Posts by FlyingSnowman

    Have you guys seen this??? Seems to sound and work better than the one built in the Kemper...


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    If you like Ritchie Blackmore's sound from the era of Deep Purple Mark I, II, III, and of Rainbow's first two album, check out these profiles! They were made from a very rare Marshall Major amp.


    More info here: More Black Pack - Flying Snowman Productions


    Sound samples here: Soundcloud

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    This pack includes over 100 profiles (!) that try to simulate Ritchie Blackmore's sound during his years with Deep Purple (Mark II and III) and Rainbow. These are profiles of a very rare Marshall Major 200W Model 1967 amp from 1971-1972 in excellent condition. There were only 1200 copies made of this amp, and only a few are still in good condition, worldwide. The best is to play these rigs on a Strat, although many profiles also sound great on a Les Paul! This amp was also used by Mick Ronson and Stevie Ray Vaughan. These profiles sound the best on a FR speaker because the Scumback H55 speaker is an integral part of the unique sound.


    The material that was used for making this pack, is the following:


    - a very rare Marshall Major 200W Model 1967 amp from 1971-1972

    - Good vintage tubes (preamp and power tubes)

    - The Pigeon (Hornby-Skewes clone) treble booster to simulate sounds during the period of Deep Purple Mark II

    - The BSM Studio 75 Treble Booster, which also incorporates a modus to emulate the AIWA and Top Boost sounds during the period of Deep Purple Mark III and the first two Rainbow albums

    - The Rivera Rockcrusher to reduce the volume at speaker level

    - A Scumback H55 30 Watt speaker

    - Shure SM57 and SM81-LC microphones


    You will not find this kind of profiles anywhere else because there are so little Majors left in good condition! I checked it out and couldn't find any, that's why I decided to profile it myself. Furthermore, it was really not an easy task to get the right ingredients to get Ritchie's sound... Every composant in the sound chain has to be the right one. It took me years of experimenting with amps (Vox, Marshall Vintage Modern, and the Major), treble boosters and speakers to obtain this.


    These profiles were made with firmware 5.1. Your KPA must be using 5.1 or later to use these profiles.


    "Note: All product names and trademarks are the property of their respective owners, which are in no way associated or affiliated with Flying Snowman Productions. Product names are used solely for the purpose of identifying the specific products that were studied during Flying Snowman Production's sound profiling process. Use of these names does not imply any co-operation or endorsement. You are purchasing a license to use these profiles for your own personal and/or professional use but profiles are not for resale or for any other unlicensed distribution, free or compensated. The Flying Snowman Production profiles simply seek to re-create the sound of the stomp boxes and amplifiers listed and any use of brand names is strictly for comparison purposes."

    Kemper Packs Testimonies:

    Suseguitar from Kemper forum:

    I had a chance to play one of the profiles (037508) yesterday in our rehearsal room, played my Strat with Quarterpounds ;) - the solosound is just awesome, assertive, supporting and inspiring. Great work!

    Ibot39 from Kemper forum:

    After testing the profiles my conclusion is: The pack does exactly what the author is advertising. You get the Blackmore sound from the mentioned era. Humbuckers are possible, other 70s rock-sounds with a little tweaking. But the real soul of this pack is authentic Blackmore-tone! For this it was created with an ear for details and this is were the rigs shine! Thanks for the nice pictures that complement this special pack. I have to highlight the pdf that comes with the profiles offering very detailed information. Great!

    Laker from Kemper forum:

    These profiles are the real deal IMHO.

    Riddlescott from Kemper Forum:

    I like it the better the longer i play it. What i also appreciate is the tasty effects settings. Highly recommended for the real Marshall Bluesy Staccato Strat Sound.

    raiellojr from Kemper forum:

    I like the pack a lot...a little tweaking and I can get real close to your sound samples.

    Laker from Kemper forum:

    Blackmore Marshall Major profiles [Flying Snowman Prods] - Only the one amp a Marshall Major but it sounds like the real deal. These profiles are outstanding. Everything they make sounds great. What I really like about them is their sound samples sound just like what you download. IMHO a lot of other profilers do not sound the same.

    Acolbourn from Kemper forum:

    Thanks for the tips, just wanted to follow up for any else on the hunt for Frusciante tone. For profiles I tried flying snowman's more black pack listed above and they sound great!

    On page 337 is mentioned:

    I understand that you have to connect a speaker to your amp (through the DI box) because of the impedance interactions which need to be captured by the profiler to create an authentic profile. But what if later on, you want to add a different speaker to the Direct Amp profile? Or you want to add an IR file? Will this also have a negative impact on the sound (because it's a different speaker)?

    Interesting. so, was the cable damaged and shorting which the KPA interpreted as Clipping? I would never have thought to check that as a cause ?

    I was just thinking what might have been changed with the previous day when I did the profiling and it succeeded... The only thing that had changed, was the cable :)
    I know that cable still works because I used it for another connection without any problem... But I guess something must be wrong with it... difficult to figure out what. Anyway, good to know: if anyone has the same problem: try changing the cable first.

    I'm trying to make a direct amp profile of a pedal + an amp. Each time I get the message "reference amp is clipping the profiler".

    I lowered to return level to -32 dB. I'm using the Behringer red box GI100 with the two -20 dB pads pressed down, but I'm still getting this error message.

    What am I doing wrong? It tells me to lower the volume on my amp, which I don't want to do because it will generate a different sound than the one I want.

    The strange thing is, yesterday it worked, and today it doesn't... Don't get it.

    Thanks.

    thank you Alan ;(

    That statement is wrong.

    Well, not wrong imho, but incomplete. It should say: In the Output Section, you cannot set the Global Imprint to Full-Range. You can set this Full-Range setting locally in the Cabinet setting, per patch.

    However, if you intend to overrule locally, you need to work the other way around: Set Speaker Imprint Mode globally and overwrite by Rig with another Speaker Imprint or Full-Range as needed.

    Yes, that's my point, from the start :) I understand this and I did already in my first post, but this is exactly what I don't like, and I will explain why.

    If you buy profiles from someone, you want to sound the rigs with the cabinets that the seller intended you to hear them. So the default should be FR (imho). Then, if you want to change the setting, you can still change the Speaker Imprint in the Cabinet section per patch. The way it's configured now means that you have to change the cabinet setting FOR EACH PROFILE to FR.

    The other choice would be NOT to use the Global Imprint mode, but that means that you cannnot put it on in the cabinet setting of a rig. So for me, it would make much more sense if it were configured the other way around :) So it would make sense to have the possibility to select Full-Range in the Global Imprint setting in the Output secion.

    Does anyone know why the Full-Range option is not available as Global Imprint in the Output Section?

    You can set it per rig, in the Cabinet section, but not in the Output section. Seems weird...


    Also, whenever I load a Rig, the default is to take the Global Imprint setting (in the Cabinet section). I have to manually change it to FR mode, each time (and save it).

    I would have preferred that the default is FR mode, and that you can choose the Global Imprint setting.

    Would be no problem if you could select FR in the Global Imprint (Output) section...


    Any thoughts?