Posts by Nikos

  • What would be your killer feature for a Kemper 2 ?

    You are all right.


    There are already solutions. Triple play,SY200 and even with the kemper right now synth leads are quite possible with our KPA.


    Thing is..


    These solutions are imo not really "fire and forget".


    The triple play has a very good tracking but still needs the midi tool to be mounted on the guitar. This sucks.


    The SY-200 is a great tool but for me it sounds often to "digital" and sits to often not well enough in the mix.


    Some warm,fat "monophonic"moog lead for start and later other additions would be the next step which should be possible with "more cpu" in the near future and then we will see what is possible with upgrades in the coming years. This is how I would love to see a KPA2.

  • What would be your killer feature for a Kemper 2 ?

    'friend of mine yesterday saw my post about the synths and called me.."why do you little punk insist for this synth thing?"..


    I sent him this:

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    I can do this intro with the triple play but it is a mess for live (laptop and all this) and it also does not sit well in the mix.


    Mini moog leads which can be used with any guitar no matter the PUs,no matter the CPU,which can easily could be fine tuned to sit well in any kind of mix..

    That alone would make me spend like 3000-4000€ for the next Kemper without hesitation. And I am not rich.Add to this maybe some abilities to give these sounds "electric guitar like playing response" (pinch harmonics for example) and we would already be talking about "revolutionary next generation guitar modeling".


    I know a lots of people who would agree on this.


    Everything else (more fx,more I/Os ,dual amp) can be done today..just buy a second KPA.

  • Why don't I sound like [insert favourite artist] even though I am using profiles of their amps????

    His bass player is a good friend of mine.


    One night he brought Randy to this blues jam bar in Düsseldorf (Germany)which actually is more a meeting point for hardcore alcoholics and crazy freaks of all kind..anyway..


    Randy went on this "stage" grabbed a cheap strat copy and played with no pedals or anything over this bad serviced Twin which sounded awful no matter who played over it. Every player had to bring some pedals to be make it "usable ".


    Long story short..


    Randy sounded awesome. Insanely good. Don't know if he sounded like he sounds with his gear but this is not the point. Point is he sounded like him. No excuses and no "man ..this is not my guitar " and stuff. Nothing of all this. He just rocked the house with what he had at his hands in this moment and he made it work.

  • Bluguitar AMP X

    I don't know about the burgers but other than that that he is right..can't get really better.


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  • Bluguitar AMP X

    Quote from Ibot39

    So this is basically a sophisticated solid state preamp with nanotube power section. I like solid state amps, but they all share some characteristics like crumbly fading out tone, when you let it ring...


    And it still looks like you only get the nanotube / power amp influence (that ideally somewhat clouds the solid state preamp character) when a speaker is connected! Also the "dynamic" IR don't include power amp simulation in such a recording situation. It's preamp to IR only then. How can this be the future, when it does not even offer the whole signal chain for silent recording? Would be a deal breaker for me.

    Let's wait and see. I am quite sure this thing will sound great.


    It is just that I am already very happy with what I got and I don't need more or something new. I just want to play now after the lockdown. Nothing else.


    And I know I am not the only one.

  • Bluguitar AMP X

    Quote from sambrox

    The thing is, the Amp1 just sounds great with minimal tweaking. The AmpX is the same tech, just with a programmable preamp section instead of the standard 4 you get with the Amp1, and with popular stomp box type effects built in. For me, it’s perfect for small or fly gigs (though I can attest to the Amp1 being super loud and sounding huge through a 4x12, too).

    That "programmable" always make things sound "different". Until yet.

  • Bluguitar AMP X

    Quote from Ruefus

    Fair enough.


    But I don’t see anyone marketing this a a ‘real-er’ thing. The amp tech isn’t even new (2014)


    I see another choice/option/evolution of a pre-existing line of products. BluGuitar wasn’t compelling for me to check out until Amp X became a (near) reality.

    All fine. I just gave my opinion on this product and what I believe will be the chances against the competition.


    It is expensive,I already said this. For sure it will be worth every single cent of these 2000 €/$ but this market is ... tough;


    Again.I wish Bluguitar all the best. Great products.

  • Bluguitar AMP X

    Quote from Ruefus

    I disagree with the majority of your categorizations. It’s stereotyping by another name.


