Hey guys
I downloaded a profile of Gilmours amp (HiWatt) from TAF. I'm trying to get the clean tones to sound 'softer', at the moment sound too immediate and hard, if that makes any sense!
Maybe this is a characteristic of the amp I don't know, but a softer, bluesy tone is what I'm after!
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New or old strings? Neck or bridge pick up? Good quality noiceless cable?
Humbucker or single coil? Does pickups pick up some electromagnetics
from other things in the room, like computer screens, light tubes, dimmers,
air conditioner, WIFI and so on ? Anything of this can add a conflicting sound
to the clean sound from a string and "confuse" the tuner
I mostly use my ears when tuning my guitars ( every guitar behaves different )
Cheers !
Very good point. I play with my computer in front of me, phone on me etc. Thanks!
Hey guys
I'm not bashing the tuner at all, but I find it's very sensitive. For example, say I'm tuning a string, the tuner with flit/fly all all over the place and it's very hard to get it to settle to 0. I was thinking about getting a seperate tuner pedal. Do you guys use the inbuilt Kemper tuner or a separate pedal?
If you do use a separate pedal, do you simply plug it into the input of your Kemper along with your guitar?
Hey guys
I'm learning some Pink Floyd stuff at the moment, and currently on Shine on You Crazy Diamond. The first few solos are relatively low gain, but I can't get sustain on the notes. Any tips?
I'm using the free AC20 profile with some light delay and reverb btw. No other pedals yet
I find cleans the hardest to get on the Kemper. Edge of breakup & gain, sounds incredible. Cleans sound rather 'woody' and dull to me. Any tips on profiles would be awesome!
Breakup and gainy tones I can get to sound great. However, I really struggle with getting cleans to sound 'alive'. They just sound really dull.
I bought the Killer Cleans pack from Reampzone. Any tips on making them sound more lively?
Just wondering if anyone's had any experience with their profiles? I'm eying up their Killer Cleans pack!
Hey guys
When you have a load of profiles, some being clean and some being heavy - how do you balance the volumes?
Newbie question I know. Do you do use Rig Volume? Any other tips on how to balance them?
Thanks!
Bumping an old thread, but are the RigBusters profiles generally considered as the best Floyd profiles?
Hey guys!
Sorry, I know I have a similar thread. This would really help myself, but may also help other newbies.
How do you deal with option paralysis? Say you want a profile of a Mesa Mark 5. Where do you go? There are so many folk who make profiles - and it can be overwhelming where to get profiles.
I'd recommend that you first review the profiles that ship with the Kemper, as there are samples of many commercial profilers in there. That'll help give you a feel for what they do.
Also, "the best" profiles will vary for each person and for one are highly dependent on the style of music you play. What's awesome for rhythm & blues may not be so great for metal.
For context, I play classic rock. I have a lot of the M. Britt profiles which shine in that context, and I also got some of the high gain stuff from Top Jimi. Then my credit card lost its structural integrity so I decided to just play guitar while it cooled down.
Thank you! Yeah, I've done that - they're great but there's somethings I'm after.
1) Some great cleans. I've found some profiles that are great 'on the verge of breakup' tones, but I'm after some Mayerish cleans.
2) Paul Gilbert shred style gain. Not icepick gain, I just really love the tone Gilbert gets.
Hey guys!
Semi recently got my Kemper, and so far I've just been using free profiles off the rig exchange. These are great but I'd love to check out some commercial profiles.
In your personal opinion, what 3 profile makers are your favourite?
I'd love to know too. I've been able to get great 'on the verge of breakup', but not cleans. I know it's capable!
Hey guys
I needed to get a new audio interface, so I thought I would get one with SPDIF.
Can I just use standard RCA cables to connect it via SPDIF?
Hey all
I have a question about how clean/dirty profiles work. Sorry if I struggle to word this in the best way possible!
So on a normal amp if you dial back the gain you get a clean sound, then if you turn up the gain you get an overdrive/distorted sound. With Kemper, when you buy or download a profile, does the gain knob work the same? Or do you get different profiles for clean and different profiles for dirty?
For example. I download a Mesa profile. Do I use that same profile for both clean and distortion by adjusting the gain & adding pedals, or would I use a specific 'distorted' profile?
