Posts by Per

Just a backing track. Messing around with Reason 9.5 beta, and ran out of tracks pretty dang fast (it's a logging version, so slooow and reasource hungry unlike the finished article hopefully), anyhow here's as far as I could get before my computer gave up the ghost.

+1 once again. Just that little touch of feedback makes all the difference when trying to sell a sound as having been recorded loud.

They weren't that wet, but they had a unison effect that gave them a tinny echo that I couldn't dial out so had to try and drown out instead and make seem intentional.

Well this time I made sure to get the unprocessed source.

Bit of tightening up on the chorus vox, bringing them more forward too and slightly changing the structure in the first verse section.

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Life is too short, just sell your Kemper and move on. It's really not worth getting this stressed over, with so many other good options out there.

Woah there. Do not do this. I'd much rather if there is a problem that Kemper know about it and fix it and that Cederic achieve what he wants with the equipment he has.

@Cederick - I will echo others here. You have to profile the real thing that sounds and reacts how you want on record rather than trying to make other profiles sound and react like something they are not.

Third revision, now it's becoming a collaboration with the very talented Wickline!

Sometimes I'm out in the wild and I encounter something that I want to profile but I don't have my Kemper with me.

I'd like to see a little pocket (or smaller) doodad that just generates and collects the impulse response with a single in jack and a single out jack on it. You can then connect to your Kemper when you get back and the Kemper will process and generate the profile from the result. Ideally battery operated, no phantom power, just super basic.

Failing a dedicated unit even just an app on the phone that generates the sound, then within rig manager an "upload profiling take" option that accepts an audio file and will generate a profile based on this.

Obviously it will have all the expected caveats and limitations, you can't refine etc, but it would be super convenient for when you're not the office.

Thanks @Monkey_Man! I'm trying to push myself a little on this one and build a complete track rather than just a noodle.

Second revision

Something a little more hard hitting.

@ColdFrixion - Are you able to recreate this tone and it's gain structure with analogue gear, a real amp?

If so, please post a recording. Then post a reamp through a profile of said gear so everyone can compare directly and hear the Kempers shortcomings, and Christoph can maybe do something about it.

LP into the first rig on the Rig Exchange under JCM800 "JCM 800 Hi Gain" by Capitancamparro, switch to a One DS and up the tone on the pedal a tad, slap in a noise gate too while you're at it. You're there.

The problem is a JCM800 with a LP and booster or dist wont make that sound either. Why? Because honestly I think this is another classic case of not separating the guitar and bass sounds while you're listening. If you can get the raw stems then you'd hear that the guitar is a hot fizzy mess, the bass is doing a lot of work on that tone, making things sounds more complex than they are, you could potentially get a bit closer with a dual path shoving an octaver and compressor on the second path, but that sort of sound doesn't happen without either a band or a studio and multitracking.

So in answer. Nope. The Kemper cannot make this sound. Nor can a JCM800. This is about arrangement and studiocraft.

Thanks @Monkey_Man!

Thanks @waraba yeah i love me some arp.

https://per-anders.bandcamp.com/track/eye-v

Decided i needed a musical break.

Thanks, yup briefly back in the saddle yesterday anyway.

Really great stuff. Thanks for sharing!

Insanely talented as usual @Cederick. On the whole materials thing, personally I think pickups make a bigger difference than body material, but certainly some guitars seem to sustain and resonate better than others, some suffer wolf notes where others don't, I've only played one perspex guitar and just breifly at that so I can't speak for variability, but what I remember was that it was very heavy, not very acoustically resonant, sounded fine plugged in but surprisingly to me it didn't sustain for days, looked cool as heck though.

Good job!