Posts by Ibot39

With "cab" activated, there should not be a (big) difference in sound between both - at least in theory. But some sellers may use a di box that colours the tone and influences the amount of gain of the direct profiles they have taken from an amp...

When cab section is turned off and while using an external cab (or impulse response or any other cab from your rigs), the merged profile guarantees you the original / identical sound of the amp. Studio profiles without cab: Kemper is just "guessing" (or calculating) where to separate the amp from the cab.

Try what you like best. No fixed rules. I often like a merged profile combined with cab from a studio profile for example - sounds less muddy sometimes. And some studio profiles work great with external cabs too, some not so well.

Audioprobe Spartan Cue 110
http://audio-probe.com/en/prod…rtan-cue-110/?ckattempt=1

Very, very compact ... and can really compare to upperclass gear soundwise. It is worth a look, IMO
And you save money for more profiles man...

Quote from Tritium

So, bottom line, NO ONE correctly guessed with 100% accuracy, and that includes @sinmix

No worries, @sinmix, you still rock, mate!

What happened to all those golden ears??

Ha. I got section 2 and 4 identified right with "100% accuracy" I would say

I like blind tests. It's always fun!
But best thing about this blind test is, I know one thing for sure again, even before results are revealed: Kemper is definitely good enough for me!!

1,2,4 Kemper, but section 1 is hard to tell.

New pack again!!
Kempered the lovely tones of my VOX AC4TV - 4W Class A Tube Amplifier.

You get 14 rigs (4W, 1W and 1/10W settings included) - all are direct profiles with the known free Celestion Cab for immediate use. You can of course buy the amazing Celestion Blue Open 2x12 IR Pack, which I use with this profiles. But the free cab included sounds really fine as a starting point.

The amp has an external speaker out and at home I use mostly a VOX V112TV extension cab. For some blues and with single coils the build in 8" speaker is good as well. And can get real loud - do not underestimate the 4 watt power!
DI-Box used for profiling: A/DA GCS-3 with full-range DI setting.
Tubes in the VOX amp: 1x selected JJ ECC83S and 1x JJ EL844 (low power EL84).

Download here, if you want pure and foxy british top-end tone:

Amporium - Fox AC4TV

Here you can hear the Amporium Pedal Platform Rig in a raw mix. For backing guitars (single coils) a "Boss Power Stack ST-2" was used in front of Kemper and for lead guitar a cheap "Caline Distortion" pedal.

Added a link to the first post and to my signature, where you can download all available Amporium packs - at once.

Quote from 120dBRockNRoll

Thanks, but the rar-file is empty

Should work now!

New pack ready:

Amporium - Angel E530 Tube Preamp.
Tubes: 1x Tube Town 12AX7 / ECC83 Classic and 1x JJ 12AX7 / ECC83S
Included are 14 Kemper Rigs (DI + free Celestion IR), trying to get close to the classy Engl E530 Preamp. Have fun and be sure to try the profiles with your own / different cabs too!

Download for free:

Amporium - Angel E530 Tube Preamp

"Updated" the "Platform Rig" above with a new EQ setting activated, to better fit in the mix (mainly 80 hz - 6db, which the preamp has added and hi pass; but you would have hi lo passed for mix anyway).
Playing alone (just guitar) I prefer all the EQ deactivated for fuller sound. (The second EQ slot can be helpful, if you notice excessive boomy sound on lower strings)

If you really want to finetune for brighter pedals, you may try to slightly reduce at around 7 khz.

I think I like the idea and sound of this rig, because in my early years, my only pedal platform was the clean channel of a H&K Attax 80 transistor combo - that must left its mark for that kind of tone. You may think or , but I really

Will post a example of the Rig in a mix, if I have time next week...

Anyone in search for a great Kemper rig that works as a platform for your external stomp boxes?
Try out the Amporium - Guitar Pedal Platform!!

Here the story:
I had an Bass Preamp in my house for repair - power button was broken. After it was repaired, I tried it and it sounded o.k. - a bit to neutral, but not bad.

Next day I just plugged in my guitar instead of a bass - just for fun . And it sounded very good! So I put an overdrive pedal in front of it, then another one, distortion pedals followed... sounded awesome!
The owner of the preamp then told me, that the guitar player in his band once used that preamp (for colouring tone and EQ) with a Wampler plexi drive through a powered mixer into a guitar cabinet for a small concert - and his sound was good.

