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What's the speaker/cab?
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What's the speaker/cab?
But you can do that because you have the experience of how you know what it to respond to your playing. other people may not know that so will go in an endless circle of tweaking which is my point.
mercifulfuzziness
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Just keep hacking away.
We fuss a lot about tone but in reality it's the playing part and/or song that matters even more.
Haha every time I am on the brick of buying some new gear, I hear some player and it discourages to buy anything other than guitar lessons.
Look at that Sayce video. My god. If it’s good enough for him, a modeler (helix, neural cortex or fractal) is def good enough for me.
Same with guitars. Apparently there are people touring with the Player Strat
Better the playing and trust your ears.
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That's honestly good! You have more than good enough gear for anything, and any extras are wants rather than needs.
Sascha Franck
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And please screenshot your settings if you don’t mind.
I posted the entire patch already (IR included, apparently it's been the brighter one - but as there's the stock cab as well, I don't know which one I used for the recording):
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maybe I’m just wildly impatient but that’s not how it worked for me. Because the point was to actually record something; sometimes with people expecting me to actually do that so they could hear (or even occasionally use!) what I was recording. And so at some point I just determined “well, that’s as good as it’s gonna get” and moved on. No endless circling, just years of guitar sounds that likely could have been better with more knowledge/time/perspective.
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A wild mix. See this post and you might get an idea of what kinda things I did:
The Digital Doubt
Except it’s actually nothing like that. It's every bit like that. I have slapped together a bunch of IRs that I usually enjoy more than any cab I owned. Just that it's not working for you (are you even playing live?) doesn't mean anything.
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I like the Kemper, but I'm just not a profiling person for various reasons. You make a valid point regardless.
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Sayce is the brand, the chef. The gear are just his ingredients in that moment. He knows how to cook a nice dish with whatever he's got because he trusts his skills.Look at that Sayce video. My god. If it’s good enough for him, a modeler (helix, neural cortex or fractal) is def good enough for me.
Same with guitars. Apparently there are people touring with the Player Strat
Better the playing and trust your ears.
I'm hungry now.
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Yeah, I can’t go back to the Kemper, but aside from the profile aspect of it, it’s UI with hardware button access to every block, ability to lock everything but the amp block, etc., are all things I’m still wildly jealous of.
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Oh ok, that's cool.A wild mix. See this post and you might get an idea of what kinda things I did:
The Digital Doubt
Except it’s actually nothing like that. It's every bit like that. I have slapped together a bunch of IRs that I usually enjoy more than any cab I owned. Just that it's not working for you (are you even playing live?) doesn't mean anything.
Sounds like the process worked out good for you.
Not sure I will go down that road myself, although it intrigues me.
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It's actually not *that* tough once you have a good handful of "ballpark" IRs. Set up some of them parallely, so you can easily mix them, look for the "best" frequency performance in each of them (some may have nice mids but boomy lows or highs perceived as phase-y, whatever), EQ them so the nice portions stand out, then mix and match. Then use some Match EQ for the final tweaks.
I actually happened to like the process because it taught me a whole lot.
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Sascha Franck
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But are you able to play “happy birthday”?
Which version do you want? In which key?
mercifulfuzziness
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kidding
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I mean, it's a nearly thousand dollar guitar. With a good setup, I don't see how it would slow anyone down.Same with guitars. Apparently there are people touring with the Player Strat
mercifulfuzziness
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Okay but but but a 3000 guitar should be way way better, right ?
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If that's what makes you happy. I think there are obvious diminishing returns after a certain point.
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It’s two pieces of pretty commonly available wood bolted together. They’re not harvesting some rare species of spruce in the middle of a winter night under a full moon in 5’ of snow 3000’ up the side of a mountain. A good nitrocellulose finish is time consuming and expensive and looks the business, but doesn’t alter the tone in any way that would make a difference.
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Definitely not always the case.
Too many variables involved but mainly individual player preferences. A $20K Fender Custom Shop with a 7.25” radius is useless to me because I hate that radius size, my $1200 partscaster with a 12” radius is “better” for me.
There’s also the fact that no builder is going to dump hours into building a guitar then realize when they attach the neck and body that it sounds like shit and scrap it, they’re going to sell it regardless and more to the point, someone might pick it up and find it to be the best sounding guitar they’ve ever played.
Hell, you can even pick all your own specs out and get the exact guitar you want from a custom builder, only to get it and it sounds like a tub of shit because it’s just inherently not a good sounding guitar even if the specs are on point.
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