Hi all, I'm a 1st time Kemper user and have only had a few weeks with the Kemper Player so far. I run a Marshall JVM head and 4x12 cab and basically wante something for jamming and for small gigs without having to lug my amp and cab around.
So far at home I'm very happy with the sounds Im getting. I've found a bunch of DI profiles I run through the power section of my amp and 4x12 that sound fantastic. Also I've found plenty of studio profiles that sound good through my studio monitors.
Today I rented a few hours at a local rehearsal space so I could spend some time playing direct to PA at volume. What I found is that for 99% of all profiles, the bass was just overwhelming. I could obviously turn the bass down on profiles and use the HPF to cut the bass and this helped, but as you'd expect it makes for a very boxy sound. I guess I'm just wondering if this is normal and to he expected? For example if most profile vendors are making profiles to suit studio and home players, it would make sense that significant tweaking is required for live use. People say MBritt profiles are tuned more for live use but they too were very bassy. I have a bunch of Bert Meulendijk profiles that sound amazing at home but are so bassy they are unusable through the PA.
From memory a bunch of Top Jimi profiles seemed to work best in this setting and required less tweaking.
The room was fairly small today with 2 15" mounted powered speakers and wedge. The speakers were mounted in the corners which is not ideal and added to the bass I'm sure. I will be going back to spend more time on this and I feel like if I can get sounds that are good but still a little bass heavy that is probably ok as a starting point for other spaces.
The PA did have channel and global EQ but I kept them flat for this experiment. I was running into a line input and the main xlr out from the Kemper. Any thoughts/advice would be appreciated.