So after that, I decided to profile the preamp with the settings I was told and refined the di-profile with my proven technique: The result was a wonderful, balanced clean rig, that works extremly well as an universal platform for all kind of external stomp boxes!

For those who are interested, I will share the profile (again with free Celestion IR "Cenzo Celestion V30 Mix"). Best results with this rig: External pedals straight into Kemper Input! Because of the highly dynamic profile, some internal Kemper stomps are too loud and you have to reduce volume here.

The preamp used was a rugged Peavey ProBass 1000. To avoid confusion and because it was used and refined not for bass, but for guitar and guitar stomp boxes, I named it "Peavey 1000 Preamp" in Rig Manager.

Here you can download the rig:

Amporium - Guitar Pedal Platform

Tell me if you like it or if you think "this was really waste of time trying"! But thank god only time, it is never waste of money here

Quote from WhiteFang

I like the idea of the Pulse very much, although it is missing a couple features that would have made me buy it immediately: a balanced XLR out and an internal reverb. With these it would have been a great full backup for an amplifier (something like the Tech21 Fly Rig, which unfortunately is missing the XLR out too). It's so difficult to find a used one here, and I haven't decided if I really need one yet...
Cheers!

The Pulse has an balanced output. Balanced TRS is exactly the same electronically, you only need an TRS to XLR cable.

There are only few EQ options with the Pulse, but you can use Volume knob to get either modern or more vintage sounds. But with the Kemper Rigs I now have all eq options at hand

Quote from Guidorist

... But my favorite at the moment is our new ANGEL PWR II

In my opinion, this is your best pack yet! (And I really like a lot of your work, bit this is killer!)
You really nailed the sweet spots of this amp. I have so many profiles - but this stands out proud and strong!

Here something small and black, but with hot glowing tubes inside: Trying to recreate the sound of a Laney Ironheart IRT-Pulse - not only for the "iron-hearted"

The "Amporium - Laney IRT-Pulse Merged Pack" includes 19 profiles (1 studio and 18 merged) using the Laney 4x12 speaker emulation. One of the best speaker sims I ever heard from a preamp!
Because you get pure direct profiles: With cab off, you can easily enjoy any other cab too.

As well in the pack again: 1 rig with the free Celestion "Cenzo Celestion V30 Mix" - so you may try this fine, converted IR as well.

Download here and for free:
Amporium - Laney IRT-Pulse Merged Pack

Storytelling with your guitar! Awesome melodic playing, man. And production is great!

Joke of the year: "Can someone please tell me, how to quickly change spring reverb settings with Kemper editor?"

In my opinion Dan gives us lots of great stuff and big packs for incredible low prices (including special discount codes...). It makes totally sense if he does different heads with one cab and then moves on to other cabs - updating the packs generous and for free. Or gives us profiles of an amp, that he catched for a short period, in between. And some people here seem not to be aware that profiling is REAL HARD WORK!

We are all human! That means health is important and family should come first! Sometimes this ain't easy in business, but you have to balance things out. So take your time Dan! Your family will thank you and we get carefully profiled rigs !! Win win situation.

Please just continue as before - many love your work and appreciate your business model!

Still missing:

Added: All new spring and plate reverb

(Is somehow Axl Rose involved? So we keep on waiting with patience... "Patience"? Damned, I knew it...)

In a studio profile kemper has no exact information about amp and cab separation. Cabdriver is the tool / algorithm to optimize the use of the amp section alone.

If you copy the (algorithmized ) cab section to a DI profile, you ensure, that the amp section of the rig now corresponds perfect to the real amp - when cab is turned off. Cab is still the same "guess" from studio profile until here.

What exactly happens if you now push the merge button? Information of DI profile is given/fixed. But is cab section from studio profile now only saved or somehow adapted, compared or adjusted? Only separation shifted? That would mean in any case you get an "altered" cab section compared to the studio profiles cab?

So it makes a difference if the cab from studio or from a merged profile is used with other profiles? And a rig "DI with cab saved" sounds different to a "DI with cab merged"?