Top Jimi "Sykes" Kemper Profiles
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- Опубликовано: 24 авг 2024
- The "Sykes" Pack for the Kemper Profiling Amplifier seeks to recreate John Sykes' guitar tone heard on the 1987 Whitesnake and 1989 Blue Murder albums.
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Because of all the hard work put into these they are easily the best Kemper profiles on the planet. Thanks
That Blue Murder tone was spot on.
I regret that I have only one thumbs-up to give for one of that most accurate covers of the "Still of the Night" solo.
Great profile! Sounds awesome. I am a huge White Snake fan, and John Sykes is my favorite guitar player from this band, even above what Steve Vai did later on. Thanks. Well done!
Always happy to hear from you and getting new profiles. And Whitesnake is SUCH an influence for me. whoooo!!
You Sir are an absolute GENIUS!! I have been patiently waiting for this Sykes pack!! Outstanding!
First - I am buying this today. It sounds perfect!!
Second - I'm just gonna put it out there. You are a flat badass player Jimi. Gdamn!!
Another great pack. But, man, great playing, too. You killed it on "Still of the Night."
I used to be the bassist for his band. I left amicably, we're still friends. It was the highlight of my musical career to listen to this man play guitar night after night. Total pro.
Yes, been waiting years for you to do a Sykes pack! That Hello Kitty guitar shred was hysterical. Well done overall. How about Nuno next??!! Thanks for all you do and the research and effort.
agree, nuno please
he used ADA preamp no ?
Probably my all time favorite 80’s album and, dang! You played it to perfection. Another great pack to feed my 80’s addiction. Thank you.
Me to. This album and badlands first album.
That was fantastic!
Brilliant. One of my favourite guitarists and sound
The 1st two Blue Murder albums are absolutely killer. Great playing man.
Pulled my mark 3 out of the closet after 25 years to retube it sooo happy I didn't sell it!😆🤘💪🎸
Killer profiles, killer playing 🤘
Hi Rocco :p
YESSSSSSS!!!! I couldn't buy this fast enough! Thanks TJ!!!!!!!!
This one is insta buy! Your demos are awesome.
I stopped everything I was doing when this Video uploaded!!!
You nailed everything on this video. I really enjoyed it. Thank you. !🤘🏼
I want to compliment your mix on these videos, too. I imagine they're quite easy to mix with tones that good!
Excellent job brother!! Great playing too!
It’s a killer tone! Love it.
Thanks. I been waiting a while for this one.
Wish I'd seen this 11 months ago--Jimi what an eargasm of a vid! Incredible tones as expected but damn, I will have to agree with the others, you are quite the badass player-chops-o-plenty! As a Mesa Boogie owner I had to laugh, yeah the million different tweaks make it a royal pain in the ass sometimes and to do a profile? Oh man...However all that work paid off, it's astounding just like your EVH Brown Sound pack. Heard Simon using it on the VH 1 album show and my mind was blown like everyone elses! I just got a Kemper recently and now it looks like the Sykes pack is also going to be a must have! Appreciate all the work you put into your profiles---it shows!
I love your work, thanks for your dedication. 🎸🔥
Been contemplating buying the Kemper.
First thing first of all - holy crap dude. You rip!!!!
Probably pulling the trigger based on what I have heard about your profiles
Glad to see you also get some Blue Murder in there.
Usually not heavily influenced by pickups, but the Gibson Dirtyfingers are unique sounding. They stand out for that Sykes sound
All things considered you've done a great job here! (Nice playing too btw). Sykes used a dual amp setup with a detune harmoniser to thicken and widen the sound. Some of the EQ curve you mention occurs as an artefact from that style of processing, it increases the presence whilst rounding off the harshness. You can tweak til infinity you will never achieve that with any EQ. When the stems were passed to Keith Olsen for mixing he complained the guitars weren't in tune as Sykes' picked so hard and with so much vibrato it would take a long time to settle into pitch. He went ahead and pitch corrected some of the guitar tracks which affected the tone further. If you listen to some of the early demo versions of those Whitesnake songs on the 'Evolutions' CD , hes using a Rockman initially but then later sessions he's using the Mesa and the tone is waaay different than in post.
I watched this video in VR stereo. What a trip!
Great playing Sir.
The thing about Sykes, most people forget, his pickup choice .
Those dirty fingers pick-up are not forgiving.Gibson’s answer to to after market super distortion pickups of the late seventies.
This his inherent sound at that time.
No body plays these now, ( newer ones different) sounding.
These are brutal, but John made this his sound.
Keep up your playing Sir, you are an inspiration.
My prayers have been answered!!!
