Hi there,
I currently play electric guitar, stick bass, cello and sax - the guitar through a regular amp, bass through a bass amp, cello and sax through mics into whatever PA exists. I've been trying to set up something that will allow me to use the same rig for all four instruments. I was initially thinking of putting a pedal board together with something like the TwoNotes C.A.B cabinet modeller, some kind of pedal based pre-amp for the guitar and bass and a mic pre-amp for the acoustic instruments, all feeding through my Eventide H9 for modulation and reverb along with a loop pedal. I'd then take the output of the board and either run direct into the PA or bypass the cab modeller and run into a regular amp. This would work, but the cost is getting high, which makes me wonder, can I do all this with the KPA?
I had a quick search for 'sax' and 'cello' here and there weren't any hits, so maybe it's a weird idea, but a FRFS system is what I need for all these instruments (the stick bass needs either that or dual bass / guitar amps and obviously the acoustic instruments normally run through one). I'd be using an Eventide Mixing Link as the input module as I can plug any of my instruments into that and get the appropriate instrument level signal out to drive an effects chain, then into the H9 (or maybe have that in an effects loop of the KPA assuming it has them), through the delay pedal and into the input of the KPA. A stereo 2x12 FRFS cab would be idea, but I've not investigated whether such things exist.
The power stage of the powered version of the KPA should be more than enough to handle amplification duties, so as long as the KPA itself can model something like a marshall acoustic amp (I see no reason it wouldn't) or even just act as a rather expensive cabinet simulator for when I don't need any kind of amp modelling, it should work, maybe?
I'd love to know whether anyone else is doing something like this - I know about the KPA from being a guitarist with an interest in all things tech, I guess running the other instruments through it as well wasn't something Kemper expected people to do, it's only popped back into my thoughts with the release of the bass models.
Would this work?
Tom