Morning all
Well I went into my little studio after work and left at 11:30......all I was doing was testing the re-amp features and ended up listening to loads of presets.
One thing I did test was how it compared to my JVM when reamped and it's night and day. The JVM sounds great but a little distant, the Kemper sounds like it has some serious balls.
During the re-amp process I started to think
"I've changed all my settings for input and output, how the hell do I remember the settings when I play live!"
"oh you can save multiple output presets, ffs this is awesome?"
That was a Wow moment for me.
Roeffel/BShaw92 - cheers mate, I downloaded a few free ones but I'm working over the weekend so will test ASAP
Teleman - it's a horrible feeling mate especially with the Helix as that's a heck of a price jump. I have no first hand experience of the Helix but my experience of Line6 is they troll forums promoting products, spend what seems like a fortune on marketing and website design, lore you in then release a subpar product. The HD500 put me off Line6 completely. I never bought one but whilst considering it the HD500 had CPU issues, basically not enough. Line6 decides to fix this problem by releasing a HD500x and charge you. In my eyes that nearly/just over £1000 for an old product.
Kemper, who the hell are Kemper unless you look, I never heard of the..... 3 days later and I'm still smiling.
When I got back from work on Friday it was around 11pm, I went into my little studio and checked it was still there..... Then I checked on my son. Sounds bad but when he can replicate a tube amp better I'll love him more lol
Basement - cheers dude, I'll be looking for some new profiles soon. For now the stock are giving me a great flavor.
DMathews - cheers mate, from what I can gather my fear of not cutting through are unfounded. Can't wait to jam this beast.
Monkey - haha, and heres me thinking I was being original.
So far the Kemper has replaced the JVM, all my pedals and the re-amp box I use. From about 30 cables to 3 lol
I want to comment on the effects:
When I owned modelers I found the effects hard to get crisp and lush sounding. The main reason is they never sounding like they were an effect send or "in the loop" they seemed to be part of the sound.
The Kemper is so different. With a delay, phaser and clean sound I can create a lush undercurrent of pad like sounds and the clean guitar just sits on top rather than become part of the mush....... That's where I lost a lot of time yesterday, thinking I was Gilmour sitting there just playing beautiful sounds.
I did and didn't worry about the effects. Some said subpar and other said great. For someone who doesn't use much effects they are just brilliant.
I just now need to unpack the mission pedals and floorboard. Then I'll be back with 6u rack recommendations lol
Cheers all, still smiling
Mike