Outstanding!!! 😍😍😍
Awesome tone and damn good playing too
Well done!
really great job, excellent playing
Also, we have no idea about what processing was used during the recording and mixing. Compression, EQ, reverb, and it sounds like he was using some kind of hush. Also it’s clear to me on some parts they used room ambience “room mics” for certain leads. I’ve tried to find out what console was used but since they recorded in several different studios who knows? Neve, SSL, I’ve even heard a Trident and MCI. So many questions left unanswered.
I enjoy the playing more than the tone here! Awesome as always! Motley Crue next :)
Don't care about Kemper but love the channel and your amp info. WAY COOL!!!
The Hello Kitty solo had me dying laughing but the playing was damn impressive. Cheers
I have a pink Hello Kitty strat, but not with a Floyd Rose on mine unfortunately.
Amazing job
hej -
Just bought this and some others . love them. Would love to have a Billy Gibbons pack some day ;) Thanks for me to getting to play and smile again ;) Making a LOT of noise ;)
Hi Top Jimi: Nice job on the "shreddy" part of the guitar solo at 3:44. WRT to the profile: I think the real thing that missing is the more stereo chorus. If you listen to the original tone, it definitely has more stereo chorus than the Kemper you've created. Moreover, it is a very "deep" tone with a lot of plate reverb and delay I think as well; he definitely has about 20% "air" in between the microphones and the speaker cabs. I've always thought of Skye's tone on that record being like Randy Rhoad's "Flying High Again" album guitar tone on steroids, but with less mid-range as well (as you've dialed in). Both of those iconic tones have the character of "pure steel", truly "metal" in character, which is what makes them so recognizable. But, for this profile, I think it forms a good "base" for a player to build on to achieve Sykes's EXACT 87' tone.
Excellent! Would love to a Satriani or Eric Johnson pack
Cracking job.
Love your videos. Great sounds, quality playing and really informative- you've acquired a new subscriber ;) Seeing all those Marshalls behind you is the only thing that makes me patriotic these days, haha
Best guitar tone ever
Sounds great, you seem to make the best profiles.
The blue murder tine is killer ! So much more aggressive! Sounding a bit like the racerx tones👍
So very Great!
Hot-damn-toe-mighty..... that's the tone right there!!!!
Amazing!!!
I just got a Gun Slinger Products 87 MRK III THAT EMULATES THIS JOHN SYKES SOUND PERFECTLY!
Amazing
Also.. Please do a Gilmour pack and since there are so so many tones of his. I'll pay double!!
Nice!!!
Man I have a huge request Jim - can you do a Kings X - Ty Taybor profile? I love the Sykes - I'll be purchasing it!
Holy sh....!!!!! Nailed it
If you want to nail the tone better, the Japanese published a book entirely about John Sykes, his tone and the entire setup and the recording process he used on 87 and other albums. One of the surprising things about the Whitesnake tone is that a Fender Stratocaster with single coils was vital to the sound on record and how it was layered with his Les Paul which was loaded with Seymore Duncan Dirty Finger pickups. You did a great job gettibg super close to the tones, but based upon book (my copy is buried somewhere and I can't get to it right now) I can see how there are only a few pieces of gear necessary to copy it exactly that you'd need.
Is it the one that costs 102$ on ebay?
Seymour Duncan’s ? Thought he used Tim Shaw dirty fingers
@@mthao1832 No, SD Dirty Fingers
Sounds good to me...I'm gonna get it. :-)
top jimi I thought he used a jcm800 for this album in studio and mark iii live ?
Almost a perfect DNA. 👍
My little Kitty ! Tone dude!
Mind opening
Please could you make this sound for the valeton 200-GP
Even if you got close , there is the whole out of phase thing they got going on that album too.
Standing in the shadows
Any chance of bringing this pack to Tonex?
Well I guess I need to buy a Kemper now.
You won’t regret it. 🤘
great playing Jim! I love this era of Sykes playing and you nailed the tone, great detective work! If I had a Kemper I would buy your whole combo pack. (I’m playing a Headrush right now) Any info on your LP? a 76 maybe?
Thank you. The black Custom is an early ‘69.
@@TopJimiStudios ohh wow, that is sa-weeet! I'll bet if plays "like buttah"
Indeed it does!
You need to do TONEX Profiles
Coming in July!
@@TopJimiStudios I use a Tonex with a Fractal FM9. Since the TONEX doesn't have effects, could you give the effects you use to get there when you put them out. I want the Sykes and Lynch for sure. Sent me a message when you get them complete.
I’ll put out free Amplitube presets using the captures. Haven’t thought beyond that yet…
Awesome. Any Schenker or Trower in the future?
