Build My Life – Passion – Kemper Performance

In this demo Bradford is using an Elliott Tonemaster

This Kemper Performance file re-creates the guitar tones from the song ‘Build My Life’ as recorded by Passion. It is designed to be used with the Kemper Remote, and all effects are included in the Kemper.

PROFILE BY TONE JUNKIE

The profile used in the Performance is a premium profile from the ‘Profile Pack #2’ profile pack from Tone Junkie – it’s a profile of a Typer PT14. The Profile is included in this performance. Tone Junkie makes incredible profiles of many amps – you can see their full line-up here.

KEMPER FIRMWARE UPDATE

This performance uses a new reverb algorithm introduced in Kemper firmware version 6.0 in order to use this performance. You can download the update for free here. In addition, you must use Rig Manager version 2.1.74 with this firmware update.

RIG MANAGER

Performances are handled differently than Profiles. To import this performance to your Kemper, you’ll need to use Rig Manager, which is free software available from Kemper.

SLOTS AND EFFECTS

We’ve set up the different song sections in the different slots on the remote (Rig Buttons 1-5), and we’ve mapped effects that you’ll likely want to access on the effects buttons (Effects Buttons 1-4).

Rig Buttons (Slots) and effects button assignments associated with each rig

1. SWELLS: Ambient swells for the beginning of the song.
   1. EFFECTS 1: Chromatic Pitch (off)
   2. EFFECTS 2: Tremolo (off)
   3. EFFECTS 3: Pure Booster (off)
   4. EFFECTS 4: Soft Shaper (off)
2. CHORUS: Main rhythm tone for the choruses
   1. EFFECTS 1: Pure Booster (on)
   2. EFFECTS 2: Soft Shaper (on)
   3. EFFECTS 3: Dual Delay (on)
   4. EFFECTS 4: Cirrus Reverb (on)
3. VERSE: Clean-ish tone for verse 2
   1. EFFECTS 1: Pure Booster (on)
   2. EFFECTS 2: Tremolo (off)
   3. EFFECTS 3: Dual Delay – dotted 1/8th (on)
   4. EFFECTS 4: Cirrus Reverb (on)
4. RIFF: This is the main riff in the instrumental section of the song. It’s very ambient and meant for the single note riff.
   1. EFFECTS 1: Chromatic Pitch (off)
   2. EFFECTS 2: Mouse (on) // Pure Booster (off) – when you step on this switch it will switch from one to the other
   3. EFFECTS 3: Soft Shaper (on)
   4. EFFECTS 4: Dual Delay – 1/8th and dotted 1/8th (on) // Dual Delay – dotted 1/8 (off)  -when you step on this switch it will switch from one to the other
5. CH/BR LD: Big rhythm tone for the chorus and bridge sections at the end of the song.
   1. EFFECTS 1: Chromatic Pitch (off)
   2. EFFECTS 2: Mouse and Soft Shaper (on)
   3. EFFECTS 3: Pure Booster (off)
   4. EFFECTS 4: Dual Delay – 1/8th and dotted 1/8th (on) // Dual Delay – dotted 1/8 (off) when you step on this switch it will switch from one to the other

MAKING CHANGES FOR YOUR GUITAR

We tested this performance with multiple guitars, but ultimately you may want to tweak it a bit for your guitar, which will most likely have a different output level and pickup tone than our guitars.

Start with the ‘Definition’ and ‘Clarity’ controls on the amp

These two controls have an enormous impact on the overall tone, and are very efficient at adjusting the gain structure and clarity/tone of the sound, all without straying too far away from the base tone. They’re perfect for tailoring a patch made with humbuckers to a single coil guitar (or vice versa). We always recommend starting here rather than EQ or Gain controls.

EQ Controls: From there, adjust the EQ controls (in the amp stack). If the tone is a bit dark or bright, adjust the EQ to compensate.

Gain control (proceed with caution). We recommend adjusting the gain on the amp last – especially raising the gain. This will introduce digital gain, which sounds pretty gross – it does not behave like a gain knob on an amp. If you need more gain, either adjust the definition control or increase the level control on the compressor. If you need less gain, turn the gain control down works well.