benvigil
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Actually, yes, bringing the amp compressor parameters into the mix makes a huge difference in bridging the gap between the Kemper profile and the AX8.have you tried the compressor in the amp block??
Actually, yes, bringing the amp compressor parameters into the mix makes a huge difference in bridging the gap between the Kemper profile and the AX8.have you tried the compressor in the amp block??
Interesting. IIRC, the Kemper has a touch of multi-band compression across the board.Actually, yes, bringing the amp compressor parameters into the mix makes a huge difference in bridging the gap between the Kemper profile and the AX8.
Are you referring to compressor in the preamp page or the dynamics page?Actually, yes, bringing the amp compressor parameters into the mix makes a huge difference in bridging the gap between the Kemper profile and the AX8.
DynamicsAre you referring to compressor in the preamp page or the dynamics page?
Interesting. IIRC, the Kemper has a touch of multi-band compression across the board.
after reading up on it, it's not the profile itself that is great...the creator did some tweaks like cranking the amp compression etc to get it to where it was. even Don Peterson said as much. it does sound great but it's not the profile...so pull up the Ac20 and go crazy in the deep parameters and see if that gets you closer.
as to whether or not i've played it, yeah, but I'm not a big AC20 person anyway so it didn't do much for me.
I have just started playing around with that in the last couple days. I am not one to tweak that much in the deeper settings. I usually adjust the supply sag, dynamic present, and dynamic depth. The dynamics compressor seems to add a thickness. I found it works really well for clean soundsDynamics
One thing that I think we all need to recognise is that no matter how much we'd like to think otherwise, the real thing will always be better.
Sound is the real thing. Free your mind, Neo.
I fail to see how you could argue that something built to imitate 200-ish amps could possibly be better than the actual thing. The AFX is great, but it's not the real thing.
you can exit the world of pure emulation and enter one of invention.
A single amp can be modeled with exceptional accuracy. If you add in a second modeled amp, the first amp model doesn't get worse. When you add a third modeled amp, the first two models don't get worse. And when you add that 200th amp model, none of the previous amps gets any worse.I fail to see how you could argue that something built to imitate 200-ish amps could possibly be better than the actual thing. The AFX is great, but it's not the real thing.
Gotta go with what works for you.From a very personal standpoint I like the results I'm getting better from a real amp.
Whenever I've seen that happen—on any rig: tube, transistor, digital—it boiled down to not cutting through the mix well enough, usually due to too much treble extension. Something to try if you decide to give the modeling another go.I would even have friends plug into my rig because they wanted to try it and would witness them immediately start having to dig into it more to get what they were used to.
I haven't seen much of that contingent. If you look at recent posts by people who prefer something else, the response is usually a mixture of helpful hints and expressions of "live and let live."If there's one thing that this forum suffers from it's this contingent of extremely vocal people who vociferously insist that modeling can't be improved upon, or that anybody who doesn't get along with the unit is obviously some kind of techno-phobic fool, is crazy, WANTS to believe it's crap, etc. The attitude of "I love it so you just don't know what you're talking about" is definitely a backward thinking sentiment.