Your favorite clean profiles

Jonpowellguitarist · February 14, 2019 at 7:01 PM

Hey all, I'm new to Kemper and would like some recommendations for the best clean sounds out there, paid or free

Thanks in advance.

NickZ42 · February 15, 2019 at 1:03 PM

I think Brian Carl profiles get some great clean tones. Tonejunkie and selah sounds are great too.

Jonpowellguitarist · February 16, 2019 at 9:30 AM

I’ll check them out, thanks, everything I’ve tried so far just sounds kinda lifeless

BavidDrent · February 22, 2019 at 5:01 PM

I'd love to know too. I've been able to get great 'on the verge of breakup', but not cleans. I know it's capable!

Chris Duncan · February 22, 2019 at 5:22 PM

For clean stuff one of the things I've been enjoying is the Divided by 13 stuff from M. Britt.

I also bought a pack of dual amp profiles from Tone Junkie. I think the cleaner end of the spectrum is where TJ's offerings tend to shine.

rik777 · February 22, 2019 at 5:36 PM

Quote from Chris Duncan

For clean stuff one of the things I've been enjoying is the Divided by 13 stuff from M. Britt.

I also bought a pack of dual amp profiles from Tone Junkie. I think the cleaner end of the spectrum is where TJ's offerings tend to shine.

I agree. The Tone Junkie cleans are some of the best. And I really like the effects they provide. Great stuff.

kevinduren · February 22, 2019 at 9:45 PM

I've been watching this but had not commented, because there so many great ones that I didn't have any way to narrow it down. Now that there have been some suggestions from others, I'll chime in.

See if you can still find Mats Nermark's free profiles. He had a great tri chorus and a specific funk profile as well as many others. I can't remember where to direct you for his profiles, but I think I got them from his website, not on RE.

And just in general, try these:

Experiment with several profiles and turn the gain down. You may find that, even some of the really dirty ones clean up and sound great. I did this with the mbritt little walter from the free pack and still use it, even though I have since bought the pack that had all the little walter profiles.

Put a compressor in a slot before the stack and turn the volume down so you are not hitting the amp as hard. Similar to above, even dirty profiles will clean up and might be what you are looking for.

Add direct signal in the amp section. This is one I just discovered and really like.

As a bonus, for dirty profiles, adding a little direct signal makes them really "crunchy".

Hellpig · February 28, 2019 at 8:38 AM

ToneJunkie has a load of great packs, from clean to breaking up (and more). ReampZone recently released a Killer Clean profile pack as well, had some seriously good clean tones in it.

dB Cooper · March 8, 2019 at 1:53 AM

Guidorist just put out a Roland JC-120 pack that sounds great in the demos. Crystal clean with a sweet chorus.. May be worth a look.

raunch · March 9, 2019 at 12:58 PM

^^THIS.

Those Guidorist JC-120 tones are outstanding. Top 5 for me for clean tones.

LRS has a clean fender silverface that is great too. I think it's called the 79 Mini Bender.

Tramp1 · May 13, 2019 at 3:57 AM

I just ran through my favorite clean tones. I like Mbritt’s JM CLN in the Dumble pack and Tone Junkie’s Suhr Bella 2 & 3, but my go to now is Tone Junkie’s Lone Star pack, esp. channel 1, #3 and #4.