Posts by Alfahdj

Quote from JimmyK

Ok, create a human brain. No rush, I can wait ?

For the other things you mentioned, just read my post. No time to write the same stuff again and and again. The "blind" test argument is misleading. Use both in a band side by side and you'll get it

Have you ever heard of neural networks? did you even read what I said? I am an electric engineer with specialty on modelling and simulation, and yes, I believe we can get the transfer function of a brain, we just dont have the processing power to do so just yet. And guess what? I use my kemper in my band, and no problems cutting trough the mix, with the pair of jensens in the empty twin husk, or any other cabinet. If you have problems cutting trough the mix, then you have a problem with the way you set up your sound.

Good luck with your missinformation breach, I am not interested in convincing anyway.

Quote from WolfsLair

I got a Maxon OD 808 and am using it with my Top Jimi Marshall based profiles with a marked improvement. With and with out the TS in the Stage I always use. Really adds a nice layer to open it up and take away that 'cocked wah' thing the Kemper TS can add.

Others?

The best tool is the one you know how to use better. Everytime I want to reach for my oldstyle sound, I get my old beaten fuzz face, and my tumnus. I am sure I can get close if I use the tools in the kemper, but my pedalboard is there, collecting dust, so I just plug in and get the tone I know and love instantly. Just a tiny amound of fuzz before the tumnus and I get a really nice fat overdriven spikey sound.

Quote from JimmyK

Lol no they don't. You'd wish though ?

Because you said so, of course. Really, I know over 20 musicians that still believe tubes are magical artifacts or something around those lines. You can emulate ANYTHING with a transfer function/ differential equation/ mathematical model/ neural network. Its just a matter of time and processing power, and the method of course.

After an A/B blind test with the kemper in a real room, with a real cab, I bet you wont know which are the tube amps, and which are kemper.

Quote from musicmad

Finally put my money where my mouth was:

1988 MIJ JEM. Plays like butter obviously. Got it for a little less than 2k$ which is a good price. Plan on keeping it forever though

Butter necks with butter body, sweet.

Quote from Calaban

With a real tube amp, which has consistent characteristics going out to FOH all night long, you can absolutely be sure that what you’re hearing on stage is **closer** to what the audience is hearing. Not exact of course, but reasonably close.

I will just suggest you to get a look to a SM57 frequency response, and tell me how close can a signal get after going trough it, without even mentioning its placement. Mic´ing an amp is an art, and consistency comes from the artists, unless you always have the same audio engineer, you will never have consistency, no amount of EQ can fix a bad placed mic. That problem is solved with the kemper, you can take your flat profile headphones and have a good idea how it will sound un FOH, good luck fighing the engineer because you hear yourself awesome and the front sounds wimpy.

Pro Tip: Profile your amp with the cabinet that you use on the stage, in a studio enviroment, with quality mics in a couple of settings, and there you have it, your sound in the stage will be what you expect it to be up front, not mixed cabs, not different eq, and the best of all NO MIC ever again.

Lets give the QC a year or two of maturity, and then we talk about how good is it, its about the same time that the "honeymoon" effect on marriages end. And then we come back to the board and say how awesome it its, Right now I read a ton of people have it, meanwhile my sweetwater rep tells me they havent shipped anything, who knows.

Quote from V8guitar

TBH I never really try a guitar out for how it sounds but how it plays and feels...that probably sounds crazy but its because:

1) I will more than likely swap out the pickups anyway

2) I rarely know the amp well enough to know how it sounds compared to other guitars

3) The quality of guitars these days tends to be much more consistent

4) I now buy guitars based more on how they look than sound - which is probably a bit stupid but just being honest

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Not stupid at all, actually, I bet that secretly most of us go for looks first than sound. Its the effect of falling in love with what you see, and afterwards, with what you hear. I mean, I have never tried a guitar that to me looks ugly unless a friend of mine insist me to.

I will be honest here, I also just go for looks and feel/playability, because all of my guitars had their pickups changed one way or the other. I am super picky about pickups sound tough (bad pund).

Quote from CJGOMEZ

I agree with you, guys. If it resonantes unplugged then it will most probably sound great when plugged in. Wood matters! Being lefthanded I don't have the chance to try out many lefties unless I am visiting a large town, and often not even there, but when I do I like to try them unplugged first, unless there's too much noise around me. Obviously a Gretsch will resonate more than a Strat, but the point is sustain has a lot to do with the wood and the construction.

My experience is not as straightforward, I did an experiment back in the day with 2 gibson sg (the one you see in the picture, 75 sg standard) and a new one (2014 Standard). My point was to prove if actually vintage guitars sounded better. So my frien at that momento recorded the same loop with the same amp, more or less the same with both guitars, then we changed pickups on the guitars and did the same, and after we looked up blind, we didnt know which was which, some nunances in the playing, but nothing mayor.

The old one resonated way more than the new one, but that didnt seem to change anything in the sound, not even sustan, it felt about the same. One thing we did find better in the old one, it felt better to play, as you have that kind of tactile feedback when playing a resonating guitar.

My idea of what affects tone in order is the following:

1.- Pickup

2.- Bridge

3.- Mass of the neck/ overall construction (tie)

4.- Wood

At least thats my subjective experience.

Quote from orange_side

So this is a sweet thing. I own a KAB. Will the the powered KAB be available with a stereo power amp? Any intel on that?

I think you get what you see, mono input, no outputs, I doubt they have plans for anything else kabinet related. Still these will sell like pancakes because even guys with powered units might love the idea to buy the powered one to do a kabinet stereo setup.

