Posts by rolandeventide

If you want to play guitar with a hifi stereo live on stage I think it will not work. No way you can keep up with the volume bass and drums will produce. In my studio I am using a mega Jeff Rowland model 8 amp (2x250 watts and lots of ampère) with Avalon ascent mk2 speakers. Perfect for music listening but not enough volume to keep up with drums and bass live. On my avatar you can see a part of the Avalon speaker.

In my experience nothing beats a 70’s fender twin for clean sounds. If you are talking about filling the room than consider that a fender twin is an open back amp. If you compare this to closed cabinets these have a very different sound and in my opininon not room filling. I have tried several tubeamps with my closed HK cabinet but nothing sounds like a twin. So to what amp and cabinet type are you comparing? I think you will never find a room filling fender twin sound using whatever closed cabinet.

I’ve received mine yesterday and my first impression is very good. Very Natural feel and plenty of power. I use it with H&K 4x12 cabinet. Very versatile and good clean en od sounds! Sagging knob is extremely usefull and gives a lot of different sounds. So far I am impressed.

This year I’ve been twice to the KC concerts at the Royal Concerthall in Amsterdam. It’s my number one band and of course I’ve noticed the Kemper....

And don’t forget the guitar! I just bought the AH Kiesel guitar and the J rockett OD pedal and this comes very close to the AH sound.

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I have Adam A7X and they sound fantastic to me. Having said that, when I tested the Kemper and Helix in the demo room at my local guitar shop it was a set of 4" Mackies that they had set up and they sounded great too.

Just thinking outside the box; I wonder if the problem might be your room. You may already know all of this so forgive me if that's the case.

The move from 4" to 8" woofer will give a lot more bottom end power. However, if the room has no bass trapping, an unfortunate set of dimensions and a less than ideal listening position, you could be getting some pretty extreme comb filtering form the extra bass and low mids. It's truly amazing how much the room impacts the sound and how much worse it can get by introducing frequencies that weren't there or were under represented in the first place. It's counter intuitive but one of the worst things you can do in some rooms is add a sub woofer. In some cases, where the listening position corresponds with a trough from cancellation, adding more bass can result in less bass being heard in the room :-0

Try playing moving around the room (i.e out of the traditional listening sweet spot for your monitors and see how the sound changes). You could also confirm whether the room is the problem by playing a sine wave from your DAW's tone generator. Start around 40hz and gradually move up each time. While the tone is playing move around the room and listen to the change in volume. If you happen to have a DB meter use that too. Before I started treating my room there were points where certain low and low mid frequencies had +/- 30db spikes from room modes. In those circumstances I could have been using £40,000 ATC monitors and it would still have sounded like crap

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This is so true! I also use Adams A7x and they sound very good with the Kemper. I’ve added a SVT sub that is calibrated using a db meter. At the listening spot the freq response is very flat. The investments I made in acoustical treatments are the best I did in my studio! Especially low to mid low freqs can be very difficult to handle (40-150 hz) in a small room. My studio is 4x5 meters and in all the corners I have huge bass traps to control low energy. So if you have a problematic acoustical small room bigger speakers (more low energy) will sound worse.......

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Thanks for that insight.
Would you say that your getting better results than using load boxes/mike, or at least on par with the benefit of saving time?

I'll check those vids out. But there's plenty of vids around where people are getting better results than me, using the same gear. Look at Pete Thorne, his demos are outstanding. Would I get the same sound with the same gear? Not even close. Before the Kemper I went and bought a UAD Apollo with UAD plugins. I watched a video which claimed, 'this is the sound you'll get, without eq or compression. Just plug in and play.' In my setup, it sounded terrible. UAD had absolutely no answer or suggestions when I sent them clips. So I sent the interface back, and I wont be using UAD again.

My point is, many of these youtube vids aren't very helpful for the average player (that's me) with a humble living room setup. I'm not going to get the same results with my Kemper hooked up to my PC via RME interface, as Pete Thorn does with a laptop and VST's.

I'm forever looking for the magic button, the missing technique to my recording. Be great if someone could release a video on that!

So it is not the Kemper but the fact that you are an average player?

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I consider myself as an average player and I get great results from both the Kemper and my UAD plug ins for many many years now. I realy do not understand.

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Thanks for that insight.
Would you say that your getting better results than using load boxes/mike, or at least on par with the benefit of saving time?

I'll check those vids out. But there's plenty of vids around where people are getting better results than me, using the same gear. Look at Pete Thorne, his demos are outstanding. Would I get the same sound with the same gear? Not even close. Before the Kemper I went and bought a UAD Apollo with UAD plugins. I watched a video which claimed, 'this is the sound you'll get, without eq or compression. Just plug in and play.' In my setup, it sounded terrible. UAD had absolutely no answer or suggestions when I sent them clips. So I sent the interface back, and I wont be using UAD again.

My point is, many of these youtube vids aren't very helpful for the average player (that's me) with a humble living room setup. I'm not going to get the same results with my Kemper hooked up to my PC via RME interface, as Pete Thorn does with a laptop and VST's.

I'm forever looking for the magic button, the missing technique to my recording. Be great if someone could release a video on that!

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So it is not the Kemper but the fact that you are an average player?

New delays? I’ve only heard about the upcoming new reverbs?

Many commercial profile sellers deliver a lot of profiles using different AMP settings from the same AMP.

I use the GP 10 as a back up. Good sounding and compact.

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Is that true? Well that IS an impressive feature!

8×8 USB with Superior Performance

The Center of your Music Workstation

A 16-core, 500 MHz microcontroller provides 16 channels of flawless USB audio (8 in, 8 out) allowing the Axe-Fx III to be the center of your music workstation. The audiophile-grade signal path components and converters provide better audio performance than most dedicated USB audio interfaces. With 8×8 channels you can record multiple tracks of processed audio, DI signals, etc., while monitoring backing tracks, auditioning stereo reamps in real-time, and more. A USB audio sound source can even be placed on the grid with its own dedicated block. Windows 7/8/10 drivers are included, and the Axe-Fx III requires no driver on a Mac running 10.7.4 or newer.
USB In (from Axe-Fx III to Computer)

USB Out (from computer to Axe-Fx III)

From fractal website.

If you own a studio you can use the Axe3 for effects in your daw via usb.

If you want very good reverbs buy a used Lexicon PCM 90/91.

And don’t forget the sound engineer will try to let the guitar amp sound good next to all the other instrument and vocals. Guitar, Keys and vocals are in the same frequentie spectrum so eq edits are needed to let each voice come through.......

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Real Fender twin reverb

Boss GP10.

I've tried everything to get the amp in the room sound / live sound. Most important to me is that I feel no connection when playing the KPA through (very good) FRFR monitors or using KPA, poweramp and cabinet. I've tried several options and try to tweak the sound. I bought a second hand 1974 twin reverb and I am completely satsified with the sound. I feel the connection with the sound and I use this in the rehearsal room and live and I could not be happyer. Sure, I miss the effects on the KPA but with a pedalboard I have most effects I want.

No offence to KPA. I still use it for home rehearsal and recording and the sound is almost comparible to a miked amp.

And who won?

Fender twin reverb & additonal Fender bandmaster cab 1974
Ehx big muf
Ehx small clone
Tc x4 alter ego
Some other pedals.....
Meinl laptop cajon

vst's
Bohemian violin
Emotional cello
Garritan Cfx grand piano
Cubase 9 pro