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Post by GuitarAttack Forum on Jan 27, 2023 13:42:30 GMT -6
All -- I love my tube amps, but I also love my Kemper Profiler. It makes recording and getting a consistent tone very easy, and you can get those big studio sounds with your home recording rig. I also love pedals. I always check out the JHS Pedals videos (The JHS Show) with the founder/owner Josh Scott. That company turns out some great pedals, and I have to say my favorite distortion right now is the JHS Bonsai. It is a Tube Screamer clone that is really, really cool. The videos are always well done, and it was recently disclosed that the audio portion was not done through and amp at all; rather, it came from a Kemper with a specific profile loaded. The amp profile is a Milkman "Loud is More Good" combo. I've had the opportunity to play through Milkman amps, and they always sounded great and had a really nice ability to take pedals. For example, even budget overdrives sounded good through the Milkman. I think it must have something to do with the preamp design, but I am pretty far behind on that. I downloaded the free profiles - you read it right: free - and loaded them up. I have to say they may be the best clean and naturally overdriven amp tones I've used. The free profile featuring the Milkman with an original Klon Centaur sounds incredible. If you have a Kemper, or are considering one, download the profiles. Highly recommended. Here is the URL: www.jhspedals.info/jhs-kemper-helixJohn |
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Post by dnic on Jan 29, 2023 9:20:22 GMT -6
I play mostly at church. I use a very small pedal board and go DI to the mixer. I never hear front of house. I get it all in ear buds. I've thought of putting a Sans Amp in line but would some kind of modeler be advisable. Without being able to hear FOH I wouldn't know if it is needed or if it was an improvement. Nothing is at at high volume.
Ideas?
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Post by GuitarAttack Forum on Jan 31, 2023 18:37:49 GMT -6
I play mostly at church. I use a very small pedal board and go DI to the mixer. I never hear front of house. I get it all in ear buds. I've thought of putting a Sans Amp in line but would some kind of modeler be advisable. Without being able to hear FOH I wouldn't know if it is needed or if it was an improvement. Nothing is at at high volume. Ideas? My favorite Line6 product is the original 2.0 POD...the red bean-shaped one. I think it sounds more like a real, processed amp than anything out there. The Line6 Go is very cool, too. You can find them all day at Guitar Center. I used Line6 gear when I play live, and it has always been reliable. There are so many options. I think you should just stick with what you are comfortable with until the keyboard player starts complaining! Lol. John |
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Post by dnic on Jan 31, 2023 19:19:51 GMT -6
I play mostly at church. I use a very small pedal board and go DI to the mixer. I never hear front of house. I get it all in ear buds. I've thought of putting a Sans Amp in line but would some kind of modeler be advisable. Without being able to hear FOH I wouldn't know if it is needed or if it was an improvement. Nothing is at at high volume. Ideas? My favorite Line6 product is the original 2.0 POD...the red bean-shaped one. I think it sounds more like a real, processed amp than anything out there. The Line6 Go is very cool, too. You can find them all day at Guitar Center. I used Line6 gear when I play live, and it has always been reliable. There are so many options. I think you should just stick with what you are comfortable with until the keyboard player starts complaining! Lol. John So you've met her? My keyboard player. Sounds about right. WE used to use amps on stage with wedge monitors and it was always a struggle. And of course yours truly was always to loud. I have the original kidney bean! I used to line out from that with head phones on but had a hard time hearing everyone else. That didn't last long. I'll have to pull that back out and play around with it. Thanks for the tip John! |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2023 8:28:22 GMT -6
I set up sound for many years. I was thought way back in the 70s by some of the pros of the day. I never had any feed back problems that I can remember.
I never had the problems that some people did when I set up sound. I find it odd that there are so many that run a sound board and have no idea what they are doing.
There was this one guy that fought it all the time. He never could get a good mix of the instruments, nor could he get people to sound good. I would try and help him out, but I got "I have been doing this for years" things. One time he was gone. I step in and did the sound. When he got back he and the people that owed the place could not believe how well the sound sounded.
But it didn't take long after that guy was back and sound was back the way it was before he left. Back to feed back and no balance in the music. We sounded like we were all in a can.
Now, I know that some think that the ear monitors are the best thing to ever come along. But for me, I feel that most of the live music I hear today has lost something. I see people struggling with being forced to play along with click tracks and some so-called music director calling out commands in their ears while playing music.
So in that, the music has lost it's sole. To me it's too much work. That to me is more work than playing live with stage monitors.
Now, the new Fender tone master amps do have a hook-up that has a cool feature that has settings to dial in a good sound for the PA. It even has a speaker shut off for those that just have to have a quite stage.
It has been said. If you're not having fun, then you are doing it wrong. I think that some of the fun of playing live has gone. I don't like the ear monitors. I want to hear all the surrounding music. Not being piped into my ears.
But I am old school. It is funny how some are returning to the old ways.
