Hopefully....I'm going to eat some crow (Fender Tonemaster Pro content)

[timbuck3]

I recently got one. I have an FM3 and a Kemper. I am really enjoying it, much more so than the FM3. I will be selling the FM3.

I only play at home so it wasn’t even about the UI as I use my computer connected to all modelers.

Its the gui right?

 

[cherryblossom]

Its the gui right?

huh?

 

[mikah912]

DAY TWO:

• I had one of those transcendent moments you hope to have when you get new gear when you find a sound, a vibe, something.....that you lose yourself in. For me, it was stumbling upon a factory patch - Running with the Phaser, I think it's called? - that's obviously a brown sound/vintage Van Halen homage. The second I hit a chord in it, that vintage Marshall kerrang/chunk with just the right amount of reverb hit sooooo good. It's not dead-on accurate to Eddie's old rig, but it's a close midpoint between that and a slightly more modern hot-rodded sound. Not in front of my TMP now, but I think it's a mid-gain JCM800 goosed by a GE-7 in front. The mids were pushed juuust right on the pedal, but the gain was cranked. I could play on that for days.....
• I'm trying not to read any manuals, but I can't seem to work out how to split signals to do dual amps/signal chains. It's easy enough to copy one of the many existing patches that do it, but I figure it should be easy to suss out how to do it myself. No such luck.
• Updating the firmware to the latest hotfix version was more challenging than I thought it would be. At first, the supplied USB-C to USB-A cable didn't connect to my laptop, even after I installed the latest driver. Then I tried a new USB-C to USB-C cable, and no such luck there either. Then, I had to find the tiny physical "Firmware Update" mode button, hold that down while powering it up and also reboot my PC. All that just to get it to where either the desktop or mobile editor could see the device. Sheesh! Once I cleared all of those hurdles, the editing experience was pretty smooth and seamless on both the Android app and the desktop. Pretty much identical to the device, but necessary to manage presets, cloud downloads and IR loading.
• Speaking of cloud downloads, this is where the five different volumes per patch turned out to be a problem. I started with FastRedPonyCar's live rigs for the SLO, Jubilee and 5153. Sounded great, but a little cranked. Then, I grabbed all of Mark Letteri's patches because I'm a huge Snarky puppy fan. Volumes much lower. Grabbed @stilwel patches with a lot of ambient, esoteric sounds, and they were another volume completely. Leveling them all with the factory patches is gonna be a chore.

Overall, I'm still liking the device a lot thus far. Some real woofers in terms of cab choices for higher gain amps, but I'm working out what cab/mic combos are clutch. I figure I'll just save them as block presets so I can easily recall for new patches.

 

[Mongillo19]

FastRedPonyCar's

If I recall correctly this user made many Kemper profiles on Rig Exchange. What a blast from the past

 

[GTR37]

If I recall correctly this user made many Kemper profiles on Rig Exchange. What a blast from the past

His stuff is killer that’s Drew
He has some great sounding nano cortex stuff too

 

[mikah912]

If I recall correctly this user made many Kemper profiles on Rig Exchange. What a blast from the past

Yep. He used to drop all the videos with Splawn amps, then he started profiling them and others. Like me, he's very much into 80s hot-rodded Marshall sounds and superstrats.

 

[mikah912]

His stuff is killer that’s Drew
He has some great sounding nano cortex stuff too

Him recently saying the TMP is his modeler of choice despite owning EVERY other top tier product helped push me off the fence into trying this.

 

[metropolis_4]

DAY TWO:

• I had one of those transcendent moments you hope to have when you get new gear when you find a sound, a vibe, something.....that you lose yourself in. For me, it was stumbling upon a factory patch - Running with the Phaser, I think it's called? - that's obviously a brown sound/vintage Van Halen homage. The second I hit a chord in it, that vintage Marshall kerrang/chunk with just the right amount of reverb hit sooooo good. It's not dead-on accurate to Eddie's old rig, but it's a close midpoint between that and a slightly more modern hot-rodded sound. Not in front of my TMP now, but I think it's a mid-gain JCM800 goosed by a GE-7 in front. The mids were pushed juuust right on the pedal, but the gain was cranked. I could play on that for days.....
• I'm trying not to read any manuals, but I can't seem to work out how to split signals to do dual amps/signal chains. It's easy enough to copy one of the many existing patches that do it, but I figure it should be easy to suss out how to do it myself. No such luck.
• Updating the firmware to the latest hotfix version was more challenging than I thought it would be. At first, the supplied USB-C to USB-A cable didn't connect to my laptop, even after I installed the latest driver. Then I tried a new USB-C to USB-C cable, and no such luck there either. Then, I had to find the tiny physical "Firmware Update" mode button, hold that down while powering it up and also reboot my PC. All that just to get it to where either the desktop or mobile editor could see the device. Sheesh! Once I cleared all of those hurdles, the editing experience was pretty smooth and seamless on both the Android app and the desktop. Pretty much identical to the device, but necessary to manage presets, cloud downloads and IR loading.
• Speaking of cloud downloads, this is where the five different volumes per patch turned out to be a problem. I started with FastRedPonyCar's live rigs for the SLO, Jubilee and 5153. Sounded great, but a little cranked. Then, I grabbed all of Mark Letteri's patches because I'm a huge Snarky puppy fan. Volumes much lower. Grabbed @stilwel patches with a lot of ambient, esoteric sounds, and they were another volume completely. Leveling them all with the factory patches is gonna be a chore.

