EBS_freak

I kinda get the, "I own the vintage amp" - but they tend to be unreliable as they age... and for some amps, things like the original transformers and certain other components are hard to source and replace like for like. They'd be better doing their thing in the studio without having to suffer the ordeal of having a touring life. As for Angus' hearing... well, if I was a betting man... I would put money on him not having a clean sheet when it came to passing an audio test. Having said that, I do recall him being really particular about using a vintage wireless due to the impact that it had on his tone. Hang on... Yes, the Schaffer wireless. And check here - https://solodallas.com/the-schaffer-replica - somebody makes a pedal to impact the tone in the same way as the wireless system. Anyway... to the Kemper... You can do better than that. When you profile, you profile the sum of the x number of amps. That will give you one profile that models the sum of those x number of amps. The only reasons for having two Kempers would be for redundancy. Then if he wants stage sound, it would be PA cabs housed in a Marshall cab... with a SM57 with a cable plugged into it just to keep the charade going. Of course, it could be all nonsense... I mean, take Steve Winwood, somebody who has considerable hearing loss and what he has to say about his Kemper. "Kemper has revolutionized my thinking on guitar amplification. The sounds are completely true to life, matching faultlessly the models they are profiling, and unlike other amplifiers it is not subject to mic placement or level. A phenomenal achievement!" - is that a strong endorsement? Its not far from asking Stevie Wonder what he thinks of the new paintjob on his piano.

I’d just profile the overly hot biased amp and run a Kemper with some clean poweramps. I could put my feet up then and not have to worry about the nonsense of switching amps in and out. ”Yeah Angus, you’re good to go” How can Angus tell the difference anyway? If that’s how he runs his back line, he’s borderline deaf anyway.

Here's some more modern day lovers of backline....

Nobody mentioned the sidefills yet...

Yeah brilliant!! https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/hear-brian-johnson-talk-hearing-loss-ive-had-a-pretty-good-run-175587/ “I was getting worried because my right ear is my good ear,” Johnson said. “My left ear is just about totally deaf. And when we got there, that’s when Dr. Chang found out that the fluids had crystalized and had been eating away at my ear. So my good ear, I lost – I don’t know what percentage but it was enough to make things very difficult. So they worked on me.”

If your measure of cool is Nicky Wire... then yeah... cool.

Incidentally, I'm surprised that nobody has commented on the cut of the tee. It's a bit Al Murray isn't it?

I think the best tee shirt would be along the lines of the word "compressor" in the vulf font. Job done. Those in the know, know.

Cheers Stevie - yeah - will work out something on the bass front. Kinda hard as Scott seems to have a load covered... but I’m sure I can find a gap! Ill get some interesting gear stuff up too - something to address some of the common points that are asked all the time!

Thanks - glad you got something out of it. We will get some more ideas down and hopefully get something for everybody - but thanks for the feedback :-)

Ah brilliant. Thanks for the info - the breakdown is something that we already thought of. Think we are going to go into further depth as you suggest. We always knew that this wasn’t the beginner piece but wanted to pitch the first one as something that would get people interested. Great though - will get some ideas into the melting pot!

Not much love then eh?!

Indeed - although somewhat more lo tech than the DSP solutions with their seemingly infinite things to configure and twiddle. Mind you, as is often the case, the less to mess with, the better. Incidentally - I'm going to have to read back into the Red Box stuff. I used to play in a band where the guitarist used a Red Box and I seem to recall that it's meant emulate the sound of a cab rather than a miced cab. But then again, I may be mistaken. To be honest, either is viable - and if people want the sound of their cab, then yeah, the Red Box is perfect for the job.

Validation. *phew*

Seriously now... I can understand wearing a Vulf tee... but a Joe Dart tee? That's some niche uber bass geekery. I can picture it now. "Hey, nice tee. Who's Joe Dart?" "A bass player." "Riiiggghhhht."

One of the original dinosaurs. RIP.

Don't start 😜

Those speaker logos though. Still... at least no overhang.

Ah yes, the interchangeable fuzzy felt - in case you felt like changing brands.

Joe Bonamassa?

Doyouthinkheheardus more like!

Rumour has it, that they've stumbled upon this thread and are no commissioning a set of Bonamassa earplugs for the unlucky people in the audience. Basically, a bit of amber with a mosquito in them.

You just have a traditional cab carcass and stick your 745 into it!

Forgot to comment on this earlier - Two Notes have pretty much got this market nailed. If you still want to lug around that heavy valve amp, you still have options of running it silently - with their load boxes and speaker modelling tech. It's all very, very smart - and very convincing. Again, in a live situation, you would not be able to tell.

And is it still love?