Xpensive Wino
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OK. So can anybody out there THAT HAS BOTH the Kemper and the AXE-FX tell me which they like better and why? I have considered one of these for years and am making space on my rack for one but I've never gotten off the pot. The last one he did is missing a lot of the chime that is in a Matchless BTW TME.
Mr. Alien wearing the Renderit Skin Suit I know you are an imposter by this post
yea i"m not sure that sounded as good as a real matchless.
still its very cool I guess... but I'd need to get over, speaking of body snatchers-- the whole soulless body snatcher aspect of it I guess.
I just like to know my sound is going through tubes and wires and things and not zeros and ones I guess.
Yeah I agree. Compression is almost like a modern guitarist disease IHMO. Don't get me wrong, some compression is great, like a pushed output transformer or a speaker on its limits, because that kicks in pretty late. But in my opinion, and I want to stress that this is only my personal preference, the dynamics of a great solo is lost when every note has the same volume. And I can't really appreciate a guitarist playing with that kind of compression no matter how good that person is. The playing never "takes off" because it's too uniform in volume.The one thing that bugs me about some of the clips here, and elsewhere, is the tendency for the overdriven tones to sound compressed and "squished". It seems to be something that a lot of amps and player's ears want to hear, so its not Kemper's "fault". This phenomena is not my cup o' vodka.
Yeah I agree. Compression is almost like a modern guitarist disease IHMO. Don't get me wrong, some compression is great, like a pushed output transformer or a speaker on its limits, because that kicks in pretty late. But in my opinion, and I want to stress that this is only my personal preference, the dynamics of a great solo is lost when every note has the same volume. And I can't really appreciate a guitarist playing with that kind of compression no matter how good that person is. The playing never "takes off" because it's too uniform in volume.
BTW this post doesn't really have anything to do with the player in this thread. Just a friday night rant :##