I think it sounds okay. Pretty thick in the low mids. To me, what you have there would be like a JTM45 Plexi tone. A little dark and thick. It doesn't have the high mid grind that has come to be generally known for "Plexi sound". But then again, JTM45s weren't like that. They were basically the first "Plexi" and they were little more than Fender Bassmans. Maybe your profile is in that very early Plexi vein. And unfortunately, there is the unfortunate reality that sims and emulation does tend to make everything kind of sound the same. You could probably get that type of tone with any number of amp profiles.Armistice wrote: ↑Wed May 09, 2018 9:01 am So, as threatened I dug up a couple of Kemper profiles done by people I've heard of and trust when I searched the word "Plexi" in the Kemper.
Now bear in mind when you all go into Marshall wonderland, I don't really know what the fuck you're talking about. I know Marshall sound, roughly, but I'm not up on the finer points of it, so this may not sound anything at all like a plexi and may also not be the right type of tune - I just used the same thing I've used before here which is more a metal-ly bit than a hard rock bit, but that's all you're going to get at 9pm on a school night.
I put two different ones on, hard left and right.
I did some research and apparently there are some very good plexi profiles but they're not free - but they're not all that expensive either, so if you want and think I'll find them useful I'm happy to buy some and do some more tones - but I wasn't going to go there tonight.
I'd have to say they don't sound that much different from other things I've done with this particular tune using various profiles, including other Marshall amps. Happy to tinker more if you tell me what's good / bad / wrong / right about them. And that might be "do a different tune!"
Here you go... oh, and Les Paul standard, in case that's not obvious. Now that I listen, I'm thinking too much gain - that's the problem of doing this with low volumes - such things aren't always obvious at tracking.
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The real problem with "Plexi tone" is there is no "Plexi tone". Plexi-type amps are caveman simple, but they can make a huge array of tones and everyone has a different opinion on what Plexi tone means to them. The term Plexi also gets thrown around for any Marshall from the 60s or 70s with four inputs and no master volume...when technically Plexis ended in 1969. The correct term for a 100 watt non-master volume Marshall would be "Super Lead", but Plexi is easier and everyone knows what you mean.
So you really have like three eras of "Plexi" Super Lead amps.
Pre 1966-67 - they're pretty dark and low gain. Basically, Fender Bassman clones.
1967-1972-ish - This is like the golden era for Plexis.
1973 - 1979 - the MkII era. They got brighter and more aggressive. These are the sound of 70s classic rock.
So....if you can cherry pick through Kemper profiles, the years and models matter for different sounds.
