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I do. Ever have someone else play through your amp with your guitar? Sounds different than me every time one of my friends does it. You're looking at pick angle, how hard they pick (and how often) how hard they fret with the left hand, how in sync the hands are, how they phrase, etc. I don't...

With a few exceptions, most of the amps I've owned (over 40) did at least something pretty well. I just like the different flavors and the way different amps (and kemper profiles!) react.

Batting inside a cab doesn't affect the highs - it does change the calculated internal volume by up to 20%. In other words, it makes the cab sound bigger. Any high end loss on a bogner cab is that grillcloth, the old Marshall cloth was the same way. It was like a high end roll off.

Couple of feet off the grill. Also works great to mic the back of an open cab combo with a 57 placed normally.

MXL144 Is a cheap ribbon and it sounds great IMHO. Under $100 and at every guitar center. I've used it for profiling with great success. I used a Royer ribbon at a recording studio and liked it too, but it's not 10x better. For price/performance, the MXL is a winner. I wouldn't use one live...

Forgot about the pr20, I use one of those too. Very cool mic.

Neither. Audix i5. I know that's not what you asked, but it's an SM57 killer IMHO. Between the SM57 and the 609 - I prefer the SM57. E609 just doesn't sound as good to my ear. They are different enough that they sound good blended together though. If I just had to choose between those two, the...

I've said this for years... Little Alligator lol

I wouldn't touch the flashback fuzz with a fifty foot pole tied to another fifty foot pole. Seriously, I'm not a fuzz guy but I like my Eric Johnson fuzz. The flashback gets my vote for worst pedal of all time that was still functioning. Seriously, avoid!

I like the polytune - had a peterson strobostomp, when they are accurate enough for setting intonation, then IMHO they are too sensitive for live use. My strobostomp was so sensitive putting my hand on a tuning key would make it read sharp. The Polytune is accurate enough to work well and just a...

I don't know what your technical level is, but consider buying a BYOC fuzz clone and mod it to taste. You will get exactly what you want and you'll have a one of a kind pedal.

DOH! It's a setting on soundcloud, I enabled downloading on those VH clips. Try em now. Sorry about that.

Awesome!

99% of what the mic hears, the Kemper grabs, so to speak. For some reason, some amps are a little more accurate than others, but everything is pretty dang close. I bet if you got the great river inline and refined it you'd have a tone that was pretty much indistinguishable from the recorded one...

These and some more I'm still working on will be on my website eventually. I'm also going to have effects on each profile too so you can kick in a Phase 90, and a volume boost for leads, etc. So it won't just be the core amp tones, there will be some stuff with it supporting some VH sounding...

I think both sounded great! What mic did you use? I found with my mic pre (Focusrite ISA 110) that it doesn't seem to do much for an SM57 or mic like that, but it freaking kills when I use it with a ribbon. Generally I just use a Focusrite saffire pro 40 since I already have mic cables run to it...

Pretty much all drum machines have presets.

Thanks Steve! The Kemper doesn't have it built in, but you can use computer plugins to match an EQ curve. Where a lot of people go wrong when they try to do this is they don't get an amp that sounds close to begin with or a miked tone that is close either... the further away you are from it to...

Thanks! I put the info on the soundcloud page where each clip resides, figured that would get read, but I can always put it on the first post too.

They are all three different, but kinda close, you're right. I used isolated guitar tracks to pull each - ended up with at least one off of each album - trying to get a really good definitive 'VH collection' of profiles. Not sure if I'll mess with EVH tone after the DLR years though, things...