I have a line6 toneport UX2 for my macbook but cant use that with my iPad Pro. What is a great and cost friendly modeling interface for the iPad pro? I want to be able to use garageband on my iPad since this iPad is probably better than my macbook lol
Posts by jippitygem25
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Bought the pack the minute it came out. Its great in fairness.Loads of options and has a superb sound on strat neck single coil
get us some clips if ya can! would to love to hear variety in clips
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TJ rigs have that tendency. Reducing the amount of reverb helps. It happens with lots of rigs I have tried from orther packs of his. Britt uses reverb moderately if at all, and his rigs usually have that presence. I could not resist, though, and bought the Purple pack, but I have had no time to dig into it yet. There is variety in spades, so I am sure some rigs will be go-to rigs for some stuff.
please let us know what you think of the paid profiles. Post some clips if ya can! Good to have multiple sources of the clips instead of just the TJ produced samples which are great
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68 PURPLE PLEXI : I have tried the free profiles and must say it works with my Suhr Modern with humbuckers but not with my Fender Tele or Strat. I am missing the bottom and mid-low end.
For the Suhr I have to tweak on the amp parameters to get a good tone. The free profiles - as given - sound perhaps good for the Sunday morning church, but have nothing to do with Rock, the purpose this amp was build for.
Yeah Im still waiting to try them. I figured the free profiles might not do much good. I think the paid profiles would be a lot better because there are a lot of different cab and overdrive/distortion options
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I usually find that I like a lot of cabs that come with profiles but almost always want to find a better cab sound that works for me.
I use a plugin called Mikko by ML Sound Labs to create my own IRs. You get to use a bunch of different mics and can blend up 9 mics for an IR and depending on the pack you buy, you have access to a bunch of different speakers in great cabs to make your IRs. You virtually move the mics around on the speaker to get the IR you want. So basically, you're virtually shooting your own IRs using the cabs that have been captured and using the mics provided in the plugin (there's 6 different mics and you can blend a combination of 9 mics in a mix).
For me, it changed my workflow and has eliminated the need to buy and go through thousands of IRs lol. It's given ne the ability to make IRs tailored for each profile if I'm not loving the cab section. Being able to fine tune IRs virtually and the UI being so easy to use, has been awesome.
There's a free version but you can't export IRs unless you buy one of the Cabs in the plugin. I personally got the Essentials pack because it seemed like the best value (there's like 9 cabs in it)
If you're not happy with the cab sections in profiles and want an alternative to trying out ridiculous amounts of IRs, I'd highly recommend it. I recommend it every time I see someone ask about IRs. Being able to make your own seems better than buying a pack and hoping you find some good ones.
Or if you're looking for free IR packs, check out SeaCow Cab Impulses. Their IR packs are all free and they're very extensive and include a lot so if you don't wanna make your own, that's a good option too.
I hope this helps!
The cool thing about the cabs that get used in pre-made kemper amp profiles, is that often they are cabs or speakers I have no idea about. Which is cool. I feel like instead of going down the IR rabbit hole, it'd be better to just change a profile if I dont like it lol
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there are some free profiles
curious to hear how this profile sounds against the 68 plexi from M.BRitt's 2020 pack. Although Britt didnt give much details about the amp other than it was owned by Eric Johnson so we dont know enough about the similiarities/differences
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Not so. First of all the Tube Screamer came out in ‘83. I think the Klon was like 1993 or 1994.
The Klon is known for its soft buffer. The Tube Screamer is known for it compression and mids hump. Both are “prescribed” to goose the front of a semi-pushed amp, like a Deluxe Reverb on four or five, with single coil pickups. But tons of people have used them successfully at different settings and withhumbuckers.Stevie Ray Vaughan used two Tube Screamers. I believe that’s where Trey Anastasio picked that trick up. One of his is at zero drive and the other is at full, both followed by I think a Dan Armstrong compressor.
Klon is sort of king of the “transparent” (not really) drives. But Analogman KOT, Boss Blues Driver and OD-1 .. are other early days standard-bearers. They’re all classic recipes. Obviously there are several more. Nobels ODR1 etc etcNothing wrong with a guitarist wantIng what he/she knows and is comfortable with. Even if what we hear in the end isn’t so different.
So is the green scream supposed to be a play off the tubescreamer?
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Very different "clean" boosts. I love both and would go a year with one, then two years with the other etc, back when I was mostly using amps. In the Kemper the Green Scream (a model of a Tube Screamer) is still a little more gainy at zero drive than I want. I end-up using a Pure Booster in front of it and pull volume back –2. Obviously it would be nice to not have to "waste" that stomp slot.
Again, lots of folks who aren't using pedal boards are doing just fine with the Kemper and it's internal effects and also profiles with baked-in analog pedals. But if it doesn't hurt what already exists then deeper, better grit/distortion/fuzz tools inside the Kemper will be an improvement.
