Kemper Profiler Amp: Profiling MY Amps Using a KEMPER
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- čas přidán 4. 12. 2018
- In this episode we profiling MY amps using the KEMPER PROFILER AMP.
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Ken!! (GL) Taught me so much about recording and engineering, you couldn't work with a nicer dude. He's a badass!
Thanks Rhett!
Rhett have you tried their profiles?
Please Please PLEASE, ask Tim Pierce, to make a full profile kit for Kemper...we know this man has the ultimate ear on tone and so many beautiful profiled original amps in his collection! ... keep on rolling with the awesome videos!
That's Crazy. I just got off the phone and brought a kemper. Then I look in my feed and my main man Rick has a new kemper video up! It's a glorious day!
That's awesome I'm lusting after one!
It's actually Ken's. Sorry!
@@RickBeato all good man! Massive fan of your channel. Thanks for the amazing videos and the inspiration!
@@Kilovolver keep in mind the Kemper is also capturing the sound of the Shure SM57 and the Sennheiser MD421, into multiple Neve pres all mixed to taste. There's also the various cabinets, the room treatments and geometry, the mics placement, etc. Its not JUST a Marshall sound. Would you also say that the Kemper infringes upon Shure and Sennheiser, Neve and Celestion too?
@@zac3392 no I actually bought it online I was calling the shop to tell them not to deliver it to my house as I can swing by and grab it after work. Thanks champ
Kemper are absolute masterpiece of engineering
Aaagreed!
Preach!
I really dig the fact that Rick is such a stickler for perfection. It makes me envious. At the same time, recognizing that fact has given me an understanding for what I am good at, improv.
Rick, great to see you give the Kemper some love! About two months ago I dove in headfirst. Sold my Mesa Roadster and pedal board and bought a Kemper. Being a tube amp snob as I was for years, it was a big step but I continually kept seeing my favorite bands using them and I watched every youtube video possible. I absolutely love it. My live rig now consists of a Fender Twin, a Colonial, two Friedman BE's, an Engl.....about 8-10G worth of amps at the push of a button. This is the real deal folks.
Have my Kemper since 2 years. The most versatile sound tool.
Just got the bundle... holyshit! These are the best "amps" I've heard, and I have a bunch. Extremely real. Great job!
I just ordered the Kemper Stage yesterday and now my buddy randomly sends me this link today! Can't wait!
Now that's a cool one Ricky! I am a Kemperer myself and I appreciate the Effort you put into your work! Greetings from a Kemperer from Germany!
pretty amazing, honestly. when i was producing music i had tons of amps. digital was just never right to my ears...but damn have they got it so close now. were i to start a studio again, i'd definitely have a kemper and a bunch of pedals for weird sounds. so much easier, quicker, and more effective to use these digital amps for recording. never thought i'd say that...but the future is here. these are amazing times.
And not even sure you would need additional pedals. I have a kemper rack mount and there are so many effects built in you wouldn't believe it. So many variations of delay, chorus, phaser, type effects it's unreal.
Iv only recently got into effects and recording… I kinda got the feeling technology would catch up for profiling different sounds but it’s definitely reassuring to hear someone thinks the same thing
the first time I plugged into a tube amp I was blown away, but these Kemper profiles seem game changing
Brilliant idea to take a professionally selected and seasoned amp collection and create a profile collection from the cream-of-the-crop! - These should be extremely popular.
I'd love to hear you go through the amps and say why they are the keepers.
Thanks you for this! I approached a few studios about doing a profile for my favorite boutique amp. None of them were interested until one guy got it. Studios can charge people to make really high quality profiles of client amps. But I just wanted a profile of my amp as like an insurance policy should something happen to it. I think this is a brilliant way to capture the amps that come and go thru our lives. I know ever piece of gear I’ve sold I eventually wish I had again for something random.
as soon as you started saying you have profiles I started smiling like an idiot and my girlfriend came into the room looked at me and said "that beato guy released something you want didn't he?"
@elchema ikr dude lmao
HAHA
Thanks for doing this Rick! I have always loved your videos and how much your sound is on point! I bought the All in one bundle today! so excited :)
I love my Kemper. It took a few tries but it really profiled my Matamp’s well. Whatever differences there might be are far less than I little eq on console or my amp on a cold vs hot day. If your amp can get the sound you want then so can the Kemper. The ducking effect in the loop is also awesome and something no tube amp can do plus I love stereo effects like my Eventide H9’s in the loop.
Purchased SL pak and I must say they are the best sounding profiles I have heard. Great work to the Beato team.
So glad you like it Richard! we are going to be releasing a pack this weekend based on the Mahalo KT-66 amp, which is not well known but honestly one of our favs at the studio so definitely check that one out. (This is Ken BTW)
What’s an SL park?
