Posts by sambrox

  • Spring reverb, again, again, again.....

    Quote from Michael_dk

    I saw a surf band once where one of the guitarists every once in a while jumped down hard on the stage next to his amp to excite the springs. Cool effect, though not very essential :)


    i would think this is just a rumour. After all, a smartphone doesn't need to be slapped hard to register the shock, but the profiler is like 10 kilos of solid german engineering... Unless you put it in a shock mount you'd have to kick it pretty hard, I guess... Not something I'd want to do. Not those guys having it in a rack with 10 other pieces of gear ;)


    Tremolo Beergut kick their reverb tanks every now and again mid-song for that surf wash effect:)


    Cheers,
    Sam

  • Not so much a Kemper issue as a room issue. Can anyone recommend an engineer in West Midlands area?

    I guess I'd choose the sub and satellites option, only because then you have more control over the bass frequencies without resorting to EQ (which shifts phase in non-linear incarnations , but can cause other problems in linear phase incarnations). Anything that goes deep though, has the potential to excite nasty room modes and standing waves. It's always a compromise, unless either you're extremely lucky, or you had your (spacious) control room designed by an acoustician! The trick is knowing your room well enough to mix yourself out of problems.


    Cheers,
    Sam

  • Not so much a Kemper issue as a room issue. Can anyone recommend an engineer in West Midlands area?

    Foam is useless at anything under midrange frequencies, unfortunately (despite what the manufacturers want you to believe...). Superchunks (i.e. triangular traps straddling corners from wall to ceiling) are a big step in the right direction for taming standing waves, but with a problem like the OP has, more specialist methods will be required. Investigating adjusting the positioning can be a help if you can manage to sit yourself between the major troughs and resonant peaks. There are a few online room calculators that can help you with finding the approximate positions of problem frequencies (although only on a 2D plane). GIK's website (no, I'm NOT affiliated with them!!!) has a lot of resources and links for this kind of thing.


    Cheers,
    Sam

  • Not so much a Kemper issue as a room issue. Can anyone recommend an engineer in West Midlands area?

    Generally, the appropriateness of a sub is defined by the room; you need a room big enough to be able to control the standing waves properly, otherwise a sub will do more harm than good and you'll end up chasing your tail when mixing. This is why I suggested trying moving to smaller, less bass-centric speakers. Decent headphones as a second reference tend to be cheaper than the amount of acoustic treatment otherwise required, but if it's a road you're wiling to go down, you could do worse than look at something like this, a specifically-tuned bass trap for the problem frequencies/harmonics.


    Cheers,
    Sam

  • Not so much a Kemper issue as a room issue. Can anyone recommend an engineer in West Midlands area?

    Anything below 100Hz requires serious bass-trapping, and in a room the size of yours, I think you won't get the results you're looking for. Personally, I'd be looking at using smaller monitors with less bass, as illogical as that sounds. Mixing at lower volume might help a bit, too. Basically, anything that lessens the tendency to excite that nasty room mode.


    I suggest posting in the DIY forum at soundonsound.com , you'll get more hits there and there'll be a greater chance of more in-depth, specialist advice. There are also quite a few threads quite similar to yours, so you might also pick up a few tips.


    Cheers,
    Sam

  • One of my rigs died during rehearsal

    Quote from viabcroce

    Hey Sam, are you aware that Browse and Performance modes save two different instances of the profiles?
    It seems that the "browser" copy became faulty after you saved a copy in Performance mode.


    Hmmm, interesting....


    Quote from luntho


    yes similar beaviour..but I don't use performance mode..could still be the same "bug" though...or it could be what viabcroce says...let's investigate further


    Yes, let's!


    Cheers,
    Sam

  • One of my rigs died during rehearsal

    I had something similar, although it was from start up. For 5 minutes I thought I'd connected something incorrectly, or that one of my leads had died. As soon as I switched profile, the sound was back. This was using Browser mode in error (I use Performance mode for gigs and rehearsals), so once I'd switched to Performance mode, I never bothered to check the profile in question again. I think I'll have a look at it tonight. I'm on 2.6 Beta too.


    Cheers,
    Sam

  • Hi All : )

    Quote from djemass

    Hello Andy, welcome to the board !


    May I ask you something. Why the place is called Sunny Norwich ? I thought sun never goes to UK ? ;) ok I leave...


    Nah, you're thinking of Manchester (where I'm from and got out of sharpish!)


    Cheers,
    Sam

  • Improve Power Rack/head to Guitar Cab Quality

    Quote from nightlight

    Since your cabinet is likely to accentuate/cut certain frequencies, it's advisable to use an appropriate EQ setting in the output section to mitigate the problem. After that, you should start getting better results.


    The idea of a FRFR speaker is to be flat, whereas the idea of a cabinet is to sound good for guitar. One "issue" with profile creation in its current avatar is that the amp and cab are both profiled simultaneously, so you might lose certain characteristics when you turn off the cab sim. That's why a certain profile might sound good on FRFR, but not so good through a speaker.


    Look for DI profiles and try a lot more other profiles. You are more than likely to find a few that suit the voicing of your cabinet better than the ones you are trying right now. ^^


    +1 !


    Cheers,
    Sam

  • Can I do this?...

    You can do this. Experimentation will tell you if the clean DI is the way to go, rather than profiling the whole rig. Me, I even like the sound of Fender profiles through my Marshall cab with cab sims off, so don't worry too much about it. Don't get caught up in chasing the exact tone of the amp you're profiling (even though it isn't really that hard to get almost perfect results), take the time to objectively hear the tone coming through from the KPA; even though it may be slightly different, it may also be killer! In relation, there are thousands of great tones to be had, direct to PA, through a guitar cab or through FRFR. Whether one, the other or the third is right for you is up to your personal preference. They're all usable and equally great, given the time to tweak for the specific medium and location. Happy tone hunting!


    Cheers,
    Sam

  • FW 2.6 thread

    Quote from lasvideo

    Maybe this is a problem with the Uno. chip. I have the Eureka Prom 2 chip and if I first boot up Kemper then the FCB 1010 i NEVER have any problems at all. :)

    I use the Uno4Kemper v1.1 chip and I've never had the Profiler hang. I always switch the board on after the Kemper has completed boot up.


    Cheers,
    Sam

  • One-cable kit for the FCB1010 anyone?

    The midi cable is pretty bog-standard (moulded ends rather than metal), but doesn't feel flimsy and you're of course free to buy any 7-pin midi cable you choose. As for the size of the box, I can't really help you. I have a PowerRack and all I know is it sits very nicely velcroed in the space between the powered output and the power cable input (I have a rack case). If I get the chance, I'll measure it before I go off to rehearsal tonight. The power adaptor is 9V 600mA (although I doubt that 600 is necessary to run it).


    Cheers,
    Sam

  • KB profiles,whats the story?

    Gotta say, I'm loving the Fulltone OCD profile! Got some great on-the-edge-of-breakup sounds by turning the gain down a bit. I'm itching to use them out live next time. Thanks very much!


    Cheers,
    Sam