What is better?
What is easier to use?
Do we still need classic profiles?
Some ideas to discuss.
I love tube amps - and own a lot of them - and I love the convenience of the Kemper since 2011!
When I create some profiles for me (or others) and I want to use e.g. a Strat and a LesPauls.
I'll create two profiles - one for the Strat and another one for the LesPauls.
The amp settings (Gain, Bass, Middle, Treble, Presence) on the tube amp will be quite different and I may prefer different microphones (or combinations) for each guitar type.
If I don't know about the used guitar type (and even the same guitar type - e.g. a Strat sounds not like any other Strat) I need to create a lot of profiles with different gain and tone stack settings.
The user can then pick the ones which works best for the used guitar and delete the others - done.
Now we have Liquid Profiles!
Great - ONE profile can be used for ALL guitars!
So do we have the end of 'classic profile'?
IMHO no - both have there pro's and con's.
The big pro for Liquid Profiles is - one profile to rule them all
The con's:
1)
We need a 'Liquid Model' for each amp type, some amps have different tone stacks for different channels, some have bright/normal inputs...
Currently we have models for some amps - but not for all - I doubt there will ever be a model for all amps, incl. exotic ones.
2)
By using classic profiles the user needs only to select the profile which fit's best for his needs (guitar/style) - done.
E.g. select one out of 30 bought profiles from the same amp (which different settings).
Now the users needs to know how the amp works or need to spend a lot of time with trial and error.
(I know some guitar players have problem to dial in a good Mesa Mark tone).
It's similar to the IR scene - some sellers offer hundreds of IR's for each different angle and distance - other's offer one 'Liquid' IR where the user can move a virtual mic.
3)
My vintage Fender Deluxe sounds way different than a new one. The same is true for old Marshalls ....
One 'generic Liquid' Deluxe or Marshall tonestack is again only an aproximation of the original.
In some cases it may sound more authentic to use the classic profiles.
So 'Liquid' Profiles are great!
'Classic' Profiles are great too
What do you think?