Hi there, I am from Austria and not a english native speaker. God bless the founder of the dictionary
Now my Kemper Toast is delivered and I'll start the tough but hopefully rewarding way to discover this magical thing
.I'm 65 and played more than 12 Years in Coverbands and 11 years in a big band as a singing gitar player.
I had to stop for 20 years cause my job needed to travel a lot in foreign countries.
In this time it was not possible to play in a Band.
Just acoustic Guitar at home (or at site if it tooks longer time) for my own pleasure.
Since 3 years I'm retired and as long as I want I can play music now. And I want
Again I play in a bigband and also in a rock band (cover).
And with a friend (he plays accordion and is 10 years older) Oldies for Oldies. (With MIDI-Files)
As I am not fixed to one style of music I need a very variable Equipment.
So I tried many thing - I was not so experienced due my long pause.
At first a modeller Roland X-Cube 80. At the moment I was impressed of the possibilities but quickly I found out that in live situation it's not practical without a Pedal to change the sound.
Only 2 sounds and one Solo-solo sound can be chosen via footstep and the sound is not really great.
I tried line6 with a variax guitar and a Pod XT-3Live.
Now the possibilities was nearly unlimited for me, the sound was not so bad but I was not really happy. Particular the acoustic sound of Variax is promised better than it was in reality.
The response of guitar and amp simulations of finger work is not so impressive.
In the rockband they asked me not to use the line6 Equipment.The sound will be to synthetical.
So I bought a tube amp (H&K Tubemaster 36) and used my strat and played a acoustic guitar with a marshal acoustic amp.
The sound was now quite good but the H&K (I think it's a good amp) does not really deliver a warm vintage sound without additional pedals. And now I had to transport 2 Guitars, 2 amps and a huge pedalboard.
As I recognized that there is a Remote Pedal and a Rig Manager for the Kemper available now and heard, that it also should be good for acoustic Guitar , I took a "six pack" and after the last bottle I pressed the order button.;-)
Next day I went to my luthier and ordered a fishman power bridge for my strat.Even when it will not totally sound like an acoustic (Advertising often promises to much), It could be an interesting sound colour.
I need not to make complicated acoustic picking work in the band. Mainly I have to strum chords.
So I hope I found a way to transport only 1 Guitar and 1 Amp plus 1 little personal Monitor. My spine will thank me.
During the delivery time (just 6 days!) I have read and found that the athmosphere here one hand is very cooperative and warm on the other hand also there are really experienced people to post in your forum.
Even if the communication in social media is rather unusual for me, I'll contact you if I have a problem. Rather then in German in the German subforum;-) Over time, it could be that I also contribute a little.
keep rocking Harry