Display MoreLOL This is exactly what I've been doing for him, Paul:
Commercial
Marco Fanton
David Gilmour "Alternative" sound
Top Jimi
Reamp Zone
Hiwatt Hi-Gain 100 Kemper Profiles - ReampZone
The Amp Factory - You’ll se DG’s amp halfway down this list, and it’s 5 pounds:
Download Categories Pack 4 : The Amp Factory
Rigbusters
Pink Lovers Bundle | Rigbusters.com
Description:
The Pink Lovers bundle contains 4 incredible full packs:
The Pink Wall pack Vol 1
The HWT C100 Pedals pack (seeking to re-create the sound of the Hiwatt DR103 Gilomur Mod – Made in 1974)
Cornish SS3 pack
Pro Co Rat pack (LM308 chip)
It’s a must-have for all the Pink Floyd and Gilmour lovers.
Free
Search “Gilmour” in RM. There are a couple in the factory content and on the Exchange.
Gundy Keller's free Kemper Rig Pack (in RM and downloadable from the Kemper site)
Maurizio70
http://www.maurizio70guitarist…d-cover/comfortably-numb/
Pink Floyd Sounds with the Kemper Amp
Random Attempts & Discussion
You're an absolute legend, thank you so so much! I might splash out on that Rigbusters pack 
Cue the Gilmour fans deluging him with awesome profiles...
I certainly wouldn't complain! Reckon I should make a separate thread for that? I don't know what the etiquette here is
Hey all!
Recently posted a question in the private forum about profiles. However, this question is more just me trying to understand a few things a bit better!
Here we go. Apologies - these may sound really dumb!
- 1) What delay do you use mostly? It seems most profiles I download has 'legacy delay'. What is it - just a standard analogue delay or?
- 2) I was looking at some sites where you can buy profiles, and on some you can buy what looks like stompboxes. I didn't know you buy effects? I thought they were all built in. (Eg : https://www.rigbusters.com/products/guitar/pedals/packs/)
- 3) I have a Ditto loop pedal. If I connected this via the FX loop - is that all I have to do, or do I need to set anything up in the menus?
- 4) Lastly, and I realise this isn't in the same vein at my other questions, but what headphones do you use with your Kemper?
Thanks all!
Display MoreWelcome, David, and may I say "well done" for choosing the correct subforum when almost all noobs get it wrong by asking for Profile suggestions in the "Introduce Yourself" one.
You didn't mention any preferences, but here're my current faves. Sorry if this is redundant for those who've seen me say this before:
Bert Meulendijk:
I've bought all his stuff. His "big" packs are smorgasbords of mix-ready, vibey, characterful, mucho-mojo Profiles. Can't go wrong with him. Huge proportion of "keepers"; if his Profiles were women, you'd marry most of 'em ("keepers" - get it?).
Guido Bungenstock:
I've bought all of Guido's stuff too. Perfect compliment to Bert's offerings in that they tend to cover the heavier end of things with more gain. Each pack's small, cheap and contains cleans through to heavy. Fuller sound than Bert's stuff, but that's 'cause Bert carves out the frequencies that you'd end up losing whilst mixing anyway.
CiliLab:
I love Ivan's choice of mic's and preamps, and the "authentic vibes" he captures when Profiling. His JVM pack, for instance, is still IMHO the definitive JVM capture to my ears. If you're into authentic, "phase-issue-free" heavy vibes, Ivan's your man. Definitely recommended if you're into heavy stuff.
Michael Britt:
Although he's a country-pop guy, he's ventured into heavy territory recently, at least more-seriously than previously. His Crunch 'n Go Pack, the most-recent, is a nice little collection of ballsy tones. His older stuff covers clean through to crunch admirably and exhibits his shared (with me) aversion to phase-anomalous offerings.
SinMix:
If you're into super-heavy stuff and don't mind having an ice pick chiselling its way through your eardrums, check him out. The ice-pick reference is because he employs the angled-mic, high-end-emphasis techniques that induce and exploit phase cancellation, something my hears don't like, but it has its place especially for cutting through dense metal mixes, and many swear by him. There's a huge free pack floating around so you don't have to pay to audition.
The Amp Factory, ChopTones, Top Jimi and others that have been around for a long time all have their fans; I'm not in a position to recommend them 'though as I don't own any of their stuff.
