All Things Amplifier Are Ordained In The Good Book - Of Tone!

[Deleted member 5962]

“Brother Matthews fetch the Holy Kemper Amp!”

“The Holy Kemper Amp of Antioch?”

“Get thee behind me, satan!”

 

[Wyzard]

Did someone put something in the water over there?

 

[dmatthews]

Did someone put something in the water over there?

Kool-Aid...
And it was good.

 

[Wyzard]

Weirdos, all of you.

Me, I'm perfectly normal.......

 

[László]

Weirdos, all of you.

I prefer the term, 'Tone Mystics'.

Because....well...just because.

 

[László]

"Well Les, what does a Tone Mystic do to honor the great gods of tone?"

"We chant."

"What's the chant?"

"We chant: 'Ohm'."

 

[Moondog Wily]

"Well Les, what does a Tone Mystic do to honor the great gods of tone?"

"We chant."

"What's the chant?"

"We chant: 'Ohm'."

Sounds like resistance!

 

[aamefford]

Can’t find it in the emoji bank, so “facepalm.” Very entertaining mind you, but…

 

[László]

Can’t find it in the emoji bank, so “facepalm.” Very entertaining mind you, but…

It's all about the entertainment, Bubbe. All about the entertainment.

 

[aamefford]

It's all about the entertainment, Bubbe. All about the entertainment.

I’d like that more than once if I could. Hanging here is a lot of fun.

 

[Toolmaster Of Brainerd]

Far be it from me to proselytize about setting up the crunch tone on a single channel tube amp with the guitar volume about halfway up, and using that control to turn down for the glories of the cleans and turn it up for the dirties! It is not for me to say!

Let us consult the Good Book of Tone, brothers and sisters! Open your Good Books to Page 1.

We read together:

In the beginning, the great gods of tone created the electric guitar. Now the tone of the guitar was formless and void, darkness was over the surface of the strings, and the spirit of teen was hovering over the guitar controls.

And the great gods of tone said, "Let there be amplifiers," and there were single channel amplifiers. The great gods of tone heard that the tones were good, and separated the undistorted from the distorted tones. The great gods of music called the light tones “cleans,” and the dark tones they called “dirty.” And there were evening concerts, and there were morning concerts—the first day of Woodstock.

And the great gods of tone said, “Let the tones under the fingers be gathered to one amplifier, and let guitar volume controls appear.” And it was so. The great gods of tone called the amplifier sound controlled by the guitar controls “good tone,” and they gathered tone shaping accessories they called “pedals” and they ran the pedals into the front of the amps. And the great gods of tone heard that it was good tone.

Then the great gods of tone said, “I give you every fuzz and tape delay tone on the face of the whole earth and every tone that has modulation in it. They will be yours for rock and roil, yea, even prog fusion and heavy metal." And it was so.

The great gods of tone saw all that they had made, and they dug it. And there was rocking, and there was rolling.

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For today's contemplation, please turn to page 823, and we read silently:

This is what Lesisaiah said concerning good tone:

“Come, let us go up to the museum of the Tone,
to the amplifier of the Tone of Jimi.
Jimi will teach us his ways,
so that we may play in his paths.”
The Tone will go out from Woodstock,
the tone of Jimi from Stevensville.
The great gods of tone will decide between the amplifiers
and will settle disputes for many players.
Players will turn their guitar volume controls into color controls
and their two-channel amps into door stops.
Players will not take up modeling amps,
nor will they train for jazz anymore."

We can skip the sermon today, brothers and sisters, let us watch football instead!!

You had me until "turn their two channel amps into door stops"

Nope nope nope. I can't.

 

[Black Plaid]

He is a man of consonant sorrow.

I forgot how dang good that was.

 

[László]

You had me until "turn their two channel amps into door stops"

Nope nope nope. I can't.

You had me until "turn their two channel amps into door stops"

Nope nope nope. I can't.

I just threw that in because I couldn't think of anything else to parallel 'beat their swords into plowshares'. No worries! I still have a Mesa Lone Star, which is a two channel amp, though I got it because my son was touring with one, and I liked the way he sounded onstage. I figured maybe he'd come visit every so often if I had one!

 

[Gtrbldr]

There is no amp like digital and Kemper is its prophet

 

[Wyzard]

"Cast off the shoes! Follow the Gourd!"

 

[Gtrbldr]

There is no amp like digital and Kemper is its prophet

@toolmaster, I play with profiles I made myself with my own amp ;-), so not too sad. For my that is miles above the convenience and sound of my amp for live use

 

[Simon Says]

Crickey, I'm not very religious but I do cherish my amp

 

[László]

There is no digital like a tube amp, but Kemper is reaping a profit..

Fixed it.

One can buy a pair of shoes made entirely of simulated leather. A shopper can get several pairs of these plastic shoes for the price of a single pair of high quality leather shoes. The plastic shoes require no polishing. Wipe 'em clean with a damp rag. They look perhaps 90% like real leather shoes. They certainly operate as shoes, and goodness knows they're easy on the wallet.

Lots of folks will walk around in those ersatz leather shoes, and say, and believe, that they're indistinguishable from real leather shoes. Some will go further and say that people who still buy leather shoes are fools or dinosaurs.

A few people will notice that they're not leather. Most won't notice the difference.

One can also buy a Dacron-blend suit that looks very similar to wool and costs a tenth the price of a good wool suit.

Far be it from me to tell the plastic shoe or Dacron suit believer that they're somehow making the wrong choice. These things are personal!

 

[dmatthews]

Meh...
A HDRX amp is a clone of "one of" Hendrix' amps. Sounds completely tasty.
It's still a clone though.
Does it therefore matter how it is cloned?
(Runs and hides).

 

[Gtrbldr]

Haha, i really ruffled some feathers huh (btw typing this with my 2 cockatiels fighting over real estate on my shoulders).

Matter of convenience and jokes. And yes, the kemper is no real amp, but sounds purty good (well enough) in a busy mix