Overall, I'm still liking the device a lot thus far. Some real woofers in terms of cab choices for higher gain amps, but I'm working out what cab/mic combos are clutch. I figure I'll just save them as block presets so I can easily recall for new patches.

Oof, I do remember that firmware update process being rough. I hope they work on that.

 

[[Nathan]]

• I'm trying not to read any manuals, but I can't seem to work out how to split signals to do dual amps/signal chains. It's easy enough to copy one of the many existing patches that do it, but I figure it should be easy to suss out how to do it myself. No such luck.

I was stumped on this for a bit as well. You can’t just drag a block to fork out the signal path like you’d expect. There’s an option somewhere in the preset you’re working on to choose a signal path, kind of needs to be defined and then you drag components where you want them. A bit more cumbersome than fractal where you just put things down then connect it, but that’s how it works.

It mainly annoys me now when I want to do dual amps I have to change the type, and then if I want it back to a single I have to change the type again. Hopefully they streamline that at some point.

Firmware updating is easy. Just turn it on holding the tiny button at the back and it shows up on your computer as a storage drive, drop the firmware file in and it does the rest

 

[Mikael Dez]

If I didn’t have a QC I’d order a TMP, I think. It’s good to see some positive posted about it (my Strat is my weapon of choice, and I like to see Fender win)

 

[Orvillain]

@mikah912 how is it in front of an amp, or in 4 cable method??

 

[mikah912]

@mikah912 how is it in front of an amp, or in 4 cable method??

I cannot say. I've been all "FRFR" for years now.

 

[JCW308]

To be fair, the firmware update procedure is clearly documented in several different places during the purchase and ownership process. It's right there for all to see and it really is dead simple.

 

[Jarick]

If I didn’t have a QC I’d order a TMP, I think. It’s good to see some positive posted about it (my Strat is my weapon of choice, and I like to see Fender win)

That’s kinda where I’m at. My QC comes back next week and I’ll get to play with that again. Im curious about the TMP for more effects versatility but maybe that’s not really the case. Would be nice to get some more delay and reverb options…

 

[OrganicZed]

TMP spring reverb blows away Fractal IMO. Even with the new updates in Fractal

Aren’t you using the FM3 currently? The FM3 did not get the updated spring reverb algorithms.

 

[timbuck3]

huh?

The gui makes its more attractive over the fm3

 

[timbuck3]

DAY TWO:

• I had one of those transcendent moments you hope to have when you get new gear when you find a sound, a vibe, something.....that you lose yourself in. For me, it was stumbling upon a factory patch - Running with the Phaser, I think it's called? - that's obviously a brown sound/vintage Van Halen homage. The second I hit a chord in it, that vintage Marshall kerrang/chunk with just the right amount of reverb hit sooooo good. It's not dead-on accurate to Eddie's old rig, but it's a close midpoint between that and a slightly more modern hot-rodded sound. Not in front of my TMP now, but I think it's a mid-gain JCM800 goosed by a GE-7 in front. The mids were pushed juuust right on the pedal, but the gain was cranked. I could play on that for days.....
• I'm trying not to read any manuals, but I can't seem to work out how to split signals to do dual amps/signal chains. It's easy enough to copy one of the many existing patches that do it, but I figure it should be easy to suss out how to do it myself. No such luck.
• Updating the firmware to the latest hotfix version was more challenging than I thought it would be. At first, the supplied USB-C to USB-A cable didn't connect to my laptop, even after I installed the latest driver. Then I tried a new USB-C to USB-C cable, and no such luck there either. Then, I had to find the tiny physical "Firmware Update" mode button, hold that down while powering it up and also reboot my PC. All that just to get it to where either the desktop or mobile editor could see the device. Sheesh! Once I cleared all of those hurdles, the editing experience was pretty smooth and seamless on both the Android app and the desktop. Pretty much identical to the device, but necessary to manage presets, cloud downloads and IR loading.
• Speaking of cloud downloads, this is where the five different volumes per patch turned out to be a problem. I started with FastRedPonyCar's live rigs for the SLO, Jubilee and 5153. Sounded great, but a little cranked. Then, I grabbed all of Mark Letteri's patches because I'm a huge Snarky puppy fan. Volumes much lower. Grabbed @stilwel patches with a lot of ambient, esoteric sounds, and they were another volume completely. Leveling them all with the factory patches is gonna be a chore.

Overall, I'm still liking the device a lot thus far. Some real woofers in terms of cab choices for higher gain amps, but I'm working out what cab/mic combos are clutch. I figure I'll just save them as block presets so I can easily recall for new patches.

