[UPDATE:]
Current rigpacks available:
1.)The Waza Amp by Boss (24 profiles with Waza Cab / plus additional 24 direct profiles) - price: €14.99
2.)The Klemt Echolette BS 40 with Swedish Mod (17 studio profiles with Zilla 4x12 Cab / plus additional 16 direct amp profiles) - price: €9.99
3.)Mesa Boogie Triaxis & 2:90 Power Amp (47 studio profiles / 46 merged profiles / 21 direct amp profiles) - price: €8.99***NEW: just released!
PM me for our profiles or email us directly at [email protected]
*If you post a video of one or more of our profiles with a link in this thread, you'll get one of our packs of your choice for free!*
[/UPDATE]
Dear lads,
the time has come to reveal what we've been working on for the past year!
I am the co-owner of a studio and we've been using the Kemper profiler both in the studio but I've also been using it for my personal band.
We've been debating about launching our own set of profiles for a very long time now. Our studio offers a nice collection of high-quality gear, as well as fully optimized recording rooms and thus optimal profile-taking capabilities.
The profile market is certainly very crowded - so we had long discussions if we should start offering our services at all, at what price, should we launch a dedicated webpage, how to market etc.
To make the story short and give you guys an outline, we thought it best to offer this:
First of all, who are we?
We are a professional recording studio and a group of 5 people:
-a seasoned and well-experienced audio engineer
-a meticulously audiophile (not to mention a total tube-snob!) amp technician
-2 long-time studio session guitar players with many years of experience
-and my humble self!
Why did we decide to join the profile making market?
I'll be very straight here, all 5 of us make a living in the music industry - it's a less lucrative business to be these days - and not an easy one - but it is what it is - and the love of music, guitars, amps, gear, bands, recording and live playing is what drives us!
All we want to do is being able to maintain what we've painstakingly built all these years and remain happily on this path.
We do these profiles for ourselves and for use in our studio - but if these should make you guys happy and by selling those we can afford to pay one or more of those monthly bill(s) - we'll be more than grateful.
What is our mission?
We believe that the Kemper Profiler offers a superb quality like no other digital device. Therefore, we will focus on giving an experience that is true to the feeling and tone of the amp being profiled - instead of doing a polished version that is more production ready (we believe that is a job that has to be done by an audio engineer - taking the soul of the amp and player and shaping it into the right frequencies of the production and song). So we focus on the soul of the amp - staying 100% true to how it sounds and responds/feels.
So in short:
a.)Profiles that sound and feel like the actual profiled amp - giving a true-to-life experience - when a profile is not 100% true to the original, it gets dismissed immediately.
b.)no tricks and no compromise attitude - when you buy a profile, you should get a 100% true-to-original tone. So we use absolutely no equipment for tone enhancing! It's pure amp, cab, studio mics and studio cables (Mogami). That's it!
c.)no virtual EQ or amp parameter adjustments in the profiler (we won't artificially enhance the profile by altering the virtual paramters like pick attack, clarity, compression, tube bias etc. - so you get the true sound and feel, warts and all).
d.)Some amps have real sweet spots: we do not profile with EQ controls set flat - we strive to go for the best sounding and thus best possible representation of the amp!
e.)Affordable prices - for now that means no dedicated webpage & no fancy Marketing - we prefer to do it the old-fashioned way: word-to-mouth. This saves much time for us and allows us to keep prices down. Chances are that if you're happy you'll come again for new stuff!
What amps do we bring to the table?
All will be revealed in time!
But we will focus on rare amps (tube and a few solid state) that are hard to find or are not offered by others. We currently have a small but very nice collection of vintage amps, custom builds and modded modern amps.
Our primary field of expertise is Rock, hard Rock and (80s / 90s) Heavy Metal - but our collection is, of course, perfectly suitable for a large variety of music.
So that's it from me.
The first two amps are already well in the works and should be available soon!
Rook