Inside the Studio with Mark Hornsby: Amplifier Profiling with Carl Verheyen

Inside the Studio with Mark Hornsby: Amplifier Profiling with Carl Verheyen

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Some of you might remember my good friend and guitar virtuoso Carl Verheyen from our July 2020 issue. Given the current demand for working remotely, Carl and I discussed different ways to reconfigure his home studio to streamline the workflow. Carl records lots of guitars for me, and I mix lots of stuff for him, plus Carl has a ton of gear. Miking all of it up at his house, while doable, isn’t always preferred or feasible. I suggested to Carl that he check out the Kemper as a means of having all his amp sounds just a click away. Our friends at Sweetwater sent us a Kemper, and we tried it out on a couple of things. Then we tried it out on some more things. The next thing you know, we had decided to profile most of his amp collection. But that’s a lot of work! So, after much thought and several glasses of wine in a socially distanced environment, we decided to profile his entire collection and make it available to the public. Here’s how we did it...