As some of you know, I've been a pedal guy for a few years. I've had hundreds of the things. Since touring with the band I was in (called Mickey Burns), I started whittling down my pedals and got it down to a selection of 7 or so.
I've since left the band (it was getting too busy and involved) and am focusing on my LLB. I'm planning on graduating summa cum laude so my studies need all the focus they can get.
I made a decision to sell a chunk of gear including my amp, some pedals, my pedalboard and few bits of things. I'm developing a home studio set up - I have a pair of Genelec M040s, a Scarlett 18i20, a new i7 MBP and Logic Pro X. I really enjoy mixing and recording - with the band I was in I built an IEM rig for live in ear monitoring. It also allowed us to record all our live performances and practices, and I loved mixing demoes and the like.
So, after that lengthy exposition, I can now ask for advice. After selling some gear, I have about 22k to spend. I'm not interested in amps, guitars, or pedals. What I'm almost deadset on is getting a kemper, mostly for recording and also for live performance. However, I'd also be keen to expand my home studio - buy some nice acoustic treatment, a second screen for my macbook, a nice midi controller, a bass and a nice condensor perhaps.
I have two options: buy the kemper now, and buy all the other things I've mentioned as and when I can afford them. Or, buy all the other bits now and then wait until I'm earning a salary in a year or two and get the Kemper.
I can record bass and guitar right now - the DI on the Scarlett sounds nice and sounds even better with my Empress Compressor in front of it. So, I can still ostensibly record and get good results with some nice plugins. But live performance would be a hack although I could always borrow amplifiers from friends. So the Kemper, whilst I have no doubt about its astounding abilities, would be doing what I can already do but in a much better way. Or, I could go for all the other things as mentioned above, that would expand my capabilities - although considering they are smaller capital investments (like 2k each) I can easily get them over a longer period of time, whereas it is certainly not a regular occurrence for me to have the entire capital amount to invest in a kemper.
So, what say you? What do you think is a wise route?
I've since left the band (it was getting too busy and involved) and am focusing on my LLB. I'm planning on graduating summa cum laude so my studies need all the focus they can get.
I made a decision to sell a chunk of gear including my amp, some pedals, my pedalboard and few bits of things. I'm developing a home studio set up - I have a pair of Genelec M040s, a Scarlett 18i20, a new i7 MBP and Logic Pro X. I really enjoy mixing and recording - with the band I was in I built an IEM rig for live in ear monitoring. It also allowed us to record all our live performances and practices, and I loved mixing demoes and the like.
So, after that lengthy exposition, I can now ask for advice. After selling some gear, I have about 22k to spend. I'm not interested in amps, guitars, or pedals. What I'm almost deadset on is getting a kemper, mostly for recording and also for live performance. However, I'd also be keen to expand my home studio - buy some nice acoustic treatment, a second screen for my macbook, a nice midi controller, a bass and a nice condensor perhaps.
I have two options: buy the kemper now, and buy all the other things I've mentioned as and when I can afford them. Or, buy all the other bits now and then wait until I'm earning a salary in a year or two and get the Kemper.
I can record bass and guitar right now - the DI on the Scarlett sounds nice and sounds even better with my Empress Compressor in front of it. So, I can still ostensibly record and get good results with some nice plugins. But live performance would be a hack although I could always borrow amplifiers from friends. So the Kemper, whilst I have no doubt about its astounding abilities, would be doing what I can already do but in a much better way. Or, I could go for all the other things as mentioned above, that would expand my capabilities - although considering they are smaller capital investments (like 2k each) I can easily get them over a longer period of time, whereas it is certainly not a regular occurrence for me to have the entire capital amount to invest in a kemper.
So, what say you? What do you think is a wise route?
