Ambient tone with the kemper (wanted)

  • Have your attempts ended up sounding more like U2?


    These aren't guitar sounds, are they?


    The good news is: the Kemper can do some non-guitar sounds.


    Here are some starting points I can suggest. Try to tweak the existing FX/EQ/Amp and Cab parameters on the below Rig Exchange suggestions to get closer to the original non-delayed part of these examples, and then add the ambient delays and reverb.


    Percussive attack sounds:
    Zeppelin Rhodes 2
    Fender Rhodes Piano
    Kemper Banjo


    If you also are interested in the slower attack sounds:
    Ensemble Synth pault
    Vowelotron2

  • If you are talking about the ambience (delay and verb) try high repeats and feedback on delay and cavernous reverb both with a low mix level. Stacked delays with conflicting repeats (times or division) would help but not possible on the KPA without another pedal in the loop.
    This may help


    http://youtu.be/X4R-Gx_gaWU

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  • Never really tried to create ambient tones before, but yesterday this dropped to my mailbox: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W86sZ4AcMWQ


    So instead of spending 39€ for the advertised EzMix pack, I checked what I can do with the KPA (first run here, these will be further tweaked ;)).


    Here is a small test clip recorded directly from the Kemper master stereo out via spdif (only levels/cross-fades are touched in the DAW): https://dl.dropboxusercontent.…919/laardi-ambience-1.mp3


    0:00-0:24 just reverb+delay


    0:25-0:49 added pitch shift+messed around with the ducking parameters


    0:50-1:18 further added some muffin distortion by making use of the "parallel path" option


    Need to check that FX rig pack next ... :)