Spaced Out Ace
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Until they soft pivot back quietly or raising the length of time or amount of money to transfer the license...
IK Multimedia Tonex Cab
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ragingplatypi
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Someone got a picture of the back of it….
Enchilada Jones
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Has there been any confirmation that this is even a legit 'new' product?
Maybe they just put some ToneX themed grill cloth on a pair of speaker cabs they were going to be using to make their NAMM presence look more impressive
I don't understand why they wouldn't be talking about it at NAMM if it is a new product.
Maybe they just put some ToneX themed grill cloth on a pair of speaker cabs they were going to be using to make their NAMM presence look more impressive
I don't understand why they wouldn't be talking about it at NAMM if it is a new product.
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Kemper had cabinets made just for presentation for years and users were asking about them, so they developed what they felt was the perfect system, and nothing to do with the original cabs that were never for sale.
ragingplatypi
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Yeah. I’d imagine they’re looking to see if obsessives like us would get more than 3 pages deep on a forum about it before they greenlight.
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Enchilada Jones
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Right now I’m using a pair of IK Micro Loud half of the time and bouncing back and forth between a Kemper Kab powered by a SD170 and the power amp in of a Katana Artist 100 MkII the other half of the time.
Keeping cab modeling on always with the IK Micros and with the Kemper and with Katana I usually have cab modeling off.
The Micros are really good but have that "FRFR" recorded kind of quality where the high range and low end are delivered as somewhat separated. Where as the Kab and Katana have that warmer and ‘singular’ sound source. Kab is best right now. Only thing that beats it for the ‘speaker-in-the-room‘ sound is a real guitar cab/speaker but that eliminates the variety that cab modeling delivers.
im really hoping someone can beat the Kemper Kab at delivering the modeled cab sim via a guitar-speaker driver. There is still a bit of room for improvement I think.
Keeping cab modeling on always with the IK Micros and with the Kemper and with Katana I usually have cab modeling off.
The Micros are really good but have that "FRFR" recorded kind of quality where the high range and low end are delivered as somewhat separated. Where as the Kab and Katana have that warmer and ‘singular’ sound source. Kab is best right now. Only thing that beats it for the ‘speaker-in-the-room‘ sound is a real guitar cab/speaker but that eliminates the variety that cab modeling delivers.
im really hoping someone can beat the Kemper Kab at delivering the modeled cab sim via a guitar-speaker driver. There is still a bit of room for improvement I think.
ragingplatypi
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Hmm. “Feeler” as in their marketing dept is putting out a feeler, or “feeler” as in everyone here gets way too emotional about gear. I’m okay with either :)
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So where we at with this thing? Rebranded Katana or something substantial? What do we know? I figure jackshit?
norminal
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Probably a guy standing nearby with a clipboard tracking how many NAMM goers asking when it’ll be available.
Sascha Franck
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So, running 4 digital devices in series is IK's idea of a great rig (let alone without any master MIDI controller or so...)?
Sascha Franck
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Their iLoud Micros are quite bad actually. Horrible port noise so you can't listen to any bass solo-ed. The MTMs are decent, though.
Boudoir Guitar
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Cab on a pole on a cab on a pole?!?Stacking two of these would look cool. So there's that
Ya know who I'm not remotely tempted to buy a speaker system from no matter how rave the reviews? A software company...
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I think (though I'm not certain) @Deadpan's point was that the IK graph was anything but a true response curve, unless IK has figured out a way to make that curve turn right angles at fixed intervals. (Which would be massively impressive - just not for this application LOL.)I’d rather see the true response of a speaker than something that has been smoothed.
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Ironically: the only way I would consider buying this cab is if there were no IKM software bundled.
ragingplatypi
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It would be beautifully ironic. Just like how acquiring the Eleven rack made someone millions of dollars in the sales of Alto speakers.Ironically: the only way I would consider buying this cab is if there were no IKM software bundled.
the-trooper
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TLDR: no cab.
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Looks like a Cherry Bakewell Tart.
lolainnb
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Take it back
