Posts by Michael_dk

Judging by the somewhat crappy speakers in my computer monitor that's a really great tone - and playing as well

Note: Looking over what I've written below I guess it's kind of obvious, haha

Disclaimer: I don't have a MK 2 device, so I have no direct experience myself.

From the descriptions of the V 2.0 profiling benefits, it seems very related to touch sensitivity etc. If you're not actively using a lot of dynamics in your playing, then I suspect you're not missing out all that much. There's also the new cab resonance parameters of course, but it seems like you have exactly the tone you want already. I'd say if you're happy, then no reason to change for now. Perhaps sometime in the future, when there are more v. 2 profiles around you may find something you like better, but maybe it doesn't make sense to chase anything new right now.

I suspect that many other players feel the same way you do, whereas other players (due to genre/playing style/whatever) find the v2 profiles superior.

What is your monitoring situation when not playing through your friend's cab? How's the feedback there?

Quote from taylorphototexas

I agree it's obvious.

But you WILL have to run a signal through a tape machine to capture what it does. Unless you want to simulate it by some trial-and-error process or analyze spectra frozen in time. Both not very accurate approaches.

How do you propose to simulate the tape sound without sampling actual tape? How do you think the 'tape style saturation' is going to get into the Kemper?

How do you think they made all the FX, particularly the drive FX?

Quote from taylorphototexas

I get that but any way that you simulate it you're going to need to deal with the fact that the output of a tape device is not time-aligned with the input.

Why?

Did you just ask for TUBE saturation...?

I think it's pretty key to tell us what kind of music you play? What kind of sound are you going for?

Quote from V8guitar

3) I do think there is something about gain stacking/running pedals that can make it worse. Now I'm sure someone will tell me I'm talking rubbish, but it adds another dimension to get it wrong - issues with power, get the gain levels wrong and you are just increasing the signal to noise etc

Not rubbish at all - proper gain staging is a very important element when it comes to noise. For example, if you have a noisy element first in the chain (say a noisy pedal, or dialed in to a particularly noisy setting), all the gain stages down the chain amplify that noise along with the signal. Compression of the various gain stages may be more the true issue, actually, but I think the point is still relevant

Maybe tweaking the tone from the first stages a bit could help - e.g. if the pedal is amplifying noise in a particular part of the frequency spectrum, you may be able to dial that OUT of the pedal, and add the frequencies back in later down the chain. This all depends on the characteristics of the noise, of course, and can be a tradeoff with the desired tone.

Quote from DonPetersen

Also gain-staging wise, using the ODs output level to hit the PROFILER harder does the same thing as increasing the GAIN on the PROFILER, which probably introduces less noise.

Only for non-liquid profiles though, right?

What do you want the noise gate to achieve? Bring down noise to tolerable levels when not hitting the strings, or more a super gated type of rhythm guitar for effect?

Quote from nero1983

At this time, people were believing...still...

Well, some of us old timers still remember the Michael Wagner rig pack protracted launch - and other case studies

It will get here when it gets here

Just checked it out out of curiosity.

The web page has a link in the top navigation page for "free profiles" - directs here: https://www.goldlionaudio.com/free-profiles

G String: Note that the user has ben banned, so he will not be able to reply here...

Since there is an extra gain stage when using the high input, and that you have good results applying the JCM800 tonestack to that - it seems like the issues are indeed tied to the single LP tonestack available for the JCM800.

Try using it as a volume pedal (between guitar and KPA input). It might be the pedal is defective. Maybe a short circuit in the pot at the point where the morph resets

From the official web page:

• More than 100,000 individual frequency points meticulously analyzed for the most powerful amp recreation ever achieved.
• Next-Level Speaker & Dynamically adjustable Cabinet Resonance – Capturing the true dynamics of your setup with the longest impulse responses in an amp capturing device.

(notice the absence of the word "accuracy").

I'm sure they have several ways of evaluating the accuracy during development - both technical measurements and A/B/C tests.

I doubt you'll get any official answers

Quote from nwmusic32

In my opinion, the only thing in 2025 that should need to be tweaked on a display is brightness.

Why are you telling me?

I set it (ages ago) so that there's a good balance between:

1) No "white" lines through the display (turn it up if this is the case)

2) No excessive vertical "bleed" above or below e.g. black boxes (turn it down if this is the case).

It doesn't make sense to set it to the same value as another unit (or rather, this is not the purpose of the contrast control as I have understood it).

In the video example it looks to me like the contrast is set too low. Try it with the very brief guideline above, and see if that improves matters. Try both turning up and down, even if initially it seems like it should be definitely one way or the other. Whether the result is ideal for you I cannot say. But rather than trying to match values between unit, or try using the greyed out areas as the primary reference may not work.

There's a setting somewhere where you can adjust the contrast. Mine looks like that if it turned down too much (profiler head from 2014-ish)

...And also allows them getting any bugs in the already released MK2 features that slipped through internal testing ironed out before rolling out the improved profiling. Which will have its own bugs. Wise move.

Quote from Gary_W

It always amazes me when the comms here gets defended as if it’s a good thing / badge of honour…

I may have missed it, but I've never seen the communications being "defended as a good thing". Certainly a lot of speculation as to WHY the company communicates like it does, but not saying "I prefer it this way".

Well said, b_ryan