Cool! Do any or your packs have merged/direct profiles?
Posts by tnipe
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I got my Kemper almost 10 years ago, and it's still my preferred studio tool. Great update. Them doing stuff like this makes me totally ok with buying another updated hardware unit if there's ever a Kemper 2, because I'll trust them to design a great piece of hardware to last me as long as the original one, updates included. I don't really see the need though, I have pretty much all my bases covered by the current gen.
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Many great players rarely had their volume knob on 10. Scott Henderson never goes higher than 9, as he thinks having the volume pot fully "open" diminishes the sound. But I agree that the entire range of the volume knob should have usable tones.
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They've added a new cab section where you can move the mics around. Very useful feature. With the DSP improvements the HX stuff is in a good place right now.
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I think you should just post a clip, or else you'll get all kinds of opinions
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The HX Stomp has a room/space-parameter built into the cab-section. But it's not functional on IR's if I remember correctly. Rumour is that there's gonna be a overhaul of the cab-section in the HX 3.2, wonder what it will be.
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Have them both, and they're both great sounding units. Prefer the Kemper though
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I've been using only the Valhalla delay since it came out. Have too many reverb plugins! But I like using Acon Verberate to get a touch of room and maybe some plate from the Waves Abbey Road plates.
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Bert doesn't mention the power amp as far as I can see - Cabs/drivers include a Marshall 1960 quadbox with 4x12 Greenbacks, another (Mars) 4x12 with Blackbacks, a 1x12 with a Creamback H (Bert's cab), a Jackson Newcastle 30 cab and a Bogner 2x12 with V30s. So most of these will be familiar from previous profiling extravaganzas - IOW the usual suspects from Bert's earlier packs.
Looks like the most comprehensive MP-1 pack so far. Looking forward to using these.
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Excited for the ADA MP-1 pack. Which speaker/mics are in it and what power amp? Mine has been at a tech guys shop for a couple of months and I really miss it sometimes...
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The ODS-style pack used a MD421 microphone into a Celestion V30. I was doubting that choice until I heard and played it.
The SSS-style pack used a MD421 on an EV speaker. Spot on for those kinds of sounds.
Cheers,
Mats N
Thanks!
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I have promised the owner of the profiled equipment to never ever tell anyone what was used or who owns the gear. I intend to keep that promise.
But if you like the profiles and have fun playing them, the rest is sort of irrelevant.
Cheers,Mats N
How about the other Dumble packs? There's certain speakers/mics I like and dislike, and I tend to buy profiles where that's states specifically.
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Well, if you're into the D*mble type of sounds, I have two other packs that you may like. The ODS-style pack (profiles of a Bludo-Drive like the one Larry Carlton has) and the SSS-style pack (profiles of a Bludo clone of a Steel String Singer which is my absolute favourite). CHeck out the audio demos on my web site.
Cheers,
Mats N
Is the Black Goop back a real ODS? What kind of cabs/speakers/mics are used for the profiles? Thanks
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Have most of them and using mainly MBritts dumble. Mattfig has DI profiles too, which are good.
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The delays and reverbs are studio grade quality, and I don't miss any of my pedals or plugins in that regard. Has kept me from selling my Kemper several times.
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Well, my flirt with the QC is over for quite a while now…
The curious person that I am, I had ordered the QC in tier 1 and received it in March.It only took a day or two to find out that it certainly is no Kemper killer.
While the modeling in the unit sounds great its captures (QC lingo for profiles) left something to be desired for me, mainly due to the fact that you cannot alter captures very much like you can with the Profiler.
So I was left with a great modeller that could also do captures….
I gave myself a few months time to do a thorough evaluation of pro’s and con’s of the unit and then decide if it’s a keeper or not (as I said, I knew from the beginning it wouldn’t replace my Profiler).
Pro's: The modeling and also quite a few captures sound great and lively. I don’t want to dis the unit at all. Also the reaction to the guitar volume is very good. You can play the unit very dynamically. (But also in this regard it’s definitely not better than the Kemper).
Con's:- The QC's routing, while very flexible in theory, doesn’t allow me to have a stereo signal out to FOH with a cab sim on and a stereo signal without any cab sim for a stereo monitoring solution with stereo cabs. I can do this with the Profiler.
- The touch screen is disappointing, period. It's way below iPad league. When inputting things there’s an annoying lag. You always have to look on the screen to avoid mistakes due to the lag and sluggish behavior of the screen input.
- The FX may be limited at this time but they sound very good. But you can't store any parameter sets as an FX preset, you can only set a given parameter set as default. This is a joke.
- The whole cloud experience is hit & miss. I have a very strong WLAN network in my house, but the QC was very touchy and lost connection on a day by day basis.
- Updating the unit was hit & miss as well. Once it took ages, the other time it went smoothly and quickly. Once the unit set itself to default settings and I lost my patches. Even though I had a current cloud backup I couldn’t retrieve it and had to start from scratch.
- I didn’t like that you can’t decouple the main outputs from the volume knob.
- I couldn’t warm up to scenes, I find morphing way more intuitive and expressive (but this is me).
I won’t comment on the chaos in the QC cloud to find appropriate captures. Finding the right profiles for the Profiler can be a pain as well.
But after all those years there’s a stock of highest quality profiles for he Profiler readily available (the usual suspects' best profiles are part of Kemper's factory content) where the QC has to do a serious catching up.
Also there is no Kemper Kab equivalent for the QC,The Kab has once and for all helped me to embrace the whole modeling/profiling thing in a way I never thought would be possible.
Having considered all the above points I put the QC on sale and got more for it than I paid (due to a 200.- Euro price increase since it hit the market).Sold it to a guy who is an Axe-Fx III owner who just wanted to know what all the fuzz is about and who wants to be able to take part in all the gear talk.
I hope you find this useful.Great write-up Ingolf. I'm holding out on the QC, waiting for more amp models and a more finished product. The form factor is great as well as the rotary knobs. Some day maybe.
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Great stuff, man.
Coincidentally, I recently posted asking if anyone here was doing New Age music or if that was just the realm of keyboardists. Clearly it's not, although I guess these days it goes by ambient since New Age is probably a dated term.
Very cool, hope it does well for you!
Thanks! I'm not super knowledgeable about the genre, or if this is even considered ambient, but the Kemper is very useful when going for these types of guitar sounds.
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Thanks for listening guys, appreciate it!
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Great sounds and super creative use of the Kemper. I love that. And cool to base this on improvisation as well... cool thing
Thanks! So many sounds in this thing!
