Posts by donlp1

Here is the Kemper in my experiment see above my other post. Thanks Paddy for your comment.

kemper exp kemper.mp3.zip

Here's Tonex

kemper exp tonex.mp3.zip

They both have a bit of post processing to try to get them to sound their best to me.

I will qualify to say I am a hobbyist and not pro musician.

I've tried the Tonex software quite a bit in the last few days. To be honest I am less than impressed. The UI to me is frustrating and fiddly. 90% of the sounds on the free tone net are to me harsh and not fun to play, perhaps a greater percentage of the factory presets seem to me to be the same.

My favourite sounds are driven Plexi Marshall ala ACDC and clean but not sparkly Fender sounds for clean rhythm with a bit of spring reverb.

I do think Kemper is a champion at both these sorts of sounds.

Tonight I tried using the Kemper with some favourite Marshall sounds sending out to my DAW whilst I also got the Kemper to output a DI signal at the same time. Of course my Kemper stage sounded great with the addition of a bit of the inbuilt natural reverb provided by Kemper,

I then applied Tonex software to the DI track which of course was exactly as played by the Kemper track as they had been simultaneously recorded and tried some of the best Tonex Marshall captures I had collected over the last few days.

Nope could not get the software to sound as good as the processed Kemper track. To me in comparison Tonex lacked body, harmonic complexity and sounded harsher and for want of a better word less amplike and saggy. The Kemper track was a bit more low passed but I think that's realistic given the frequency response of a guitar cab. The Tonex software seems to me to tend to have harsher high frequency content, less bass and sound and feel stiffer to play.

I would rate the particular experiment I did 2/10 to Tonex and 9/10 to Kemper re sound quality in my opinion and how it sounded to me.

I paid for the software Tonex SE, but I don't think in retrospect it was a terribly useful purchase, sure there are some decent sounding clean and very gain captures (IMHO people might like them for the fizziness ). I don't think the Tonex stomps are all that much better than the existing modelled AT5 stomps eg the stellar Mudhoney stomp in Amplitube 5. Some of the free Tonex Klon stomps with high downloads are not not too bad though.

I found it was very difficult to do a Tonex capture of my Kemper, routing my Steinberg UR 44 was a nightmare, I did not succeed as I wanted to try some Tonex captures of one or two of my Kemper profiles. Just trying to figure out the routing of my UR44 and Kemper ins and outs was testing to say the least.

I was going to buy a Radial reamp box to capture some of my few amps in Tonex, but now I don't think I'll bother, I'll let others tear their hair out and the few good captures I can find I will gratefully import into my Tonex software and use when I am too lazy to break out my Kemper.

I took great pleasure in deleting all the IK presets in my TONex software that I don't own captures for, as I cannot stand the obnoxious hissing reminder IK kindly attached to all those presets. That was a relief and made browsing the presets section of the Tonex software not jarring as it was to me before.

There is a reason I have seen Kempers in many studios on Youtube, I think its place is secure. It is claimed by some on the internet that Kemper is not as accurate as QC and Tonex, however I think in terms of accuracy of the Kemper if that is even a problem then that is completely outweighed by the great tone and feel of the Kemper unit, and noting also the great build quality of the Kemper and the great support and updates and user community.

Hey Shadow6683. Thanks very much, hope they will be of use!

Hi,

I made some Kemper profiles of a tiny Orange Crush Micro battery powered solid state amp. This is attached to a 1x 12 Randall speaker in Vox cabinet open back. Then miced with SM57.

I also threw in two other profiles, one of my Suhr Badger and another of a tiny tube amp 4w champ head with a metal pedal (Vintage analogue Zoom Trimetal)

I then used the profiles to create the demo including a fake bass using the pitch shift in the Kemper. All backing tracks by me.

Pictures of the pedals and champ variant

https://1drv.ms/u/s!Ard6Y2LJquVpkQuEqGbfJF0d87K-?e=1pyHCL

Here are the profiles used to make this demo.

Orange Crush Micro.zip

Hi all,

Here are some rigs from my captures Vox Tonelab desktop (no mics used), and Blackstar Fly - I forget mics - perhaps SM57 or e906

All done with PRS se mostly bridge humbucker.

All tweaked to my taste and some cabs replaced with those from previous captures eg Vox ad15vt.

Below some noodling so you can see whether worth downloading.

Hope you enjoy .

Feedback welcome. :^)

Appreciated for trying out the profiles and the thanks!

Hi all, my first post here.

Owner of a Kemper for about a month.

I have bought some commercial profiles. I am surprised with the quality of the profiles given my first attempt, I have tweaked them a bit though.. Just a cheap digital amp with Vox's valve reactor circuit.

Hope this download works. Its a zip file of some profiles I made tonight and edited re my Vox VT15. I used a tube mic pre and ribbon mic Legacy Axis 70 R121 copy. Sorry I got the name of the amp wrong with the profile comments. However the Vox VT15 is the successor to Vox AD15vt in any case and is a similar form factor and tech.

Hope these would be good for ACDC - the Marshall tones, and SRV the one Fender. Try turning off Green Scream for full clean.

I have labeled one to indicate it reminds me of Long Way To the Top.

I have a Suhr Badger I need to have a go at some time.

Regards Don

AD15vt.zip