Posts by crf3rd

Quote from Chris Duncan

This will probably sound a bit strange to many, but I've lately taken to buying refurbished Dell precision T3500 Workstation Windows 7 boxes off of Amazon. For around $250 I get around a 2.5 Ghz Xeon chip & 12 gigs of memory. The box only supports 24 gigs, so I max the memory, throw in a better video card (particularly if it's a video editing box) and for around 500 - 600 bucks have a workhorse full desktop that's easily upgradeable.

My studio is running one now (with another hot swap spare sitting in the wings since they're so cheap). Haven't had any reliability issues from it being a refurb. For the classic rock oriented studio stuff I do (Cubase Pro), I'm not running 500 track sessions, so I can load SSL strips on every channel plus all the other plugins I need, and it's never squeaked once.

Full disclosure, I'm a professional geek, so I'm comfortable with this sort of thing. That said, if you're okay with replacing some swap out components, this concept is certainly high in the bang for the buck category.

Thank you, Chris. That's pretty resourceful and if I were a bit more proficient in that area I'd really consider it but now I think I'm looking for something out of the box.

Hi All,

Looking at getting a desktop computer for recording. I currently have a MacBook Pro 2016. I don't think I want to spend the money on a Mac, I'm thinking of switching to PC.

Any recs for best bang for buck?

What about this? https://www.amazon.com/dp/B077JDVBR3/…lv_ov_lig_dp_it

Quote from waraba

wow , killer , the Gretsch& it's player are the main factor in the tone , you won't get that out any other non hollow or at least semi hollow guitar.

Profile could be a dumble or a steel string singer , boutique stuff , an amp of that class.

I hear Dumble-ish for sure.

I bought a Kemper a few months ago, started with the Friedman ASM 12, then tried the Line 6 Powercab. Decided I just can't with the FRFR, so I got a Mesa Widebody Closed Back cabinet and that did the trick.

I have to really tweak the profiles to get them close to the profiled sound and some profiles just don't get there, but it's much more amp in the room feeling. An open back cab would probably be better but since people are going to hear the FOH sound, I'm not too worried about it.

No, didn't go to Coventry. Only show I saw that year was Hampton, which had its moments but mostly awful.

I'm probably in the minority, but I really like where Phish is right now. Those Allman-ish peaky major key jams are what I really go for these days. I was at Hampton and that Simple was exactly what I'm looking for. Actually the Carini from 2013 Hampton was amazing too. Ghost tends to deliver on those types of jams as well.

I can get close to Trey's tone in my tube amp rig. I use an AnalogMan CompRosser and a DRRI. I ditched my two Tube Screamers for an AnalogMan KoT but it hasn't made that much difference.

I haven't even tried with the Kemper but I'm a new user.

Quote from Calaban

I was fortunate to grow up in New England and got to witness Phish go from bar/college band to legendary status. Trey’s tone evolved quite a bit during that time, and it is still changing to this day. I’m not as in love with his tone as I used to be, but he still sounds great. When I first saw them his tone was still quite raw and unrefined. And he played LOUD. He had no effects at all except for a little reverb that he would sometimes crank during the jam in Reba and get really spacey.

Here’s a link to my first show. It’s not the best Phish show....they still hadn’t quite dialed it in yet, but it blew my mind at the time. I had never heard or seen anything like it. The whole band sounds pretty raw, and apparently they blew one of the PA speakers during the first set which Paul Languedoc fixed at set break.

http://phishtracks.com/shows/1989-11-02

I have been seeing them ever since....just went to 3 shows in Denver last August.

Nice. I prefer his tone from 98-2000. I'm okay with it now, but like you not in love with it. That '89 recording still has the base tone that you hear really up until 2009. I wish he would go back to the Deluxe Reverb and crank up that Ross a bit more.

Quote from 808illest

DXR's, EV's, Atomic, Headrush... to name a few, depending on your budget!

The budget is not QSC level unfortunately. I imagine that $400-500 is where we are looking. I'll check them out!

Hi All, we are going to add powered speakers to our PA system. I know the QSC's are great, any other recs that sound good with the Kemper?

Quote from Calaban

Yes it was really close. Definitely has a lot to do with his touch.

But he was also using this guitar which has a sustainer pickup in the neck position.

https://www.fender.com/pages/electric…er-stratocaster

Interesting, had no idea. Thanks for the info!

Just found this thread. I'm a big fan of Trey's. Key to Trey's tone is his fingers (obvious) and that Languedoc. But I realized how much it's his fingers when they played this Halloween and he used a Strat. Basically the same tone with a radically different guitar. Unbelievable.

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Gracias!!

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I've got some killer Pink Floyd & U2 performances from Fremen!

Where do you get these?

Thanks for asking this question, was wondering the same. Also, thanks for good responses.

lol

Quote from kriswylde

Has anyone actually put a real Cab with the speakers profiled side by side ?

How close does the Vintage 30 or Greenback emulationws compare to a real one in a side by side comparison.

haven't found one clip of the sort

Check out this video. They are impressed with the speaker models. I have not done it side by side myself.

Yes, it's powered. I need to buy a guitar cab.

Thanks guys for the help and advice. As long as what I hear inspires me I'll be fine. I just want to get as close to what I hear aimed toward the crowd.

I welcome any other advice on running to FOH!

I've yet to to play the Kemper live, but I did run my Kemper through a powered mixer that I have at home. The sounds was just ok.

There will be some gigs where the PA is provided for us, so I am trying to prepare for gigging with pretty much any PA.

Any advice? Is the live setup with an unknown PA going to require a lot of tweaking pre show? Any tips/tricks?

Looks like there were some bad files, per Rig Manager.