same question!
Posts by wwittman
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while we're here though,
something I wonder about:
Their instructions are clear that when reamping one should use the RETURN Input and not the Alternative Input.
Anyone now why exactly??
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then you should do that and see what you think! right?
I did. I know what I think.
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Yeah, but: Your amp (Profiler) is digital as is your recorder (DAW). And for reamping: Think of the Profiler as a plugin to your DAW. Would you put any double conversion via external interfaces before or after the plugin?
yes. Except that it sounds better recorded back in through the analogue preamps.
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It’s onay one MORE conversion than if you plugged your guitar into the Kemper and then recorded it via analogue input.
I always take it in analogue just like I would any guitar amp.
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You say in the original post that "Normally for an actual recording I'd go into a studio, use a Fender/Vox-style amp, and have it mic'd...."
What you don't say is, in those situations, who makes those other decisions you're asking about, such as when to double track, how to pan the doubles, what compression to use, and so on.
These are decisions that ideally a producer is making, along with an engineer.
So the issue here is that you're sending in your bits without that professional input; and not the Kemper or anything to do with it really.
Whoever is supposedly producing this, or at the very least whoever is going to be tasked with putting it all together and mixing it, should be the one consulted about these sorts of decisions before you start sending in tracks.
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Phantom Power adaptors are cheap
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it doesn’t matter how good or bad the OD effects are. If you’re out of tune everything sounds crap ?
hasn't stopped The Rolling Stones yet
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FWIW My recollection is that the guitars were a Strat through a Marshall 800.
at least some of the time via a wireless transmitter as well so Neil could play in the control room.
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No, Holly Knight and Mike Chapman had that sorted
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I recorded that originally!
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Yes! It’s no different than recording from a mic’ed amp. You just get it sounding good now and record it.
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just to add... none of this is a knock on the Kemper Profiler, which I love and use everyday both in the studio and on the road, live.
it's just my reason for using it as an analogue output device.
but i have absolutely no problem with that.
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you're suggesting that plug ins "aren't well done" doesn't really change the FACT that many of the plug ins we (who professionally make records for a living) USE every day sound a lot better at 96k.
likewise, I'm sorry but I, like George and every other audio professional I know, will continue to use my own ears and judgment in service of my clients... and that still tells us that, no, not all modern convertors sound the same at 44.1 as they do at 96k.
they don't.
I was making records for living when the first 8 bit digital started to be rolled out.
they indeed touted its "perfect sound".
at NO stage in the development of digital audio (which has unquestionably improved greatly over the decades) did anyone making the stuff say "well it's not perfect YET but..."
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Many aspects of the recording chain, including many A-D convertors and plug ins, simply sound BETTER at 96k
with respect, some of us who make records for a living actually know what we hear.
George included.
No one is saying we are hearing things above 20k.
what we are saying is we hear the artifacts created in the audible range.
Early proponents of digital recording were emphatic that 8 bit sounded "perfect".
We've heard it before.
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Yes. I’m hoping to save up enough to buy the extra strings.
You’ll notice that the wireless unit receiver is sitting on top of the rack and that there’s a rack tuner (which I can see across stage without glasses more easily than I can see the built in tuner in the KPA or remote) sitting under it.
In my own set up for domestic touring all that is built into one rack plus a space to store the remote in transit.
Still all in all, for rental/supplied backline, fairly tidy, as you say, and easy enough for the crew to set up.
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Can sort of see the KPA here , just before the show starts.
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Tokyo
waiting for the typhoon!