Just out of curiosity, a question to those of you who also use the Kemper in a live setting: What are your favorite profiles?
Are you using third party profiles (rig exchange), or did you profile your own live rig?
I'm mainly interested in recommendations for heavy rhythm profiles. In terms of leads and cleans I'm set (selfmade marshall jvm210 profile for cleans, lasses liquid leads profile for, well, leads
), but I still haven't
found just the right rhythm profile.
I think that in a studio setting, there are lots and lots of great sounding profiles available. However, after a few months of experimenting i still haven't found the right one for live playing. I've been using Lasses Schmatz, 90s finest, Hard Hitter, as well as a few of my own JVM210 profiles....all of them are sounding OK, but not quite *great* (unlike in a studio setting).
I think the main issue is the top end...the kemper sounds sort of hi-fi, with a characteristic high end texture which i can't quite dial out. Turning down treble/presence and/or cutting highs with the graphic/studio EQ results in a sound that's too dull and/or lacks definition in a fast and busy live mix, leaving the highs as they are just sounds too "scratchy" for my taste. I guess it's the fact that i'm hearing a miced up sound with that typical sm57 close to the dustcap sizzle/snarl, which leaves me missing the smooth high end you get from running a tube amp through a 412 cab at stage volume.
Of course, I could simply use a poweramp&cab live to get that "amp blasting" feeling, but that would pretty much eliminate the Kempers biggest advantage (much lower stage volume resulting in a clearer on stage sound and giving the FoH tech much more control over the FoH mix).
Any thoughts/recommendations?
Are you using third party profiles (rig exchange), or did you profile your own live rig?
I'm mainly interested in recommendations for heavy rhythm profiles. In terms of leads and cleans I'm set (selfmade marshall jvm210 profile for cleans, lasses liquid leads profile for, well, leads
), but I still haven't found just the right rhythm profile.
I think that in a studio setting, there are lots and lots of great sounding profiles available. However, after a few months of experimenting i still haven't found the right one for live playing. I've been using Lasses Schmatz, 90s finest, Hard Hitter, as well as a few of my own JVM210 profiles....all of them are sounding OK, but not quite *great* (unlike in a studio setting).
I think the main issue is the top end...the kemper sounds sort of hi-fi, with a characteristic high end texture which i can't quite dial out. Turning down treble/presence and/or cutting highs with the graphic/studio EQ results in a sound that's too dull and/or lacks definition in a fast and busy live mix, leaving the highs as they are just sounds too "scratchy" for my taste. I guess it's the fact that i'm hearing a miced up sound with that typical sm57 close to the dustcap sizzle/snarl, which leaves me missing the smooth high end you get from running a tube amp through a 412 cab at stage volume.
Of course, I could simply use a poweramp&cab live to get that "amp blasting" feeling, but that would pretty much eliminate the Kempers biggest advantage (much lower stage volume resulting in a clearer on stage sound and giving the FoH tech much more control over the FoH mix).
Any thoughts/recommendations?
