Difficulty achieving stereo separation through monitor cabs

Stringtheorist · August 28, 2025 at 2:16 PM

I have a Kemper Profiler Rack connected to a pair of FRFR monitors through the Monitor and Direct outputs, and I'm trying to achieve stereo separation for reverbs, delays and chorus after the stack. My Output settings are Master Stereo from Monitor out with the soft button checked to link the Direct output to stereo. After messing with the delay block's settings and trying out all the delay presets I have been unable to dial-in a simple ping pong delay with the dry signal panned to one side and the delayed signal to the other. Both signals always go to both sides, no matter what settings I use. What am I missing?

nwmusic32 · August 28, 2025 at 4:14 PM

Quote from Stringtheorist

I have a Kemper Profiler Rack connected to a pair of FRFR monitors through the Monitor and Direct outputs, and I'm trying to achieve stereo separation for reverbs, delays and chorus after the stack. My Output settings are Master Stereo from Monitor out with the soft button checked to link the Direct output to stereo. After messing with the delay block's settings and trying out all the delay presets I have been unable to dial-in a simple ping pong delay with the dry signal panned to one side and the delayed signal to the other. Both signals always go to both sides, no matter what settings I use. What am I missing?

Check out pages 130 - 134 in the manual. There is a specific section for a wet/dry setup -

Page 134 - "When Source is set to “DLY/REV wet” for a stereo output, it will deliver only the wet stereo effect signal of delay and reverb effects from the DLY and REV modules. If you set the source of the DIRECT OUTPUT to “Stack” or “Mod….”, which is the complementary dry signal, then you can send your amp signal to the front mixing desk through three cables. For PROFILER Stage, you could use the SEND 1 instead of the DIRECT OUTPUT for this application. Your front mixer can now mix the effect signal to the dry signal, according to the actual room ambience of the venue. This method is called the wet/dry/wet setup. Your mixer will love you for that! And, you can still use the MONITOR OUTPUT separately from all of this for your individual stage sound!"

You can also mess with the Dual Delay:

Page 273 - "The Dual Delay features two fully independent delays - one for each stereo side - with independent feedback controls. Both feedbacks can be sync'ed with the “Feedback Sync” soft button, so that both are controlled by the Feedback 1 control only. The sync'ed feedbacks don't just have the same feedback level but are adjusted automatically depending on the respective delay times, such that both delays will decay to silence at the same point in time, thus preserving the stereo image. Use the Cross Feedback parameter to increase the density of the delay reflections."

Stringtheorist · August 28, 2025 at 4:20 PM

Quote from nwmusic32

Check out pages 130 - 134 in the manual. There is a specific section for a wet/dry setup -

Page 134 - "When Source is set to “DLY/REV wet” for a stereo output, it will deliver only the wet stereo effect signal of delay and reverb effects from the DLY and REV modules. If you set the source of the DIRECT OUTPUT to “Stack” or “Mod….”, which is the complementary dry signal, then you can send your amp signal to the front mixing desk through three cables. For PROFILER Stage, you could use the SEND 1 instead of the DIRECT OUTPUT for this application. Your front mixer can now mix the effect signal to the dry signal, according to the actual room ambience of the venue. This method is called the wet/dry/wet setup. Your mixer will love you for that! And, you can still use the MONITOR OUTPUT separately from all of this for your individual stage sound!"

You can also mess with the Dual Delay:

Page 273 - "The Dual Delay features two fully independent delays - one for each stereo side - with independent feedback controls. Both feedbacks can be sync'ed with the “Feedback Sync” soft button, so that both are controlled by the Feedback 1 control only. The sync'ed feedbacks don't just have the same feedback level but are adjusted automatically depending on the respective delay times, such that both delays will decay to silence at the same point in time, thus preserving the stereo image. Use the Cross Feedback parameter to increase the density of the delay reflections."

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OK, thanks. I seem to have it working now. I think the balance parameter was set incorrectly in the delay block.

Stringtheorist August 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM

Stringtheorist August 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM