[QUOTE=deggie;40062238]I've been thinking of getting the Pod HD pro, worth it or should I wait a few extra months and get the Axe FX?[/QUOTE]
The pod hd is practically everything you need.
[QUOTE=Xenocidebot;40062736]The KPA is cool but I've yet to see anybody positively review it unless they were also renting a set of amps for a day and spending a lot of time getting to understand how the limited editing parameters can be used to bullshit detail the amp doesn't provide.
Axe or a Pod is a better choice for the vast majority of players.[/QUOTE]
I've never really considered the Kemper based on that fact.
Did some more digging on YouTube
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmCl71e-wCY[/media]
Definitely getting it
if you're based in the us you could buy mine, it's basically almost half price, i cleaned it up and i would make sure to ship it probably the same day you buy it
The Kemper is cool and all but it doesn't work unless you have access to amps that you can actually profile.
There are people who sell profiles for it and some of them are pretty good and not expensive at all, but I don't believe it is marketed at all for the average consumer.
It would work well for me because I could just stop by my guitar center and profile amps in their iso room. But if you don't have this access then the PODs are the way to go, I loved mine to death...
[img]http://img812.imageshack.us/img812/6646/19090915908810524126540.jpg[/img]
*cries* It was a good cologne holder... :suicide:
[QUOTE=Nazereth666;40064885]The Kemper is cool and all but it doesn't work unless you have access to amps that you can actually profile.
There are people who sell profiles for it and some of them are pretty good and not expensive at all, but I don't believe it is marketed at all for the average consumer.
It would work well for me because I could just stop by my guitar center and profile amps in their iso room. But if you don't have this access then the PODs are the way to go, I loved mine to death...
[IMG]http://img812.imageshack.us/img812/6646/19090915908810524126540.jpg[/IMG]
*cries* It was a good cologne holder... :suicide:[/QUOTE]
How accurately does it simulate actual tubes and such?
[QUOTE=cpt.armadillo;40065273]what are them things that look suspiciously like bullet brass? Can't see them very well.[/QUOTE]
Bullet brass.
9mm, .38 special, .45acp, .44 magnum.
[editline]27th March 2013[/editline]
[QUOTE=cpt.armadillo;40065273]How accurately does it simulate actual tubes and such?[/QUOTE]
It sounded pretty amazing, it responded like tubes but the warmth wasn't all there. The new HD pods sound better in my opinion.
I'm gonna post a video in a second and ask if y'all can help me diagnose what this problem is with my guitar. I keep putting off bringing it into my local guitar shop, maybe I can actually fix this problem by myself. Basically, my guitar will cut out sometimes and if I bang on the back of the body, it'll come back to life. Other times, it starts to sound weird. The video I post will demonstrate both of those problems.
[editline]27th March 2013[/editline]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DVkbCPk1yQ[/media]
Right at the start, it cuts out. I banged on the back to bring it to life again. Later on you can hear my tone vary when it starts to go cray
[QUOTE=Unreliable;40067362]I'm gonna post a video in a second and ask if y'all can help me diagnose what this problem is with my guitar. I keep putting off bringing it into my local guitar shop, maybe I can actually fix this problem by myself. Basically, my guitar will cut out sometimes and if I bang on the back of the body, it'll come back to life. Other times, it starts to sound weird. The video I post will demonstrate both of those problems.
[editline]27th March 2013[/editline]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DVkbCPk1yQ[/media]
Right at the start, it cuts out. I banged on the back to bring it to life again. Later on you can hear my tone vary when it starts to go cray[/QUOTE]
Sounds like you got a loose wire or a short somewhere if you are lucky. Does it do that with all the pickups?
[QUOTE=Nazereth666;40067711]Sounds like you got a loose wire or a short somewhere if you are lucky. Does it do that with all the pickups?[/QUOTE]
Yeah. Any pickup selection, occasionally it'll short out.
I hope it's a loose wire at the input jack, that'd be easy to fix.
[QUOTE=Unreliable;40067737]Yeah. Any pickup selection, occasionally it'll short out.
I hope it's a loose wire at the input jack, that'd be easy to fix.[/QUOTE]
Could be, it is not one of the pickups so you need to troubleshoot the wiring.
