Holiday Re-Amping Solution - Gibson Memory Cable

davec69 · Nov 26th 2014

For all you guys having trouble with your re-amping setup, Here's a possible solution for you. Just saw this on the Cakewalk forum.

Gibson Memory Cable

http://www.store.cakewalk.com/…productid=30-TGMC1.00-10C

A regular guitar cable with a Tascam SD Recorder built in line.

Plug The cable from your guitar to the KPA input like a regular guitar cable.

Start the recorder when you start tracking in your DAW, and everything is captured in realtime.

Your DAW will capture the KPA output, and the memory cable will capture your original guitar signal on SD card. Up to 13 hours it say's.

After you finish recording, take the SD card from the memory cable and import the audio into your DAW. Now you have both the KPA track and the original guitar signal. No extra cables required.

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Ingolf · Nov 26th 2014

Finally something useful from Gibson.

meambobbo · Nov 26th 2014

pretty cool. curious about the price and tech specs (sample rate/bit depth).

davec69 · Nov 27th 2014

Follow the link in the original post for details.

Looks like the retail price is 99.00 (maybe cheaper elsewhere). Specs are 44.1k/16bit, which should be fine for re-amping.

meambobbo · Nov 27th 2014

thanks, sorry - i think the link got blocked on my work computer. it also disables a lot of features on this site and graphics, so it can be difficult to see everything.

$100... maybe a little steep. at least for me, I like the KPA's DI/wet recording over SPDIF - makes things very simple and easy. 16-bit vs. 24-bit... I bet someone could tell the difference (probably not me). 44.1 kHZ def fine for dry guitar tho (as well as wet if done right)

bigb6611 · Nov 27th 2014

Quote from Ingolf

Finally something useful from Gibson.

LOL

Guitartone · Nov 27th 2014

Quote from Ingolf

Finally something useful from Gibson.

Yeah, I can hang myself with this cable.

davec69 · Nov 27th 2014

Yeah, 100.00 is kind of steep, but it may be cheaper on other sites. That's the Cakewalk website.

I would just use the audio captured by the Gibson cable as a backup or to re-amp through the KPA, so I the 44.1k/16bit wouldn't matter to me.

meambobbo · Nov 27th 2014

Quote from Guitartone





Yeah, I can hang myself with this cable.

lolololololololololololololololol

Ingolf · Nov 27th 2014

Quote from Guitartone





Yeah, I can hang myself with this cable.

Don't do this. It's not what i call useful.

Guitartone · Nov 28th 2014

Quote from Ingolf



Don't do this. It's not what i call useful.

Advice taken and accepted.

Zappledan · Nov 28th 2014

The price isn't so bad if you remember that you're getting a new cable too ...

Ingolf · Nov 28th 2014

I wonder what the quality of the cable is like?

Zappledan · Nov 28th 2014

Quote from Ingolf

I wonder what the quality of the cable is like?

I would hope that Gibson would have the decency and good sense to use quality parts

Ingolf · Nov 28th 2014

Quote from Zappledan

I would hope that Gibson would have the decency and good sense to use quality parts

Yes.

nightlight · Nov 29th 2014

I don't know. Seems like this is kind of redundant with all the output options on the Kemper. Perhaps with a different setup it would make sense.

drog · Nov 30th 2014

This kind of cable could be used while you profile an amp (I do this with my looper pedal), just play for a bit and then you can set the guitar down and easily adjust amp, mic and Kemper. It saves on time while running back to the amp in the iso booth, for tweaking.

mwinter77 · Dec 1st 2014

Problem for me with this solution (other than why not just use the awesome Kemper capabilities for this with a DAW) is also that this solution would be difficult to really make use of in a real-world reamp situation since you would need to sync the DI part to the track and be able to manage the DI track as a track within your overall project..

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