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I'm not saying you couldn't approximate Black Keys or Greta van Fleet sounds artificially, but you certainly don't come across those borderline chaotic tones by accident with a Kemper.
I genuinely see the market for the classic cranked valve amp sounds diminishing as our generation gets too old to play, however much we like them.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
These amps are treasured by their owners, who are mostly pro players, and are very hard to find up for sale (rarer than rocking horse droppings) because folk generally hold onto them for dear life. I've played pretty much every modeller out there from Line 6, Vox, Fender, Marshall, Boss, Laney, etc (still haven't tried a Katana though) and I have yet to find anything that comes close to the Zentera for sheer tank like build quality and incredible modelling tones.
I'm sure the V30s made a huge difference though as most manufacturers fit their modelling amps with inferior speakers that don't do the amps justice, and use budget components. The Zentera used top quality components and had 2 x sharc floating point processors (or something like that) which were state of the art and very expensive in those days.
IIRC Alex Lifeson of Rush used the head version of the Zentera live.
I dont know why someone would buy a head of an AC30 that is only a model of it, that probably won’t even sound as good as an AC30, when they could just buy one of the new ones from a shop. Prices would be similar.
A mass of options is key, but I like the idea of traditional looks. Maybe the offset Marshall font, like Friedman do.
Buuut, isn’t this exactly what all of those Synergy and Salvation rack systems essentially are?
OK you could achieve that with a valve amp and motorised pots, but that would start to get complex and expensive.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
But, in my opinion it would be irrelevant to do that as different rooms sound different and even the same room can sound different on different days so you have to always change things based on your band and the room and everything. Even the most meticulously fine tuned patches need tweaking when you actually get it playing with a band.
You’ve set your amp up and now the drummer has a different snare, or different sticks and you need to turn the master up but that changes how your gain reacts with it, or the EQ etc.
It’s problematic!
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Rock music is basically a heritage genre now anyway, so future generations will probably continue to use equipment of the period