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Unfortunately I'm just not finding the amp I can bond with. This has been incredibly frustrating.....
I Can Help With Suggestions If You Like. Let Me Know What You Are After, Like/Dislike In An Amp And Have Tried Already, Etc And I Can Possibly Turn You On To Something You May Not Have Tried Or Know About? Worth A Shot!Unfortunately I'm just not finding the amp I can bond with. This has been incredibly frustrating.....
My biggest problem is living in SE Iowa.....not many great amps to try out.I Can Help With Suggestions If You Like. Let Me Know What You Are After, Like/Dislike In An Amp And Have Tried Already, Etc And I Can Possibly Turn You On To Something You May Not Have Tried Or Know About? Worth A Shot!
I Hear Ya On The Try Out Thing And No Availability. If You really Like Grissom Tones, Just Grab A Grissom Amp. Seems Like A Safe Purchase In This Instance. I Know I Am Not Telling You Anything You Don't Already Know Here. :/My biggest problem is living in SE Iowa.....not many great amps to try out.
I want to play a DG30.......I love Grissom tones.
They are pricey and with my luck I'd hate to buy then sell a few months down the road.I Hear Ya On The Try Out Thing And No Availability. If You really Like Grissom Tones, Just Grab A Grissom Amp. Seems Like A Safe Purchase In This Instance. I Know I Am Not Telling You Anything You Don't Already Know Here. :/
I bought a studio plexi, the 5/20 watt head. I really thought that would do it.......I sold it today for a little bit more than I paid for it and I'm contemplating selling the studio jcm800 head as well.I Hear Ya On The Try Out Thing And No Availability. If You really Like Grissom Tones, Just Grab A Grissom Amp. Seems Like A Safe Purchase In This Instance. I Know I Am Not Telling You Anything You Don't Already Know Here. :/
I Am Sorry To Heat That ( No Pun Intended )They are pricey and with my luck I'd hate to buy then sell a few months down the road.
I don't have a problem buying one if I knew it would be a keeper.
I'm beginning to think my hearing is my worst enemy. I have tinnitus pretty bad.........I have to use my TV with sleep timer at night or I can't fall asleep.
Seriously sucks.
I need to take a few days off and go see Dave's in LaCrosse Wisconsin.I Am Sorry To Heat That ( No Pun Intended )
I Wonder If You Could Find One In Store With A Good Return Policy And Go That Route o See If You Can Work With It. I Can't Imagine You Getting One And Taking A Bath On It If You Did Have To Sell It...Although I Agree Doing That Song And Dance Is Not Anybody's First Choice For A Good Time.
I Found This For You...30 Day Return Policy.They are pricey and with my luck I'd hate to buy then sell a few months down the road.
I don't have a problem buying one if I knew it would be a keeper.
I'm beginning to think my hearing is my worst enemy. I have tinnitus pretty bad.........I have to use my TV with sleep timer at night or I can't fall asleep.
Seriously sucks.
You Know I Am An Amp Junkie But I Have Nothing But Love For My Kemper's. I Am Incredibly Happy With Them. They Recently Went Down In Price And Have The liquid Profiling Thing Going Now In Addition To Always Having Incredible Free Updates And Support. The Factory Profiles That Come With It Are Incredible And There Are Some Amazing Profiles Available Out There As Well. It Might Be A Great Solution For You.It has been suggested that I get a Kemper. That is probably a good piece of advice but I tend to keep an amp I like for a long while and I don't want to obsolete myself out of a functioning rig.
If I may throw my unwarranted two cents into the pot, I was briefly a Kemper PowerRack user a few years ago and I stupidly went off the deep end by selling most of my tube amps including my beloved Dual Rectifier Roadster, thinking that "THIS IS THE FUTURE! WHO NEEDS TO LUG AROUND A BUNCH OF BACK BREAKING AMPS! THIS IS AMAZING!" And it was an exciting thing to have all these sounds at my fingertips with pristine sounding effects, so many possibilities! Very good for recording and having the consistency of the same tones from stage to stage. But after the honeymoon period started to wear off, I found that I was missing the feel of my old tube amps. I wasn't feeling my a$$ vibrate onstage and it just felt cold and one dimensional. My playing didn't have the same character it once had and after awhile, every new profile I loaded into the machine started sounding identical with one another to the point where I couldn't even tell a Dual Rectifier profile from a Driftwood Purple Nightmare. So long story short, I ended up selling it and now all I have left is my old battle damaged Peavey 6505+ 112 (converted to a head from a combo), MT15 and recently acquired Revv G20. As musicians, we will always be searching for that new sound and purchasing new gear to help us achieve that never-ending quest but the reality of it all is that, unless have the financial means to sustain our sonic pursuits, we will never really find it so we should just take what we have and make it sound the absolute best that we can. Tom Morello resigned himself to this mode of thought early on at the start of his Rage Against The Machine days and to this day, he's still using the same custom made "Arm The Homeless" guitar, Marshall 50 watter, Peavey cab and pedalboard. In my case, my 6505 is one of the most user-unfriendly amps out there. It makes scratchy noises when I fiddle with the knobs, the clean channel is anything but and it is one of the ugliest things (besides me) that ever graced a stage but that dirty channel produces once of the heaviest tones I've ever heard and my butt feels those vibrations which inspires me to keep playing which my now former Kemper failed to do. I guess the whole point of this long winded babble is that sometimes all you really need is right in front of you and while it may seem like a turd, if you polish it enough, it just might turn into a diamond.It has been suggested that I get a Kemper. That is probably a good piece of advice but I tend to keep an amp I like for a long while and I don't want to obsolete myself out of a functioning rig.