You are the master at recreating these classic tones. Any chance you will make some for the Quad Cortex? If so I request the Van Halen pack!
quad cortex sucks
If you know of a way to sell profiles through the mandatory Quad Cortex cloud, I’d love to hear about it
LOVE IT! Would like to hear the profiles not in the mix though!
I would like to hear it without the music playing too bcuz the real sounds get lost in it
Does it come with merged and effects ?
Yessir. All of our packs do.
Any plans to do captures on a Quad Cortex?
As far as I know, there’s no good way to sell through their mandated cloud environment
@@TopJimiStudios yeah, not a facility for that to easily work yet unfortunately. I moved across from Kemper and the only thing I miss are your profiles!
HI Top Jimi: I must agree with so many others - NUNO BETTENCOURT's tones need to come next. Especially hard to get will be the tone he had on the 1st EXTREME album (1989), the tone used on "Teacher's Pet", "Mutha, Don't Want to Go to School Today", "Play With Me" (from Bill and Ted), etc... That tone is like Lynch's "Under Lock and Key" tone, but on steriods!! It's amazing the way Nuno's tone "crys" on that album, just iconic! To me, Nuno's 1st album tone is "holy grail tone", one I've always been alble to get close to, but never 100% match with ANY guitar emulation software. _NOTES: I remember him saying an interview that he was running the ADA MP-1 into a Mesa Boogie Head (not sure which model), using the ADA as a "preamp" of sorts, along with using a BBE Sonic Maximizer between the cabinets and the amp head. Nuno also said a lot of people think he was using a "half cocked" Cry Baby Wah on the front end to get the extra bite and "honk" that 1st tone, but Nuno denied that (whether he was being truthful or not is another thing, as "tone secrecy" was a big thing back then, but you're mileage may vary). _ HOWEVER, on the 2nd album, Nuno's tone is easier to dial in, as well as the albums after that, but - man - the first 1989 album. Just load up the song "Teacher's Pet" below and you can hear how amazingly "tight" the low end is while still retaining great sustain and clariy on the high end (it does have that "ADA/Boogie" flavor to it). Just an amazingly "clean", yet distorted tone, at the same time. He's also got stereo chorus and delay on it as well. Here's "Teacher's Pet" - ruclips.net/video/UKeJMp1jqUQ/видео.html&ab_channel=24%2F7DynamiteSongs. In closing, thanks a million in advance for your future work on Nuno's tone, and for all the great work you've tone before. Also, how about more Trash tones - Metallica, Testament, Anthrax, etc. all come to mind as iconic amazing tones.
I have a question @topjimi: I got that pack recently for obvious reasons and its SO MUCH gain......much flubbier, than i hear in your video and i am using guitars (HSS Strat or LP) with PAF-style pickups.....which brings me to the question of pickup height! Would you mind to share how you set up the pickups of your guitars, especially the Les Paul? Thank you so much!
Pickup height is about 3/16", but setting the height depends so much on the individual guitar and personal taste. Try lowering the pickup if you want less bass and see if that helps.
Very i,pressed wow
Do you sell top jimi tshirts i looked on your site and didnt see any
I’ve thought about doing that but didn’t know if there would be a market. I’ll look into doing that.
@@TopJimiStudios Really love your stuff, Im not a rich man but want to support you big time, Ill be picking up the sykes pack and brown sound on thursday
BTW by any chance do you have A Blue Voodoo or show my how i can profile mine ?
MAIDEN.DIO, PRiest ( I mean common it's their 50 year anniversary)
Mick Mars next!
Any interest in Quad Cortex versions for your artist profiles?
If you know of a way to sell profiles through the mandatory Quad Cortex cloud, I’d love to hear about it
Can we get a Metallica one next? Been waiting for a long time for a proper pack
I'd love for that too! A full complete pack with the lead tones. Though I heard it's a legal risk with that band, so I think some profilers avoid making a metallica branded pack.
One more here
This dude's ridiculous! Somebody's been practicing!
That Still of the Night solo is ridiculous.
Wasn't "Still" the only track Vandenburg actually did his own track upon agreeing to join band?
An emphatic NOPE!!
Please Metallica!
Working on it… Stuck on the Black album right now.
@@TopJimiStudios There is a cool tone-talk episode with bob rock talking about it. Actually it is the same episode he talks about john sykes. One important thing is a room microphone a few feet away from the cab which gives the tone a certain resonance.
Time for you to see the light and join the Fractal army.
LOLOL
Owning both, while fractal is a wonderful piece of gear, the Kemper just has something special about it sound wise. Thoroughly love both but personally would choose the Kemper!
Please.
yeah maybe even vst plugins army? lol
sounds nothing like the real thing. sorry.
Profiling nonsense. It's just the precession of simulacra. smh