I’ll have to give the Magic cab a try
whippinpost91850 where can I find that magic cab? Thanks.
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Don't get me wrong - if something sounds good, it is good. And I really like your profiles, bought most of them already.
But people still think sellers of profiles have all the knowledge about the Kemper - at least know the basics.
If you don't figured out the concept of (real!) merged profiles, what cab driver is doing, ... you should really catch up. It is worth to understand it.
When you make studio profiles and tailor your tone with your mics until you like it. Now when you take this cab, of course it is not predictable how it will sound with a direct amp profile of another amp (or the same amp with different settings). Cab driver just estimates where the amp part ends and the cab starts. If you just copy that to another direct amp profile you are copying a cab that may still include a different flavour of power amp, is missing the deep resonance from the original because you balanced it with mics and now it sounds thin, ...
Hitting the merged button in this case just is another random element and is definitely not intended for this scenario. We are now far away from anything "authentic" or capturing the real thing. Really!
THAT is exactly why Kemper developed the real (!) merge procedure. That works and gives authentic results, when done right as written above.
If you just want to copy IR to direct amp profiles and don't want to rely on luck or try and error to get authentic results, you have to capture those IR in a different way. (Hitting merge button still is not a solution at all). So it is possible to do direct amp profiles + IR / cab that sounds good and (almost) authentic, but it requires a quite different approach (for both parts) than doing studio profiles.
Thanks for the condescending tone. I have made plenty of merged profiles the "right" way and wasn't knocked out by them. Perhaps I'm just an idiot, like you imply. I never said, "do it this way". I just said I did it this way and I like it. As far as your opinion of how I get the tones I like for myself, I kinda don't care, but I do get offended when you imply that I'm stupid for not knowing better. Please move on.
lonestargtr is correct. I agree
Display MoreThat is a good question indeed. I assure you all I have been working. I can't keep up with ToneJunkie's pace. I'm not sure if it's because I'm older or my kids are older or just the current state of the industry. Lonestar's original singer left (again) in February so that began about a month of finding a replacement, rehearsing, doing a couple of shows, and then we were off again for two months. My son is graduating high school today (a valedictorian, no thanks to me) so there's just a ton of stuff going on at home.
I have also been on a bit of a tone search as well. I'm always looking for unique amps that I haven't profiled yet and have found a handful and profiled them. It's getting harder to find things that are different enough from what I've already done to make it worth the process of buying/selling and the time and cost that entails. Gear, especially amps, seem to be moving much slower nowadays.
Last year, right as everything was shutting down, I converted my live rig from the toaster with some pedals in the fx loop to a pedalboard setup with the same pedals but with the Stage unit. This was just before the Kemper Drives came out and I just thought that the real overdrive pedals added a "girth" to the sound, not so much a tonal difference from the Kemper Drives. Perhaps it's just a slight volume bump with the real pedals, but I'm not sure. Also, I used a handful of different amp profiles but ended up using the same CAB section for all of them (magic cab) to keep the bottom end from shifting too much from rig to rig. The magic cab has a big bottom so anything not on magic cab seems to lose low end. All this to say that I've been experimenting at home the last few days with some new profiles of my favorite amps and making some merged rigs to try out in the upcoming shows. I won't know if it's a total success until I get hear them in a band mix, but I've actually been really excited about some of these new rigs. In the past I've not been as fond of the merged rigs but I wasn't merging them with a "favorite" cab, just whatever I was profiling with that day. The results then didn't sound different enough and there was something "detached" sounding whereas the studio rigs sounded smooth and "together" (perhaps purely in my head?). But since I was swapping the CAB anyway, I thought I'd try it and I'm currently enjoying the results.
What's the difference? Well, to me, it's a "bigness" to the note. Single notes don't sound as compressed and overall, it just sounds bigger than it's studio counterpart. And I've profiled so many times using the same mics/cabs/etc and some days just sound better than others. Using magic cab preset has just been working for me and has a tonality that I find pleasing. The low end can be a bit much with some profiles, but nothing I can't tweak around.
*Keep in mind, this is all just my journey to create rigs/performances for our live shows coming up. If I'm just recording, for instance, I have no problem using the stock studio profiles. When recording, it's all about finding the tone that fits in the track. For live shows, especially when switching from clean to dirty rigs, everything needs to sit in the same ballpark tonally, and keeping the cab the same definitely helps. And many times in our show, it's just guitar/bass/drums so my guitar needs to fill a bit of space. Other times, there is a piano with a healthy bottom, but I still need to fill that up when he stops. It's just finding the right tool for the job.
I will probably release some new packs in the near future, but really want to do some road testing and I have more work to do on some others. Thanks for your patience!
lonestargtr where can I find this Magic Cab?
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Thanks for the condescending tone. I have made plenty of merged profiles the "right" way and wasn't knocked out by them. Perhaps I'm just an idiot, like you imply. I never said, "do it this way". I just said I did it this way and I like it. As far as your opinion of how I get the tones I like for myself, I kinda don't care, but I do get offended when you imply that I'm stupid for not knowing better. Please move on.
lonestargtr , Mr Ibot39 is out of line to say what he said. Not cool. I think you have been around the block a few times. Don't let the ignorant comments bother you. We ALL know your work and how great it is.
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That seems to be a pretty strict definition of a Merged profile and I'm not attempting to sell any such profiles, anyway. And as for completely wrong results... I respectfully beg to differ. And just saving a cab to a direct profile does not sound good. It works fine for doing that with studio profiles, but just adding a cab to a direct profile, at least the way I've been doing it the last few days, just sounds wrong.
