Been waiting for a good profiling of this amp. Sounds killer. Thanks!
Posts by Blackwidow675
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Has the brownface 1963 Vibroverb been done ?
I know this is the commercial section, but just FYI, I posted a few free profiles on the Rig Exchange of a Headstrong Verbovibe, which I understand is a clone of that amp. They were my first profiling attempts, and I'm not 100% satisfied with them, but they get the job done for me. You might check them out. There are ribbon, dynamic, and ribbon+dynamic versions at a few different settings. It's a creamy sounding amp.
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Welcome. I can't speak to the Tone Block, but I was showing some friends at a Guitar Store the Kemper tonight, and we hooked it up through a Quilter MicroPro Mach 2, and it sounded phenomenal. I would think it should work just fine. Plenty of power, too. Not sure what your speaker pairing will sound like, but as for the amplification piece... you should be good. I'd actually like to hear your feedback on that scenario when you get it all hooked-up, as it's a solution I'm thinking about. I've been running into a little Fishman Loudbox (aux in), which gets the job done and sounds fine, but the Quilter sounded better to my ears.
We had a little crowd gathered around by the end of the in-store check-it-out thing tonight.
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These are sick! Just used them live at a gig tonight and they kicked ass!
Love hearing that!! Rock on!
And thanks for the feedback. This is the coolest piece of gear I think I've ever messed with.
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Thank you so much, BW!
The Twin Bender ones aren't showing up yet for some reason. Just letting you know in case you accidentally hit the wrong button or something.
Hmm. It looks like they're there to me. Maybe I made them a little too incognito. They're the 3 with "TB" in the last part of the name.
Let me know if you don't see them within the next day or so, and I'll try reloading them.
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Have been interested in this amp for a while. Looking forward to checking it out. Thanks!
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I just added 3 more profiles with the Ramble FX Twin Bender: MkII Normal, MkI.V Normal, MkII Mid. All were taken with the amp running at mid-gain.
While I think these sound pretty good (MkI.V cleans up great like the actual pedal), I notice that the Kemper doesn't quite pick-up the chewy, roundness of the actual pedal, and I'm not quite sure how to tell it to compensate. Thankfully, I can still run the pedal in front of the Kemper if I like, but frankly, these are good enough for any live use I'd probably be planning. If I need that kind of thing for recording, I'll just drop the pedal in as needed. Or maybe one of you guys knows how to dial that sound in a little better, if you know the kind of "choking on itself" sound I'm talking about.
One thing I noticed about profiling with a fuzz pedal... the trouble I was having with the pedal in front of the Headstrong was apparently attributable to the impedance changes caused when running the Kemper signal into the pedal during the profiling process. Thankfully, this pedal has an impedance knob on the front to adjust, and that did the trick magically. I'm not sure how I'll manage that trick with most other fuzzes, but I throw that out in case anyone else is having a head scratching moment when doing their own fuzz profiles.
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I'm back for Round 2, and I've added some profiles of my Suhr Badger 30.
Similar to the round I did with the Headstrong, I've added three main settings: clean, mid, and pushed. Each level of gain has a dynamic (M88), ribbon (M160), and mix (M88/M160) profile. The differences among the mics are fairly subtle, but this may help account for varying preferences and also permit some degree of mixing control if you're using these for recording.
I'd welcome any feedback on these. (Same for the Headstrong profiles, although it has its own thread.)
What I'm beginning to notice is just how stinkin' much difference the speakers/cabs make. Heck, that's not even counting the mics being used. There are, for example, a couple of other Badger 30 profiles out there, but most use a V30 type speaker, and I prefer it with a creamback styled speaker. Different strokes for different folks. As you might imagine, this is a less scooped sound. But preferences aside, this is a different take than what I think might otherwise be presently available, and so I hope you receive it in that spirit.
Have fun!
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What a champion you are, Blackwidow; thank you, mate.
Thank you for taking my idea on board, man.
Great idea! Thanks to you, too!
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For anyone who's interested, I've updated the rigs so that there are profiles of the VerboVibe with the following mics: ribbon (Beyer M160), dynamic (Beyer M88), and mix (M160+M88).
Volume-Treb-Bass settings are indicated by the numbers in the title: 2-7-4 (clean), 6-7-4 (mid), and 9-7-4 (crank).
