PINK PLEXI 2.0 TEST

Description

Pink Plexi 2.0 Kemper® Pack

The Pink Taco V2 is a Plexi style amp on steroids. To me, it is everything I love about the Friedman® BE-100 distilled into a single channel amp. Even after playing both amps side by side, the Pink Taco V2 stood out and blew me away. To this day, it still keeps me playing, losing track of time and getting completely immersed in inspiration and creation. I’ve played many Plexi style amps over the years, but none matched the feel, and tone of the Pink Taco V2 in my studio. My goal with this pack was simple: capture everything that makes this amp so inspiring to play: fat rock and metal tones for rhythm and lead.

Every time someone plugs into my main guitar rig in my studio, the reaction is the same:

Damn, that sounds incredible.

The challenge was capturing that same inspiring tone through microphones while staying as close as possible to the actual sound in the room. For this pack, I completely rebuilt my custom guitar cabinet, expanded my microphone collection, refined my profiling process, and spent countless hours experimenting with different speakers, microphones, mic combinations, mic placement, and phase alignment. My goal was simple: capture the sound I hear in the room so I could take it on the road and use it in my studio productions.

A huge part of that journey was working with Conny Schattka, our front of house engineer for my band U.D.O. & DIRKSCHNEIDER. His technical approach, years of experience, and attention to detail helped me make this Pack the best I’ve created so far.

Every Studio, DI, and Merged Profile was captured from the exact same amp settings. The Merged Profiles use Impulse Responses (IRs) created from the identical cabinet and microphone setup as the Studio Profiles, giving you the closest possible match between your stage cabinet and the sound sent to FOH.
PROFILE NAMING

The profile names tell you all about the settings of the amp, they will look something like this: PINK PLEXI 3+ SF 30

Let´s break this down:

(1) Amp

PINK PLEXI = Friedman® Pink Taco V2

(2) GAIN STAGE

1 = Low Gain

2 = Medium Gain
3 = Higher Gain

(3) Booster

+ = BOSS® SD Booster enabled (Booster Settings: Level: 5.5 Tone: 5 Drive: 4 Gain)

(4) Switches

S = SAT Switch ON
F = FAT Switch ON

(5) Speaker

DI = Direct Amp Profile (no speaker cabinet)
30 = Vintage 30
25 = Greenback 25

M25/M30 = Merged Profile with the Greenback or Vintage 30 speaker, created from the matching DI Profile and the exact matching IR. Ideal for use with a real power amp and guitar cabinet on stage while sending the IR to the FOH/PA.
PRODUCT DETAILS

All profiles were captured using two Shure© SM57 and a Royer© R-121.
Every sound has its own optimized mic position and mic balance. Only high-end equipment was used in order to create the profiles.

These are Kemper® profile files. You will need a Kemper® to use those profiles – any Kemper® will work (Head, Rack, Stage, Player, MK1/MK2). No audio files, impulse responses, or plugin versions are included.

TRADEMARK

Kemper®, Friedman®, Celestion®, Shure®, Boss® and Royer® are registered trademarks of their respective owners. All trademarks are used for identification purposes only. No affiliation with or endorsement by the respective trademark owners is implied.
Kemper® guitar amplifier with Pink Plexi 2.0 design and compatible with all models.