The JerEvil/Owens Splawn DI Profiles in Action - ISP Stealth Power and Splawn 2x12

Nice demo, these Direct Amp/Merged profiles are a lot of fun. It would be fun to do a blind test with someone one day, setup both the real amp and the Direct Amp profile and switch back and forth and see if the guitar player can figure out which is which. I don't think that I could tell...

sounds great Jer , we seem to have pretty much the same taste in sound.

These profiles are great! Thanks for sharing

Yayaya! So much WIN in this clip. I do like that in the room tone A LOT!

Sounds great man! Really tight. Can't work out form the video but are you using a boost in front of the amp to tighten it up? Also do you find that the DI profile with solid state power amp is tonally the same as the amp running normally or do you find that you have to use some corrective EQ to get back there?

The only reason I ask is that I've been finding that on DI profiles through solid state power amps into guitar cabs that a small mid cut and presence boost is usually required to get them back to 95% the same.

Just some thoughts I'm messing with at present

Cheers

Spence

I found the raw profiles were tight and punchy, but more percussive than djenty for palm mutes. If you want a chug a chug tone, you likely need a boost depending on guitar/pickups/taste. But they respond very well to boosts so you get the best of both worlds

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I found the raw profiles were tight and punchy, but more percussive than djenty for palm mutes. If you want a chug a chug tone, you likely need a boost depending on guitar/pickups/taste. But they respond very well to boosts so you get the best of both worlds

Cheers mate. I've just been doing some side-by-side tests of a real amp, then a model of the same amp but played back through a solid state poweramp. I took a DI out of both after the power amp section and fed the signals into the EQ matching section of Ozone. I found that even though the amp model contains an emulation of the power sections interaction with the cab that it is still not the same and just running the amp into the cab.

Guided by Ozone I used the EQ section for the monitor out on the KPA and scooped the mids by 2db and raised the presence by 1db and now they sound very close. I think it was this mid hump that was annoying me a volume as it makes everything sound flat and take up a little too much sonic space in the band mix. This small scoop just seems to help profile fit in without tweaking each one...

Got to check these out last night, very nice

I tried the profiles and found them so bass heavy that they are unusable for me!

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I tried the profiles and found them so bass heavy that they are unusable for me!

Turn down the bass...?

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Turn down the bass...?

Sorry but not a solution for me! Good profiles should sound great without any change, any that big at least! Also if i reduce the bass so much the character of the amp will be lost because kemper's eq doesn't match up with amp's eq!

Does that matter, though? As long as it sounds good, does it matter that the EQ doesn't exactly match the EQ of the amp?

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Does that matter, though? As long as it sounds good, does it matter that the EQ doesn't exactly match the EQ of the amp?

It does matter for me because then it's just a generic sound! Let's remove amps' names from profiles then! Anyway, i am surprised that noone found them bass heavy in a guitar cab and everybody praises them! Well, i like balanced profiles more, that need minimal or no tweaking, that's all!

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It does matter for me because then it's just a generic sound! Let's remove amps' names from profiles then! Anyway, i am surprised that noone found them bass heavy in a guitar cab and everybody praises them! Well, i like balanced profiles more, that need minimal or no tweaking, that's all!

Are you saying that the Direct Amp profiles have too much bass, or are you talking about the Studio profiles?

I also didnt find them overly bass heavy. Edit: im using the studio profiles direct, not into a cab.