Kemper profiles *recommendations*

[MrDowntown]

Looking for a good/great/the best Kemper profile for a Neil Schon/Journey type tone. Playing a PRS SE245 just as a fyi.

As many have stated, and many know, the 14K+ profiles is a bit daunting, not to mention a rabbit hole I dare not go...

Anyways, there are a blue zillion at my finger tips already, maybe someone can point me to one. or maybe i need to purchase a pack?

thanks for any feedback!

 

[Pat6969]

When I had my Kemper I would use the rig exchange library, there are a lot of very good free profiles to be found there. You can use filters to narrow your search, which is what I did. Filter the type of amp he used, or one that is similar. Auditioning them is super quick so once you've narrowed down to a certain amp or close variant, you can literally audition 100 profiles in 10 minutes. They don't need to be loaded into the Kemper to audition them, you just click on them in the rig manager and they will play through the Kemper.

That being said, Tone Junkies and M Britt profiles are stellar. M Britt has some Marshall profiles that are money.

 

[evhfan]

https://www.goldlionaudio.com/

https://bighairyprofiles.com/


some of my favs

 

[K-Roll]

I have bought presets for roughly $500 since I've had my kemper.

Lessons learned:

-Profiles that sound great for recording and are pretty much mix ready are not great for live use (or at least in my case)
-Profiles that sound weird at home may be TITS for live use
-Do not use headphones through the kemper headphones out or even the soundcard because of flechter munson -> you want to know what it sounds like in the room at a reasonable level
-If it sounds great, it is great
-I use passive pickups and I dislike amp profiles that had been done on active pickups, they just sound off

Because I want my sound to be live ready for gigging and rehearsing I must say this - no matter what I tried my MBRITT Recto, friedman be50, 5150 and 5153 profiles with slight tweaks to definition have been delivering sounds that I have not even had back when I was playing live amps/heads/cabs. I'm not paid by MBRITT or any other folks but I am a HUGE fan of those profiles.
Another great pack for live is the GGD.
We're playing in fairly low tuning so slight modifications were necessary but nothing that would take more than 15 seconds .

These usually sound kinda meh at home for recording (except for GGD) but through a monitor on loud settings in a band I do not want to ever use anything else.

For home recording I always refer to my STL putney, sinmix profiles, or even those that are free on rig exchange.
All of these listed however sound a bit overhyped in gain/bass/lows there's lots of different mic positions which almost all sound like they are ready for double if not quad tracking. These sit really well in any quick mixes though.

(Almost as if you had a sound with a lot of 'information' captured but it would still sound narrow?)

 

[dead-pan]

Livereadysound.com is definitely worth browsing.

 

[Monkey Man]

They don't need to be loaded into the Kemper to audition them, you just click on them in the rig manager and they will play through the Kemper.

Technically they are loaded into the Kemper, Pat - just not saved; they reside in the edit buffer, each new Profile sent from RM replacing the last 'cause the buffer is designed to house the currently-active Rig only until it's saved or replaced. This is generally how outboard digital synths, effect units and whatnot work.

It makes sense when you think about it - the algorithms necessary to make sense of the tiny Rigs (just a few kilobytes in size) are contained in the Kemper OS on the unit.