NAD: Kemper Profiling Amp (w/clips!)

Re: NAD: Kemper Profiling Amp (w/clips!)

Damn son that sounded great! Nice tone and great playing.

A very happy new amp day to you. :D
 
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Virtual Kevorkian said:
^^Mine came with a bunch of his settings preloaded and I can tell you that they were absolute crap. Legitimately sounded/felt like a POD. I'm not a fan of his clips, but to each his own.
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I dont listen to extreme/death/thrash/fusion metal (hailz yall) much so I would not know, but that is prolly how my recordings would sound like a line 6 podfarm if I got a kemper; it really is in the mixing ability that allows for such awesome gear to shine ;)
 
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at risk of sounding absolutely Noob.... Is the kemper a modeling amp in the vien of the Axefx? The first Id heard of Kemper is in the sticky on the amp forum. If so, seems like modelling is gaining ground.. I hear great things about the AXefx.
Thanks for the info!

Ill check the clips after work..
 
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Great playing and tones VK, I'm not a metal guy but that was a great mix.
 
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call me kooky, call me crazy, i heard some Jeff Loomis-esque phrasing on that solo.

very cool stuff, great tones.
 
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^ I caught a Loomis vibe in there too. It's that little bounce lick with the bend.

I'm stealing that.
 
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Virtual Kevorkian said:
Cheers for the comments, guys!

GJ, I've just had it for a day so I haven't gotten into profiling anything yet, but as sosomething said there's a massive user library. That said, as would be expected with any user library of patches... most of them kind of suck. There are a few real gems, but the most consistently awesome patches I've found have been from www.TheAmpFactory.com; both models used in this clip were from them, and until I start profiling on my own I have a feeling they'll be my go-to patches.
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Make sure you're running the latest version of the Kemper software, I noticed an improvement in the sound of some of the free patches after updating. (Not to mention, the older version didn't allow for cab/amp swapping in patches, and the latest version does.)

Which ones from the Amp Factory are you using? I've been thinking about grabbing some of those, but they don't have a "metal pack" :D
 
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just wanted to say hello, young gun - nice to see you around these parts
i hope life is treating you well

i dont know from these kinds of heavy rhythm tones and style of music to comment intelligently, so all i can say is that it sounds top marks ... as for the solo, the tone was splendidly round and fluid - no angry bees, very appealing even to an old fart like me .... your note choice during the sole was very tasteful and engaging

cheers
t4d
 
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I've been really, really awful about updating this thread; I'm finished with class for the week in a couple hours and will go through the thread at that point. Aside from answering comments, I'll be doing the following (at least in the near future):

-Posting the guitar stems from this mix
-Doing a play-through of a few different profiles I have to show how well it responds to picking dynamics/volume knob adjustment and how dead-on it is for the amps (AC30, Matchless, Mesa, TwoRock, etc)
-Giving the bass amp profiling a run-through with DI/profile comparisons
 
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Man, this is badass. Great tones!
 
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BloodRose said:
at risk of sounding absolutely Noob.... Is the kemper a modeling amp in the vien of the Axefx? The first Id heard of Kemper is in the sticky on the amp forum. If so, seems like modelling is gaining ground.. I hear great things about the AXefx.
Thanks for the info!
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Sort of; this works on 'profiles' more than models, which is a proprietary way that the Kemper company has developed to run a test-signal through an amp and analyze it in a way that lets you play through a more or less perfect replication of the setup from the box. Same end effect of modeling lots of different amplifiers but it gets the information in a totally different (and far more accurate/pleasing, IMO, way).



ConvoysToNothingness said:
call me kooky, call me crazy, i heard some Jeff Loomis-esque phrasing on that solo.

very cool stuff, great tones.
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sosomething said:
^ I caught a Loomis vibe in there too. It's that little bounce lick with the bend.

I'm stealing that.
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Cheers guys! It's definitely the fact that I went from a diminished into a phrygian sounding lick, can't really get away from a lot of my influences I'm finding. It's more or less Loomis, Mikael Åkerfeldt, and Peter Wichers rolled into one at this point.


dominus said:
Make sure you're running the latest version of the Kemper software, I noticed an improvement in the sound of some of the free patches after updating. (Not to mention, the older version didn't allow for cab/amp swapping in patches, and the latest version does.)

Which ones from the Amp Factory are you using? I've been thinking about grabbing some of those, but they don't have a "metal pack" :D
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This was on 1.1.1, just updated to 1.5.0 yesterday though and love the extra output options. I can reamp in a completely digital manner with this thing now, never leaving the digital realm and not introducing converters into the signal at all. That's awesome. I still haven't toyed with cabinet swapping as I'm not 100% sure/into the cabinets that have been used on a lot of these; once I start profiling on my own I'd be surprised if the cabinets I make don't end up being my mainstays for metal tones.

I just quelled the collection of profiles that came on my (used) unit from 2400 to 50; the ones I kept are all Amp Factory. The ones that stand out to me are the AC30, Matchless HC30, TwoRock, Stiletto, 5150III, Blackstar, and Rectifier.


tone4days said:
just wanted to say hello, young gun - nice to see you around these parts
i hope life is treating you well

i dont know from these kinds of heavy rhythm tones and style of music to comment intelligently, so all i can say is that it sounds top marks ... as for the solo, the tone was splendidly round and fluid - no angry bees, very appealing even to an old fart like me .... your note choice during the sole was very tasteful and engaging
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Yeah it's been a while! Thanks for the kind words. How are things on your coast? Your son end up at a well-fitting university?
 
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So here are some more files from this first test:


Backing track w/melody+lead gtrs:


Single rhythm gtr:


All rhythm gtrs (2 left, 2 right):
 
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Virtual Kevorkian said:
Yeah it's been a while! Thanks for the kind words. How are things on your coast? Your son end up at a well-fitting university?
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yup, all good here ...
and yeah, he did, thanks - majoring in aerospace engineering here in state and tearing it up so far

take care
t4d
 
Re: NAD: Kemper Profiling Amp (w/clips!)

Virtual Kevorkian said:
This was on 1.1.1, just updated to 1.5.0 yesterday though and love the extra output options. I can reamp in a completely digital manner with this thing now, never leaving the digital realm and not introducing converters into the signal at all. That's awesome. I still haven't toyed with cabinet swapping as I'm not 100% sure/into the cabinets that have been used on a lot of these; once I start profiling on my own I'd be surprised if the cabinets I make don't end up being my mainstays for metal tones.
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It opened up the unit for me. I've gotten REALLY used to a free Mesa 2x12 IR inside Revalver's RIR loader and would tweak everything to match that. After scrolling through cabs on the Kemper (since I had 250 profiles at the time, that means there were 250 cabs with very few dupes), I was able to get some awesome tones out of the "Kill 'Em All" profile.

If they ever get a computer based patch editor for this thing it might be game over for Axe FX.
 
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That sounded great. It does a great job of modeling and sounds a lot like a real amp. The AxeFX might not even be able to compete with that.
 
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You have friends with sick amps? That'd be on my mind right now if I were you! Hell it'd be worth it to rent a diezel or something and go to town.
 
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