I'm not saying that this is the recommended way of doing things, nor am I saying that the manual is wrong (of course it's not). I'm just saying that I am getting great results for myself by doing this. It was an experiment to see if it worked and for me, it did. I do not know everything there is to know about the cabdriver algorithm, but there is absolutely no way that the direct amp profile "knows" what cab is being added to it, be it from the studio profile or another studio profile.
Congratulations on your son's graduation. Sorry to hear about your singer leaving the band. That's always a pain in the butt.
lonestargtr what is the Magic Cab?? Never heard of this.
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Thanks guys!
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Kaschko that 69 Marshall is one of my favourite rigs ever too. The first gig I ever used the Kemper on that was my default rig and both the FOH engineer and Monitor Engineer came up at the end and said the combination of that and my PRS513 was the best live sound they had heard ?
I can’t say that I’ve found the Greenback imprints to be troublesome with any rigs I’ve tried although I haven’t done an A/B with that rig.
You could try running that rig in Full Range mode on the Kabinet instead of with an imprint and see if that works any better for you.Wheresthedug which mbritt pack is that 69 from?
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Hi guys,
so Britt's 69 Marshall with the Celestion 25w greenback belong to the best profiles I know. They actually are 1 of my 2 go to profiles now. It's especially about the cab - which is of course a rare one for Britt.
However, I am struggling to use it on the Kabinet. If I use the Greenback imprint it just doesn't sound right. And I also don't think there's any other imprint that fits 100%, the closest is probably the G12-100 (at least to my ears they are closer than the creambacks).
That's troubling me a little since the profile is only have as good as it could be if I can't use it through the Kabinet and be sure it sounds the same as what comes to FOH. I don't have that problem with other cabinets - usually the imprints are very close to what the creators profiled. But the greenback imprint just doesn't work.
Any else having issues with the greenback imprint? I'm sure Britt captured it well. Maybe his speakers were broken in and the Kemper imprint has fresh and noisy speakers? Please enlighten me.
Kaschko which pack is that mbritt 69 Marshall with the greenbacks?
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Thank you! Happy to share guys. Let me know if there are others I've featured you'd like, I've got most of them profiled.
burger the HF Cali profiles are fantastic! Sound and feel great!!! Any other profiles you've made? Thank you again!
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The Atomic A3 is my backup. Fortunately I have not had to use it but it does sound good. I also had a Tech21 RK5 which sounded good too.
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Hi friend!
A New KEMPER AMP profiling “is gonna rock you”!
We have just released the new "Friedman BE100 Deluxe amp” profiling pack.
PS - We have also included for you some unexpected Kemper rigs from a new amp as a gift...
Info: https://www.liveplayrock.com/c…dman-be100-deluxe-kemper/
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All the best
Thomas
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MrThommy do you have any sale or discount for this pack please?
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Not yet. Between real work, studio work, and kids I haven’t had much time to even play guitar lately. When I do have time I keep going back to profile my Cameron CCV....new mics, new cabs, new techniques, trying to better the profiles I already made.
I have a pretty healthy amp collection I hope to get to and the Wizards are next on the list. Here is a fairly recent pic.
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Thanks Webb and a very nice picture! Look forward to your future works.
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Good to see this profile still getting some love. Hard to believe it’s been 3 years since I originally posted it. Time flies! I still have the MTL and also a Wizard MCII so hopefully when time permits I can make more profiles.
Webb Have you made a profile of the MCII?
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I am thankful that my Kemper has been an exemplary piece of technology. I absolutely love it and it's never let me down.
Thanks to everyone who's replied.
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Generally, we are very consciously avoiding sound changes with OS updates and any innovations we introduce.
Unfortunately, people tend to relate any issue they experience to the last update. And given our innovation rate there is always a last update.
Very true Burkhard. Thank you for reply.
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I've owned my Kemper since 2018. I've read in the forums that a lot of people have had issues with OS updates. I've read people complaining about their tones, profiles, performances, effects changing or sounding different after updating to newer OS. I would love to know from Kemper if these updates do in fact change the tones or alter what we have saved in our Kempers. Is what we have saved in our Kemper supposed to change after OS updates? I would love to hear from you guys especially from people at Kemper. I'd like to add that I haven't sensed or heard a difference in my profiles and performances. Just curious after reading others on the forums that have had issues.
Thank you.
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As hafi19 and Monkey_Man already stated ( thanks guys) indeed it’s a V-Empire Greenpoint 30.
Unfortunately this company doesn’t exist anymore..that’s a pity because they’ve build great amps. This Greenpoint is a great example but I also have the Blue rumble MK II which is an unbelievable 4 channel amp. It’s an equivalent of a Bogner ecstacy and maybe even better.
But unfortunately very unknown so I’m hesitating to release it as a single pack.Blue Rumble? Better than an Ecstacy?? breu PLEASE release this pack! I'm positive you'll have some buyers. Number 1 right here!
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A lot depends on the desk at FOH too. In many rehearsal studios where I've plugged straight into the in-house desk nothing will take the signal low enough to be workable. This happens when the desk has a mic preamp on the XLR inputs that can't be bypassed. In these cases plugging in to the line input using the TS connection is the best solution. So live venues may have desks with similar input limitations.
Yes! I've encountered this a few times where the FOH preamps cannot be bypassed. Thanks for the tip. I didn't know to use the TS into line input.
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To HW, this time they got it right, the last version was very skewed on the lows and a lot of sibilant high end content. Thanks, now some of these profiles are some of the best plexis I have in my collection. Compliment my M Britt set pretty nicely.
I agree. The new V2 Purple Plexi profiles are highly improved from V1. I love the majority of them. Well done.
