Posts by frazzman

I don’t really understand these posts. It kind of comes off as though you’ve missed the point of the unit and that you’re not using the technology to it’s intended purpose. The shortcomings you’ve outlined are more to do with your approach than the Kemper.

Most of what you’ve said actually points to the fact that you haven’t liked the profiles you’ve been trying. If you had real life amp sounds that you liked the sound of, then why not profile these? You could capture these at any volume and EQ setting which would have allowed you to get the sweet spot you needed.

The other point about the Kemper being hard to use in a recording situation with the band present etc. just comes down to poor planning. If you haven’t found a sound you like, doing it in an attended session is barely going to help.

That’s ok, it was easily fixed! The mark V actually sounds good with the clarity setting up high, I was surprised

I think the trial is referring to tonehub. The Kemper pack is just free. I haven’t been a huge fan of the STL profiles I’ve tried but this pack actually does a pretty good job of capturing the 800 from light crunch through to high gain, worth checking out.

I needed more metal profiles like a hole in the head but curiosity got the better of me. I tried out your free pack and I really liked the mark V profiles. I’ve never really found any that sounded good to my ears. Ended up grabbing your pack. Really good profiles. The “tight rhythm” profile is great. Really clear and striking sound. Good stuff

** EDIT: only thing I might add is that it might be beneficial to not crank the amp block volume to +12 in the profiles as it makes it hard to trial them objectively. The other thing I noticed was some less typical edited settings, like +10 “clarity”. I’m not usually a fan of those kinds of drastic edited settings but in these instances they actually worked pretty well.

Greetings from a fellow Aussie! Keen to give these a go

Damn, I really wanted to try these, no chance of sharing them one last time?

The justice for all tone is easy to emulate. Just turn the volume knob to zero. Job done.

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I just got these, mostly interested in the Mesa profiles, very awesome mix-ready profiles. I just wish there were some notes or tags in the profile to let you know what is going on. No idea what cab, speakers, mic, any pedal etc.. for each profile.

My fave Mesa one right now is JTM-MUSA-DR2, but I have no clue what is used on it except the amp. Makes me use my ears instead of my eyes for what I'm expecting to hear for a profile, but wish I knew the details.

Josh actually shared the info about each of the profiles when I got in touch with him. I won’t reproduce it here in case he doesn’t want to. In saying that the DR2 profile is a Marshall 1960 TV cab with a Maxon 808. Josh has mentioned before he just rolls with a single SM57 most of the time.

Yeah again, this profile really kicks ass.

This profile is top shelf!

This amp in my view is one of the hardest to get right. Nearly every commercial profile I’ve tried is either too muddy or too fizzy. This is very articulate and sounds great with my passives. Good job and thanks.

You don’t think that after 10 years people are doubting the sincerity behind the claim that their amps will he delivered or refunded? Why not just refund the affected customers who will never see their amps. I know people that got burnt waiting for amps that never came.

The way your profiles are marketed kind of reeks of desperation. Why don’t you set up a conventional web store like every other seller?

Lol... are these ‘virtual’ amps supposed to be a replacement for all the ‘real’ amps that Mark sold and never delivered?

I agree, there are some unknown gems on this guys page, he did a JMP 76 profile that I use all the time, great Marshall sound

How do you mean ?

There’s a video on YouTube of all the profiles demoed with just guitar only, if that helps.

Took the plunge on these profiles. This pack is certainly impressive. The most useable profiles I’ve had from a high gain bundle.

Here’s a quick and dirty black metal demo
I did, quad tracked with blend of 5150 and Recto profiles.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/7bmd…at7/HM_JTM_Test3.mp3?dl=0

I think the effect is exaggerated in solo / out of the mix guitar examples like you hear. I think it's less in an entire mix (at very moderate settings). My first thought today was that when just jamming, it certainly felt more vibrant with PC off.

It would be interesting to know ckempers thoughts on the pure cabinet default of "3" (on units that shipped with later firmware versions). Obviously they perceived this default to be beneficial but the jury is out I guess

Yeah for sure, as a global setting it is an annoying default. My unit came with it set to "3" by default. I guess the problem is you kind of get used to hearing things a certain way then it's hard to perceive if it sounds better on or off, or just different.

This is a good subjective test on the topic:

I actually do think that the guitars in that clip do sound better around 2-3 pure cab. I think if it's used, anything over 3 seems to suck the life out of the sound.

It certainly seems to me to work best on profiles that have too much brittle 'sm57' kind of sound.

Also worth noting, for as many people who don't seem to like pure cab, there is a group who proclaim it's glory, like such:

Opinions on "pure cabinet" option

I actually have the opposite experience, at least with high gain profiles in a recording context... I found a lot of them to sound like a harsh, fizzy, phasey mess without any pure cab. I leave it at the default value of 3 (factory default on my unit).

I could imagine on cleaner and more dynamic profiles that pure cab may have an adverse affect.

Late to the party here... but have to say, these profiles are seriously good.

Had the kemper for a week now, tried some free and some "big name" commercial profiles, had some ok results but nothing I wasn't getting on modellers in past... a little ho hum... until I stumbled across Marcos 6505 profiles on the rig exchange ... these were amazing... and that lead me to the origin audio page.

Great stuff, stoked that I found them.