EB
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Post by antares on Feb 1, 2023 10:45:14 GMT -6
John you've caught me on the back foot with JHS and Josh Scott. I immediately associate JHS with Hornby Skewes and specifically John Hornby Skewes who founded the company www.jhs.co.uk/pages/about-usIn 1965 according to that website. Certainly I have been aware of JHS since I started out at the onset of the 1970s. I cannot see any JHS pedals listed on that website so clearly it is just a massive coincidence, but using the same corporate name seems odd within the fiercely protective commercial world. They claim to sell recorders all over the world and I suspect that includes America? As an example, the well known Kenwood name could not be used in the UK back.in the 1980s for consumer electronic equipment because there was already a Kenwood company over here selling food mixers and related culinary appliances. Good quality stuff it was too. Kenwood had to brand their radio stuff "Trio" to sell it in The UK. I think that Kenwood global came to some agreement with Kenwood UK (started by Ken Wood!) because we can buy Kenwood equipment nowadays. Which leaves us with the JHS conundrum. でつ e&oe ... |
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Post by dnic on Feb 1, 2023 19:23:49 GMT -6
I ran sound at a coffee house for 20 years here in Mt Shasta. Every Friday and Saturday night for about fifteen years and then just Saturdays for the rest of it. I can guarantee it stopped being fun at the end. Also set up and ran sound at our yearly outdoor festival for the first couple of years. After that we hired a sound crew to bring a bigger set up. Which was good for me because my band a I were usually on the bill and I was taking care of back stage stuff ut helped tp have the sound off my plate. I miss those days, I often sat in with other bands through the day and had a blast. Couldn't do it now it would be way to much work.
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Post by GuitarAttack Forum on Feb 2, 2023 8:34:24 GMT -6
I ran sound at a coffee house for 20 years here in Mt Shasta. Every Friday and Saturday night for about fifteen years and then just Saturdays for the rest of it. I can guarantee it stopped being fun at the end. Also set up and ran sound at our yearly outdoor festival for the first couple of years. After that we hired a sound crew to bring a bigger set up. Which was good for me because my band a I were usually on the bill and I was taking care of back stage stuff ut helped tp have the sound off my plate. I miss those days, I often sat in with other bands through the day and had a blast. Couldn't do it now it would be way to much work. All good points, Dane. The average music critic milling around at a show doesn't understand the work involved in setting-up the PA system, running it properly, and putting up with the "talent" and the bros in the audience giving the soundperson pointers. And I almost forgot - packing the whole circus up and driving home. I look back on the gigs I did back in the old days and think about the effort we went through to go somewhere and play for almost nothing. Trying to get the PA together and also play is always tough. Good observation and lesson learned. I've always said that I wouldn't do it again without a tech to help me. I always liked the look of someone handing the guitarist his guitar, picks, water bottles, and towels from the side of the "stage". Lol. John |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2023 9:23:39 GMT -6
I did it all too. It was and is a part of preforming. Not many can afford to have roadies, and many of us only had one guitar. Everyone in my bands all had a job to do. We could set up and tear down in no time.
A lot of times in the tear down, there was always someone willing to help. I would meet some cool people during tear down. The only thing was unloading and loading. LOL!
I would give anything to do it all over gain. You know, that old saying... You don't know how good you had it, until it's gone... I miss them days. Even putting up with people with big egos.
Some of the ones with the biggest egos were keyboard players. LOL! Right next to lead singers. They more times than not had to be the loudest on stage.
I had problems with people running the sound board and making the keyboard so loud that they were the only instruments you could hear. They would bury the guitar to the point you could not hear them at all.
I told this story before, but I'll tell it again. I was a little late getting to a gig. The band was already going through the set of songs when I got there. My amp was already set up on stage. I went up on stage and was tuning my guitar. It was not even plugged into the amp.
The sound tech came up to me and told me I would have to turn down, I was playing too loud. While she was telling me this, I had the cable in my hand and was twirling it round in front of her. I told her "I don't know what you heard, but it wasn't me" This person had a problem with electric guitar players. She saw my guitar and all of a sudden I was too loud.
I have encountered that more than once over the years. I was never told I was too loud when I played my acoustics. Hum...
But yes, I would give anything to be able to play music again with others. No matter how much work it is. I played a lot of times for no money. Didn't get anything at all. What is funny about playing for free was those were the ones that gave me the most grief over how loud things were. I told one guy one time I can pack up and go home. Because he was so demanding in all aspects of it.
But again, it's all a part of the music world. We have to put up with a lot for the love of music. Not everything works out the way it should. But when it does, it is awesome!
EB
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Post by GuitarAttack Forum on Feb 12, 2023 9:41:45 GMT -6
I am going to profile my TubeWorks rig and see what that sounds like.
I haven't seen a profile of that gear even though it sounds great to me.
Maybe after the Super Bowl! lol
John
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Post by antares on Feb 12, 2023 16:52:01 GMT -6
You're playing The SuperBowl? Cool John!
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Post by GuitarAttack Forum on Feb 12, 2023 20:21:27 GMT -6
You're playing The SuperBowl? Cool John! ;<D でつ e&oe ...I watched the halftime show from the comfort of my sofa! Not what I was expecting. John |
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Post by GuitarAttack Forum on Mar 15, 2023 13:03:09 GMT -6
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Post by dnic on Mar 15, 2023 18:31:27 GMT -6
Sounds very good to me!
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Post by antares on Mar 16, 2023 4:06:31 GMT -6
That only goes to reinforce my long held opinion about pedal hype generally. Digitech kit always seemed to feel extraordinarily well constructed to me and I have always been satisfied with the sound(s). I have an Nth generation Whammy here, and a reverb from Digitech too. I may have a third but I'm embarrassed to admit that it's so long since I opened my pedal board (a repurposed guitar case stood on its side behind the bed/sofa) that I cannot remember!
What's ironic is that a video intended as a devil's advocate is misinterpreted by folks missing the point, so the resultant clamour just pushes the price up yet again, with Digitech naturally biding their time for the right moment to reissue, and THEN the "Old Vs New" feldgarbe" kicks off again.
"Oh still small voice of calm"
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