Re: NAD: Kemper Profiling Amp (w/clips!)
Sound is nice, where is the real playing?
Apparently you didn't listen to the entire clip - I'd expect nothing less of you.
Firstly, you're a very good player which is always going to make stuff sound better.
This is ultimately what a lot of it comes down to; my hands are so specific sounding that I'm never going to get away from 'that' tone. I think it sounds pretty damn good, though, so I must be doing something right!
When did you start playing lead? IIRC your stuff was always rhythm-centric. Nice chops!
The thing that is really tripping me out about that clip is how the notes/chords decay and shift when they're held out. No modeler can pull that off. That is what amps sound like in the room. Crazy!
I've always dabbled, and there's a pretty shreddy lead section on the first Good Age album we did, but I wasn't incredibly confident in my composition of leads until about two years ago. I've found that a few takes of improv, picking out the best parts, and then re-recording in as few takes as possible tends to lead to the most natural and least contrived results.
The movement/decay is one of the things I wanted to showcase with this clip/riff; it really, really reacts like a real amp mic'd up. I'll be posting a solo'd version of the guitars later today, should provide some insight to the amount of movement and 'breath' that the thing has, especially on the riff at the end with the heavy palm mute contrast.
sounds great. Is the main use of these to profile an amp to then use in a direct-recording situation, as a preamp into a power amp w/cab, or do you think it would excel at both?
I still don't get how it would get past the initial sound used to profile, as in - after you profile an amp and use it, when you turn down the treble and preamp gain let's say - would it behave in the exact manner as the original, or would it just roll off the treble and reduce the gain in its own way?
+1 on the killer solo - wow, you've got quite a lead "voice" going on these days.
It'd be fine at both - each 'profile' contains a distinct 'amp' and 'cab' section, which can be mixed/matched, so you can run it into a poweramp/cab setup and also send a full amp+cab signal straight to the FoH to get the best of both worlds.
It doesn't match the amplifier EQ stack (yet...), but it does have eq controls that work pretty much as expected; I've not found too many instances where I wish the eq controls behaved differently. The gain is the biggest issue; you really want to have the gain setting in the same ballpark as you'll be using it (ie; going from low to dimed gain won't respond like a real amp would, you'd want 2-4 profiles to cover clean, low-gain, mid-gain, and high-gain per amp).
Cheers! I generally think people (esp in the metal genre) try to say too much with solos. I'm more into tasty bits of flash thrown in with actual movement.
a bit better than the axefxii it seems; I am looking forward to hearing virtualkevorkian clips/reviews :biglaugh::smokin:
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