If you like Ritchie Blackmore's sounds from the era of Deep Purple Mark II and III and Rainbow, and you happen to have a Kemper Profiler and a Strat, check out these profiles! They were made from a very rare Marshall Major amp. This pack includes Version 1 & Version 2, released on the 5th anniversary date of Version 1, and is free for all who bought Version 1 already.

This pack contains over 200 profiles (!) that try to simulate Ritchie Blackmore's sounds during his years with Deep Purple (Mark II and III) and Rainbow. These are profiles of a very rare Marshall Major 200W Model 1967 amp from 1971-1972 in excellent condition. There were only 1200 copies made of this amp, and only a few are still in good condition, worldwide. The best is to play these rigs on a Strat, although many profiles also sound great on a Les Paul! This amp was also used by Mick Ronson, Stevie Ray Vaughan and John Frusciante. These profiles sound the best on a FR speaker because the H55 speaker is an integral part of the unique sound, and for some song profiles, IR's were created and converted into Kemper cabinets. You will not find this kind of profiles anywhere else because there are so little Majors left in good condition! I checked it out and couldn't find any, that's why I decided to profile it myself. Furthermore, it was not an easy task to get the right ingredients for Ritchie's sound... Every component in the sound chain had to be the right one. It took me years of experimenting with amps (Vox, Marshall Vintage Modern, and the Major), treble boosters and speakers to obtain this result.

The material that was used for making this pack, is the following:

• a very rare Marshall Major 200W Model 1967 amp from 1971-1972
• Good vintage tubes (preamp and power tubes)
• A Hornby-Skewes clone treble booster to emulate sounds during the period of Deep Purple Mark II
• An AIWA TP-1011 clone to emulate sounds during the period of Deep Purple Mark III and the first two Rainbow albums
• The Rivera Rockcrusher to reduce the volume at speaker level
• A Scumback H55 30 Watt speaker
  

  A 1970's Marshall checkerboard 1960B 4x12 cabinet with PR-H55 pre-Rola 1969 55-Hz Pulsonic 014 cone Celestion G12H 30 watt speakers Stamped T1281

• Shure SM57 and Sennheiser MD421 microphones

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• A note on Liquid Profiles...

• Many people ask me when I will create liquid profiles for the Marshall Major amp. The answer is that I cannot do that, unless Kemper decides to make a tone stack for this particular amp. It is only if a tone stack exists, that I can make liquid profiles. The chances that Kemper will do this, are very small, because there were only 1200 copies made of this amp and a lot of them are not even functioning anymore today. Furthermore, Blackmore tempered with the tone stack (particularly the gain stack) so the results will not be totally reliable either.

   

• That being said, it is my opinion that liquid profiles are overrated! The only feature is offers, is that you can use just one single profile instead of many. You can change the treble, mid, bass, presence or gain control on the Kemper and it will faithfully reproduce those changes as if you made them on the original amp. That's all. If there are no liquid profiles available, you just have to use more profiles and put them in several slots if you use a performance per song. But soundwise, there is no difference in sound quality that would be improved!