Any fun fact or anecdote with your Kemper?

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    As the awaited new update arrives, I've though in share some funny stories, facts or anecdotes related with Kemper. Mine:


    This week I was trying some profiles for a new bank. As usual, I recorded a simple riff with the looper and start switching rigs of same amp, but different gain and channel settings.

    Found interesting the small nuances between the "Normal" and "Bright" channel. The second was open and bright, even less compressed. So, after some time, and when I was convinced about the good and bad of each one, jumped to a more gain rig, and surprisingly, it was 'almost' the same sound as the previous rig. Wow, I expected more difference. And the more I listened to it, the more similar they seemed. Then it hit me. The looper was set in output, and all the time I was listening to the same clip! :rolleyes:


    Happy Friday!

    I'm getting ready to record a track. Turn on computer, DAW, and Kemper. Roll up the guitar volume knob and nothing. I kept checking my input and output settings then restarted the computer, DAW, and Kemper and still nothing. WTF?

    Oh, I forgot to jack in the guitar. :rolleyes:

    Larry Mar @ Lonegun Studios. Neither one famous yet.

    Not funny but, after 12 year with my kemper rack, I've accidentaly discovered recently that if you put other kind of FX in the delay and rev Modules, You can use the external knobs (dedicated to delay and reverb) to control a copule of parameters of that fx.

    It was like.. wait wait.. What? Really? Are you kidding me? :huh:

    I may have the most beautiful kemper out there , it's anecdotique for sure with only 3 models worldwide :p

    Original art by my mother ;)

    During the years that I owned the Kemper head, I once had the headphone and input jack mixed up. And couldn’t for the life of me figure out why I couldn’t hear anything. I powered it on and off made sure my plugs were secure. I was awfully close to contacting support to get it fixed.

    I think like most I've done the " input into the headphone socket" cock up.

    I guess I had 2 shockers:

    1) I was playing a festival and getting into it...mid solo, giving it some beans and...whole thing switched off! Slightly panicked raced to the back of the stage to my rack...the power socket had worked its way loose...I like to think because I was rockin so hard, but probably due in transit!

    2) Turned up to a gig, kemper won;t boot up, got stuck in a loop. Must have started it and restarted it 10 times...it just kept saying..wait.. Panicking I raced home to get a backup amp, by the time I got back, the Kemper was up and running. Turned out later to be a loose connection on the board which I alter solved!

    The best part of playing a KPA is that you can try as many amps as you like, and in my case I tried hundreds of profiles , maybe thousands ...

    ... just to figure out that I only need a couple of princeton & JCM800 profiles to cover 95% of my tone needs.

    it just took 10 years of KPA for me to undestand this 8):P^^

    Once I had a gig with mic'd backline amps (Fender Hotrod.....). During setup I took the cable from the mic, plugged it in the Stage (told I was using it only for fx) and put a loose cable in to the mic. Lowered the output to -20dB and ready to go. The sound guy noticed nothing.....

    At the end of the evening the owner of the club tell the sound guy "you see? No need to change the amps, it sounded great today!"

    I can only imagine the reaction by the following gig...^^

    If something is too complicated, then you need to learn it better

    Quote from waraba

    The best part of playing a KPA is that you can try as many amps as you like, and in my case I tried hundreds of profiles , maybe thousands ...

    ... just to figure out that I only need a couple of princeton & JCM800 profiles to cover 95% of my tone needs.

    it just took 10 years of KPA for me to undestand this 8):P^^

    I had a similar journey. At first I was making performances with all kinds of different amps in them and that would cause ear vertigo when switching between them. I worked like crazy to get everything to sound good with the right levels when I switch between them. Because they were so different tone wise it was really hard to do that and I was constantly adjusting them. After contemplating it a bit I realized that in the past I had amps that would have just a couple different basic sounds and I could do everything with that. I found the best thing to do is just like you I have a clean amp (/13) that I have set from Strumming Acoustic Light Clean to crunch and then maybe a little more with a pedal, Maybe a fender type amp set in the middle and then another British style amp for my heavier stuff that I can go from classic rock distortion to Metal to leads by adjusting the gain and adding a pedal. I found that using just a couple amps and adjusting them makes it way easier to keep things consistent and more like I have been used to doing for years. It took me awhile to get there because I'm bad with choices and I wanted it all, only to find out too much is too much.

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    I had a similar journey. At first I was making performances with all kinds of different amps in them and that would cause ear vertigo when switching between them. I worked like crazy to get everything to sound good with the right levels when I switch between them. Because they were so different tone wise it was really hard to do that and I was constantly adjusting them. After contemplating it a bit I realized that in the past I had amps that would have just a couple different basic sounds and I could do everything with that. I found the best thing to do is just like you I have a clean amp (/13) that I have set from Strumming Acoustic Light Clean to crunch and then maybe a little more with a pedal, Maybe a fender type amp set in the middle and then another British style amp for my heavier stuff that I can go from classic rock distortion to Metal to leads by adjusting the gain and adding a pedal. I found that using just a couple amps and adjusting them makes it way easier to keep things consistent and more like I have been used to doing for years. It took me awhile to get there because I'm bad with choices and I wanted it all, only to find out too much is too much.

    I found that to be the case as well. One thing that might help with using various amps is using the same cabinet with them. That provides a consistent base for switching between sounds.
    a problem with real amps is that how many can you actually get your hands on and put through their pieces at whatever volume is needed to hear them in their sweet spot? Let alone trying them with different mic set ups, let alone being able to a/b compare. Owning the Kemper was what enabled me to try out everything under the sun and discover my favorite amps and appreciate the subtlties between similar amps and the same ones profiled differently. And over the past 12 years, I’m a different player, and my tastes have changed. But in most seasons, I’ve pretty much using one amps profiles for go-to live. Even though I find a new favorite every year or so.

    Reading through Forums and AB listening tests for years, regularly forgetting to just make music solely applying the magic of actual technology. A trumpet prof once told me he observes guitarists tending to spend a lot of time reading manuals in exchange for practicing...There is always something...

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