Chris Isaak - Wicked Game COVER with KEMPER Amp

Maurizio70 · Feb 7th 2014

Hi Guys, I didn't share before since this is a very simple song with "nothing" special, but I saw that many friends of mine like a lot the sound and ask me about it, so let's share also with you, if someone is interested.

This is our cover of Wicked Game, a 1989 song by Chris Isaak:
WICKED GAME COVER by Maurizio70

Electric Guitar, Drums and Bass was recorded LIVE with two mics placed on the right/left sides of the rehearsal room for a stereo image. Only vocal and acoustic guitar were added after.
Despite it is not difficult to play, it was not so easy to capture the feeling and the emotional part of the original song. We hope you like the final result!

This is the link for the Kemper Rig (I used the Neck and Meedle Pickup together of my Strat but in a Series Configuration instead of the classic Parallel one):
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.…013-06-22%2001-06-52.kipr

Gary_W · Feb 7th 2014

Very, very nice

Many thanks also for the profile. Grabbed and already tested - such is the speed of the Rig Manager!! It's great

burningyen · Feb 7th 2014

Great job, Maurizio! You're right that it's a tricky song to pull off.

ur2funky · Feb 7th 2014

Wow... sounds great!

And thanks for sharing the profile too!

We play this in my band, and a guest drummer with us one night commented "You know you're playing this song right if you just take a comfortable breath and the song is over."

Seems about right.

vjclaus · Feb 7th 2014

sorry but everytime i tried to download them there´s no kipr file only a midi file.
what´s wrong?

gibson5413 · Feb 7th 2014

Awesome! I love that tune and this profile/rig sounds fantastic.

krikke · Feb 7th 2014

Nice Maurizio! Well played, and with a great sound...

paults · Feb 7th 2014

Quote from vjclaus

sorry but everytime i tried to download them there´s no kipr file only a midi file.
what´s wrong?

Your computer may be confused about the *.kipr extension.

Do a "Save Link As", with a right click (or, whatever the Mac equivalent to that may be)

If the file type is defaulting to MIDI, change it to "all file types"

DanielRigler · Feb 7th 2014

Great cover! Thanks for sharing the profile.

paults · Feb 8th 2014

Sounds great! Thanks for the profile - I'll use this sound for something, I'm sure

Hallan · Feb 8th 2014

very nice ..and thanks for sharing the rig!!

Ingolf · Feb 8th 2014

Very well played! And of course this is a very beautiful song, an all time classic.

stevel1953 · Feb 8th 2014

Great song! Good guitar tone. I like it.
just loaded it. didn't have to edit, sounded great as is. Thanks..great job!

Guitartone · Feb 9th 2014

This is brilliant!

Some say the Kemper is 'very bright' sounding, some say 'too bright' sounding...they're wrong...because if you don't have all the clarity, sparkle & presence available in your algorithm then you cant achieve a tone like this.

You know that cliche guitarists use about digital modellers, "sounds like there's a blanket over the speaker", well, this tone sounds like you removed the blanket.

Excellent stuff, Maurizio.

Maurizio70 · Feb 11th 2014

Quote from Guitartone

This is brilliant!

Some say the Kemper is 'very bright' sounding, some say 'too bright' sounding...they're wrong...because if you don't have all the clarity, sparkle & presence available in your algorithm then you cant achieve a tone like this.

You know that cliche guitarists use about digital modellers, "sounds like there's a blanket over the speaker", well, this tone sounds like you removed the blanket.

Excellent stuff, Maurizio.

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Ah ah, thanks to all of you, I'm happy you like this sound!
I used a Fender Amp I had (and sold now, after profiling :-)), the Fender Hot Rod Deluxe, a great little combo amp by Fender.

And about the "bright" sounding of the Kemper I can only says that it sound exactly bright as the amp you have profiled was
So, the algorithm can cover all the spectrum and the dynamics with no problem, it depends only on how you tweak the original amp. If the original sounds good, the relative Kemper profile... sounds good.

webdiver · Feb 11th 2014

Awesome! Great sound, very well played. Also like the singing. Sounds as good as the original.

rothko61 · Feb 11th 2014

Vote Maurizio for President!!! The best rigs, always shared...

skoczy · Feb 11th 2014

You nailed it! Beautiful.

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