Posts by Hudiluma

Dear yldzumt,

when I started my journey with the Kemper, I also struggled quite a bit to find the right profiles for my personal taste and needs. Reading your post today reminded me a lot of that experience, so I thought I might share a few thoughts that could perhaps help a little.

I listened to two of your wave files and, to my ears, they sound absolutely fine and seem to represent the profiles in the pack quite accurately. I should mention though that I only own a Version 1 unit, so I was not listening in full HD mode — whatever influence that may or may not have on the final sound.

That said, my personal impression is that the profiles in this particular pack do not fully showcase what the Kemper is capable of overall. But of course, that is highly subjective and largely comes down to individual taste. One thing I learned over time is that different profile makers often pursue very different ideas of what a great guitar tone should sound like. Some highly regarded commercial profilers simply have a tonal philosophy that does not necessarily match my own preferences — and that is perfectly fine.

I completely understand your wish to get a quick “return on investment” in terms of satisfaction and usability. At the same time, I think one of the beautiful aspects of the KPA universe is exactly this diversity. Everyone can create, share, and use the sounds they personally love. And even if a profile pack comes from a very well-known company, that still does not automatically mean it will fit your ears or your playing style.

If you have the time, I would really recommend exploring the Rig Exchange and trying random profiles from different creators. Over the years I came across countless profiles where my first reaction was “what on earth is this?” — yet clearly the authors loved those sounds enough to share them with others. And that is actually part of the charm: not every profile will appeal to everyone, and that is completely okay.

Just my personal thoughts and experiences of course.

From my perspective there is no generel need to replace anything on your Tele. If it works for you than it works. There is a historic pointing down on non USA Fenders (aka Squiers). I own two JV-Squier Strats which at the time (1982) where looked down to in every aspect. As time went on that changed completely. I own two Fender Japan Teles for 20 years now and that where also looked down too. Pickups and Pots might be crap. But guess what, they worked for me and I changed the pots cause they just went bad. Anything else stood the test of time. Of course you can expect that e.g. tuners on a low budget guitar might not work well or go bad quick, but they might not. The only thing I experienced like this was that on a €82,00 Epiphone SG Jr., which I bought for traveling, the PU was not working for me and I replaced it. But the rest is still original and it is a good playing guitar, stays in tune, sounds decent.

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Since my player received the beta update, I've noticed a significant change in my previous tone. I don't know why the update made my old (classic) tone sound strange; it doesn't sound normal. Has anyone else experienced this? I've already reverted to the previous version. Is there any solution?

I wrote this a year ago in another thread. Hope this helps. In the past after some updates in the OS I had the impression, that the sound changed. So i decided to make after every update of the OS a recording of a certain profile with a certain guitar and riff. So far there was since then never a difference from OS to OS noticable for me. For the new one I did not do it yet, cause since some trouble I leave out the beta versions. And to my experiance: hearing changes during the day and depends on your constitution and also to what you just listened to before,

I came from Rolands GP100 after having a MB Mark III for years. 2013 I read about it and thought that this will never work. Then I read an article about Peter Weihe and his results with the KPA. Then I thought OK now we can talk and had a music store in Munich prepare a rack with a regular 4x12 for my try. Well it was impressing and some weeks after that I bought it, Then I struggled with finding the profiles that would work for me and the setup for rehearsals. It took some time but I ended up with my setup that will propably never be changed, cause it just works for now 13 years.

Dear FCG, you way you mentioned is the way to do it. I did this a lot from toaster to rack to stage and back with no issues at all. My advice would be reset the new rack to factory settings and when now everything is fine again make a new back up from your old rack and restore it to the new one. I hope it works then!

Best regards

Hudi

I use a different approach: I have my tele as a default for all used rigs. it is on the lower output side and use the rigs unchanged with my other guitars. I tend to have clean to midgain sounds and to my ears all differences in guitars and pickups are coming to ear in my rigs. In other words, if there is more or less saturation in a rig depending of the used guitar it is wanted and appreciated.

But to answer your topic I suggest to dial in the sounds with the hottest guitar / PU and have an optional boost in every rig to be added if needed.

I am using v13.0.5. I will check you observation.

Hey I hope you do not mind.... i have my stage on a plug with switch as well, but my stage does not come up all the time when turning the power plug on.... it just happens sometimes.... I though maybe I did not turn it off the stage the the last time before I turned off the plug.

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Punkt 5.

Hey zusammen,

ich kenne beide Perspektiven, denn ich kaufe und verkaufe auf Kleinanzeigen.

Beim Kauf meines Stage habe ich den Tip von Troglys Guitar Show (Youtube) genutzt und ein individuelles Foto mit einem Zettel mit meinem Namen neben dem Stage liegend angefordert. So stellste sicher, dass der Anbieter das angebotene Teil hat. Klar, könnte man photoshopen, ist aber fehleranfällig. Das wurde erst vom 3. Anbieter akzeptiert und durchgeführt (aha). Von dem habe ich dann einen prima Stage gekauft.

