The chart itself contains a fair bit more information than just the amp settings, most of which are relatively easy to decipher, but for the sake of this article the amp settings are what we shall be looking at.
Anyone who has listened to the 1993 release “On The Night” will most likely agree that, for a live album, this is still as good as it gets for guitar sounds. Until then, we can only look to this other treasure that has been doing the rounds online for a few years now:Ībove, my fellow tone hunters, is a chart containing Knopfler’s Soldano SLO 100 amp settings used on the very last Dire Straits tour back in 1992, one that I found here. Maybe as a collection of licenced “signature” expansions for the Kemper units or some such. His tech team were apparently working on modelling his gear for a year or so prior to the most recent tour, so understandably such treasures will be under the heaviest of lock and key, but at some point. Of course, this revelation has now started the scavenger hunt to end all scavenger hunts for what is the holy grail of guitar tones: how do we get our grubby mitts on the Kemper profiles he’s using? Do you want to play through THE amp that Knopfler used on the Brothers In Arms album? Well if he’s using that particular profile live, it’s going to be out there somewhere it just has to be. Earlier this year, the argument of whether real amps still trump their digital counterparts, at least in the live arena seemed to have finally become a moot point when it transpired that the “tonemeister general” himself was confirmed to be using a Kemper rig on tour: Mark Knopfler! Using a digital rig. Last year the guitar world was seemingly turned on its collective head with John Mayer’s admission that he was using, shock horror, Fractal amp modelling for some of his recordings. Is Avid’s Eleven Rack still a worthy competitor in the modelling world over a decade on from its release? Guitarist Mark M Thompson sets himself a rather difficult task to find out.
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