New Soundside Profile Demos!

Hi All,
After buying a lot of profile during Soundside's Christmas bundle sale I've been creating some demos for the Soundside website and made a soundcloud playlist to showcase them. My goal in these demos was to try to not touch any of the raw profiles. I basically grabbed a guitar and started to jam (like everybody does) and whatever popped out of me is what you hear. So, these were done pretty quickly (usually an hour or two at the most), with really no amp tweaking, and are not mastered. I also kept them super simple in terms of production so you can better hear what each amp sounds like. Or, at least the 1-3 profiles I used sounds like;-) I used a 92' Gibson Les Paul Standard with Burstbucker 3's, a Charvel Wildcard 5 with Duncan Custom Custom, a 2000 Telecaster with Duncan Alnico Pro II's and a little bit of a custom Starr Guitars Strat. As we all know, guitar used, player, song, etc, all make these profiles sound different. That's what makes the Kemper so awesome! I'm also starting to play with the distortion sense settings and find I get more natural boost results there. I did tweak that for the solo for "Bad Cat Boogie" for the lead so as to get a little more gain. Enjoy and keep making great music!

Soundside Profile Playlist

Quote from whippinpost91850

Just gave a listen. You have an excellent touch, very nicely played.. And tones are very good

Thank you! I'll say one thing, it's fun making these as I don't care as much and want to get it out quickly. It's a good creative and technical exercise. Try giving yourself an hour or two to write, record and mix a song;-)

Quote from waraba

excellent playing & tone, and what a fast workflow you got ! can you tell us more about how fast you can do these demos ?

R

Workflow:
1) Plugin guitar and start auditioning profiles until I hear something cool
2) Start writing a song based on what I'm hearing
3) Since I'm plugged into Logic, find tempo of new "song" and record the idea before I forget it!
4) Program drums to guitar idea
5) Maybe redo guitar idea now that I have drums, or not, depending on if it sucks or not
6) Add 2nd guitar track panned right, probably switch to a different guitar and profile in the pack as well
7) Record bass
Add some kind of lead guitar
9) mix it down in about 10 minutes and call it day

Profile tweaking:
Usually I tweak a little or a lot but on Armin's profiles on these demos I did zero tweaking. On top of that I did little to no eq when I mixed, other than master buss overall type of eq. I wanted to keep them raw sounding. And, since these aren't my normal flushed out productions, I wasn't as picky. I wanted people to hear the true sound of the profiles. Obviously if they buy them and use them they'll sound different than me based on many, many reasons;-)

Quote from waraba

thx Dave, this is very close from my own workflow, except I often need a drumming to warm me up, I use ready made samples to catch a groove and then start recording guitars, bass and leads come next.

Thx for your great explanations.

R

No problem. Yes, drums are always somewhat challenging. I usually play them in live these days (finger drumming on keyboard) and get through them in about 5 minutes. In the old days it would take me much longer and they wouldn't sound as good.

Hey, is that a picture of your Les Paul on your profile web site and if so what are the details?