Bass: Rickenbacher 4003
Acoustic: Taylor 510 with LR Baggs iMix
My former routes were:
Bass->Roland 100->Sansamp->Waves Q10 to EQ for more Gurgle or..
Bass->LA 610->Q10
But I wasn't as happy with the recordings tone. So I started using:
Yamaha KX88->Motif Rack XS->DAW
Bass Plugging TRILLIAN within DAW (pretty impressive plugin)
For Acoustic I tried various microphones:
1) iMix
2) Neumann TLM 103
3) Fat Head II with Lundahl
Typically 2 of them at a time through my LA 610 or Chameleon 7602.
I'm not the best engineer, so I still wasn't happy with the tone of my recordings.
Today, I used the Kemper.
Acoustic -> Kemper -> Rig: AFV-JMP, an Amp Factory rig (tweaked for my Tele to be more bluesbreakers-like, just happened to be the rig I was one)
Bass-> Kemper -> Rig: A-Bassman 59, a SoundSide rig (tweaked to be more bad-assed)
Results?
I'm thrilled. Bass, Acoustic guitar, through the Kemper. Went into my Presonus LOUDLY and I had the Kemper volume turned down to boot.
This thing tracks like a monster, and is insanely loud out the box.
The setup for each took about 10 seconds. I spent more time punching in edits than setting up wires or finding rigs to go well.
I have to thank Amp Factory and Soundide for those patches. Well, I already thanked them with my money, but they are great rigs. Versatile rigs, that is. Oh, and CK!