Posts by Andrew_Ongley

  • MK 2 Stage - first hands-on impressions

    Any chance you could elaborate a little more on the Transpose Fixed effect function for me? If you have it set at around -4 or -5 in front of a distorted profile, can you A/B between them and confirm if there is improvement? Any chance of a recording? Improvement here is the one thing that could convince me to upgrade to MK2.

  • Profiler MK 2 Discussion

    Quote from mauritzSA

    I did also played with the latency of the transpose effect, with latency mode set to constant in the output section. It can just be a plasebo effect and I did not do any measurements, but I felt no latency at -2. I specifically tested this as I felt some latency at my last gig. Again, this is only an observation with no facts behind it.

    That is were I stopped playing and did not find anything else.

    That might be a selling point for me. If the transpose is improved and can match Line 6 Poly Capo quality at -4, then I can dump my HXFX for transposing and just fly with a stage

  • Re-amping issues - Buffering and Sync

    Thanks man, the 'Constant Latency' setting solved the phase issues.

    I changed over to the Kemper Asio drivers, previously I couldn't get them to appear as input and outputs, but I found I needed to switch the Kemper to Native Asio mode from USB. Problems solved, everything is recording as it should be. This record will now have awesome guitar tones.

  • Re-amping issues - Buffering and Sync

    I'm having two issues and wondered if anyone's got any thoughts as I'm out of ideas. Here's the set up:

    Cubase 14 - Asio4All - USB re-amping with the Kemper set up as external effect

    Issue 1 - The Kemper can re-amp for around 1.5-2 minutes before it starts glitching, if I stop the recording and then re-start it will continue glitching. However, if I change the Kemper Buffer value and then re-start, I can get another 1.5-2 minutes before the issue starts again. I have tried with Buffer values of 144 all the way up to about 400, monitoring via a power amp and cab so I can be sure there's no latency from computer monitoring cuasing issue

    Issue 2 - I'm using the Kemper as an External effect so that Cubase can keep all the audio aligned with the original DI. The parts are double tracked and I'm re-amping each side twice for an amp blend. However, the audio is still going out of phase (ie Left DI through Amp 1 will go out of phase with Left DI through Amp 2)

  • Frequency curve loader

    Quote from TomR

    Thanks Don. Mr. Peter Weihe (Some of you might know him) did talk at the "Frankfurt Musikmesse" about a similar topic in the good old days. Bottom line was: Do not try to make your Amp sound like on a record. On the record you are hearing a processed signal (MIC/Mic Preamp/EQ/...).

    Why though? You may not want to make a valve amp sound like a recorded tone because it then has to go back through a mic and won't end up sounding the same, but a profiler direct to FOH, that will be in a full mix? Surely a pre-processed signal (in conjunction with your sound engineer) is exactly what you want.

  • Frequency curve loader

    Quote from lespauled

    I went down the EQ Tone Match IR rabbit hole years ago. The problem is that you end up with the sound on the recording. Yes, it sounds great in that recording, but sounds horrible in others. That's because that sound is EQ'd for that song. Not anything else.

    True, but in my use case it's a musical project that I'm putting together a touring version of, so sounding like the main rhythm sound of the album is absolutely desirable.

    Quote from DonPetersen

    you could start with an IR, use Fabfilter to do the EQ matching, then use Voxengo Deconvolver to create a sweep of the IR + Fabfilter,
    turn this into an IR (again, with deconvolver) and import this IR into Rig Manager.

    Since just disabling the CABINET activates CabDriver, you'll have to import the 'starting point' IR first, and then record your track to be matched with FabFilter.

    This is great, I'll definitely try it. Thanks so much for the detailed answer.

  • Frequency curve loader

    What would be really useful is some form of EQ curve loader. I did an EQ match on Fabfilter yesterday between a really great pro recorded guitar sound that I have and my current main Kemper rhythm patch. I was able to replicate the main peaks and cuts using four Studio EQ blocks after the cab, but it would be great if I could just load a curve from my PC into Rig Manager to be more accurate.

  • PLAYER - what were they thinking?

    Quote from OneEng1

    Still, just 5 rigs with 3 buttons and NO LCD to tell you which one you are about to switch to? That seems like a tough sell live.

    That's the issue for me too. I always have Rhythm and Lead in slots 1 & 2, but normally have some specialty sounds and tunings spread over the next few banks, dependant on what set my band are playing from the back catalogue. In the heat of a 2+hr originals set, there's no way I can work without the re-assurance of a screen, however much the player seems like a god-send at airport security.

  • It looks like Profiler Player is coming...

    Quote from Ruefus

    The whole point is to use your phone or tablet. Especially live.....what's it matter?

    For me it really matters, I use the screen of the Kemper Floor a lot during performance, I can see Phone/Tablet for editing, but performance wise I'd really want the UI to know where I was.

    I'm glad people are stoked on this but it's not for me, it's too compact. I was hoping for a Floor + Player & output functions, basically the bottom half and back panel of the stage, without all the editing buttons.

  • Pitch-shift Bad Latency.

    Quote from dutch99

    Is there any pedal out there that is significantly better than the Kemper for this type of digital capo trickery? There are a couple of songs I sing live that I need to capo up 2 to 3 half steps but I’m also doing a lot of string bending,whammy bar and horizontal lead playing (Hendrix songs) so I don’t like to capo for obvious reasons with this type of playing. The kpa transpose function works pretty well and the latency doesn’t throw me off much but if I could find a pedal that had a significantly better outcome I wouldn’t mind dropping 300 bucks or so on it.

    Digitech Whammy (Drop & original) have a slight edge over the Kemper on latency and accuracy. It's marginal but enough to make it worth carrying extra outboard gear. If you get a Whammy DT, you can also midi control it from the Kemper.

  • Titan Audio

    Anybody else tried the Titan Audio profiles yet? It's one of the guitarists from Whitechapel and so far he's released a Dual Rec Rev F, Dual Rec Rev G (Racktifier) and Driftwood Purple Nightmare.

    What's great for me is that they are DI profiles with different tube combinations and a couple of baked in pedals (normally Fortin 33 and Blade). The tube combinations are great for getting wide stereo guitars, because you can pick complimentary but different sounds left and right.

    I would have said I didn't need anymore Dual Rec profiles, but the Racktifier is hands down the best sounding out there by a long stretch.

  • At Last, a Digital Whammy Bar!

    I also just realised it has no Midi integration, that's a real shame. I currently run a Whammy DT to alter between four different tunings in my band, my patch changes send Midi messages so I can use banks of sounds for different tunings.

    If this had the same or better latency than the Whammy and Midi then it would have been a no-brainer, especially because I could switch to all Evertune guitars and benefit from the added tuning stability but still use tremolo dives in the couple of places I need to do them.