This is what I REALLY love about the Kemper....

[thiswaythatway]

Fuck bringing a cab to the gig, I use a powered monitor - easier to carry, quicker to tear down, and sounds fine and loud and doesn't cause as many issues with an onstage mix.

I'd rather use an awesome sounding cab instead of a powered monitor that sounds fine.

 

[stratotone]

Fuck bringing a cab to the gig, I use a powered monitor - easier to carry, quicker to tear down, and sounds fine and loud and doesn't cause as many issues with an onstage mix.

I'd rather use an awesome sounding cab instead of a powered monitor that sounds fine.

I have several awesome sounding cabs, I don't take them for the following reasons (which may or may not apply to you)

1) Wear and tear. I don't care how careful you are, cabs have a tendency to get scuffed up or damaged, even if you have covers. My best sounding cabs are my most expensive ones - taking a 37 or 41 year old marshall cab to a gig to get beat up and to get the smell of cigarette smoke on them isn't worth it.

2) Most of the places I play are small enough that to get a good sound with a 4x12 cab means that some poor bastards in the crowd in the 'area of effect' of a marshall cab are going to hear me and pretty much nothing else. This also tends to make it harder to mix out front when you have a loud stage.

3) Using a guitar cab and any type of good modelling amp homogenizes the tone to that cab. I'm not going to hear onstage the sound of my '60 Fender Concert I profiled for clean tones - it's going to sound like I ran the amp through a 4x12, and while it might sound ok it isn't going to sound as good IMHO. Especially stuff like acoustic/piezo tones I have loaded in the Kemper, it's going to screw those up too.

 

[thiswaythatway]

Fuck bringing a cab to the gig, I use a powered monitor - easier to carry, quicker to tear down, and sounds fine and loud and doesn't cause as many issues with an onstage mix.

I'd rather use an awesome sounding cab instead of a powered monitor that sounds fine.

I have several awesome sounding cabs, I don't take them for the following reasons (which may or may not apply to you)

1) Wear and tear. I don't care how careful you are, cabs have a tendency to get scuffed up or damaged, even if you have covers. My best sounding cabs are my most expensive ones - taking a 37 or 41 year old marshall cab to a gig to get beat up and to get the smell of cigarette smoke on them isn't worth it.

2) Most of the places I play are small enough that to get a good sound with a 4x12 cab means that some poor bastards in the crowd in the 'area of effect' of a marshall cab are going to hear me and pretty much nothing else. This also tends to make it harder to mix out front when you have a loud stage.

3) Using a guitar cab and any type of good modelling amp homogenizes the tone to that cab. I'm not going to hear onstage the sound of my '60 Fender Concert I profiled for clean tones - it's going to sound like I ran the amp through a 4x12, and while it might sound ok it isn't going to sound as good IMHO. Especially stuff like acoustic/piezo tones I have loaded in the Kemper, it's going to screw those up too.

Where do you gig where they still smoke at? I thought it was banned everywhere indoors.

 

[stratotone]

Fuck bringing a cab to the gig, I use a powered monitor - easier to carry, quicker to tear down, and sounds fine and loud and doesn't cause as many issues with an onstage mix.

I'd rather use an awesome sounding cab instead of a powered monitor that sounds fine.

I have several awesome sounding cabs, I don't take them for the following reasons (which may or may not apply to you)

1) Wear and tear. I don't care how careful you are, cabs have a tendency to get scuffed up or damaged, even if you have covers. My best sounding cabs are my most expensive ones - taking a 37 or 41 year old marshall cab to a gig to get beat up and to get the smell of cigarette smoke on them isn't worth it.

2) Most of the places I play are small enough that to get a good sound with a 4x12 cab means that some poor bastards in the crowd in the 'area of effect' of a marshall cab are going to hear me and pretty much nothing else. This also tends to make it harder to mix out front when you have a loud stage.

3) Using a guitar cab and any type of good modelling amp homogenizes the tone to that cab. I'm not going to hear onstage the sound of my '60 Fender Concert I profiled for clean tones - it's going to sound like I ran the amp through a 4x12, and while it might sound ok it isn't going to sound as good IMHO. Especially stuff like acoustic/piezo tones I have loaded in the Kemper, it's going to screw those up too.

Where do you gig where they still smoke at? I thought it was banned everywhere indoors.

Oklahoma. It's banned in restaurants here, but not bars. It sucks.

 

[Shark Diver]

Where do you gig where they still smoke at? I thought it was banned everywhere indoors.

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