Free Profiles - Amporium Black Blade Pack / Angel Hard Pack / Eisenherz Pack

Ibot39 · August 28, 2021 at 11:12 PM

Hi,

my last experimental profiling session was really a success! So why not share it here ?

I wanted to create some profiles that sound great on their own and respond well with all kinds of pedals.

So I dialed in nice crunchy tones with my Rocktron Valvesonic Black Plate+, also using the preamps unique "Afterburner" switch and knobs, which emulates a post phase inverter master by adding another tube gain stage after the EQ section. If you know how to handle gain staging with this preamp, it sounds incredible in real life. But in past profiling sessions I ran into problems, when using preamp gain, Afterburner and Poweramp. Kemper did not capture that gain-staging correctly. Results sounded from weird to good, but not authentic.

So I had the idea to create cab IRs with the flavour of a Rockerverb 50 MkIII Poweramp baked in. Also used some EQ after the IR to further shape the tone to my vision. Than I run the preamp through an IR loader and let the Kemper do it's magic... and the results are killer (for me)! Kemper captured the sound absolutely correct this time.

Additionally to the Studio Profiles I captured Direct Amp profiles (with the preamp plus a Poweramp-only-IR). I tried these with other cabs / IRs and it sounds great. V3+V4 rigs are direct amp profiles with custom IR / cab added.

Edit: Added 8 new profiles to V2 folder in the pack (refined power amp section...)

Edit: Added 24 new profiles to V3 folder (from clean to hot-rodded California high gain)

Edit: Final V4 rigs (other rigs in "Old" folder). Now only V4 rigs on Rig Exchange. These are the best for me , highly tweakable and the ones I use as a starting point for all kind of tones.

Download here for free:

Amporium - Black Blade Pack v4.0

Added a new Profile Pack:

Recreating the sound of an Engl E530 Tube Preamp - full set of profiles featuring 13 Direct Amp Profiles + 13 Rigs with cab.

Download here for free:

Amporium - Angel Hard Pack

Added a new Profile Pack:

Recreating the sound of a Laney Ironheart IRT-Pulse - full set of raw profiles featuring 32 Direct Amp Profiles + 32 Rigs with cab covering almost all possible settings and gain stages of the tube preamp. Direct Amp Profiles only in the download below. Rigs with cab will be put to Rig Exchange too.

Included Bonus: Pax Fructus Profiles (Orange Bax Bangeetar) and a new H&K Clean Rig.

Download here for free:

Amporium - Eisenherz Pack

In Rig Exchange soon

Let me know what you think,

Tobi

deadman42 · August 28, 2021 at 11:17 PM

Thanks for sharing! Happy to try them out on next occasion...

jarabuandi · August 29, 2021 at 12:28 AM

Thanks Ibot39 for sharing. Much appreciated. We'll give it a try

Monkey_Man · August 29, 2021 at 2:55 AM

Thank you, Tobi!

I like the way you got around the too-many-gain-stages thing.

Ibot39 · August 30, 2021 at 3:26 PM

Black Blade Pack v2.0 now also contains a small selection of new rigs:

- Added 8 new profiles in V2 folder. Refined power amp / cab IRs, tried different levels of the preamp into the IR loader...

Monkey_Man · August 30, 2021 at 6:32 PM

Thank you for updating it, Brother Tobi!

Ibot39 · August 31, 2021 at 8:08 PM

Added a new Profile Pack to the first post.

Angel Hard Pack: Recreating the sound of the Engl E530 Preamp - full set of profiles featuring 13 Direct Amp Profiles + 13 Rigs with cab.

Profiled through a power amp IR again, but new cab (custom IR blend / EQ) added later to the direct amp profiles this time.

Monkey_Man · September 1, 2021 at 12:06 AM

Crikey... thank you again, Tobi.

jarabuandi · September 1, 2021 at 4:57 AM

Awesome mate!

BayouTexan · September 1, 2021 at 7:55 PM

Thanks Ibot39 !!!

tlingen · September 2, 2021 at 1:35 AM

Thanks for posting the profiles to try!

Adinfinitum · September 2, 2021 at 7:26 AM

Thanks!

Bluezzmoaner · September 2, 2021 at 5:48 PM

Thanks!

Ibot39 · September 2, 2021 at 7:58 PM

Added a new Profile Pack:

Recreating the sound of a Laney Ironheart IRT-Pulse - full set of raw profiles featuring 32 Direct Amp Profiles + 32 Rigs with cab covering almost all possible settings and gain stages of the tube preamp. Direct Amp Profiles only in the download below. Rigs with cab will be put to Rig Exchange too.

Included Bonus: Pax Fructus Profiles (Orange Bax Bangeetar) and a new H&K Clean Rig.

Monkey_Man · September 3, 2021 at 1:16 AM

Dayum. You're on fire, Brother Tobi.

Thanks so much man.

jarabuandi · September 3, 2021 at 6:09 AM

As Monkey_Man said....Thanks mate for sharing

deadman42 · September 3, 2021 at 7:39 AM

Tobi, thanks again for that big bunch of well made profiles. Very cool

Ibot39 · September 3, 2021 at 3:45 PM

Added 24 (!) new profiles to V3 folder of the Black Blade Pack (from clean to hot-rodded California high gain). Rig Exchange soon.

So you can also explore some mid and high gain sounds from this setup. No modern Metal, more Mesa Boogie Mark 1 / Santana or Stoner Rock, Doom...

Profiles tagged as good as possible for Monkey_Man

Also will add the bonus Pax Fructus rigs to Rig Exchange...

That's it for a while

deadman42 · September 3, 2021 at 4:06 PM

Thanks for sharing again Tobi. Great stuff. So I have a plan for the weekend now

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Profiles tagged as good as possible for Monkey_Man

Ah, okay, that gives definitely extra points... from my side as well. Always good to see properly tagged stuff

Monkey_Man · September 4, 2021 at 4:31 AM

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Profiles tagged as good as possible for Monkey_Man

Thanks bro'!

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That's it for a while

About time! Geez man, take a break. You're probably Profiling in your sleep now.