warwickhunt

As Walshy has said, Dave W is superb BUT... you pay for what you get and if it is a 'cheap' bass you sadly are unlikely to justify a trip to Dave.

For many years I've used BOSS Chorus + Octave pedals, with an EHX Small Stone; latterly using a TC Plethora X5 and the effects were as good as any of these. I'm fairly sure some/many of the effects available on Kemper products are modelled (copied) off known brands. I'm assuming that the interface/rig manager will be the same as on the 'toaster' and you can go in and tweak stuff.

Yes you said it was a 2 x 12 (two 12" speakers) but it is actually 2 x 10 (two 10" speakers).

Decent bass cabs it a 'bit' limiting being 4 ohm 2x10. That cab is actually 175 watts (RMS is the important bit) but it'll still cope with your amp so long as you don't go boosting the lows too much. We've no idea of the situations you'll use it in but many folk manage with these no probs.

Mystery solved... it is a 2x10.

It is more unlikely than it is likely... in fact you'd have to be a dingbat to blow it up without noticing it farting and warning you. I'd go so far as to say that it is almost impossible to destroy a 350w (RMS) cab with a TC500 watt amp unless you are really trying.

I'd be hard pushed to decide if Warwick or Musicman had the most baffling range of basses but it just goes to demonstrate you can be a huge multi-million Euro/$ company and still fail to employ someone in marketing with 1 iota of common/musical sense.

Having owned the Profiler 'Toaster' the blurb seems to indicate that this has all of those facilities/rigs etc available and editable via rig manager on your phone/laptop/PC that it has, in which case yes it has a full range of editable FX; it has the usual phasers, octavers, reverbs, ODs, filters etc etc

Not sure I've ever seen one of those!

I think the ohmage and wattage thing is covered but be aware not all cabs are created equal. This pic might look ridiculous but I'm presently testing various rigs and cab combinations. I can tell you that all of these combinations present 4 ohm loads to the amp (the 2x12 cab is 4 ohms, all other single cabs are 8 ohms) and one of these set ups is way louder than the others, while one set up is particularly quiet (no setting changes on the amp). This is all down to sensitivity of the cab(s) and... one of the single speaker cabs is exceptionally clear and carries the top end with more projection. Oh and this little test absolutely destroyed the urban myth that you get more top end from 10's and 15's give you more bass/bottom end!

I thought they had the axe-head inlays, mine certainly did?

Absolutely correct answer! Dumb a55 bloody Brits insisting on using Imperial measurements when we've been in the European Union for... Oh wait... we burnt those bridges as well.

Pedant alert... my pet peeve (yes if this is the worst, then I have a fine life). Weight = 8.9lb Now is that 8lb 9oz or 8.9lb as in 8lb 14 3/4oz STOP using decimal points in Imperial measurements, they have no place! Carry on, nothing to see here.

Can I ask... for a friend. It was OK in the 1980's to put an XR3i badge on a 1300 Escort wasn't it?

K10 not K10.2 so 'luckily' no firmware required.

If it is current/present use then I've just moved from RCF 310s to QSC K10s (mk I). They are used singly as my personal monitor in a loud band and/or as a single/pair in a much quieter 'acoustic' duo (vocals and guitar through them). The RCFs were great little cabs that punched above their weight and were drafted in a few times to supplement a larger PA with RCF 15s. The move to QSC was as a result of the potential that they would be my only reference for bass + band mix. Despite the wattage difference being 350w (RCF) up to 1000w (QSC), there was very little real world difference in perceived volume but the QSCs were all round a more 'musical' tone, especially if you put the 2 side by side and played prog music through them.

Run away!

The 2 oldest blokes with the most experience in the room, discussing the routing and procedure to get the Kemper to profile an old 15" speaker... it makes me smile.

...and me looking like a mad professor swapping between Thunderfunk/Mesa Boogie and Thunderfunk/Mesa Boogie 'profile'!

I also bought the (cheap as chips) Lekato 5.8GHz as I was tired of my much more expensive 2.4GHz Line 6 unit dropping out! No difference in sound quality (IMHO), 1/6th of the price and no drop out; win/win/win.

RCF310a - Don't worry about it being 10", mount it on a speaker stand at head height to the side of stage where you stand (if you move around stage a lot you need to rely on PA foldback) and you'll hear yourself no problem. It isn't strictly FRFR but tbh I tried the 12" Headrush AND Alto speakers and the RCF was more effective and didn't require as much EQ putting back into it. Budget wise I just sold a pair of the 310s for £380, to buy a pair of used QSC K10s for £800... they are not twice the speaker of the RCF but they can be used as a better fit for various applications that I need. Oh and just for giggles; I've chased the silent stage/IEM/monitor/preamp/IR/Profiler for over a year... to come full circle back to using my Thunderfunk 550 amp and a Genz Benz 212 cab for 'MY' on-stage monitoring. If I need to use my rig for small rooms I can do so without troubling our PA and as the venues step up in size, my DI (which is always, regardless of room size, fed to the PA so that anyone using IEM can get my signal) gives the option of taking the heavy lifting.

I've taken a step back from the whole digital/profile/IR/cab sims et al and had a good think. Personally I think I got swept along by other people's desires and opinions in my bands (silent stages / IEW etc) and lost sight of the fact that I get a great sound from my gear (amp and cabs) and the new 'direction' was just trying to replicate what I already had but in an alternative form. If an amp and cab sounds great to me and works, I can still send a DI feed to the desk which can do what it needs, why would a pedal/preamp/Kemper etc be any better? My bass sound on stage can't detract from the FOH bass sound and if the band member using IEMs wants to hear the bass he can just blend it from the desk. In short; a digital/pedal/preamp format gains me nothing over what I've used traditionally. Don't get me wrong, some of the profiles I've heard are excellent and a profiler gives you the chance to switch from Mesa to Ampeg to Hi-watt via every amp in between BUT I personally use pretty much ONE sound for every gig and I like my Thunderfunk, so why would I need the ability to have all of the others in a 'live' setting? Studio guys might love this flexibility but surely the studio has this facility? Either way, I'm reverting to amp>cabs+old school pedals.