Hello!
I recently purchased my 'forever' amp - of course, I'm talking about the Kemper!
I've spent the last 2 days playing around with the stock rigs and have been pretty blown away with what you get 'out of the box'.
Last night I decided to download the Rig Manager to explore some new tones. Honestly, it was a bit overwhelming - over 13,000 rigs - where do you start?!
I'm reaching out on the forums to see if anyone could offer some recommendations to help me find some specific tones.
I understand that there are a lot of variables that come into play with achieving a specific tone - I'm simply looking for a good starting point.
Below are some songs that really capture some of the sounds I am looking for in the spectrum of clean to heavy.
I've included a YouTube link (hopefully that is cool) should any of you be curious and interested in helping.
Note - I am not opposed to purchasing commercial rigs.
Cleaner Sounds
Opeth - Windowpane - YouTube (this clean tone is gorgeous)
Plini - Every Piece Matters - YouTube (intro and lead)
Tesseract - Of Matter - YouTube (spacey intro lead part)
Heavier Sounds
Parkway Drive - Dark Days - YouTube
Northlane - Dispossession - YouTube
Shokran - Pray the Martyr - YouTube (both clean and heavy stuff)
Again, not trying to be spoon fed - just looking for some suggestions if you all have any.
Thanks for your time!
EDIT:
I did some research, and found that most of the above are running Mesa Dual Rec or Peavy 6505s for the heavy stuff.
There were also some search results that mentioned Framus Cobra, Diezel Herbert, Marshall Bluesbeaker, Mesa Mark V.
Would love to hear if any of you have good Mesa / Peavy profiles you'd recommend.
Thanks