I could just be totally wrong about how a Klon sounds vs a Tubescreamer. I had always thought the tubescreamer was supposed to replicate the klon but, yes, obviously they will each have their own flavors, pros/cons etc...
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Like ninety-nine percent of every guitar tone we’ve ever loved has at least a pedal or two in the signal chain. Boost or distortion or a goosed eq or a fuzz. Comp. Anyway I love zero pedals too, but in a band context a lot of the time achieving that sound actually involves using pedals.
I’ve always felt that with a bit of creativity the Kemper can get you there with what’s already in the box. Unfortunately sometimes it involves using more than one stomp slot which can be frustrating.
It would be cool to have that absolutely magic feeling of sticking a zero gain, bumped level Klon in front of your amp. Repeat that for each preferred pedal. On the other hand, a drive with truly granular controls that can get at all those pedal tones we love from within one very deep stomp module would be cool too. If it came with presets, users could tweak from that point to get at what’s in our heads, based on the hardware versions we’ve actually owned, which really do vary from unit to unit, or per song, to sculpt a spot for the guitar in the frequency spectrum. And beyond, with no limit.But I have to say, having owned all the drives that everybody loves, people make a way bigger deal out of this then it really is. I certainly haven’t heard any guitarist using another device with “better drives“ achieving better tones. Why is that!?
Zero gain, bumped level Klon would be up my alley, but I essentially do this with the Green Scream and I believe it has the similar effect. Does it not? From my understanding, isn't the green scream supposed to be that OD pedal, that you turn the volume all the way and tone half way and gain at 0 and it gives you that nice saturated tone?
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Do any of you use these or just use the cabs that come with the profiles you buy? Not interested in getting the Kemper Kabinet yet since I only have the stage and it's not powered.
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Yes. So you mean, the page you posted is not about the new Mystery Amp? Then, I'm completely off.
The page I posted should be for the mystery amp. I was just saying maybe they are using it as a decoy although that seems too farfetched. The prices in cost are definitely off though. I am not seeing that amp online for $14,000. Maybe he got a very specific one. I had never even heard of that amp until today, so idk... how good could it be ?
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Yes, you're right, that's exactly the same! Why would they do that...?
Exactly the same as what? The videos in the link I posted? Could be to throw us off since those go for under $2000 USD and he said this mystery amp was $14k
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Sounds very Fender-ish to me - for the amount of hype created it sounds surprisingly ordinary.
I agree. from the video clips it really doesn't sound anything too cool. It's not bad by any means, ordinary is a good word
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What do you all think it is?! He's been hyping it up for awhile now haha. Curious to hear some thoughts while we wait out the final week
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The paint on the Kemper may be ok with isopropanol - but - you can't guarantee it till you try it. And you can't guarantee that the plastic screen plate won't be affected.
Hand sanitisers also use denatured ethanol - ethanol mixed with either methanol or pyridine (to make it undrinkable) mixed with glycerol. Again - ethanol may be fine....... but methanol may not. And they'll leave behind the glycerol residue
I worked for 20years in a cell culture lab. Everything we cleaned regularly with denatured ethanol or isopropanol had very faded paint.
Maybe time is will the best sanitizer here then haha, but that's also why Im asking about a full cover for the kemper. Like a plexiglass that would protect. God forbid somebody at a bar spilled a drink onto the kemper... There's gotta be something to cover the product and still keep it functional
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Just curious , where do you gig and how often, when there´s a pandemic running rampant
over the world, people are grounded , social distancing commanded , pubs and music scenes
are closed ......
Cheers ! ( at a safe distance )
East Coast USA, gigs are starting to come back, at least out doors. Even still without a pandemic, bar restrooms are filthy. Why not disinfect your pedalboard after a gig?
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I was wondering why to disinfect it then I read this..
"The PROFILER offers a selection of some the finest effects in the world. As a company, KEMPER is also responsible for creating the ACCESS™ VIRUS™, one of the most successful synthesizersof all time - there can be little doubt that the ACCESS VIRUS owes some of its success to the highly regarded inbuilt effects. "
Dirty shoes touching the kemper stage everywhere when you gig, especially during covid I'd rather minimize risk
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just use a microfiber cloth.
True, but that wont disinfect
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Anyway, your acoustic simulating variax should sound good on its own, and maybe should produce better acoustic sounds than our acoustic simulator with an e-guitar, as the circumstances are more beneficial.
How is the Variax sound?
Ive only tried the Variax acoustic sounds a few times and it'll work fine. I had found a kemper profile that was meant for acoustic, i have it somewhere and I will try again
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Presumably not, because you might double up two acoustic simulator approaches.
Doubling it will not work for sure.
Our Acoustic Simulator is made for turning the sound of an electric guitar into an acoustic guitar.
Okay luckily, I can still switch to the magnetic pickups on my Variax
