I have been playing for many years, have had gear in all shapes and sizes so buttons and manuals don't bother me. However I have some questions I thought that could be easily answered here.
There are some amps that are out of production that people have made profiles of that make very very interested. In my case for one example is the Mesa Boogie F100 amp with profiling available on Choptones.
https://www.choptones.com/products/bogie…kemper-profiles
So I want to recreate "my sound". I have a Mesa Boogie F50 going through a Celestion C90 Black Shadow but there are profiles that exist for the 100 watt version on the Choptones site. Dirty channel from 50 to 100 watts with the greater headroom is obviously highly desirable.
Now on the Choptones website they list:
- 10x cabinets
- 7x mics
- 8x overdrive pedals
I'm presuming:
1. These are the pieces of equipment used to profile the amp?
2. You can combine any one of these items to get the tone you want?
If this is true then I can't use other overdrives and cabinet impulse responses?
or
These items are added to my library of digital items I can mix and match with as I like in a Kemper?
There is also the idea that the F series of Mesa Boogie have a "Contour" mode and Spring reverb built in. I'm guessing the spring reverb just isn't there and the Contour mode is on whether or not the person profiling the amp decided to have it on or off? Personally I hated it, it was a preset and locked V curve EQ after the preamp like their Mark Series. No sliders. But it instantly scooped everything into sounding like a pastiche of Nu Metal.
So I'm going to let my imagination go wild and ask if I can do the craziest thing I can think of:
Guitar > Volume pedal (kemper? regular?) > Kemper > Kemper Profile my Analogman Silver modded Tubescreamer > Kemper Noise gate (I'm guessing it's just their own one?) > Choptones Mesa Boogie F100 preamp - Contour Switch OFF > MXR 10 Band EQ in effects loop > Virtual Power Amp - Experiment with VHT, Soldano - Mesa Boogie etc. > Split into stereo signal for two cabs. One being a Mesa Boogie Widebody with a C90 and a Diezel 4x12 with Celestion K100's. Mics SM57 and Rode NT1A
So how much of this is immediately, easily or compromisably possible?
Is it just the case of swapping out different things in the signal chain or does the software lump things together when profiles are made? These things are very important because cabinets wise I hate vintage 30's and only like certain speakers. The same with overdrive pedals.
Thanks for any responses. Kempers make so much sense in many ways but I keep hearing people say things like "I tried a bunch of premium packs I didn't like but tried free ones I loved". Which makes me think, not all Kemper profiles of the same amp are made equally to the same standards or fidelity..... But if I really can create my dream rig in a kemper then recording and doing a ton of other things became very easy. Including rehearsing and gigging ideally too. Things get stolen really easily during shows, less stuff means it's loads easier to keep your eyes on things.
Many thanks