Posts by LiamThompson

OK, I've uploaded a second batch of profiles tonight.

These focus on mainly mid gain, crunch and edge of breakup tones. There is also a few profiles in the vain of the original higher gain profiles, but with the presence and treble dialed in higher on the amp to open the tone up a touch for the dudes that would like to hear the tone a little more open with a touch more bite and cut.

They keys for the naming convention follows the last batch but with a few new additions:

3GS = 3 gain stages
L = Low Input on amp
MIDS = Mids cranked on 10
PRES 4/6 = Presence on 4 or 6
PRES 6+ = Presence on 6 plus treble dialed to 8
ZENER = Zener diode clipping enabled
EDGE = Edge of breakup gain level
CRUNCH = Crunch level of gain
MID GAIN = Mid level of gain

One again just search for Liam Thompson or JMP 2203 MOD

Enjoy

Quote from Antipodes

These are really excellent. Liam has done us proud here. More mid gain profiles etc would definitely be cool.

I tried a more old school cab on these (both the DIs and some of the others) with great results - I borrowed a 1960a cab with 70s era 25w greenbacks from a profile on RE (1959RR Ch2 Vol 6 by David Gerard Burns). It is miced with a single 57 and does the business on Marshalls pretty consistently. Between the V30 sound and the GB sound this amp covers a massive amount of ground.

Glad you like them!. I'm partial to a good greenback/creamback also. I used Celestion Neo Creamback's till recently when I blew both up in my 2X12!!!

I'm actually doing some more profiles right now. A few with the same settings as the standard 3 gain and 4 gain stage profiles with and without the diode clipping before but with the presence upped on the amp plus a few mid gain/crunch and edge of breakup tones.

Also remember the Pre Amp only profiles are just that, pre amp only, no power section captured from the amp in the profile. They are really meant to be used through a valves power amp into a real cab. But if people like them with just a cab in the kemper attached then what sounds good, sounds good!.

Quote from urpilus

Hi Liam, thank you very much for free rigs: nice job!
In my opinion, it miss some presence and it sounds a little bit compressed: did you cut some frequences?
I'm talking about distortion rigs...
Thanks again!

Yeah, the amp settings also on the higher gain ones are my live settings that I use with the real amp, so may be a touch dark for some. Once Fletcher–Munson does it's thing when playing loud it sits just right for me. The presence setting I use use on the amp is only 2 out of 10, I could do a few profiles with the presence set a bit higher for more bite and cut when I get time this week?

I'll also do a few crunch and edge of breakup tones with and without a TS9 boosting.

I've changed the title of the thread to mention these are all merged profiles as I seem to have forgotten to mention this anyway.

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You're a star, Liam, as I think I've told you privately before (no folks, it wasn't in a rented motel room!).

So generous of you to share your special Marshall. Methinks it'll be worth that 4 1/2 year wait for all of us, mate!

Thank you so much again, man!

EDIT:

In case you'd like to edit the names, Liam, the final two Rigs in the list are:

JMP 2003 4GS Zener (Pre Amp)
JMP 2003 4GS TS9

Should be 2203, obviously.

Also, if you're interested in consistency to the nth degree:

The 3GS Zener Rigs use "ZENER" in capitals, whereas the 4GS ones don't.

Please forgive my attention to detail; it's the bane of my life, man.

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Thanks Nicky haha. So much for checking 5 times over to make sure I hadn't made those exact type of mistakes when I was tagging. Do you know if these can be edited by me in the exchange or would it take another upload? Believe me I am bothered to the nth degree consistency has to be key on these things haha.

EDIT: It's OK @Monkey_Man found the options!

Hi guys, after being a Kemper owner and forum member for four and a half years I’ve finally got round to uploading my profiles of my modded Marshall amp.

A little background on the amp.

It’s a 100 watt Marshall 2203 JMP Super Lead Mark II made in 1980 that been quite heavily modified by Steve Dawson of Root 2 Amplification and formally R&D Design Engineer for Marshall between 2005 to 2014.He is the guy that designed amps such as the Vintage Modern, JTM45/100 reissue, Super100 Jimi Hendrix, JMP1W head and combo, 1962 Bluesbreaker combo reissue and the Astoria to name just a few.

The pre amp circuit has been modified to very closely resemble the Friedman BE-100 but has the negative feedback circuit modified to similar values as the Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier, giving the amp quite a bit more modern thump and thickness in the bottom end.This negative feedback is also adjustable by a pot on the rear which softens or tightens the feel of the amp almost identical to how the definition control works on within the Kemper itself.

It has a resonance pot on the rear to dial in how much bass you want in the power amp.

It has an extra valve gain stage and second gain control pot on the rear that allows you to dial in how much gain you would like on the extra stage.The 4^th gain stage is footswitchable via a relay.This pot also doubles up as a push pull to engage the “Fat” boost, which as you can guess increases the bass in the pre amp.

It has two post phase inverter master volumes on the front which can operator as a footswitchable solo boost or just a way to tame the amps volume while being able to crank the master volume to distort the phase invertor making it easier to get “power valve” saturation at manageable volumes.

It has a valve FX loop added with an effects return pot.

Finally it also has a push pull pot also on the rear (this is also the variable negative feedback pot) which when pulled out enables zener diode clipping, think the Friedman SAT Switch or some Jose Arrendondo or Cameron mods.When enabled, two 24 volt zener diodes clip the peak to peak signal going into the tone stack by 25%.This gives a more compressed feel, a little more distortion and hair without colouring the tone like an overdrive in the front would.It also has a high pass filter wired to it to keep the lows tight with the extra distortion and compression.

