I assume You Aready tried to put some grease on the saw

I'm getting the one with the US made MFD pickups in neck and bridge (which is one of the main reasons I want it) plus the 6 brass saddle bridge. They sound better than the MiM Fender teles, IMO. I can wait longer. I just won't be doing any chicken-picken for a while.

thanks, i did see those but theyre not really as useful as what ive seen before. i have seen a number of producers who have made these in glow-in-the-dark for stage (e.g., uno4kemper) and the pedal id is on the button itself, not adjacent. these are pretty weak.

i hope if anyone else is aware of producers, likely specifically for kemper, they will be able to give better alternatives.

thanks, j

Very close to my setup. I echo the recommendation. Don’t have them too close.

I'm hair splitting here, I know you meant that but just wanted to give my personal 2 cents... Problem is we still think in amalog terms. No, in fact this unit is the most powerful and perfect unit that combines every main feature request that you can find in the feature request thread of this forum. This has to mean something. It is as if Fender can read and act and others don't. What you mean is that currently the computer code, the algorithms etc. that it runs are not perfect or disappointing in respect of how they spit out what they have calculated. That's a huge difference and the code can and will change from time to time, I claim to the better. Depending on how talented and gifted the computer nerds are at Fender. If you put fractal's or line6's firmware in there (why should it not be possible in theory, without me being an expert), all of a sudden you will have "a different unit". No you won't, of course. We have reached a point where the unsexy computer nerds have taken over and we somehow depend on them. If you compare Helix's computer code from 8 years ago to the latest Line6 fw update, you will notice that the Helix today is a totally "different" beast. If Fender does not lose interest in their Multi FX path, their TMP will become a better and better sounding, latest code spitting machine, for sure. After all they have the money to hire better programmers or pay more than fractal (assumption). The real way to "fix" this endless digital programming rabbit hole is to go analog, again. That's where The Amp X in theory comes in but we are not there, yet. For me this route of "real" tone analog modelling is the real game changing thinking. Isn't Winter Namm coming?

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I've added a (used ,) dbx compressor to the old school non- modelling/profiling half of my rack, added midi cables to get a degree of potential control over stuff (mainly to get the tempo light to all blink synchronously.

I've also redone the cabling to move the patchbay to the front of the rack (where it should have been all along). Which makes swapping the hardware setup a flippin' breeze.

I am not after the Andy sound really. I just wanted modern strat sounds. These guitars give me tgat

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Everything else is quite reasonable.

Link to the auction:

https://www.christies.com/en/e…tar-collection/highlights

Not even tried to use Imprints, running only with Cab on.

Daisy chaining pedals will introduce noise. Sometimes you can hear it, sometimes its so insignificant it's equal to zero. Trial and error is the best way if you don't have enough individual outputs.

If you' wanna get it over with.....may as well bite the bullet and go with something like a Strymon Zuma and the Ojai expansion. Individual outputs for all and additional expansion capabilities if needed. Not cheap by any measure.....but one and done.

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I am not recording with my digital mixer and have been able to find things that do what I need and sound good live. That is why said I was a little surprised. One could argue that all of the companies you mentioned produce a small variation of the same thing. In a live situation I doubt anyone would hear it and know which company produced it.

Earlier researchfound:

TC Mimic stereo output into Dimension C (also stereo) - Wide and lush....... Working together and making a nice sound. Very nice.

Dimension C into TC mimic. The gods of phase cancellation confiscate the nice bits of the sounds leaving a thin weedy trembling remnant.

Weekend playtime findings

Putting an analogue delay (a home made Deep Blue Delay clone 'frinstance) infront of the Mimic/Dim C is also 'very nice' works well. The 'degraded echoes' seem to make the sound 'even bigger'. Looking forward to feeding a pristine digital delay into this mélange.