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Anyone bought any of his profiles and if so, what's your thoughts on sounds and feel of them? They seem very cheap to purchase.
I must have spent a small fortune on profiles after hearing demos, only for them to sound pretty much nothing like the demo - this is across Helix, AX8 and Kemper.
Think I'll just stick with the TopJimi Caswell JCM - now THAT is a killer profile.
@PJH your Kemper/amp comparison was awesome.. as is your tone.
It's incredibly annoying!
Stereo Loop block is enabled after the STACK section as well, 100% mix.
Getting a huge volume drop as well, but I can probably sort that with the FX Loop Volume parameter, right?
My previous experience of both modellers was an ok-ish one and left me feeling that they weren't for me as I didn't think they sounded as authentic as an amp - on those occasions, they were either going through a regular guitar cab, PA Speakers, Yamaha DRXs or an Atomic cab. Today, the sound and experience was different, and a rather pleasing one, and I can only put that down to the Redound.
First impressions of the cab were that it has some clout to it and it's very clear and not directional; it's almost 3-D like and like Surround Sound. It took both modellers really well and to my ears, it sounded and felt like I was playing through an amp and the response, interaction and feel under fingers was good.
Sadly for my wallet and bank balance, the Kemper/Redsound rig on KPA Divided profiles matched and improved upon the cleans from my Divided, which is high praise indeed
The Helix was impressive, too, but as with anything like this, you have to put the time in and 'tune it in' to the cab and match your guitars.
I should say that I also tried a bass through the Kemper/Redsound rig and that was fine and totally useable for me (I use a modelled SWR anyway from a Roland Bass Cube 120XL with some compression)
It's a very attractive prospect having those sounds/amps readily at your disposal with a Redsound 1x12, for both bass and guitar, as it's such a compact, versatile and powerful package and could be my one-rig-does-all for gigs. Even before I delve into all that's been well-documented regarding editing, user-interface, fx etc for the respective units, I'd be pushed to pick which modeller was for me just based on the sounds. My ears tell me Kemper for cleans and crunches and Helix for leads and fx.
I need a few more listens and trials, maybe even a gig experience with one of these rigs, before I'm ready to bite the bullet
Cheers
Peter.
Having seen them a couple of times before, I heard a difference as his sound didn't sound 'in the distance or like a recording' and he mentioned after the gig that the sound was more amp-like with his patches coming alive and sounding more real and not being directional.
Whilst he has the cab, he also takes a feed to the FOH but had struggled in the past to hear the cab when he stepped away from it, and he moves about all over the stage. Even though monitors are obviously used with guitar feeding through for each band member, the band felt a disconnect with him whereas it was the opposite with the other guitarist, who uses a Marshall stack. In fact, his rig came come across as too loud and getting the balance between the guitars and volumes has been a bit of a pain whilst trying to ensure both guitarists are satisfied with the feel and clout of their rigs.
With the Red Sound, both he and the band could hear everything very clearly and they could feel the amp on stage and for the first time since being a Kemper user, he found the experience ultimately satisfying and like using an amp.
Given the level of control he now has from this set up and him getting to where he wanted the sound to be, the other guitarist is now going the same way.
Also, I don't believe the RedSound can be mounted on a pole, can it?
Can anyone suggest if it would be better to go for the normal LG12, or the slanted ('Rack') version? Playing bar and pub gigs mostly. Can't decide on which would be better for the sound; I'd assume the rack version as it's slightly tilted up?
Firstly, BIG shout-out and thanks to Peter at ClearSound - he drove round the M25 to personally deliver them to me. Top, top bloke and a pleasure to deal with!
They look great, and are very well constructed; the sound itself is much thicker and 'fatter' than the Headrush FrFr speakers. It does seem to sound more like a cab as well, including all the issues that brings; for example, I've had to reduce my EQ cut to 6kHz now instead of 7,000. ALso a lot boomier, so have increased the low cut to 120Hz.
But yes, they do sound very nice indeed - will be using them at the gig tonight so will upload some vids tomorrow of how they sound in the mix.