    Every category of overdrive pedal has been done…repeatedly. Yet new ones show up, people buy them and are happy.


    So yes, we’re serious.

    It is my experience. You can call this "stereotyping" and I can call this disrespectful.


    So..


    I have great respect for Thomas Blug as a guitar player and ofcourse as developer.


    It is just a little bit strange that we had all these myriads of "blind tests" in which we all could not hear (and feel)the difference between the "real thing" and the modeler xyz and every few months we discover the next "realer thing"..


    I know that I am not the only one who got tired and bored by all this.


    Peace.

  • Bluguitar AMP X

    The fear of the "Non-tube" is gone. It is history. Plug ins,500$/€ modelers and pedal size analogue amps..all sound good enough. Some even great.


    In a few years the digital/analogue competition will be forgotten completely because..it does not matter anymore..


    It will be all about the question of what will fit to each needs and tastes.


    The tweaker will continued to play fractal.


    The tube freak will play synergy.


    Working musicians will continue to use the KPA.


    People who are ok with "sounds good enough" and the need for the helix UI will continue to use this modeler..


    Kids at home will use plug ins.


    Blues guys their high end combos.


    Pedal guys just love their pedal board.


    Expensive heads & heavy cabinets ..nice to stare at in our men caves..also Slash will continue to use them together with Yngwie and some other freaks..


    And so on..


    The amp x no doubt will take its % of the high end floorboard modeler share. But it is expensive. And its concept does not really fit into this decade. I mean one more modeler which is supposed to sounds more real than all the really real stuff;


    Are we serious;

  • Bluguitar AMP X

    There is no doubt this amp x will be great.


    'Problem I see..to late..to expensive..


    Kids go for plug ins and cheap but great little "floor amps".We,the "elders" of rock guitar already have 1-2-3 modelers plus all the other stuff and "I see tired guitar folks" exhausted with all the gear they gathered during the last years and all the money spent.


    But for sure some of us will trade one or two of their modelers/tube amps to get this product too. But it is not for tweakers,it is not for people who dont like floor pedals (like me) nor is it for all the guys which already have everything they need for every possible situation and now have to spend their money left to pay the rent/fuel/electricity and all this stuff right now.


    Also if the KPA 2 appears (or at least the rumor of it coming) everything will be put on "hold" because we all hope (I guess) it will be as revolutionary as the current one and will bring also stuff "beyond the usual amp sounds".

  • Did I just forget what an amp in a room sounds like?

    Well I have a very strange personal view on all of that.


    For me there is no "music theory".


    I always thought that only the idea of "theory" in connection with arts is very ...funny?


    How can it be "theory" when we hear,feel and play it?


    Steve Vai or Zappa for example use a lot of "theory" when in fact they always create certain feels which are not a really deniable in my ears. They just knew/know what they do. They don't like to be in a "dark room" hoping that "somehow" they will find the right way to express themselves.Some people say music is "the mathematics of our feelings" and if this is true(I like this idea) the modes/scales are just some variables. Like "minor=sad/major=happy"..and in most cases this is true. The modes have their own "feel" in between what we call "major/minor/". So nothing special really. No theory. It is very practical. If you know what you are doing in a split second. It has to he a natural thing.


    The same thing about our guitar sounds or our work flow.


    Some people try to create sound purely by gear. If the feel of the song is not "right" they will try to rectify this by changing the amp,putting more fx on the sound etc until their ears get tired and they give up.


    I would try to change other things. If I have a song which has a major feel but something is not "quite right" ..yes I would try the MIXOLYDIAN mode. Just one note different. Just one note away from.the major feel,one note more minor feel. Just an example. The older we get things start to exhaust us. We want more melody instead of energy,we want more harmony instead of rage. Gear will not help with that. Gear is not the right way to "re-fresh" our ears to revitalize them. At least I think so. This is my experience. Anyway..


    Humans are complicated creatures. And musicians even more so. There us no "rule" for anything in arts/music.

  • Did I just forget what an amp in a room sounds like?

    Was about time,no;


    We guitar players believed to long we are the centre of the universe without working hard for anything else than doing the guitar hero stuff..


    Time to wake up. The KPA is a great tool to push us beyond our comfort zones.