Als Verkäufer lehne ich inzwischen Paypal-Käuferschutz ab. Diverse Berichte über "Käufer" die behaupten Steine oder Bretter in den Sendungen gehabt zu haben machen das Leben für ehrliche Verkäufer schwer.

Der Gutscheintrick wurde mehrfach versucht (kann man googeln).

Auch der Parallel-Deal-Trick wurde bei mir schon probiert. Ein betrügerischer Anbieter ohne Ware macht einen Deal mit einem Interessenten. Dann macht er den selben Betrag mit einem echten Anbieter aus und gibt sich als Käufer aus. Nun gibt er seine Anschrift an den echten Anbieter und gibt dem Interessenten seines "Deals" die Paypal-Mail des echten Anbieters. Der zahlt mit Käuferschutz, der echte Anbieter schickt die Ware an den falschen, der Zahlende bekommt nichts und fordert per Käuferschutz seinen Betrag zurück. Geld weg, Ware weg. Erkennen konnte ich das daran, dass auf einen bestimmte Betrag bestanden wurde (musste halt gleich mit dem anderen Deal sein).

Da ich Käuferschutz als Verkäufer ablehne, lege ich allen Interessenten meiner Angebote nahe, beim geringsten Verdacht auch bei mir den Deal nicht zu machen. Hat bisher keiner getan.

Immer Augen auf.

Liebe Grüße

Hey folks, I love the discussion. Claims on differences or no differences without any proof or evidence. That is what and how we are

And it is so simple. Record two tracks with reamping both units with the same profile of the exact source tracks and share so we can share the experiance.

But here another perspectiv: Clarity, more clarity....hm.... Isn't the saturation with its harmonic enrichment of tube amps that we all go for, even in clean sounds? Does that mean the mk2 is not as tube-like as the mk1? Maybe even less warm....oooooohhhh.

Is the "more clarity" in other ears maybe another word for "more harsh"? ......

Anyhow keep going. I am sure Christoph and his team love the discussion with its myths a lot!

Best regards

Hudi

Honestly interesting thread here. In the past after some updates in the OS I had the impression, that the sound changed. So i decided to make after every update of the OS a recording of a certain profile with a certain guitar and riff. So far there was since then never a difference from OS to OS noticable for me. For the new one I did not do it yet, cause since some trouble I leave out the beta versions. And to my experiance: hearing changes during the day and depends on your constitution and also to what you just listened to before,

Hey all, here my current thoughts: I care the most on the tone I am getting, as written in some of my responses in other threats. I barely use all MK1 effect slots and the speed of program changes is the only thing that bothers me sometimes. That seems for me the only real improvement in Mk2. But until now there is no proof that it is that much better, releated to have to deal with 20 effect slots if used or not. We will see!

There is a huge difference in booting time between my toaster, my previous rack head and my stage. The stage is much faster booting, backup and OS-update! So if your reference kpa is a stage and the new one is the rack version then it is faster booting. Anyhow to compare I suggest to restore a backup from your reference kpa and then compare again.

Here are my points of view to all of your interesting and entertaining thoughts: I care about the sound I want to achieve and get mostly. The interface of the hardware for me works just fine, done! The rig manager, yeah that has a lot of things to be improved like the management of performances but let me focus on the kpa. I think there are different types or characters of players. I was never the hunter for this or that new distortion pedal that is the 1.000 reincarnation of the ts808 or an effect to make crazy things but.... i know some. They will never settle with one version of their set up for long. But I do! Honestly i still use for the most time the main 3 profiles I found in 2013 and was happy with. They just work for what I do and want. Considering this I tweak a little sometimes and if a new feature is added I give it a try and sometimes, rarely add to my portfolio. That maybe seems boring, but it isn't for me. The most appreciated feature of the KPA in comparison to my real amp set up still is: it sounds the same every day! I would like to have the latency for switching in between slots of my performances reduced, but that doesn't bother me that much. But no disrespect to all you tone hunters, developers and creative innovators of tones, lovers of touch screens. We share the same passion with different approaches: good tones!

Hey folks, I am a happy KPA user since 2013! It was a dream come true to have all those great amp profiles available, although I use only 3 mainely and that since I found this profiles after some month searching until today. Let point out that the support team is by far the best I ever experianced not only for music gear but over all. A true benchmark!

Best regards and keep on rocking

Hudi

I had the same problem with my toaster, is there a ground switch on the stage? That was my solution. It ist in the Output menu I found out. Maybe there is more in the menues!

Hey ToH2002, IMO you are right. I tried the 770 too and sold it, because it feld like everything was pushed up. I am mixing with headphones and every mix with the 770 sounded poor in other devices and my KPA sounded on th 770 harsh and not balanced.

But just listening to music they sounded good. The buyer of mine couldn't unterstand why I sold mine.

My KPA and remote is sold. Topic to be deleted!

Thx

I think there are two points mixed up. There is no backup function FOR the OS as far as I know. There is a backup function for the KPA content and settings which is part of the OS, that can be executed via KPA to store the backup to an USB-stick. And yes, I would like to have the option to make a backup via rig manager.