I find cleans the hardest to get on the Kemper. Edge of breakup & gain, sounds incredible. Cleans sound rather 'woody' and dull to me. Any tips on profiles would be awesome!
Favourite clean profile? Struggling!
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March 6, 2019 at 5:55 PM -
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Can you give us an example of the kind of clean sound you want? What kind of guitar are you using, and how are you listening to the KPA?
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Also It depends a lot on the style of music you play. Do you know great jazz chords voicing? Things like that. Coz if you play power chords on a clean sounds for instance yes its gonna sound strange and not very exciting.
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I’ve not found an issue with clean sounds personally (or any sounds for that matter once a little tweaking has been done).
Is it the “clean” element or the eq/sound that are asking about?
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Disclaimer : Don't listen to me, if it does not sound like a square wave or someone hitting a steel rope with a lead pipe, I probably won't like it.
The profiles 'Hey Jim' and 'Wooly Coats Spanky MK2' are both great and to my ears are clean profiles.
(Hey Jim is a factory rig, the Wooly is up on the Rig Exchange.)
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So, not sure exactly what you are looking for in the way of a clean tone, but I just randomly happened on ERIKS LEGACY CLEAN 4 in the RE and it caught my attention.
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I haven’t researched profiles but if you can find a good Roland JC120 profile, that is considered one of the best clean sounds by many. Listen to the first few notes in “Lullaby” by The Cure. That’s a Fender Jaguar straight into a JC120. Whether you like the cure or not doesn’t matter, it’s a great clean tone.
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I have found that the clean channels of some high gain amps can have great clean tones. Somewhere I have a Diezel profile in which I used the cleanest profile of it for my clean tone.
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MBritt’s clean profiles are always nice to my ears. I use his deluxe 4 - profile for cleans. Tone junkie stuff is almost to bright for me but you might like it. Try profiles that have like 2.5-3.5 gain settings and then roll the gain back too.
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Theres loads of Dumbles, Ac30 or Morgan’s that sound great to me. The Beauty with the kemper you can try them all...
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GLS Princeton 64 has great Clean and Breakup Sounds
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modern high gain sounds and bright sounding clean sounds have one thing in common - strong cuts in the midrange.
therefore quite a few modern high gain sounds (like the ones in Lasse Lammerts Rig Pack for example) make surprisingly good clean sounds if you just turn the GAIN all the way down.
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Folks have already mentioned MBritt and Tonejunkie. Both have free packs. I’m also very fond of the Selah Sounds profiles I’ve bought. Most of my guitars have fairly polite pickups and I love some of the Selahs with these. Again, they do freebies which might be enough for you or, like the other guys, their paid stuff is very good IMO.
Hope you find the sounds that make you happy
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Have you tried the TAF pack ? It will depend on what speaker you’re playing thru and whether you want lots of bass, full sound of a closed back or open back.
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welagens steel string singer. free on re. fantastic!!
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welagens steel string singer. free on re. fantastic!!
I don't find this on RE?
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Hills profiles from tonejunkie free pack.
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oh im sory. here you are
Thanks. I had missed these!
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Did you not see the new Guidorist JC120 pack? The is a demo of it somewhere in the commercial section.
I’m pretty sure there was a JC120 in the factory rigs too.
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