Posts by Grains

Quote from MuddySludge

You sound Great, What Profile and Mic are you using?

In the video I use a small condesor microphone. No need to spend a lot of money.

There are a lot of rigs you can use. Take the rig of an old Twead Amp with a litle gain.

I used the VAB clean 2 from the Kemper Rig Pack 2. I only use the amp and the cabinet part of the rig. I did some equalisation and after that I added slab back and some reverb.

The most important part of the sound however, comes from how you play the harmonica: More or less air, your mouth, your tongue and the cupping with your hands.

The Mississippi Kings on Soundcloud

Hi

I'm playing my harmonica's through the Kemper. The sound you hear is not the FOH but from the two Matrix cabinets (Q12 & Q12a). The sound is recorded with the video microphone, but it is not too bad.

Mississippi Kings - Live performance in a smal venue for a local radio station.

Quote from Ingolf

What do you find difficult profiling your amp?

Hi Ingolf,
I have a technical background. I understand the proces of profiling an amp. I did made a few profiles and they were really wel. But profiling my 5 tube Marble Bluesonic amp did not deliver the expected sound. It is a Hi-Z input amplifier for keramic microphones. I tried it many ways, including input transformers.

Don't bother to solve this, I am happy with my Kemper. But thank you for asking.

I use my Kemper for playing live and in the (home)studio.
I have trouble making a good profile of my tube-amp, that has a typical fat Chicago blues sound. I didn't find that sound ether in the rigs of others.
But .... I usually don't need that sound while playing the harmonica. I created my own sound with the Kemper and I nearly always use it.
You can listen to my band here: Mississippi Kings - Winter harvest.

I will not be very active on the forum, I simply don't have the time. But now you know that playing harmonica can be done with the Kemper