Posts by Bryan Daste

Distortion Sense turned down?

Curious about this too.

Nice to hear!

Are you talking about multiband compression?

With the Peterson StroboPlus HD, I'm able to define my own sweetened tuning that I've customized for EVERY pitch available on my 12-string extended E9 pedal steel guitar. Pedal steel uses pedal and knee levers to change the pitches of some of the strings, and those changes are tunable. So each open string has a user-defined value, and each tunable change also has a user-defined value.

Ultimately, it would be ideal to be able to take every pitch (C-1 to G-9) and define a custom offset. That would be saved as a user sweetener, and then it could be shifted up or down for use with a capo. I think that would cover just about every possibility, for just about any instrument with strings and a pickup?

I like using the SPDIF DI because then my DI track levels are always consistent. Makes for less guesswork when reamping later.

Nope, won't hurt anything.

Is that you on steel?

These are also on the Rig Exchange

Nice pickin'! And some pedal steel too, great!

Quote from Monkey_Man

Wrong thread, Bryan. I'll tag you in case your notification that the thread was responded to doesn't catch your attention 'cause I'm assuming you didn't mean to post here anyway: Bryan Daste

Are you thinking of this one I've linked to below by any chance? If so, I agree - great pickin'.

New guitar album; all guitars and bass recorded with my Kemper!

You are correct! How'd that happen?? LOL

Nice pickin'! And some pedal steel too, great!

edit: [oops, wrong thread]

Michael Britt has a few profiles that work great for steel - email him!

Also, I just found some gems on the Rig Exchange - look for "Jimmy Wallace" by Pneumoflux. There are 6.

BTW, my advice for auditioning different amps with steel would be this: load your favorite steel profile, that you've tweaked with all your effects, etc. Lock the input, Stomps, and Effects modules. Then when you change amps you can really hear just the amp sound change instead of everything else.

Have fun!

Cool, thanks!

Hey, another steel player! I'm a pedal steel guy myself. Is that Ashdown bass rig on the Exchange somewhere, or did you buy it?

I have some profiles I've made of different amps that work for steel - check out anything marked "BD-PSG" on the Rig Exchange.

BTW, you could profile your dobro setting on the Aura and not have to use the pedal inline!

Bryan

It's at least worth a test to play through your current setup, then plug the headphones into the Kemper headphone out and see if the sound changes dramatically.

Quote from karlic

You can using a sweetened tuning with an Evertune and then it stays there, which is what I was talking about.

The one thing I never liked on the Kemper is the tuner and simply stuck to either a rack tuner or clip on sometimes.

Evertune is very intriguing (so far no one's figured out how to make one for pedal steel - too many variables), but to use it with sweetened tunings, you'd still need your other tuner, right? Wouldn't it be great if the KPA tuner was enough? For me the KPA is almost one-stop-shopping...not quite, but almost

Quote from karlic

If you are worried about these fine margins, maybe it is time to look at an Evertune equipped guitar? It is such a relief to stop worrying about tuning live.

It's not really about that. Sweetened tunings are a whole "thing" -

I play pedal steel guitar, which is generally NOT tuned "straight up" - the sweetened offsets are hugely important to getting this thing to sound right.

For example, here's a tuning chart used by a lot of steel players with the offsets written in: http://www.hummingbirdmusicstu…/jeff-newman-tuning-3.jpg

The A, B, C etc along the top are the different pitch changes activated by the pedals and knee levers. All of which are also tuned in offsets, as are the open strings. Without a tuner that can handle the offsets, it's kind of a nightmare! I love my Peterson, but to have this ability within the KPA itself would be amazing.

I tried a test recently where I intentionally added delay (latency) to a signal chain and profiled it. The KPA "figured it out" on its own and produced a profile with no latency. Bommel , what's your experience been with latency while profiling?

I've used the Little Labs STD extender for over 10 years - great piece. https://littlelabs.com/std.html