hello guys, i'm a fulltime guitarist from Indonesia. I play with my band called Kahitna. We're one of the busiest band in Indonesia. i've stopped carrying my heavy fender hotrod deville 410 and using kemper profiler stage now. My band is 9 pieces. 3 vocals, 1 piano, 1 synth, 1 bass, 1 drum, 1 percussion, and 1 guitar. I lately found my guitar sound dont cut in the mix at foh sound even if it's very loud and clear in my monitor wedge. I set main out volume at -11db and use both xlr out to foh, but still from the audience video i didn't hear my guitar sound. I only hear loud piano, synth, bass, drum, and vocals. No guitar sound heard. It seems don't cut in the mix or lack of headroom maybe. The engineer said he had maxed level a guitar channels in his foh mixer. Any tips and tricks about this anyone? Thanks and regards
Hello from Indonesia
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Hi, welcome and have fun here in the forum and with your Kemper! Greetings to Indonesia and thanks for your introduction.
What kind of profiles are you using? Selfmade? RigExchange? Commercial? Maybe try something different. Those profiles which sound good at home or at low levels are typically not the ones which cut through the mix in recordings or live use - especially with your 9 piece band. So keep trying to find something which suits the needs better. Quality of profiles differs a lot and it takes some time to find suitable ones and tweak them for your needs. Don't give up too early. The Kemper can do what you want and lots of people (incl. myself) can confirm that the Kemper cuts through the mix quite well with the right settings
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Welcome.
There must be something wrong with the signal going to FOH.
Work with your mixing guy.
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Hi and welcome to the forum!
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hello guys, i'm a fulltime guitarist from Indonesia. I play with my band called Kahitna. We're one of the busiest band in Indonesia. i've stopped carrying my heavy fender hotrod deville 410 and using kemper profiler stage now. My band is 9 pieces. 3 vocals, 1 piano, 1 synth, 1 bass, 1 drum, 1 percussion, and 1 guitar. I lately found my guitar sound dont cut in the mix at foh sound even if it's very loud and clear in my monitor wedge. I set main out volume at -11db and use both xlr out to foh, but still from the audience video i didn't hear my guitar sound. I only hear loud piano, synth, bass, drum, and vocals. No guitar sound heard. It seems don't cut in the mix or lack of headroom maybe. The engineer said he had maxed level a guitar channels in his foh mixer. Any tips and tricks about this anyone? Thanks and regards
Hello from Singapore! Seems to be an issue at the mix desk if you can't hear it at all in the FOH system.
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Have you double checked the output settings in the output page?
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Welcome Sir
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Maybe -11dB is still too high. The guitar channel on the mixing desk is on maximum...no headroom left, you can't be sure that the channel gets the full Kemper volume. Another reason could be the stereo setup (you wrote that you're using both XLR outputs, that's why I assume it's stereo). I'm not going into detail here as you're a fulltime and therefore experienced guitarist but try mono and see if it's getting better.
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thanks for all the tips, i assume maybe the soundman didn't really turn up the guitar level on the mixing desk. But i will try the main out mono trick.
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Hi, welcome and have fun here in the forum and with your Kemper! Greetings to Indonesia and thanks for your introduction.
What kind of profiles are you using? Selfmade? RigExchange? Commercial? Maybe try something different. Those profiles which sound good at home or at low levels are typically not the ones which cut through the mix in recordings or live use - especially with your 9 piece band. So keep trying to find something which suits the needs better. Quality of profiles differs a lot and it takes some time to find suitable ones and tweak them for your needs. Don't give up too early. The Kemper can do what you want and lots of people (incl. myself) can confirm that the Kemper cuts through the mix quite well with the right settings
I use M Britt 5e3 tweed amp
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Maybe -11dB is still too high. The guitar channel on the mixing desk is on maximum...no headroom left, you can't be sure that the channel gets the full Kemper volume. Another reason could be the stereo setup (you wrote that you're using both XLR outputs, that's why I assume it's stereo). I'm not going into detail here as you're a fulltime and therefore experienced guitarist but try mono and see if it's getting better.
Hi thanks for the reply, i will try the mono trick. By the way even if im fulltime guitarist, i am still newby learning to play the kemper. I played tube amp before.
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Good luck! Regarding the level coming from the Kemper: I think most of the users here dial in a level between -18 and -25dB.
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Welcome Andrew,
The musicians on this forum are the greatest bunch of guys. I bought my Kemper with next to no programming skills. Everyone here is just great I've had 2 people who I met through the forum that are fast friends now. I would say just keep trying different profiles some tha tdd sounded great at home didnt quite cut it at the gig, there is a difference in the quality of rigs out there
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