@@timjoseph887 super lead kemper pack
kemper is located in my hometown recklinghausen. guess i have to pay them a visit one fine day. this is a very good demonstration. danke!
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5:58 Did Rick fall asleep while the other dude is talking? I hear snoring!
LOL. I thought that was the Kemper running its profiling routine.
Took until the scene swap at 8:08 for me to realize what that was...it's the auto focus on his camera. Probably using a shotgun mic on top, and it was picking up the adjustments.
More snoring around 9:02 LOL.
@@Heavygen - lol
Hilarious.
welcome to the kemper world.
thanks for the profiles
Ok this is Dope!
Great look at the Kemper and how it works! Thanks for sharing.
I hate people saying that the kemper doesn't really get there. While I agree that there is a tiny difference in sound, finding the difference in a mix would almost be impossible. Same goes for live-shows. If that thing goes through a PA, you'd hear no difference at all. There's a reason why so many touring artists go digital with axeFX, Kempers or even a helix.
The advantage for real amps, at least in my book, is that the inspire you to write in a certain way. Using a real amp gives you limitations because you don't have every sound imaginable available with a few clicks.
This is also my biggest pet peeve about today's music technology. It's great but it also gives too many options, which results in less time being spend on one sound. I like having a simple amp where I can't do everything and I've had a Boss GT8 pedal to add everything I wanted (albeit sounding a ton shittier than this thing) but I ended up selling it because it's so easy to drown in the amount of options.
For someone emulating someone's tone it's great, but for me it's too many options to choose from.
Depends on what kind of music you're playing. If you use a lot of clean tones the differences are much more noticeable in my experience. Good luck getting a Fender blackface with spring reverb for example.
I see Rick doesn't necessarily agree. He still has a wall of amps in the background for a reason.
@@syncdog "I like my amps but you can't tell the difference. You think you can but you can't. If I did 30 profiles, You would get 15 or so right." That's a direct response from Rick to a comment under this video.
@@LosTroopos Well, he is half the way there. We'll see if he sells half of his amps any time soon. Until then I'm not riding the gimmick train and will use my amps as both heaters and sonic bliss. :-) Respectfully
My hubbie got one and he is obsessed! Cool machine! (He had created something similar for himself back in the early 80s on a much smaller scale of course)
Very, Very Interesting... B NEVER let's us down. Love This Stuff.
Finally!! An easy way to look at a Kemper, I've been wanting one but no-one at guitar center can demo it!!!
That was great. Who knew such things existed? I shall add this to my list!
This is great! I just bought a Kemper a few weeks ago
Ooooh that Sound City 50R. Had one back in the early 80s and wish I still did. Took it for granted back then.
Bought a kemper years ago and ever looked back.
Keep in mind the profiled tones are 99% there. You *can* tweak them afterwards using EQ and other features such as clarity, pick, compression, etc. in the amp section and there are many more tweaks in the cab section.
Still have the Kemper ?😁
Man the Marshall tone is right up my alley! Awesome
Gosh, that Super Lead is gorgeous!
Was gonna say the same. So yummy sounding
As an electrical engineer and guitarist, I think this is a pretty cool idea the Kemper uses.
Great video, thanks for sharing the process.
That's pretty amazing. Didn't know what this amp could do.
I'm really enjoying your videos rick,
Thanks you guys! I was curious about how the setting up of your profiles with a Kemper gets done.
This is a great idea. I’m buying those profiles and if you’re ever in Glasgow, Scotland I’ll buy you a beer as well
Love that black Les Paul with yellowed inlays!!
Kemper should have called it the "Tone Clone". Opportunity missed
Just got a used Kemper. Fantastic device!
Been a year - still enjoying it?
Wow I cannot hear any differences between them. It's awesome
01:20 'these aren't all the amps we have in the studio, just the ones that would fit in the picture, we also have....' ...oh lord.
I'll try to fit the Blackstar Fly and Vox Pathfinder in the picture from over here :)
After playing for 55 years. I thought this would happen I guess I can sale my boxes of tubes. Great video. Now I am using a redplate astro dust 50 and a voodoo modified old dual rectifier. Are you familiar with these amps they are pretty nice
Thanks again for the great videos
Sounds amazing
So interesting Rick !!
Jesus that Marshall sounds so good.
Congratulations... this is the best CZcams channel...
My question:
Dos the guitar have some influence while profiling the amp?
No, it Doesn't. You can actually make a profile without a guitar, and it would be the same result.
