Hi,
Our second guitarist can make the most average amp sound amazing by tweaking a standard 7 band EQ in front of the amp. He sets the gain quite low and does the rest with his playing and the EQ pedal. He's a guitar whisperer really....plays amazingly, amazing guitar tech....and a great ear for dialling things in.
Anyhow, I'm about to go back to Kemper (I had a Powerhead). I'd returned to using an Engl Ironball as it just sounded warmer and fuller to my ear however much I tweaked my rigs, whatever profiles I invested in.....and regardless of using my DXR10 or a 2 x 12 guitar cab. But that was with one guitarist and now I need more flexibility to carve out different frequencies to get my guitar heard.
Can the EQ (from memory there was more than one type....) be used in a simple way.....like a 7-band EQ? And can it act as though it is in front of the amp? And has anyone tried therefore pushing the front of the amp to get a bit more gain, but more importantly the kind of full and percussive sound that you can achieve with an EQ in front of the amp?
Essentially he has this way of tweaking each band in turn and you can see/hear where he finds the sweet spot - and just gets this fat tone that destroys what I thought had been a good sound on my amp!
Interestingly, I read an article where somebody described the same process for tone controls on amps. Tweaking it with your ears not your eyes......turning each control to the point where it just seems to swell and make that significant difference to your ears.....but I digress
Ultimately, even if the Kemper will respond in the same way as a "real" amp, and I appreciate that a snap shot of one particular setup may not.....I guess it'll be a harder job as I'll need to run through different menu options to get to each frequency band.
Hope that makes some sense to someone and you have some lovely information / ideas for me I'm just back from a 3-day tour and hearing the same result every night of my guitar sounding thin and weak in the mix isn't a nice feeling
Cheers,
Andy