Bias Head, Positive Grids new amp (Kemper competitor) |
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Mar 4 2016, 03:29 PM
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I wouldn't consider it a Kemper competitor since it doesn't have cabinet emulation. Probably the closest competitor is the Marshall Code, except the Bias unit doesn't have a cabinet or effects. And it costs more than twice as much as the Code!
I'm not sure there are many people out there who would want a hardware modeler with no cabinet or cabinet emulation, but it's interesting to see someone try to carve out a new niche in the market. -------------------- Cyber-industrial music and video animations:
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Mar 4 2016, 04:09 PM
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QUOTE (Mertay @ Mar 4 2016, 02:34 PM)  Never tried the kemper but doesn't it take a sonic snapshot (sampling) while bias requires to select components like the program? The Bias head has amp matching. But that's not very useful without cabinet profiling. The only thing it's useful for is the strange example Fluff demoed in the video: you must match the amp head through the same cabinet you intend to use the Bias head with. That means it wouldn't be useful to someone else, so there's not much point to sharing it, which means it's really only useful to do amp matching of heads you already own. But the bigger problem is: if you're going to take your cabinet with you to your gig, why would you take the Bias head instead of the real head you used for the amp matching? -------------------- Cyber-industrial music and video animations:
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Mar 4 2016, 04:42 PM
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QUOTE (Chris Harrington @ Mar 4 2016, 03:13 PM) I think they're trying to build a similar community as Kemper. Their Bias Amp and Bias FX already have thousands of cloned amps and pedals by the users so I guess the user will be able to get clones of amps they don't own. Unlike the Bias software, you can't load up the matching cabinet IR into an IR player. Unlike Kemper or an AxeFX, the profile doesn't include the cabinet. So it doesn't make much sense to share a cloned amp for use in a Bias head. In other words, the mystery is: what does Fluff do next in his video? It would make no sense for him to buy a Bias head to take to a gig instead of his Peavey MH head. He might as well just take the Peavey he already owns. If he wants flexibility or convenience, he would be a lot better off with a Kemper Powerhead or Marshall Code or an AxeFX plus a power amp instead of a Bias head plus a cabinet. Those alternatives to the Bias head are either far cheaper or far more powerful. Sometimes when nobody else makes a product like yours, there's a good reason for that  .
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Mar 4 2016, 05:27 PM
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QUOTE (Chris Harrington @ Mar 4 2016, 03:56 PM) Yeah true, as i said before though it isn't that you would only load your own cloned amps into the bias head there is a 'tone cloud' so you could download Fluffs Peavey etc like the Kemper community does. I think you may be missing the importance of the cabinet. Fluff is playing through his cabinet with his mic, placed and recorded a specific way. If he shared his amp clone with you, you could load it into a Bias head, but it would sound nothing like his because you have a different cabinet, mic, etc. In other words, the only reason the A/B comparison at the end of the video sounded the same was because he was using the same cabinet and mic in both cases. With a Kemper or AxeFX, a shared profile includes an IR to capture those factors. A Bias amp clone does not include an IR. With Bias software he could share an IR that you could load into an IR player to capture the cabinet, but you don't have that option with the Bias head. P.S. One other option with the Bias head would be to use it with a Torpedo IR player. But that would mean spending a lot of money for a modeler rig that doesn't even have effects .
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Mar 5 2016, 01:58 PM
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That's a good point. The Bias head won't be available for sale until August. My comments are based on what I could learn about it when it was announced last September. A lot could change between September and August.
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