Quote from Chris Duncan

Same with cars. People think driving a Vette is a chick magnet, but the only people who ever come up and say, "cool car, man" are the dudes.

Just to say I had more times of bromance after gigs than "romance", long after-nights geeking about how cool valve amps sounded, why SRV used 13s and how nice is to play a Gibson compared to your average supermarket all-included-pack guitar. Good old times, didnt have girls, at least I had fun, and beers, thats important too.

Quote from Chris Duncan

If guitars lead to chicks, then more guitars leads to more chicks, right?

Sounds like a perfectly reasonable strategy on her part.

The more guitar you have, the more guitar players ask about you, I am pretty sure the formula doesnt work as intended. Seriously, I change more guitar during the gig, It is like 300% more probable that one dude comes saying "damn, your axe is gorgeous man". I wonder....

My Kemper clicked until I profiled my own Twin, and to my surprise, it sounded identical, I just added some more amp compression and now it reacts better at lower volumes than my twin. Maybe you should try to profile your amps with a simple SM57, you might be surprise that even the punch and air from the amp is there with the same cab. Also, try some direct profiles from the amps you like, preferably profiled with the same kind of cabs (reactance to speakers is a thing), and EQ at high volume, that way you might find what you are missing. If anything, valve amps are more wild when turned up, but you should get really close.

About how different you sound in FOH, it is a realization you get to when using the kemper. I discovered that I never sounded as amazing as I heard myself, because the front engineers were morons, they do the mic in the outer zone of the cone, and EQ everything making the guitar sound shrill and only for the voice to stand out. I started to get the "Your guitar sounds amazing dude!" after the kemper.

Quote from old crow

Try one of the tweed Pro’s. Either TAF or Top Jimi. It might even surpass The Princeton.

Top Jimmy sounds more studio-like, I like it a lot, so it goes without saying I recommend it a lot. But being honest, this sound should be achieveable with free profiles pretty reliably, it is all on the volume and tone knob.

This topic is inmortal and useful, maybe we should just change the title to 2021 and keep it going for future reference.

Quote from eljodon

One thing I don't like about the Kemper is that I can't have2amps at the sometime. I ordered the Quad Cortex just because you can play with more than one amp which is something I do when I record most of the time. I hope they'll add more effects though. I had the Axe Fx 2 which is probably the best when it comes to effects and controlling many parameters via MIDI, but I wanted to be able to profile my amps. I guess we'll see.

If you use them for recording, the smart thing to do is simply record raw guitar and left side (spdif) at the first time, and just reamp the raw track to get the rigth side. In the end of the day, you will have left, right and raw and the possibility to go back and use another amp/setting whenever you want.

Quote from dave5150

I've not seen any consensus on that. It would be great to see a Classic 80 imprint included in the future to aid this.

As fars as we know, we might get a ton more celestion imprints, as they are the one that manufactures the kone

Quote from Kaschko

Hi everyone,

Is there actually a forum verdict on which Kemper Kone speaker imprint comes closest to Britt's CL80 cab?

Sorry if it's already mentioned in this thread... but it's 158 pages long....

Thanks!

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I have a 212 with CL 80s and also had a 212 creamback, As far as I remember, creambacks sound very alike them, while in turn sound a lot like smooth greenbacks, so while waiting, I would asume creambacks will give you an idea.

Quote from dacop1313

...if you are playing with other bands, you can always ask to use the amp from the band going on after you

Hopefuly they have a better amp than yours so you become the rockstar from the night

From the software (rig manager) and publishers alike, there are a ton of options available for having free profiles. I have said it before, but for me, if you want a "just about any flavor" pack to get you started, M Britt 2020 pack is the way to go.

But before buying anything, start your honeymoon period with some free profiles, rig manager recomendations (rmpache morgan profile comes to mind), and the stock stuff that comes with the kemper.

If you come from the analog world, you have some options to start rocking:

* You use a cab with an external power amp (like the power stage 170), for this turn off the cab section

* You go directly to the FX loop of your splawn amp (and again turn of your cab section in the kemper)

* You go front house with cab ON or to a monitor speaker (ideally full range speaker)

Have fun and welcome

Quote from Dynochrome

At the time I was using a ENGL Powerball II and was spoiled with lots of versatility from 4+ channels but after playing it one afternoon and getting some good sounds from it I decided to do a gig that night with my Orange Micro terror just for the fun of it. It sounded great and although I had to fiddle with it for clean/dirty songs. Those things are pretty loud through a 4x12, more volume than I needed.

I keep on wondering if someone actually ever need the 80w from a vintage tween reverb. 20w tube is plenty enough, 80w its nuts. I did several bar gigs with a modified black heart little giant combo back in the day, never led me down, sturdy, enough clean headroom, nice overdrive after some tube swaping. Those little amps are golden standard for backup, I have a tiny terror, and it rocks a 212 cab loud band volume, no problem.

Quote from Chris4189

You are correct, and I can get their tone in general pretty easy especially their live tone. It's just something about the tone from “Second Helping”! It's their best album and tone I think. Al Kooper and crew did a helluva job on that one.

I agree, this is their most sober and nice sounding guitar tracks, but BayouTexas is right, the guitar is double tracked. Even with an split eq you wont get the same feel, if you listen closely, the guitars are playing differently all the parts, thats where the magic comes. The individual tones are laid back middle focused marshall tones, with the trable pulled back.