I also included an older M160-only file (Cln+ 474) that I'd done before I could figure out how to manage the mic mixing in TotalMixFX.
I also tried my first one with a pedal in front: RambleFX Twin Bender on MkII/Fat setting with the amp on 4-7-4 (M160/M88). The Profiler gave a warning that it had detected a noise gate (?) and that I might retry it again after I checked my settings, but it sounds interesting enough as is. I didn't have a noise gate anywhere in line, so I'm not sure what that was about. Fuzz pedals can be noisy though, so maybe that's what was causing it...
The idea here was as described in my post above. You have independent dynamic and ribbon mic profiles if you want to try to create your own blend through a reamping process. (At least I think that would work if you recorded a dry DI signal along with one of the two mic profiles...)
In case anyone's interested, the mics were running through the Warm Audio WA12 preamps w/ the pad and tone buttons depressed.
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Hey man, why didn't you leave the older ones up there? I mean, many folks might've preferred a single mic anyway. I for one have a preference for this as it eliminates the possibility of phase misalignment between two or more mic's.
If you've still got 'em, I'd encourage you to leave / re-up them, mate. As long as the relevant metadata fields are filled out correctly, I can see no problem with dong so - only benefits.
All that said, thank you for your efforts, Blackwidow!
Fair point there. In fact it gives me another idea. I think what I may do is also add a few with just the dynamic. That way -- if somebody records a DI along with the processed signal -- s/he could reamp and blend the two for themselves if they like. Or go straight ribbon or straight dynamic.
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Will check it out. Thanks!
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Okay... last update on this thread, I promise... I had been trying to get things profiled with a mix of mics, but let's just say that RME TotalMixFX is not exactly the most intuitive softmixer, at least to my pea brain. After watching the TotalMixFX tutorials on YouTube -- who'd have guessed...
-- I was able to get an M88 mixed in with the M160. That gave these profiles a little more edge and pop.So, I deleted the old versions from Rig Exchange, and I added the 3 new ones I did (clean, mid, and cranked). I'm really pleased with them; hope you guys enjoy. On to the ol' Suhr Badger 30 next...
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Totally know the feeling. Nearly separated my fingernail from my finger the first weekend. Glad to know I'm not alone with this recent playing obsession.
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Just wanted to provide a quick UPDATE to this thread... I've updated the VerboVibe Clean profile and added three additional profiles (each with more volume/gain on the amp) to the Rig Exchange. By way of explanation, the three numbers at the end of the name are the settings for the Volume-Treble-Bass.
These profiles should work pretty well with both single coils and hum buckers, although you might want to dial up the definition a number or two w/ humbuckers.
The profiles are renamed with the prefix "HS VerbyVibe..."
(On a side note... Man, it sounds like the world is ending on the last phase of profiling! I can't even imagine what they guys with big Marshall stacks must be experiencing when they're making a profile of the amp cranked!)
Anyway... I hope someone enjoys these. It's a lot of fun making them.
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Hey, Guys. After a couple of hiccups last night (still not sure the cause), I was able to get my first profile completed, and I continue to be amazed by this thing.
I have a Headstrong Verbovibe, which is like the old brownface Fender Vibroverb 2x10 amp. Incredible amp, and I was really a little worried that I might be let down with the profiling of my own amp.
Not a chance! Somehow this little toaster oven has shrunken my Headstrong into a tiny 6 kb file. I think this profile is very faithful to the amp IMHO and -- in some ways -- I think it's even better. Unfortunately, it can't quite cop the trem on the amp (maybe 90% of the way there), but the trem in the Kemper is still awesome, and I really don't miss it at all when I'm playing the profile. But I seriously think the profile might be like 102% of the amp's quality. Just incredible.Anyway, I hope you enjoy it. It's on Rig Exchange as "Headstrength Verbyvibe." Give it a
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Hey there! After much hemming and hawing, I finally took the plunge and ordered a Kemper toaster and Remote last week. This thing is utterly amazing!
I spent a lot of time looking through this site before taking the plunge, and so thanks to everyone for that silent push. There's a lot of great info here, and I'm happy to be in the club.
I haven't tried any profiling yet, but I'm looking forward to giving that a go here in the next week or two.
In the meantime, Rock On!
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I ordered one last Tuesday... it showed up in Kentucky last Friday.