Although the profiles are fully tagged with as much info as I can fit, here is what the naming convention means anyway. JMP 2203 followed by:

3GS = 3 Gain Stages

4GS = 4 Gain Sages

TS9 = Boosted with a Ibanez TS9DX

Zener = Zener diode clipping enabled

Pre Amp = Pre Amp only, no power section, profiles from the FX Loop Send

L = Low Input was used

+ = Cranked Master Volume

The distorted profile settings were:
Presence = 2, Bass = 8, Mids = 6, Treble = 6, Master Volume = 3, Gain 1 = 8, Gain 2 – 10, Variable Negative Feedback = 0 Tight, Resonance = 6

Clean profile settings were:
Low Input, Presence =7, Bass = 10, Mids = 6, Treble = 6, Master Volume = 3, Gain 1 = 2, Gain 2 – 10, Variable Negative Feedback = 0 Tight, Resonance = 8

The cab used was my Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier horizontal 2X12 with V30’s, miced around 2” from the cap edge with a SM57 on the speaker and a MD421 on the other, both on axis, blended about 60/40 in favour of the SM57 with a low pass filter applied around 10kHZ on the distorted profiles only.

I’ve uploaded them all to the rig exchange just search for Liam Thompson and they’ll appear.

Hope you enjoy them!

Cheers.

I use this program:

http://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/Download.php

Plenty of options to quickly rename the impulses in large batches.

Just make sure you do all the renaming before you convert in cab maker as it doesn't work the other way around.

I'll step in for the SLO100 profile pack, always liked them.

There is also an option "somewhere" where delay tails and spillover can be turned on or off, check that in case you haven't already.

Yes as @Neoland says delay spillover only works in the DELAY slot sadly.

Yeah very easy to scratch.....also the guitars tend to smell like BBQ due to the roasting haha

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Nice, you must have had them do something special in the neck, as the GG Charvel is unlike any strat neck I've ever played. It's not as wide as a Ibanez neck for sure, but I prefer more rounded necks. The Suhr Even C being the perfect fit for me.

I get what you mean and agree with Sam too. It's wider than what I prefer to be classed as perfect for me but it's not near as wide as an RG. I like the width on my EVH and Axis which will be exactly the width you like too.

My friend has one. Easily in top 5 guitars I've ever played. Rewired the selector switch for him so it behaves like an Ibanez RG and added a coil tap for the two humbuckers on the tone pot.

No, they are to monitor what the profiled amp might sound like with say the EQ in the front end.

Say you have a EQ active in slot D, this will feed the EQ to the amp's input as if you have an outboard EQ pedal plugged in but because it isn't an outboard effect placed after the entire Kemper, the EQ isn't "profiled" with the amp.

As soon as you click to start the profiling process, the EQ is removed from the profiling process.

Once you have captured the profile and you are ready to refine the EQ is switched back on so you can monitor again with the EQ added. Once you start refining it is removed again........and then turns back on after refining to monitor again.

Once you are happy and save the profile, the EQ is still present in the RIG and can be switched in or out but is NOT part of the profile of the amp.

I hope I explained that well!

The built in stomps and effects and disabled during the profile process. So they are part of the rig and can be changed, turned off or whatever. They don't bake in or become part of the profiled amp.

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I can't remember exactly where in the settings this is, maybe under SYSTEM settings, possibly RIG settings but this option was introduced a number of firmware ago to address this exact issue. I'm at work at the minute so don't have the Kemper in front of me but rest assured the option is there unless you are on a quite old firmware.

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I’m wondering if anyone can help as I think I may have noticed a bug here?

First of all I’ll explain my routing:

• Guitar plugged into Kemper Input
• Direct Out from Kemper to Marshall Head Input (Same as creating a profile)
• Marshall Speaker Out connected to Suhr Reactive Load
• Suhr Reactive Load/DI output to Kemper Return (Same as creating a Direct Profile)
• STOMP D set as DISTORTION LOOP to insert the Marshall before the STACK SECTION on the Kemper
• STACK SECTION is ON but AMP and EQ are DISABLED, CAB ON to provide my cab emulation
• EFFECTS STOMPS ON for some delay etc after the Marshall Loop and Cab Emulation
• KEMPER OUTPUT to PA/DAW

Basically I’m trying to use the Kemper as a pre and post effects unit with my Marshall head but with cab emulation to send direct (ala Torpedo CAB)

I’ve used a 4 cable method lots to output to a real cab with the entire STACK section disabled to use the Kemper only for effects pre and post amp using my amps effects loop and it works perfect.

However when the output is set to include cab emulation and the full path is sent to DAW/PA or whatever the profile (as you have to select a profile as there is no “blank” profiles) I’ve selected colours the tone greatly even though the AMP and EQ section is off. For instance, a dark Orange type distorted profile with the AMP and EQ off still sounds dark and bass heavy whilst a bright clean Fender profile with the AMP and EQ disabled sounds really shrill and fizzy. How is this possible if the AMP and EQ is disabled or am I missing something?? I am also using impulse responses converted with cab maker not Kemper cabs that were part of a merged or studio profile and this is using the same impulse even when the CAB is locked.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

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Yes, they sound very different. Like 2 different IRs. I think Kemper should actually allow users to use real IRs or either converting them properly. I was very excited about the Cab Maker when it was released but after doing some A/B tests and noticing the very noticeable sound differences I decided not use it.

Couldn't agree more.