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thanks a lot
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A common fear I've seen expressed, also by you, maddnotez, is one of feeling "boxed in" by the static / snapshot nature of Profiles.
Fear not, brother. The second you twist an EQ-stack knob for the first time, you'll be both relieved and amazed at the control the uber-effective amp EQ provides. You can set it to be either pre or post-amp-gain, by the way.
The Tube Amount and Bias, Clarity, Definition, Amp Compression, Pick and Cabinet parameters offer a world of tweaking goodness I honestly never expected from the Kemper; I'd have been happy with the tone-stack EQ alone, TBH.
In short, I wouldn't underestimate the extent to which you can massage any half-decent Profile to suit any number of situations. For this reason, many have settled on a small handful of Profiles, or even just one in some cases, for all their needs. My guess is that most of us would've done so too had it not been for the plethora of awesome tube goodness out there, just begging to be auditioned. You'll very-quickly see what I mean should you choose to join the Kemper club
MM has more experience than I, and I won't deny that you can tweak the Kemper a lot. When I say that if you tweak it too much you deviate from the original amp, I mean that the knobs you turn are not the amp's after all, so it is not the case of a digital amp created in the Axe 8, since there you would be turning the virtual knobs of that virtual amp, whereas in the Kemper you have a more generic digital amp that samples all amps you profile. And yet, with a few tweaks you can adapt any Profile to your guitar. For instance the Definition knob is great. And obviously you can modify any profile beyond recognition if you want to. It is not meant to work like the Axe, though. But it will sound great and, for me, better.
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I still feel M M didn't deserve such treatment, and I think the ape frenzy was / is the right reaction, a great and hilarious statement about it
However, I respect MM's wish to cool it. Now, for a while, I ' ll be the ghost who walks. I am still close to the ape mountain. And I live in a cave! Fine words for evolution. -
Yeah, I had to leave the room, quietly turn and shut the door.
Ape bonding is disgusting!!!! So many fleas to get rid of! Ha, ha.
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I can't tell how the new Fractal Axes sound, but I still own an updated Ultra that I will sell. Sure, the Ultra sounds good, better than any Pods, and the effects are very good; the reverb beats the Kemper's (for the time being, of course). But the Kemper sounds better and is way easier to tweak, though I think the less you tweak it the more you sound closer to the real amp. I never felt comfortable with the Ultra's menus and compulsory tweaking (the factory presets have too many effects added). Some folks may like tweaking, and after all you've got a digital amp before you. The Kemper is more like an amp sampler, so if you tweak it too much you are tweaking the "sampler"'s virtual "single" amp, so to speak. But there are great profiles out there, both commercial and free, which provide you with readymade sweetspots that are close to what you want. It's a matter of trying guitar-rig combinations and test them thru headphones, monitors, PA, etc. The present-day Kemper will provide you with great tone, and it will not become "obsolete" as soon as Fractal amps do, if ever. The Ultra still sounds "good" enough for many things, but it is "dead" to Fractal: no further updates to start with. Fractal and Line 6 have a different philosophy. db9091 has written something similar,
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Welcome.
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I'm pretty happy with my apish looks. Actually, now I have more character, more the upper-hand feeling, or sort of, and since the real me does have some silver hair too mixed with some blackish areas I haven't changed that much except that I look better now, more the alpha ape, ha, ha. My playing hasn't improved since my transformation, truth be said. Well, I don't mind becoming faceless again, since I chose an avatar only because of you know what...
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Thanks. I will try them.
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Bought the Peavey 6XX4. It sounds really good. Still, aren't a few profiles too similar?
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The Genz Benz and the Diamond are in my personal wishlist now.
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I've just bought the Tweed pack. Pity I won't be able to try the rigs for a couple of days. My ape mountain shall have a vintage Fender revival then.
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the Yamaha is better for live levels
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I use studio monitors. I mix drum loops, tracks, whatever, with the guitar. The only problem is that they are close range, so I cannot move around too much if I want to hear properly.
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I bought the Marshall and plan to get a few more. The Mars Pack is very good.