Posts by Spantik7000

Hello, had yesterday a workshop and we came to discuss about compressors for guitars and enhanced the advantage to have also a mixer to blend the dry signal with the wet compressed signal to keep a sweet genuine tone of the guitar alive. It was an interesting experience.

I wonder if there is such a compressor in the Kemper effect library or as 3rd party profile (to use in an effect slot). I was thinking about the Origin recreation of the 1176 Studio Compressor or the Wampler Ego.

What would you suggest?

Quote from RosboneMako

If your cleans sound good, it is because they have a lot of dynamic range.

Higher gain sounds have NO dynamic range by their nature of being a clipped/overly compressed waveform.

The freqs that tell your brain it sounds good are Highs( 2.5k and up) and Lows. These also tell your brain "this sound is close to me". Most studio monitors have a very flat high freq response. And most guitar profiles have no bass response. So high gain ends up being almost ALL MIDS with no dynamics, which tell your brain "this sound is far away from me" and "it is dull".

The more gain you have the more you are relying on the lows to have some dynamic range. The mids and highs will have no dynamic range. If you record high gain guitar you will see the volume is constant until you start chugging. Then it gets twice as loud. Because most gain requires removal of lows before the gain stage. Then the lows are boosted back up.

I have fought with your problem for years when I got my Kemper. My answer was different speakers.

My Kemper sounded great thru cheap speakers and sounded flat and lifeless thru my monitors. Cheap speakers are all highs and lows, sound great. Monitors are very flat, sound bad.

I ended up replacing the tweeters in my monitors and now the Kemper shines. If I boosted the highs the Kemper became shrill and harsh. New tweeters was the only way to liven them up to get around the natural boring response of the original tweeters.

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THX for this insight, much appreciated, have you tried a Kemper Kabinet or a similar FR active speaker? I have a toaster (unpowered) and bought the Powered Kabinet, the overdriven, even distorted sound is just so full, I really like it.

Quote from BillyNoSocks

ta-da! glad it worked!

THX

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you have done this by hand, right? not just stepping on the pedal? if you push that switch with your thumb and you get no click & no response, that's a bad latching switch right there.

that was the case, yes, THX, I could activate the switch by hand. I adjusted the height and now the wah/volume work perfectly.

Thanks to all for your patience and support

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Thanks, I tried again today using the 2 cables as described (how I did laso before), still the switch seems to be inoperative, settings with Pedal 1 as wah, pedal 2 as switch, to A, where the wah shall be in my rigs. I do not have the impression I can push more or deeper, the button goes to max and still nothing happens.

just made the last trst, could get a hand on a multimeter to check the resustance of the switch and there is no change whether i push and push again, strong on the switch. The switch is effectless, to my eyes should be off (max. resistance) and then on (min. resistance).

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And it doesn't, it's a latching switch. You need both cables connected and you have to assign the toe switch to the block (typically A) where you put the Wah. The assignment is global, for all rigs. You need as well to assign the kind of switch to the pedal input you connect to.

Thanks, I tried again today using the 2 cables as described (how I did laso before), still the switch seems to be inoperative, settings with Pedal 1 as wah, pedal 2 as switch, to A, where the wah shall be in my rigs. I do not have the impression I can push more or deeper, the button goes to max and still nothing happens.

just received an EP1 with toe switch (not spring loaded), and can only program either volume or wah, the toe switch does not seem to work. I am about to return the pedal for warranty exchange. Whether I connect output 2 or not, no difference when pushing hard on the toe switch (I do not feel any « click » as with usual effect pedal switches). The button cannot go deeper, so does not engage any switch.

Seems to be a known problem with the EP1 (not only w. Kemper users).

I may be completely off track, still, is the guitar electronic and PUs OK? A couple of years ago I had a similar phenomenon, and the tech told me the switch contacts were corroded.

hey, well done and welcome to the big family. With Kemper, you’ll never stop learning and disçovering. Tone shaping has taken a new dimension for me.

Check for Kemper Player specific profiles (like DillRigs or M.Britt for example), they are optimized for the Kemper Player concept.

THx for the exchange, every day I learn something new.

Wheresthedug , I’ll check the FP02M.

Hello, I intend to use a Boss FV-30H high-impedance vomlue pedal with the Kemper head.

1. is such a high-impedance pedal appropriate for the Kemper head or rather a low-impedance pedal?

2. can one use a volume pedal as an expression pedal (Wah for example)?

Would appreciate some feed-back.

Have a great day.

cool, welcome and you certainly know much

Nice shell, I opted for the British Audio version, neat too and came also quite fast to Switzerland.

exploring is the right journey, enjoy and welcome

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When using a WLAN repeater the Profiler will only connect to Rig Manager mobile apps on iOS or Android. Rig Manager works via USB only.

unfortunately, yes

I use a very long USB cable as a repeater solution does not work with the toaster or the rack (I tried to connect over WLAN). With the long cable, it works really well.

I tried with a repeater/extender, could connect with my iPad, not with my LapTop (the Profiler is not seen).

Is there a specific setting for Rig Manager on NacOS?

Will work with a TP-Link TL-WA860RE as extender, should do the job, THX for all your feed-backs

Benvenido de Suiza, soy Kemper desde de diciembre 2023. Greenhorn !

Got a toaster too and very happy it does not cook bread. Bienvenido en el club