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Once you have your modeller set right, you don't have to tweak any more than you have to tweak an amp.
Although of course, plenty of big name acts have bought the helix and use it live.
Costs, eventually will always win the war and I suspect that modelling in the long run will make tours a damn site easier.
I'm not familiar with Kemper or Helix, is it a simple, one-knob adjustment mid-song?
so much truth.
Why would people pay to travel 1000's of miles, sleep in crack den hotels, and live off a service station diet. when you could set up a live stream. people tune in for as long as they want. keep the camera angles high and you don't even need trousers on...
As the new generation get used to the sound of digital amps and forget valve ever existed, the feeling of a live crowd will also die out.
how morbid for pre-09:00 on a Tuesday.
Just 'doing' it is not enough, sometimes you need to be self critical enough to look at why you're not being paid.
Sometimes you need to examine why a 'select few' are making a living from it and why you're not.
Beyond that, I trusted the soundman to do what was right for the room in the FOH - even if they were terrible. Because there's no getting round a bad soundman, they'll fuck your sound up no matter what.
With a modeller I can't imagine doing it any differently.
I guess part of it is that in practices I'd set tones that worked alongside the rest of the band as a sonic event - frequencies falling into place alongside the other instruments, dynamics suitable for the song and the other parts - and I trusted those judgements, arrived at over in some cases literally years of playing songs, far more than the nervous rushed decisions made on a dark stage in an unfamiliar space seconds before the set was due to start.
Bandcamp
Spotify, Apple et al
There are times where you have no choice but to ignore your rehearsal settings and change things on the fly.
all the top modelers have way more eq functionality than most amps.
They were in the middle of speeches when we arrived, then it was showtime. My days of long European tours with our own crew are long behind me tbh, we have to wing it a bit these days to make a crust.