It kinda does, but not the way you think. Mostly just the way it’s dialed in you’ll have to tweak it a little, like if someone used active pickups to profile and you used passives you’d have to change a few things to make it fit your guitar more. It’s pretty easy to get it dialed into your guitar once you figure out all the tone controls on the kemper
Cool video. thanks for the kemper info guys. That's pretty interesting that it profiles from the DAW feed! that explains why people's profiles sound so different. speaker cab, mic choice, mic placement, room. that's a lot of variation. (i always assumed it was feeding directly from the amp or fx loop- but then i guess you'd need a speaker simulator).
little question: i noticed that you have both a 6505 and an EVH, and so do many, many studios. are these amps different enough to warrant keeping both for the long run? what do you use them for that differentiates them?
Awsome rick. Imagine how much popular artist would make if they profiled their amps and sold the profiles. Like slash being in public eye right now. Hed make a killing.
How about prfiling Slash's (fake) Les Paul? I see that happening some day.
Eventually we'll just be profiling the guitarists themselves.
@@MrTubularBalls wouldnt suprise me if someone figured out how to do that. A way to add an artists idiosyncrasies to a track that you recorded. Lol.
Recently I watched a video where a guy was talking about being at Mic Mars' house and he bought the amp Mic used to record shout at the devil, dr. Feelgood and other albums. It would be cool to have a profile of amps like that.
+Bryan Keith You're talking about profiles of a guitar sound off a studio album? Yes, I think that's technically possible, if you don't have access to original amps / instruments it could be possible to extract IRs or something similar from the stems. All you need is access to the master.
That could also be quite revealing, because artists often didn't use the equipment they mention in interviews. They mention some brand and pose with its new product line only as part of an endorsement deal. They may not even know what was used exactly, since producer & engineer record DI from the guitar, then re-amp, use outboard effects, plugins etc.
Btw how often were tracks laid down by a session guy instead of the original artist? Happened a lot in the olden days, I've been told it still happens with producer's projects.
@@MrTubularBalls Thats not what I meant but, that is a great idea. It may be hard to explain what Im trying to say.
@@MrTubularBalls what I meant for example, if a player has a specific quirk when they bend. If you were to record a track then run it through a progam. The program would add that little quirk to any bend in the track. And so on. I guess more like modeling an artist finger movment habits.
Hey Rick, great video and it's nice to know that you, as a high skilled and experienced guitar player, are not against Kemper. A lot of guitarists out there are simply against any new tech that simulates amps or pedals and their opinion is that only amp and pedals can give you proper sound. It would be cool if you can make some videos about creating guitar sound for particular music style. In my case, i am a big funk guitar fan, and would be very interested to know how to get that sound. For example the sound that Neil Rodgers or James Brown guitarists or Vulfpeck guitarists have, from guitar, over amp setup to which pedals to pick and how to set them up, and of course how important is the way you play. I believe that there are more people here that would be interested in that too, or in some other guitar style, like hard rock or jazz etc. I hope that you will read this comment and think about it. Thanks for sharing all these great things! :)
Single coils into Fender or Vox amp, that's it
I used to ha e that attitude. I have a Helix LT and I am never going back. I get great sound and no one hates it. Tone snobs say somethings missing but my audience does not seek to think so.
The future of guitar amps right there
This is amp head heaven
That was fascinating!
I come from 20 years of mostly vintage analogue synthesizers, including digital synthesizers made by the same guy who does the Kemper. As a member of the Analogue Master Race, I was speculative of this thing, but the guitarist for one of my bands has one and I cannot tell the difference with a real cabinet. Have not tried it yet for bass, but it does a fantastic job in recording, especially with SPDIF.
How does it sound at band practice next to a normal amp, when the kemper is being run through the front of house PA system
Holy moly 150 different amps!
Awesome... more playing RB, you sound great! Let's hear some of your tunage!
Just got the Marshall pack and I like it ... thumbs up. Very usable sonic palette to adjust guitars on a mix. I was tempted also by the Orange pack but there's no demo of its sounds so I decided to put this aside for the time being. I think you should do some videos on the profiles you offer especially for modded amps just to get a rough idea of what they're alike so to easily find out whether they might fit or not in a particular soundcontest. I guess today we've more guitar painters around than tone tweakers so like traditional painters we need to find the right colour for each detail for our wannabe-masterpiece in the quickest way possible.
Good to see GL again.
Amazing!! I'm buying one!!
Oh man, I had a Sound City 50plus stolen from me in Baton Rouge and I miss it SO MUCH!!
Hey! I literally just bought a rackmount Kemper today so I was looking for quality profiles. I also use a Warm Audio preamp. Although mine is the WA273EQ.
A very awesome piece of gear...I'll just stay with my mustang 3 for now...$$$$
Cool Video!!Could you possibly share the pro tools routing? Are you busing the 2 mics and send 1 line output back to kemper?
AWESOME Video! :D
Will the Kemper do Racial Profiling?
Lmao
4:16 "I just had to have the white version" looks like yes!
It has a Fender Blackface profile, so yes.
🤣
Only if you try steal an amp...
