Preparing for first live show

Jake91 · July 4, 2019 at 2:37 AM

Hello Everyone!

I’ve owned my Kemper Power rack for about 6 months now and it’s honestly the best thing I’ve ever bought, I’m preparing for our first sound check and first live show for my bands EP release, I’m extremely anal about being prepared and want to make sure it’s perfect!I’ll be running mono out of main and probably a monitor out to wedge or cabs, I also have in ears but because I’m the only one in the band who uses them I’ll probably just give them a pass. I am confident with majority of the basic settings, I was wondering if anyone else had any tips or tricks for helping with preparation, All of my patches are from professional bundles so I shouldn’t have to do any adjusting they already sound incredible out of the box, maybe just a bit of delay/reverb tweaking. I’ve been a reader on here for a while and done some of my own research and what I’ve turned up so far is;

•Engage -12db pad for FOH mixer headroom

•Make sure rigs are volume balanced on FRFR speakers (Mainly just clean channel being a bit under, Do i use clean sense?)

•Disconnect Main outs to allow independant Monitor out adjustment

•Keep USB with patch/firmware backups

If anyone has any more relevant tips please do share!

JulenC · July 4, 2019 at 9:12 AM

Power conditioner?

Extra cables?

Wheresthedug · July 4, 2019 at 9:27 AM

Quote from Jake91

•Make sure rigs are volume balanced on FRFR speakers (Mainly just clean channel being a bit under, Do i use clean sense?)

if all clean sounds are a little quite (at gig volume) then you can increase Clean Sens. If it is only some Rigs or a combination of clean and dirty rigs that aren’t sitting right I would use Rig Volume and resave the rig.

Jake91 · July 4, 2019 at 11:39 AM

Quote from JulenC

Power conditioner?

Extra cables?

Am running a furman in the rack, got heaps of spare stuff, moreso tips and tricks to do with the settings of the kemper itself to prepare for a show/help foh engi

Jake91 · July 10, 2019 at 3:24 AM

Bump

MikeStoner · July 10, 2019 at 5:13 PM

If you’re using the remote make sure to disable the looper! Otherwise you WILL accidentally turn it on mid-song with predictably disastrous results. We’ve all been there.

JKplaysGuitar · July 11, 2019 at 4:04 PM

Quote from MikeStoner

If you’re using the remote make sure to disable the looper! Otherwise you WILL accidentally turn it on mid-song with predictably disastrous results. We’ve all been there.

I did this last Saturday mid-song. disastrous as i just button bashed until it went away haha.

DonPetersen · July 11, 2019 at 4:27 PM

Quote from MikeStoner

If you’re using the remote make sure to disable the looper!

or re-assign the Looper footswitch to Rotary slow/fast speed for example.

Jake91 · July 11, 2019 at 5:02 PM

I’ll disable the looper as well, that would be a scary one, i saw a thy art is murder rig vid where they put cableties around the buttons they dont want to use and you cant press it down?

paults · July 11, 2019 at 5:04 PM

Quote from DonPetersen

or re-assign the Looper footswitch to Rotary slow/fast speed for example.

Or, work with The Remote enough to be comfortable with the switch positions, so you can use the looper live