DAY TWO:

• I had one of those transcendent moments you hope to have when you get new gear when you find a sound, a vibe, something.....that you lose yourself in. For me, it was stumbling upon a factory patch - Running with the Phaser, I think it's called? - that's obviously a brown sound/vintage Van Halen homage. The second I hit a chord in it, that vintage Marshall kerrang/chunk with just the right amount of reverb hit sooooo good. It's not dead-on accurate to Eddie's old rig, but it's a close midpoint between that and a slightly more modern hot-rodded sound. Not in front of my TMP now, but I think it's a mid-gain JCM800 goosed by a GE-7 in front. The mids were pushed juuust right on the pedal, but the gain was cranked. I could play on that for days.....
• I'm trying not to read any manuals, but I can't seem to work out how to split signals to do dual amps/signal chains. It's easy enough to copy one of the many existing patches that do it, but I figure it should be easy to suss out how to do it myself. No such luck.
• Updating the firmware to the latest hotfix version was more challenging than I thought it would be. At first, the supplied USB-C to USB-A cable didn't connect to my laptop, even after I installed the latest driver. Then I tried a new USB-C to USB-C cable, and no such luck there either. Then, I had to find the tiny physical "Firmware Update" mode button, hold that down while powering it up and also reboot my PC. All that just to get it to where either the desktop or mobile editor could see the device. Sheesh! Once I cleared all of those hurdles, the editing experience was pretty smooth and seamless on both the Android app and the desktop. Pretty much identical to the device, but necessary to manage presets, cloud downloads and IR loading.
• Speaking of cloud downloads, this is where the five different volumes per patch turned out to be a problem. I started with FastRedPonyCar's live rigs for the SLO, Jubilee and 5153. Sounded great, but a little cranked. Then, I grabbed all of Mark Letteri's patches because I'm a huge Snarky puppy fan. Volumes much lower. Grabbed @stilwel patches with a lot of ambient, esoteric sounds, and they were another volume completely. Leveling them all with the factory patches is gonna be a chore.

Overall, I'm still liking the device a lot thus far. Some real woofers in terms of cab choices for higher gain amps, but I'm working out what cab/mic combos are clutch. I figure I'll just save them as block presets so I can easily recall for new patches.

Clips?

 

[metropolis_4]

Aren’t you using the FM3 currently? The FM3 did not get the updated spring reverb algorithms.

I know, I had an Axe FX when the updated springs came out, and I was using an fm9 last year, so I’ve got experience with them.

The old ones still in the fm3 are terrible

 

[BenIfin]

DAY TWO:

• I had one of those transcendent moments you hope to have when you get new gear when you find a sound, a vibe, something.....that you lose yourself in. For me, it was stumbling upon a factory patch - Running with the Phaser, I think it's called? - that's obviously a brown sound/vintage Van Halen homage. The second I hit a chord in it, that vintage Marshall kerrang/chunk with just the right amount of reverb hit sooooo good. It's not dead-on accurate to Eddie's old rig, but it's a close midpoint between that and a slightly more modern hot-rodded sound. Not in front of my TMP now, but I think it's a mid-gain JCM800 goosed by a GE-7 in front. The mids were pushed juuust right on the pedal, but the gain was cranked. I could play on that for days.....
• I'm trying not to read any manuals, but I can't seem to work out how to split signals to do dual amps/signal chains. It's easy enough to copy one of the many existing patches that do it, but I figure it should be easy to suss out how to do it myself. No such luck.
• Updating the firmware to the latest hotfix version was more challenging than I thought it would be. At first, the supplied USB-C to USB-A cable didn't connect to my laptop, even after I installed the latest driver. Then I tried a new USB-C to USB-C cable, and no such luck there either. Then, I had to find the tiny physical "Firmware Update" mode button, hold that down while powering it up and also reboot my PC. All that just to get it to where either the desktop or mobile editor could see the device. Sheesh! Once I cleared all of those hurdles, the editing experience was pretty smooth and seamless on both the Android app and the desktop. Pretty much identical to the device, but necessary to manage presets, cloud downloads and IR loading.
• Speaking of cloud downloads, this is where the five different volumes per patch turned out to be a problem. I started with FastRedPonyCar's live rigs for the SLO, Jubilee and 5153. Sounded great, but a little cranked. Then, I grabbed all of Mark Letteri's patches because I'm a huge Snarky puppy fan. Volumes much lower. Grabbed @stilwel patches with a lot of ambient, esoteric sounds, and they were another volume completely. Leveling them all with the factory patches is gonna be a chore.

Overall, I'm still liking the device a lot thus far. Some real woofers in terms of cab choices for higher gain amps, but I'm working out what cab/mic combos are clutch. I figure I'll just save them as block presets so I can easily recall for new patches.

Great write-ups ... really appreciate the honest good / bad etc... :)

On a personal level, I would like to see a few more EL84 -and- mid-gain-range rock amps - but that's just me.

Everything else is way-more than I would ever need.

 

[GTR37]

Great write-ups ... really appreciate the honest good / bad etc... :)

On a personal level, I would like to see a few more EL84 -and- mid-gain-range rock amps - but that's just me.

Everything else is way-more than I would ever need.

Agreed something like
A Morgan , Two Rock
Toneking , Divided by 13
Would fill out the list

And of course a Bogner XTC 101b