The Marshall Amps profiled in this collection are:
Early 1970 100 watt EL34 Super Lead
1972 100 watt EL34 Super Lead
1974 50 watt 6550 Super Lead
Played through a 1972 straight cab, totally stock with pulsonic cones. Best sounding cab I own and have ever heard. It's magic in a box. I've owned these amps for years, and profiled them before - but never with the amazing vintage gear listed below. I don't want to say one way is 'better' - that's a value judgement and to the ear of the beholder, but they are different. The 1972 Marshall profiles I have up on my website are more aggressive and were tweaked more for my live use - these profiles are vintage all the way.
So what makes these profiles different? Two things - the gear used, and the engineer.
Michael Block engineered these - he's forgotten more about guitar tones than most of us are going to learn. He truly captured the 'amp in a room' sound quickly and made it look easy. It's not. Here's the signal path we used:
Either a Beyerdynamic 160 Ribbon mic, a Western Electric '8 ball' vintage mic, or a combination of the two into a RCA Preamp that Les Paul (yeah, the guy from the Gibson headstocks) had in his studio. From there to the Kemper, with an occasional Universal Audio LA-3A leveler.
Amps were cranked - rooms were rattled, speakers were pushed, and tones were made.
The profile package includes:
13 1970 Marshall profiles
8 1972 Marshall profiles
13 1974 Marshall profiles
Total of 34, all through the vintage RCA Les Paul preamp.
One brief note - due to how the Kemper profiles (namely you have to grab an existing profile and then make a profile and rename it) it's easy to goof and have the wrong profile selected when you start. This doesn't affect the end product profile - it's going to have the same sonic qualities no matter what, but if you grab the wrong profile to start with you'll end up with someone else's name tagged in your profile with no way to remove it. My workflow is to take notes on my iphone while profiling, then go back later and change all the profiles at once so I can fill in the information after the session.
In other words, I goofed and someone named 'Chris O' is written in the unchangeable info as the creator of these profiles and cabs. He is NOT. However, I'm not going to take over 8k of vintage gear to the studio again and pay studio rates again to remove a name off my profiles... so they are what they are. ;)
Early 1970 100 watt EL34 Super Lead
1972 100 watt EL34 Super Lead
1974 50 watt 6550 Super Lead
Played through a 1972 straight cab, totally stock with pulsonic cones. Best sounding cab I own and have ever heard. It's magic in a box. I've owned these amps for years, and profiled them before - but never with the amazing vintage gear listed below. I don't want to say one way is 'better' - that's a value judgement and to the ear of the beholder, but they are different. The 1972 Marshall profiles I have up on my website are more aggressive and were tweaked more for my live use - these profiles are vintage all the way.
So what makes these profiles different? Two things - the gear used, and the engineer.
Michael Block engineered these - he's forgotten more about guitar tones than most of us are going to learn. He truly captured the 'amp in a room' sound quickly and made it look easy. It's not. Here's the signal path we used:
Either a Beyerdynamic 160 Ribbon mic, a Western Electric '8 ball' vintage mic, or a combination of the two into a RCA Preamp that Les Paul (yeah, the guy from the Gibson headstocks) had in his studio. From there to the Kemper, with an occasional Universal Audio LA-3A leveler.
Amps were cranked - rooms were rattled, speakers were pushed, and tones were made.
The profile package includes:
13 1970 Marshall profiles
8 1972 Marshall profiles
13 1974 Marshall profiles
Total of 34, all through the vintage RCA Les Paul preamp.
One brief note - due to how the Kemper profiles (namely you have to grab an existing profile and then make a profile and rename it) it's easy to goof and have the wrong profile selected when you start. This doesn't affect the end product profile - it's going to have the same sonic qualities no matter what, but if you grab the wrong profile to start with you'll end up with someone else's name tagged in your profile with no way to remove it. My workflow is to take notes on my iphone while profiling, then go back later and change all the profiles at once so I can fill in the information after the session.
In other words, I goofed and someone named 'Chris O' is written in the unchangeable info as the creator of these profiles and cabs. He is NOT. However, I'm not going to take over 8k of vintage gear to the studio again and pay studio rates again to remove a name off my profiles... so they are what they are. ;)
Platinum Profiles set two: Vintage Marshalls
34 profiles of 1970, 1972 and 1974 Marshall amps. Profiled in a professional studio with rare gear including an RCA Tube Preamp from Les Paul's studio. All amps played through a stock 1972 Vintage Marshall bottom cab.