Lastly, if you haven't already, check out the free Rig Packs in Rig Manager (also downloadable from the Kemper site), where you'll find Kemper-selected morsels from Guido Bungenstock, Bert Meulendijk, Michael Britt and a bunch of others. Free auditioning, so highly-recommended.
HTH, mate.
EDIT:
To save your having to find it, here's SinMix's free heavy pack that I spoke of:
Wow, what an awesome post. Thank you so much! Exactly what I needed
This is the single best investment i've made for guitar. I say investment because it makes me want to practice just to use it!
Welcome!
What kind of sounds are you looking for?
Cheers
One sound I am after at the moment is a great Gilmour tone, but obviously that isn't really going to be covered by these profiles unless they have a Hi Watt profile!
The primary tones I'm after :
- 'Sparkley' clean tones - which I can also add a stompbox for some extra drive
- Soaring Marshall leads for Gary Moore style bluesy shred fun
- Everything in between!
I don't really dable with ultra high gain, heaviest I really go is Metallica but a 'nicer' tone. Not as scooped!
Display MoreFor context, I'm a classic rock guy. Van Halen / Bon Jovi and that era of stuff is about as heavy as I get. Since it's very popular I should also mention that I don't enjoy the drop tuned metal vibe, so I can't speak intelligently on what would be good for that sort of stuff.
From clean to crunch to the kind of classic rock high gain stuff I employ, the Micheal Britt profiles have been great for me. Because of Black Friday and being cash flush from selling all my amps post-Kemper, I bought all of his (manually, as he doesn't have an "everything" pack). Consistently high quality. He's a single coil kinda guy at heart but on the gain stuff I typically use a PRS McCarty, sometimes a Les Paul with the new 57 pickups, and have been very happy. As Nicky mentioned, the new Crank n Go is great and gets lots of use so far.
I initially bought one of the dual amp packs from Tone Junkie because I used to run Vox / Fender and other such combinations for clean stuff. I also bought their Friedman pack after being so happy with the MB stuff. I find Tone Junkie's Friedman a bit thinner and haven't quite warmed up to it yet, but it's still good. The dual amps are very nice indeed, and I think where these guys shine is in the cleanish / Fender-y stuff.
I also bought Top Jimi's high gain pack. I like a lot of these as well, but be advised that his stuff is absolutely drowning in reverb, so for my taste I'm going to have to brew a pot of coffee and step through each one to dial it back about 75%. Nonetheless, that's just my personal preference. The sounds are all high quality and will get a lot of use.
With what I bought and what ships with the unit, I now have over 2000 profiles, which is just stupidly indulgent on my part. It's going to take me quite some time to get familiar with all of those. And there's some really great stuff in the factory rig packs, including the Morgan from Rig Exchange that everyone talks about. There are currently over 13,000 profiles in the Rig Exchange, so there's bound to be a ton of really good stuff there as well. Honestly, I'm doing my best to just avert my eyes until I get comfortable with my initial packs. As a guitarist I'm a pretty simple creature anyway, so I doubt that there are any significant holes in my current collection. You can easily get lost in the never ending quest for more profiles. Me, I just want to play guitar.
Of course, everything in art is subjective. The only definitive thing I can say is that I've sold all of my Marshalls, Fenders, Voxes, yada, yada and now use the Kemper exclusively. And my guitar has never sounded this good. You're gonna love it.
Thank you so much dude!
I was researching for about 2 months on what to get and I'm so happy! I'm moving out of my parents house soon into an apartment, so unfortunately a 'real' amp wasn't feasible. Although I have a THR10 for noodling which is great.
Naturally I looked at the Helix, AX8 etc - but they all seemed to require too much tweaking! I wanted to just load up an awesome profile and jam away!
When I first got it, I won't lie I felt a little bit underwhelmed. It was pretty confusing also! First thing I did was wipe everything off the Kemper - and do some searching on the rig exchange. Found that Morgan AC20 and jammed on one track for about 30 minutes non stop! Now I'm incredibly happy with my choice. It's pretty much the answer to all my guitar questions of what to get. I just love how, while it's plenty deep if I want it to be, I can just load up a great profile and jam away
If you had to choose just one profile for cleans, what would it be?
