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Yes I do. I like to add color to my solos. Sometimes I use the volume knob, but usually I use a boost or OD for solos.
Sounds a little like me. When I gig it's usually blues or Americana and I don't tend to use a lot of overdrive or distortion. Just not appropriate.I'm not a proper "rock" player, really, being more of an Americana and fusion fan. Depending on which amp I'm going through, I tend to use either KOT or Cornish SS-3. I also have a bunch of others for alternative musical contexts (Nobels, Cornish CC-1, Red Dirt, Plumes etc).
When I'm practicing at lower levels, I use the pedals to get some extra texture into the equation. The more I turn up my main amps - Two Rock CRS V1 and Akoya; Boogie MkIIB Coli, IIC+ and MkIV - the less I need any pedals at all.
For my big Fenders, I use one of the KOTs (V2, V4). With Hiwatt amps I use the Cornish pedals a lot more.
I don't stack.
I have a Kemper and an FM9 but this thread was about pedals and I don't use pedals with those units.Yeah. They’re all in my Kemper and my Headrush.
I heard a great band from Grand Junction last summer and I think the guitarist had a Kemper running through the PA.I have a Kemper and an FM9 but this thread was about pedals and I don't use pedals with those units.![]()
I live close enough to Daytona that I go to the bike events there as well as in Leesburg. I see a lot of bands using Kempers. We saw a band earlier there this month that did a wide range of songs. The bass player was using a Kemper and the guitar player was using an Axe FX III. It is pretty common to see these units in those settings. Kemper is the one I see the most. It used to be Helix rack units second. I am starting to see more of the Axe FX units and a few less Helix units lately.I heard a great band from Grand Junction last summer and I think the guitarist had a Kemper running through the PA.
Neither he or the bass player had amps onstage.
They sounded terrific! They did some Hendrix, some Steely Dan, some SRV, some originals...
The guitarist's Hendrix tones blew me away. And they were all coming from a modeler into the PA.
We did have the best soundman in the area doing sound that day. Guy named Daniel B.
I never use it, but I have a Fender Mustang III modeling amp. Celestion 12" V (for Vintage?) Series speaker.
Cost about $400 new by the time I added the more deluxe footswitch. A steal for a killer little modeling amp.
It's a great little grab and go amp with every sound you can imagine.
Yes, me too.I typically run my amps clean and get dirt from pedals. My low to medium dirt is from a Rockett Blue Note. I'll often leave it on and roll my guitar volume to get "clean." My medium to high dirt is from Rockett The Dude. Sometimes I'll stack the Dude after the Blue Note but I have to be careful since I run the Dude fairly dirty, stacking them can get over the top. My amp is either a Allen Encore or a Magnatone Panoramic Stereo. If I want to do real high gain, I'll use my Boogie TC50 head into a Boogie 2x12. With that I use the amp's dirt with a bit of boost in front.
I have a Dude V1 pedal. That is such a nice pedal. I traded a Wampler Euphoria in on it. I hated that pedal. It didn't get along with my amps at all and I never got a tone from it that I liked.I typically run my amps clean and get dirt from pedals. My low to medium dirt is from a Rockett Blue Note. I'll often leave it on and roll my guitar volume to get "clean." My medium to high dirt is from Rockett The Dude. Sometimes I'll stack the Dude after the Blue Note but I have to be careful since I run the Dude fairly dirty, stacking them can get over the top. My amp is either a Allen Encore or a Magnatone Panoramic Stereo. If I want to do real high gain, I'll use my Boogie TC50 head into a Boogie 2x12. With that I use the amp's dirt with a bit of boost in front.
I have a Dude V1 pedal. That is such a nice pedal. I traded a Wampler Euphoria in on it. I hated that pedal. It didn't get along with my amps at all and I never got a tone from it that I liked.
That's the thing. I've been putting my board together for years and chose gear that sounded good with my blackface Fender amps.I have a Dude V1 pedal. That is such a nice pedal. I traded a Wampler Euphoria in on it. I hated that pedal. It didn't get along with my amps at all and I never got a tone from it that I liked.
The Hot Cake is kind of the one that got away for me. I wanted one and never got it. They are more money now than I am willing to pay for it. I have so many OD pedals to choose from that sound good that I just can't justify it.That's the thing. I've been putting my board together for years and chose gear that sounded good with my blackface Fender amps.
Thank goodness it also sounds great with my HDRX 20.
But I did add the Hot Cake overdrive to my board because it sounds so ridiculously good through the HDRX and a Celestion G12H30 speaker.
Nothing ever sounds exactly the way you imagine it will.The Hot Cake is kind of the one that got away for me. I wanted one and never got it. They are more money now than I am willing to pay for it. I have so many OD pedals to choose from that sound good that I just can't justify it.
I was looking at the Keely Red Dirt Germanium as well. I love the Red Dirt and have two of them. I just don't know that I am going to get something much different in the Germanium version. I have a good OCD and did buy the Germanium version of that. What is interesting on that one is that the Germanium version sounds quite a bit like my version of the OCD but is slightly brighter. There are so many versions of the OCD that I think any new variation on the circuit isn't going to sound a lot different. That experience has made me hesitant on buying the Keeley Germanium.
That was a huge release for the Kemper. That really took the drives to another level.