gear as revolutionary as Kemper

cool21 · Jul 15th 2014

Hello all,

I'd like to hear from you all the suggestions of same revolutionary gear that changed your life as much as Kemper. I will start:

1) stainless steel frets - never thought it would make such difference, but mirror polished ss frets feel much better to bend (at least for me) and my rusty strings didn't seem to carve even the slightest tiny groove in them for 3 years I have but on the nickel frets on my other guitar the grooves are quite noticeable and I play them both roughly the same

2) evertune bridge - what an awesome piece of gear, changed my life and made it so much easier, I plan to fit it to all my guitars

Now I'm looking forward to your suggestions

viabcroce · Jul 15th 2014

Digital recording for me

cool21 · Jul 15th 2014

Quote from viabcroce

Digital recording for me

Hey! How could I forget this one??

Laimon · Jul 15th 2014

Toilet paper. Life was really tough before that

cool21 · Jul 15th 2014

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Toilet paper. Life was really tough before that

I use a bidet actually

tylerhb · Jul 15th 2014

https://www.indiegogo.com/proj…ral-sex-simulator-for-men

HappyKemper · Jul 15th 2014

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https://www.indiegogo.com/proj…ral-sex-simulator-for-men

Lokasenna · Jul 15th 2014

Fishman Tripleplay. With all of the string splitting/sectioning stuff you can do some pretty ridiculous stuff with that thing.

Laimon · Jul 15th 2014

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Fishman Tripleplay. With all of the string splitting/sectioning stuff you can do some pretty ridiculous stuff with that thing.

Indeed Walter White makes a pretty convincing case in this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgyvuAKO-PE

rothko61 · Jul 15th 2014

Quote from Laimon

Toilet paper. Life was really tough before that

LOL

rothko61 · Jul 15th 2014

Midi technology in 1983 was really a revolution!

OneEng1 · Jul 16th 2014

My digital mixer (X32 Rack)! I have gone from a ton of outboard gear and a huge rack full of crap down to a single 6 space roller rotorack and an iPad that mounts on my mic stand. I get multi-track recordings through USB to a laptop and stereo recordings directly to a USB stick.

Another big winner for me was going to an IEM system instead of wedges.

In fact, it was the huge change in size and weight that I got from going with a digital mixer that prompted me to look into the status of digital amps.

I (like most of you) had always found that the only way to get the sound of a tube amp was to use a tube amp. I ran across someone raving about this .... Kemper thing

I can't see ever going back to EITHER an analog mixer, OR a tube amp!

My back is in total agreement with me

caveman1 · Jul 16th 2014

Quote from Lokasenna

Fishman Tripleplay. With all of the string splitting/sectioning stuff you can do some pretty ridiculous stuff with that thing.

thats pretty sweet man!!

nightlight · Jul 16th 2014

I'd have to say it was the microprocessor. Since then, it's made its way into personal computers, digital FX, robots. All kinds of things

Ingolf · Jul 16th 2014

I still think Jamstix is one very innovative piece of software.

jpm · Jul 16th 2014

A bit of a fan of the PRS "408" pickups (as used in Signature Limited, 408, Brent Mason, Paul's Guitar etc), no volume loss when going from humbucker to single coil. It achieves this by adding in an extra 1500 winds on the slug coil when you flick the coil tap. Simple concept but no one thought of it before!

Armin · Jul 16th 2014

Quote from jpm

A bit of a fan of the PRS "408" pickups (as used in Signature Limited, 408, Brent Mason, Paul's Guitar etc), no volume loss when going from humbucker to single coil. It achieves this by adding in an extra 1500 winds on the slug coil when you flick the coil tap. Simple concept but no one thought of it before!

Yes, like this PU too - but it does not sound like a "normal Fender" single coil - more like a P90.

Dawz · Jul 16th 2014

I find Autotune to be very revolutionary (mainly in a negative way).

Why? Because this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s28oq4W2PPk

Lokasenna · Jul 16th 2014

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I still think Jamstix is one very innovative piece of software.

It definitely was when it came out, but sadly it's increasingly buggy and awkward. I hope version 4 makes some big changes, because EZDrummer 2 has just about made JS obsolete.

Ingolf · Jul 17th 2014

Quote from Lokasenna

It definitely was when it came out, but sadly it's increasingly buggy and awkward. I hope version 4 makes some big changes, because EZDrummer 2 has just about made JS obsolete.

I agree JS is still a bit awkward to use but it is still so much deeper and superior in flexability and tweakability compared to EZD 2 and Drummer in Logic.
I wish Ralph all the best after the tremendous efforts it took to port the app over to Mac.
And all for free for existing users.

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