[QUOTE=Nazereth666;40067884]Could be, it is not one of the pickups so you need to troubleshoot the wiring.[/QUOTE]
I'll probably just end up bringing it into my shop because when I first messed around in there, I had no idea what I was doing with soldering. I probably did more damage than good
[QUOTE=Unreliable;40067921]I'll probably just end up bringing it into my shop because when I first messed around in there, I had no idea what I was doing with soldering. I probably did more damage than good[/QUOTE]
Yeah, probably the best idea. I deal with that all the time, I had a guitar once that someone had messed with and there were huge chunks of insulation melted off almost every wire and big globs of solder on the joints.
Well the only wires I messed around with when I thought I could solder, were the pickup wires because I bought lipstick pups and tried them out. There's not huge chunks of insulation missing, but at the tips of some pup wires, the insulation is melted.
[QUOTE=Unreliable;40068150]Well the only wires I messed around with when I thought I could solder, were the pickup wires because I bought lipstick pups and tried them out. There's not huge chunks of insulation missing, but at the tips of some pup wires, the insulation is melted.[/QUOTE]
Yeah that can happen, if you feel like getting adventurous you can always pull the pickguard off and start wiggling individual wires to see if you can get it to cut out. Of course always check the output jack wires first.
It may be a long shot, but I know I used to have a similar issue where my sound would die and get a real 'poppy' distortion whenever I would mess with any of the volume or control knobs on my PRS. It first started as the same type of thing where the sound would just randomly fade in and out while playing without touching the knobs. I took it to a local shop where they replaced the pots and I've never had an issue with it since.
It's simply... Unreliable.
My RG makes excessive noise, the jack is fucking loose, and sometimes when I fiddle with the volume knob, the output halves for no apparent reason.
Oh yeah, I forgot my jack was loose as well in mine when I was given the guitar. That might be what it was I was thinking of...
Moral of the story; don't buy used guitars...
no the moral of the story is don't be an idiot
[QUOTE=mastoner20;40071680]
Moral of the story; don't buy used guitars...[/QUOTE]
How am I gonna get an 80's Peavey then?
[QUOTE=cpt.armadillo;40071978]How am I gonna get an 80's Peavey then?[/QUOTE]
Bribe one of the night-guards at a Peavey Museum? I dunno...
[QUOTE=absinthe;40071936]no the moral of the story is don't be an idiot[/QUOTE]
Hey now, I can't help it I was given my guitar as a gift and needed to put another $200 worth of work into it to make it work correctly!
[QUOTE=mastoner20;40072092]Bribe one of the night-guards at a Peavey Museum? I dunno...
Hey now, I can't help it I was given my guitar as a gift and needed to put another $200 worth of work into it to make it work correctly![/QUOTE]
that's like the price of changing pickups, could've been a lot worse
But... the guitar only cost $300 in the first place... :/
$500 is still cheap for a nice guitar
[editline]28th March 2013[/editline]
man guitar pro 6 is kinda awful compared to 5
I did the put a tissue in your trem cavity to dampen the spring noise on my guitar and it works beautifully.
I wedged a piece of foam rubber between the springs and the body
The whammy bar on my guitar makes a unpleasant screechy noise when I turn it, anybody has any idea on how to stop it?
[QUOTE=BaCkStAbEr;40075033]The whammy bar on my guitar makes a unpleasant screechy noise when I turn it, anybody has any idea on how to stop it?[/QUOTE]
Play louder than the noise, it's the only way!
Nah, how about you oil it a bit at the turning point?
-snip, nevermind that did the trick-
Should delay pedals be in the amp effects loop, or in the front end? I added a couple of pedals and I'm getting a LOT of noise all of the sudden, I've had to turn the gain down from where I usually had it to avoid constant feedback. Do I need better shielded cables of something? I don't even have that much, just wah, tuner, and delay OR compresser, I haven't hooked both up at once. I plug the guitar straight in and it's quiet as ever.
I wanna play with my pedals, but it's not worth it to me if I have to deal with shitloads of noise as soon as I turn it on.
Depends. If you want the delay after the distortion from the preamp then put it in the effects loop (shouldn't need as heavily shielded cables), but if you want it before, have fun.
I have a multieffects processor doohickey run through the effects loop set to delay and I get no noise at all unless the guitar is wonky.
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