Michael Britt Vintage Pack for Kemper...Holy

Don't think twice about a Kemper Mitch. John is right. We can't mic amps up in a project studio and get them to sound as good. You'll quickly forget it's digital I'm betting.

They sound really good, might just be the best "fake" guitar sound I have heard.

Serious question Johnkenn do you find you get a bit "paralysed" by the amount of choices and fiddling about.

Thats one of the things I noticed when I went back to using guitar amps, rather than modellers.

I had done the POD, Amplitude, guitar Rig, ITB guitar thing for a couple of years, then when I built the new studio and had more room (about 5 years back) I started going back to amps, and ended up with
6 or 7 seven different guitar amps. I found what happened interesting. When writing and recording a song, I would often pick up a guitar and plug into an amp, and twiddle knobs, change pickups, pick up a different guitar, twiddle knobs change pickups, maybe change amps, maybe change guitars, all whilst listening to the track I had to play against... and I found the creative side of me spurred on and inspired by this process, and it was quick, and didn't seem to have the negative on the creative side, that sitting at the computer going through menus did.. and I found that really quite stimulating.

I also found, that by committing to the guitar sound, and not being able to tweak it post recording as much as you could with a modeller have an extremely positive effect on the outcome of the song, and the time it took to get it done.

I feel it may have more to do with my personality and creative bent, than sound.

I am finding the EXACT same thing happening with having outboard and a console vs ITB.  It becomes more about sound, than numbers.

In fact I would say that would be the biggest reason I don't use amp simulators of any kind anymore, the creative aspect.

cheers

Wiz

I'm not trying to convert anyone. If it doesn't work for you, then great. Don't be intimidated by my Kemper.

Assuming this is the desktop version, not the rack version? Anyone use the rack version?

I would say I would rather have a room full of vintage amps and pedals...but I know me...I would probably still use this thing for the sheer convenience of it.

I've still got tube amps gouge.  And I still use them from time to time too, but since getting this Kemper, I seldom mic an amp.  In fact I've got my AC 3o on loan to my nephew.  But I won't loan him my Kemper 

First of all, thanks for the kind, positive feedback for the vintage pack. I'm very happy with the way that pack turned out. I just wanted to chime in on the whole Kemper thing, because obviously I'm a fan of it. My point of view is that it's a great tool and it doesn't take away my love of real amps, but on the contrary it makes me appreciate amps that I otherwise would've have purchased. If I'm home and I just want to play guitar for that amp in the room sound, I'll usually just plug into a real amp. But in situations where I need a mic'd sound or if I just want to noodle and create tones, the Kemper is just so quick and easy to make cool sounds. For my purposes onstage, it is a huge problem solver in that it removes so many variables and makes my tone, ear mix, and foh send consistent night after night. And I'm able to try different amps out on different songs easily and go back to the original if I didn't like it better. The knob layout is pretty intuitive and if you want to dig deeper you can with more parameters, but it doesn't feel like getting lost in menu after menu most of the time, especially after you discover your favorite avenues for editing. As far as roadworthiness, knock on wood, but I haven't missed one note in a show. I now have a backup on the road just in case, but I've never needed it.

The thought that it can completely replace a tube amp for what a tube amp does is a bit far-fetched because it's not the same thing. It does, however, replace it in situations where you want to mic an amp and cabinet and make that environment portable, tweak able, volume independent, and more versatile. You can get great mic'd amp sounds and I think lots of people may still prefer that, but the Kemper is a great alternative with very little downside as far as sacrificing tone. I used my Kemper on our new CD that we are in the process of recording. We tracked at Oceanway and the engineer had nothing but great things to say about it and the other guitarist thought it sounded great too. Mine isn't going anywhere, but I still love my tube amps for that visceral tone thing.

Thanks, lonestargtr! I'm stuck on that Champ and Pro Verb...not sure I want anything else lol. Fantastic job - your profiles are the only plug and play profiles out there.

Cowboy - there are some free ones at The Amp Factory that are good. I used it on that last tune I posted. I kinda think my frustration with bass tone might be that I've got some old flatwounds on that probably need to be changed. Just got some roundwounds - I'll let you know.

Yeah and it should be noted that one can take a good amp model (Little Walter 25 for example) and get many different tones out of it just like a real amp. It's pretty amazing really.