You've described exactly how I hear modelers.If I may throw my unwarranted two cents into the pot, I was briefly a Kemper PowerRack user a few years ago and I stupidly went off the deep end by selling most of my tube amps including my beloved Dual Rectifier Roadster, thinking that "THIS IS THE FUTURE! WHO NEEDS TO LUG AROUND A BUNCH OF BACK BREAKING AMPS! THIS IS AMAZING!" And it was an exciting thing to have all these sounds at my fingertips with pristine sounding effects, so many possibilities! Very good for recording and having the consistency of the same tones from stage to stage. But after the honeymoon period started to wear off, I found that I was missing the feel of my old tube amps. I wasn't feeling my a$$ vibrate onstage and it just felt cold and one dimensional. My playing didn't have the same character it once had and after awhile, every new profile I loaded into the machine started sounding identical with one another to the point where I couldn't even tell a Dual Rectifier profile from a Driftwood Purple Nightmare. So long story short, I ended up selling it and now all I have left is my old battle damaged Peavey 6505+ 112 (converted to a head from a combo), MT15 and recently acquired Revv G20. As musicians, we will always be searching for that new sound and purchasing new gear to help us achieve that never-ending quest but the reality of it all is that, unless have the financial means to sustain our sonic pursuits, we will never really find it so we should just take what we have and make it sound the absolute best that we can. Tom Morello resigned himself to this mode of thought early on at the start of his Rage Against The Machine days and to this day, he's still using the same custom made "Arm The Homeless" guitar, Marshall 50 watter, Peavey cab and pedalboard. In my case, my 6505 is one of the most user-unfriendly amps out there. It makes scratchy noises when I fiddle with the knobs, the clean channel is anything but and it is one of the ugliest things (besides me) that ever graced a stage but that dirty channel produces once of the heaviest tones I've ever heard and my butt feels those vibrations which inspires me to keep playing which my now former Kemper failed to do. I guess the whole point of this long winded babble is that sometimes all you really need is right in front of you and while it may seem like a turd, if you polish it enough, it just might turn into a diamond.
That may very well be.I'm beginning to think my hearing is my worst enemy. I have tinnitus pretty bad......
Would never be limited to one amp. Just wouldn't do it.With One Amp For Everything You Do, What Amp Would It Be?
I understand why - so many amps are specialized, plus it's enjoyable to have lots of choice.Would never be limited to one amp. Just wouldn't do it.
One Of My Initial Thoughts After Reading Your Post Was Did You Spend Enough Time Polishing The Kemper To Get That Diamond? It Is A Fair Question. The Other Thing That Comes To Mind Is The Kemper Product Of Today Is Much Better Than It Was In The Past. The Recent Improvements Are Incredible And That Is Coming From A Guy With A Metric Sh!t Ton Of Nice Tube Amps. I Don't Understand How People Say The Kemper Doesn't Move Air or Make Their A$$ Vibrate On Stage. Plug A Kemper Into A 4X12 And Turn It Up And Air Will Be Moved. Use The Kemper As A Pre-Amp Through Your Favorite Tube Amp Or Power Amp And Turn It Up And Air Will Move And You Will Feel The Sound. The "Feel" Can Be Tweaked And Adjusted. It Comes Down To Knowing The Product And How To Extract From It What You Want And Need...Just Like Anything Else Use. Many Don't Wish To Take The Time To Do So And A Product Is Sometimes Labeled A Certain Way Due To Operator Error And Or Lack Of Familiarity With A Product.If I may throw my unwarranted two cents into the pot, I was briefly a Kemper PowerRack user a few years ago and I stupidly went off the deep end by selling most of my tube amps including my beloved Dual Rectifier Roadster, thinking that "THIS IS THE FUTURE! WHO NEEDS TO LUG AROUND A BUNCH OF BACK BREAKING AMPS! THIS IS AMAZING!" And it was an exciting thing to have all these sounds at my fingertips with pristine sounding effects, so many possibilities! Very good for recording and having the consistency of the same tones from stage to stage. But after the honeymoon period started to wear off, I found that I was missing the feel of my old tube amps. I wasn't feeling my a$$ vibrate onstage and it just felt cold and one dimensional. My playing didn't have the same character it once had and after awhile, every new profile I loaded into the machine started sounding identical with one another to the point where I couldn't even tell a Dual Rectifier profile from a Driftwood Purple Nightmare. So long story short, I ended up selling it and now all I have left is my old battle damaged Peavey 6505+ 112 (converted to a head from a combo), MT15 and recently acquired Revv G20. As musicians, we will always be searching for that new sound and purchasing new gear to help us achieve that never-ending quest but the reality of it all is that, unless have the financial means to sustain our sonic pursuits, we will never really find it so we should just take what we have and make it sound the absolute best that we can. Tom Morello resigned himself to this mode of thought early on at the start of his Rage Against The Machine days and to this day, he's still using the same custom made "Arm The Homeless" guitar, Marshall 50 watter, Peavey cab and pedalboard. In my case, my 6505 is one of the most user-unfriendly amps out there. It makes scratchy noises when I fiddle with the knobs, the clean channel is anything but and it is one of the ugliest things (besides me) that ever graced a stage but that dirty channel produces once of the heaviest tones I've ever heard and my butt feels those vibrations which inspires me to keep playing which my now former Kemper failed to do. I guess the whole point of this long winded babble is that sometimes all you really need is right in front of you and while it may seem like a turd, if you polish it enough, it just might turn into a diamond.
This Is Theater...Who Would If They Didn't Have To? My Point In Creating The Thread Was What Would Be Your Pick If You Had To.Would never be limited to one amp. Just wouldn't do it.