I just got new drums. Now is not the time for talking me into a new guitar amp. No matter how awesome it is. ... Okay, maybe.
It reminds me a lot when I had the first iPod,and started stuffing it with all the favorite CDs in mp3,yeah, it's like photo albums of your ex girlfriends when they were beautiful.
New Kemper owner as of 3 weeks ago due to a move in 2021 even though it's been out like over 10 years now. Iv'e made one profile just using a Shure SM-58 on the cab and plugged straight in to the Kemper just to kind of get a feel for the process . Did'nt expect to like the result so much.
Hey Rick, great video - thank you. Two questions, 1. What cabinet/PA are you playing the Kemper through and, 2. Why didn’t you connect the two mics (post Rupert Neve) to the Kemper.
Gonna try the modded Plexi profiles. I wonder how it will sound through my Strats. I do have a Les Paul style Gtr which I love but through my Strats....excited to hear the results.
i get the feeling that rick will profile his amps better than anybody else just because he likes to read.
Cool vid, my question is when playing that Les Paul, if you roll the volume down to clean up the sound, does that have to all be sampled to get it to sound real? Or neck pickup vs bridge, etc..
Looks like a really powerful amp modeler, I would love to play through one of those!
it is not a modeler
Sovtek! God I love the mig50!
In the amp section of the Kemper are you able to combine or mix 2 amplifiers together or can I get 2 amps I love and then profile both amps as 1? Just mic 2 different amps and mix it.
Any chance you will be adding more kemper profiles in the future? I love the SL Plexi!!
I used to have a Sovtek tube midget. It was nice.
@Ken "Grand" or Rick - In your example the Kemper sounds damn close to the original. Does the Kemper have the same "feel" as the original amp?
Since you guys have all the gear would you consider doing merged profiles so they can be more flexible on our end (swapping cabs etc)
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Clint Black uses this. It's awesome.
What sort of mic cabinet do you recommend using with the Kemper in a live setting?
Got the Plexi pack. Very nice. Listening to Lark samples. Giving me recording ideas. I have one track to add to a song. Gonna get the Lark and use a Profile from it. Just the amp I am looking for.
Have you played an acoustic guitar through an AER?
Different sounds are required and desired for different musical styles as you show so well in this clip, thank you both. For me, my AER is the best for getting an exact replication of the tone of my acoustic instruments. I'm not the Lone Ranger on this. Many international artists touring with acoustic instruments play through an AER.
Hey rick, I wonder if you thought about doing amp profiles for specific songs or live performances. I would love to buy those.
Very convincing. !
The modern high power amps are quite easy to profile, but I have some vintage low watt amps from the 50ies, like a fender de luxe tweed and princeton tweed from '53, which I don't dare to profile like I do with the more modern marshalls etc. Especially when you are using the old original weber speakers that just can't take all of the wideband signals that your kemper sends through them without getting destroyed or at least have their character changed permanently. I was in touch with the guys at Kemper about this and they acknowledge that these are very difficult amps to profile. I didn't find a viable solution for this yet
good video, thanks
Hi, Did you play the profile through the same cabinet as the amp when you A/B'd them, or is that the profile sound through your DAW?
Thanks!
That is a crazy machine! Is it a shortwave radio too?
Kemper is bassier. Having analysed with ozone and matched eq the kemper to the real, amp, the eq curve confirm it. on the kemper there is 9db boost around 70hz followed by a cut of 5db at 126db. It clearly could be eq after, but doesn't sound the same.
Rick, do you find yourself preferring to mic (or loadbox) a tube amp for recording or going for the Kemper/QC? Love my tube amps but not sure I want to throw more money at them for recording or just replace with a QC etc.
Would really like to hear your Vox profiled. I did mine, but I don't have the engineering years you do. The Sound City and Sovteks would also be nice!
Hey Rick, sorry unrelated question, how do you find your Harrison EQ's the lunch box 300 units? I've got 1073's which I love but I'm looking for an EQ with more frequency options. Do you rate the Harrison over plugings still?
You're amp mods I will need to have.
The profiles are super close as far as sound goes but my hesitation with these is the feel when you play. Do they feel like a tube amp when you play them thru a guitar cab?
You need to refine the amp after the initial profile. Absolute must.
Rick did you ever try a Kendrick amplifier? If so, curious as to your thoughts.
Talk about option paralysis. I wouldn't even know where to begin.
Darm0k it’s a tool for studio musicians or touring musicians who need to cover a lot of ground (years of albums etc) not particularly practical for most musicians but one of the most groundbreaking pieces of equipment for the aforementioned purposes. Since I got one I never have to worry about flying, backline or random sessions I can’t bring my stuff but when I can I just use my Tele and tweed bassman
I agree. I have a nice tube head I use a lot and a kemper and it's so many options you have to stay focused and not wander off onto the other 400 amp heads and profiles.