During the preparation of Biagio Antonacci tour, Massimo Varini has posted a series of videos in which he showed how he carried out the profiling of his amp. After many requests decided to sell these fantastic profiles appreciated in his instructional videos and tour. The Profiles are of "recent" and vintage amplifiers: Hiwatt DR013 1979 (with the famous Partdridge as output transformers), Fender Tremolux 1963 (with tube rectifier), Vox AC30, Marshall 1987X of 1969; Marshall 1959 Hand Wired; Brunetti 059 and Custom Work Mercury; Marshall Astoria Combo. Some sounds are profiled with stompboxes as Menatone Dirty Blonde, Brunetti Taxi Drive, Boss CS3.
Amps have been profiled with their own speaker or the MV Custom cabinet that Massimo has developed and is using for years. The cabinet is "half back open" and uses Celestion speakers: GreenBack, Blue Alnico and Vintage30. The microphones are the typical used for guitars: Shure SM57 Sennheiser MD421 and Royer Ribbon (Ribbon) R-121; DPA 4011.
The high-quality mic preamps chosen by Massimo are: 512c API; Brunetti Par 400, Universal Audio LA-610. The mic preamps are then in a tube of Thermionic adder:
the Fat Bustard. Then small equalization touches are made with the legendary GML (George Massemburg) 5200 and then as a compressor / limiter a Universal Audio 1176 or a Teletronix LA2A. Some of these profiles have the effects and are already all optimized from the point of view of editing (using the options offered by the KPA).
12 PROFILES:
NAME suggested Pickups Head/Amp stompboxes Cabinet speakers sound type microphones mic preamp summing eq/comp post
Dirty Watts Single Coil (Strat pos. II) Hiwatt DR103 1979 Menatone Dirty Blonde MV Custom Blu Alnico (open back); GreenBack (open back); V30 (closed back) Edge Shure SM57, Sennheiser MD421, Royer Ribbon R-121 Brunetti PAR400; API 512C; Universal Audio LA610 Fat Bustard Thermionic GML 5200 EQ / Universal Audio 1176
Power Solo HB Brunetti Custom Work Mercury - MV Custom Blu Alnico (open back); GreenBack (open back); V30 (closed back) Lead Shure SM57, Sennheiser MD421, Royer Ribbon R-121 Brunetti PAR400; API 512C; Universal Audio LA610 Fat Bustard Thermionic GML 5200 EQ / Universal Audio 1176
SuperCrunch HB Brunetti Custom Work Mercury Brunetti Taxi Drive MV Custom Blu Alnico (open back); GreenBack (open back); V30 (closed back) Crunch Shure SM57, Sennheiser MD421, Royer Ribbon R-121 Brunetti PAR400; API 512C; Universal Audio LA610 Fat Bustard Thermionic Teletronix LA2A
Ready for Stomps SC Brunetti 059 - MV Custom Blu Alnico (open back); GreenBack (open back); V30 (closed back) Clean Shure SM57, Sennheiser MD421, Brunetti PAR400; API 512C; Universal Audio LA610 Fat Bustard Thermionic -
Middle in Face HB and SC Marshall 1987X 1969 - MV Custom Blu Alnico (open back); GreenBack (open back); V30 (closed back) Crunch Shure SM57, Sennheiser MD421, Royer Ribbon R-121 Brunetti PAR400; API 512C; Universal Audio LA610 Fat Bustard Thermionic Teletronix LA2A
Cranked AC HB and SC Vox AC30 Landgraff OD VOX ac30 Blu Alnico Edge Shure SM57, Sennheiser MD421, Neve 1073 Fat Bustard Thermionic -
Crunchy Tremolo Single Coil (Strat pos. II) Fender Tremolux 1963 - MV Custom Blu Alnico (open back); GreenBack (open back); V30 (closed back) Edge / tremolo Shure SM57, Sennheiser MD421, Royer Ribbon R-121 Brunetti PAR400; API 512C; Universal Audio LA610 Fat Bustard Thermionic GML 5200 EQ / Universal Audio 1176
Pop Arpegio Single Coil (Strat pos. II) Marshall 1959 Hand Wired Boss CS3 - Nux Overdrive MV Custom Blu Alnico (open back); GreenBack (open back); V30 (closed back) Clean (Edgy) Sennheiser MD421, Royer Ribbon R-121 Neve 1073 Fat Bustard Thermionic -
Funk Clean HB and SC Marshall 1959 Hand Wired - MV Custom Blu Alnico (open back); GreenBack (open back); V30 (closed back) Clean Sennheiser MD421, Royer Ribbon R-121 Neve 1073 Fat Bustard Thermionic -
Rockin' Combo HB Astoria Dual Combo 2015 - Combo Creamback Crunch mid DPA 4011 API 512 - -
Rock'n'Roll King HB and SC Fender Tremolux 1963 - MV Custom Blu Alnico (open back); GreenBack (open back); V30 (closed back) Crunch mid Shure SM57, Sennheiser MD421, Royer Ribbon R-121 Brunetti PAR400; API 512C; Universal Audio LA610 Fat Bustard Thermionic GML 5200 EQ / Universal Audio 1176
Exotic Crunch HB and SC Marshall 1959 Hand Wired Xotic BB preamp MV Custom Blu Alnico (open back); GreenBack (open back); V30 (closed back) Crunch Shure SM57, Sennheiser MD421, Royer Ribbon R-121 Brunetti PAR400; API 512C; Universal Audio LA610 Fat Bustard Thermionic GML 5200 EQ / Universal Audio 1176