Cabinet Impulse Responses; Merging Studio Profiles And Direct Amp Profiles - Kemper Profiler Main Manual

Working with Amplifier PROFILEs, Cabinet PROFILEs, Power Amps and Guitar Cabinets 83

Cabinet Impulse Responses

Cabinet presets are also commercially available from third party companies in the shape of so-called "impulse
responses" (IR). These can be imported into KEMPER Rig Manager™ (version 3 and upwards), available for Mac
and PC, and from there into your PROFILER. To find such imported cabinet presets, first press the CABINET button,
then use the BROWSE knob. OS versions from 5.5 onwards 18 cabinet presets based on impulse responses
provided by Celestion® are pre-installed.
There is a tutorial video available which demonstrates the whole process of migrating an IR into a cabinet preset at:
www.kemper-amps.com/video
An impulse response is the perfect companion of any Direct Amp PROFILE. While the latter is a perfect reproduction
of the full guitar amp, the cabinet IR is the perfect reproduction of a guitar cabinet. Combined, they are as authentic
as a Studio PROFILE.
We highly recommend that you select cabinet IRs that have been captured using a solid-state amp, rather than a
tube power amp. Since the interaction effects of amp and cab are reproduced by the Amp PROFILE, it is a good
idea not to have them reproduced in the Cabinet PROFILE a second time.

Merging Studio PROFILEs and Direct Amp PROFILEs

In case you were wondering, Direct Amp PROFILEs can be merged seamlessly with cabinets of Studio PROFILEs,
resulting in a single PROFILE that contains the sound of both. To do this, create a Direct Amp PROFILE (without
cabinet) and a Studio PROFILE (with cabinet and microphone) of the same reference amplifier and store them
separately. It's good practice to keep all settings of the reference amplifier the same for both PROFILEs, to yield as
authentic a result as possible. Both PROFILEs can then be merged by copying the cabinet of the Studio PROFILE
into the Direct Amp PROFILE, and then pressing the soft button labeled "Merge Cabinet".