Or are you just recording your bass' dry signal and then add compression, distortion, etc. to it (a la Ola Englund)? I have been going through a couple of bass amp profiles, and although some of them sound good on their own, I can't seem to find one that's suitable for recording.
Do you guys use the Kemper to record bass as well?
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I do and its great I use the free bass pack from The Amp Factory
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For my last song i used an Ampeg SVT, but i don't know if it's free. But it works great.
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Yes, records fine.
Done Acoustic gtr too, limited only by the inline or mic you have.
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I tried with great result a couple of time...
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Is it possible to profile a great mic preamp? Than i could plug my microfone into the Kemper an would have some expensive studio preamps for vocals.
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Is it possible to profile a great mic preamp? Than i could plug my microfone into the Kemper an would have some expensive studio preamps for vocals.
I don't know how close that gets you to the real thing, but there are some mic pre profiles on the exchange.
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For my last song i used an Ampeg SVT, but i don't know if it's free. But it works great.
I used the same profiles with great results.
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I used the same profiles with great results.
I do and its great I use the free bass pack from The Amp Factory
Did you need to tweak the profile and/or add a lot post-processing?
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Did you need to tweak the profile and/or add a lot post-processing?
No tweaking. I plug my Warwick Fortress One into the Kemper, select the Ampeg SVT profile and play. For me it is a very good result. A well defined bass tone with enough punch. That's all, but the song was a slow rock ballad. No tweaking, no EQ, no effects.
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Sounds like it might be worth giving a try
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Could you be a bit more specific? Maybe it doesn't fit the song/production style?
Bear in mind that different players and different instruments will give you different results even when using the same profile. To make a profile 100% suitable for everybody you would need six months, ten players and twenty different basses. As suggested try a different profile and see (or rather hear) if it suits your track better.There are no set rules for bass recording. Sometimes we record it "straight" some other times with compression on the way in, some other times it will have compression on the way in and out in the mix. We tend to eq after as selecting a different amp/speaker combination, microphone and microphone placement always sound better than equalising on the way in. There are exception to this as well but most of the times try to move the microphone and or change mic/amp/speaker before reaching for the eq.
We keep a dozen different bass profiles in our KPAs to suit different production requirements and different players.
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Proper Bass amp profiling would certainly be welcome and allow the Kemper to cover both grounds in accurate fashion.
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I don't know the details, but a couple of high profile artists are using the Kemper for bass. One being paolo from trivium. He uses an amp factory SVT profile I know for a fact Live, as they are good friends of mine. Just proving a point the Kemper is proving able to do bass profiles just fine, we just need more obviously
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The KPA definitely sounds great for bass recordings.
More likely things to affect the sound are (in order)
The player
The bass
The quality of the chain (the profile quality).The free ones on Andy's site are fantastic.
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Proper Bass amp profiling would certainly be welcome and allow the Kemper to cover both grounds in accurate fashion.
hi.what exactly do you mean with 'proper'?
thanks.
p.s.
this guy seems to like it
"Kemper Amps (@Kemper_Amps)
16.08.13 02:06
Profiler spotting: Billy Gould of Faith No More just sent us greetings from his bass amp profiling session!"
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We use it quite often when a DI was captured as well as when a production choice calls for a different sound. We have profiles for all of the amps in the studio locker as well as some from long term customers, friends and fellow musicians.
It depends on the engineer but I usually keep the chain basic in case I need further tone shaping down the line. Preferred pres for bass are either V72s or 1073 with a few exceptions here and there. Sometimes I have a Pultec and rarely a comp following the pre. Microphones vary depending on the cabinet used and the sound we are aiming for, ranging from usual suspects like U67, RE20, D12, 421 to Brauners or Gefells.
No profile will be good for everybody out there, pick up type, instrument and player make a huge difference. Same goes for monitoring, if I'm monitoring on ATC 150s and the player is listening through laptop speakers he/she will definitely be complaining about a lack of "low end"
