What tuning and string gauges are you using with that guitar ?
Standard Bass VI tuning, EADGBE. The string gauges are 102-76-57-43-33-24.
Posts by indravayu
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Would be nice to hear a clip of just the bass on it's own too, as well as it sitting in a mix!
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Which track? There are four Bass VI parts.
The tracks don't sound that special when solo'd, because I did a lot of highpass and lowpass filtering (and other EQing) to get them all to sit properly in the mix.
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Here's a new instrumental that I am working on called "Sirona". All the guitar/bass parts were played on my Fender Bass VI running through a Kemper and the Amp Factory's free Ampeg B15 bass profiles:
Soundcloud: Sirona - Bass VI - Kemper -
Great job - sounds very close!
Thanks! Of course, your excellent profile made it possible!
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Thanks for listening, folks, and for the kind words!
Nevermind, after looking it up, I see that it was a Transonic on the main riff and the Marshall on the solo.
Yeah, I have seen this on the Web, too. Page said in an old interview that he used the LP and Marshall for the solo (which was recorded in a different studio from the rhythm tracks) and Dan Torres says that he was present for one of the Heartbreaker sessions and saw Page using a Transonic for the rhythm parts. I am going to have to listen to the isolated guitar parts again - to my ears, the tone on the rhythm track that I used (I think there is another rhythm track, in addition to the solo track) sounded really close to Soundside's Plexi profile, so I could swear it was a Marshall. Perhaps the other rhythm track (if I am not imagining things - will check when I get home later) is the Transonic? Trying to figure out Page's studio gear can be really difficult!
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So, a couple weeks ago I downloaded Soundside.de's excellent JMP 1959 HW profile and last night I decided to try a little tone test, matching my skills against the great Jimmy Page (who was, I believe, using a Plexi on the tune I chose). Here is the result - Jimmy's on the left (I think he used his '59 Les Paul on this) and I am on the right (2000 Gibson Custom Shop SG). Jimmy's guitar track was taken from one of those isolated guitar tracks floating around the web (taken from one of the guitar player video games, I believe).
My chain was
Kemper w/Soundside.de JMP 1959 HW profile
Daking MicPre One
ART Pro VLA
Ross Martin PCM 4222 ADC
RME AIO HDSPe
Cakewalk Sonar X3
Slate VCC
UAD 1176, EMT 140, API 560, Ampex, Pultec HPF/LPFHow'd I do?
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Armin, your JMP 1959 HW profile is currently my favorite Kemper profile - really fantastic job on that!
I would love to hear what you could do with some vintage Magnatone amps.
Also, please consider some more bass profiles - it would be awesome to have a top notch Ampeg SVT profile, or maybe an Orange AD200 (recorded with something like an AKG D20)!
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Wow. Have you ever created anything in your life? Let's say you were an author and wrote an awesome novel that people all around the world wanted to buy and read - would you be cool with me copying the entire thing, putting my name on the cover, and then selling it myself? I mean, you'd just have to adapt, right?!
LOL.
Personally I am opposed to all IP law, but I respect everyone involved in creating IP. I surely won't be pirating profiles (especially ones I actually would purchase) because I want to incentivize those profile authors to make more. Also, I don't want to get sued or go to jail.
However, in the absence of IP laws, that doesn't mean profile authors can't make money - they just have to adapt. They might try to raise funds in advance of a particular release, distribute their wares with ads, or even get Kemper to change the software to force commercial profiles to be serial numbered and registered.
As for copying amps, the KPA does not copy amps. It merely emulates the sonic signature of an entire rig at particular settings/environment. That's a big difference. However, even if the KPA completely copied amps, I would support it. It's a better paradigm in my mind - cheaper, more versatile, lighter, smaller, less maintenance. If the amp manufacturers go the way of the horse and buggy industries, so be it. I'm happy with automobiles and KPA's!!!! I don't owe Marshall anything if I want my KPA to make a Marshall sound. I would never buy a Marshall amp, given their prices.
IP law is always lauded for encouraging innovation. But does it really? Where's the proof? You can be theoretical and say well it creates __ incentive. Well, what about all the cases where IP law stifles innovation? There's clearly plenty. There is no academic study that gives any good estimate of the costs and benefits. I suggest reading Against Intellectual Monopoly, and Against Intellectual Property. Both can be found for free on the web. One is a utilitarian and the other a property-rights theoretical view of IP.
The idea that unlawfully gaining access to IP is exactly the same as theft is ridiculous. It's the same thing as "stealing" jobs. In other words, let's impede all technological progress because it might have negative outcomes for existing players.
