3P DC – Kemper Profile and Performance Pack

THE AMP

This pack includes profiles and performances of a 3rd Power Dual Citizen amplifier. 

The Dual Citizen from 3rd Power is a boutique amp designed to nail classic tones from vintage Vox and Fender circuits. It allows you to select from three different iconic AC style circuits and two different Fender style circuits, and it allows you to blend the two together.

We’ve tone-matched our favorite sounds – one from the AC side (the vintage Top Boost option), one from the Fender side (the vintage Black Panel options), and a blend of the two. You get three completely separate presets that nail these classic tones.

We’ve profiled all five voice options (three AC and two Fender), and we’ve profiled two different blend options (AC Top Boost + BF, and AC Normal + Tweed). We mic’d the amp with a Royer 121 and Earthworks SR25 and ran those through a stereo Neve 1073 DPX preamp and EQ unit.

The result is a perfect representation of this very special amp for the Kemper Profiler.

THE PROFILES

The profiles increase through the entire gain range of the amp for all channel options.  We’ve included both SC and HB profiles, which were made separately with both single coil (tele) and humbucker (Les Paul) guitars. The American voicing are denoted with an ‘A’, and the British voicing are denoted with a ‘B’

PERFORMANCES

This pack includes three separate performances covering AC, BF, and Blended options – one dailed in for guitars with single coils and one for humbuckers. You get six performances total (SC and HB for each channel)

We’ve set up these performances to use all five slots and all four effects buttons of the Kemper Remote/Stage with morph functions in all slots. Here are the slots and associated effects:

SLOT 1: CLEAN-ISH

This is your clean tone, but we set it up so that it breaks up on the bridge pickup, as long as your pickup has moderate output. Here are the effects in the different slots:

1. EFFECTS 1: Tremolo (off by default)
2. EFFECTS 2: Pure Booster (off by default – gives you a bit of drive)
3. EFFECTS 3: Quarter Note Delay (off by default)
4. EFFECTS 4: Dotted 8th Note Delay (on by default)

MORPH: Morphing will increase the wetness of both the reverb and delays. The reverb goes into a big ambient verb sound, and the delays increase in both level and feedback.

PROFILE USED: 3P DC AC/BF/Bln SC/HB 2

SLOT 2: DRIVE 1

This slot gives you two levels of overdrive. It’s default tone is a light to medium-light level of drive (depending on how hot your pickups are). Hit the boost, and you’ve got a bit more gain on tap. The overdrive in this slot is provided by the Kemper Drive effect.

1. EFFECTS 1: Tremolo (off by default)
2. EFFECTS 2: Pure Booster (off by default)
3. EFFECTS 3: 8th Note Delay (off by default)
4. EFFECTS 4: Dotted 8th Note Delay (on by default)

MORPH: Morphing will increase the wetness of both the reverb and delays. The reverb goes into a big ambient verb sound, and the delays increase in both level and feedback.

PROFILE USED: 3P DC AC/BF/Bln SC/HB 2

SLOT 3: DRIVE 2

This slot gives you two more levels of overdrive, both louder than the biggest setting in ‘Drive 1’. It’s default sound is a big rhythm drive tone. You can add more gain with the boost on Effects 2.

1. EFFECTS 1: Tremolo (off by default)
2. EFFECTS 2: Pure Booster (off by default)
3. EFFECTS 3: 8th Note Delay (on by default)
4. EFFECTS 4: Dotted 8th Note Delay (off by default)

MORPH: Morphing will increase the wetness of both the reverb and delays. The reverb goes into a big ambient verb sound, and the delays increase in both level and feedback.

PROFILE USED: 3P DC AC/BF/Bln SC/HB 3

SLOT 4: LEAD

For our Lead tone, we set up a big gain sound with a level boost above the biggest drive sound in ‘Drive 2’. You’re guitar will lift nicely in the mix. Here are the effects available via the effects buttons: 

1. EFFECTS 1: Analog Octaver (off by default) – this adds a subtle low octave that will add a lot of body to your leads.
2. EFFECTS 2: Pure Booster (off by default)
3. EFFECTS 3: Quarter Note Delay (on by default)
4. EFFECTS 4: Dual Delay – 8th and dotted 8th (on by default)

MORPH: Morphing will increase the wetness of both the reverb and delays. The reverb goes into a big ambient verb sound, and the delays increase in both level and feedback.

PROFILE USED: 3P DC AC/BF/Bln SC/HB 3

SLOT 5: AMBI/SWELL

This slot can be used for volume swells or for super ambient playing (without swells). The delays and reverbs trail for a very long time – proceed with caution :).

1. EFFECTS 1: Tremolo (off by default).
2. EFFECTS 2: Pure Booster (off by default)
3. EFFECTS 3: Crystal Delay (on by default) – this delay creates an awesome Shimmer reverb sound.
4. EFFECTS 4: Dual Delay – 8th and dotted 8th (on by default)

MORPH: Morphing will increase the wetness of both the reverb and delays. The reverb morph adds more shimmer, and the delays increase in both level and feedback.

PROFILE USED: 3P DC AC/BF/Bln SC/HB 2