JD01 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2019 8:12 am
Armi, you'll probably find it less hassle to flog the wanky city centre penthouse and move to the country and buy a nice loud real amp.
LOL - it ain't a penthouse, trust me. And that's actually the exact medium term plan. More like beach than country though. Or halfway between. 3 years max, I hope.
But for now it's the Kemper.
Upgrading Windows seems to have solved the issue, PTL. And I've just deleted 200+ profiles to make room for my new simpler set up, which will now have to wait until after Easter, probably.
I'm actually trying to make it a simple amp box. I turn it on, I don't need to hook it up to a computer to use it, and I can simply pick from a small number of carefully selected profiles which I can find easily, depending upon which guitar I'm playing and which sound I want. Most of them already exist, I just haven't saved them anywhere - but I have written them down in various song files in Reaper.
And then I can ignore the rest of the stuff on it I don't actually need.
It's mainly a filing exercise now - gather up the tones I need and put them somewhere I can find them. I just hate filing and admin, so I haven't done it yet, but in the end the complexity of the box is forcing me to - it's like a multi-effect on steroids - you'd hate it.
But there are definitely noisy amps in my future, don't worry.
I have amps now - just a bit hard to use them here.
I used to use the spare bedroom and shut it up as tightly as I could so I could generate a decent volume - run the mic and guitar leads under the door and sit by the studio desk and play from there, but it was never loud enough to get really good sounds - apart from cleans. And I just can't do it at night. Even getting mild breakup always ended up a little fizzy from my big (30W) amp, so I bought a small (4W) amp - better but very one dimensional. So I bought the Kemper.
