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
Posts by Michael_dk
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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In my opinion, the only thing in 2025 that should need to be tweaked on a display is brightness.
Why are you telling me?
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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.
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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)
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...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.
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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".
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Back when trade shows were all there was, announcing at one made sense. Guitar Summit isn’t about the exhibition
Post on social media?
More people in the first 30 minutes see it than will the entire show attendance.I hope they do - because then all this speculation and nonsense about “what’s ‘better’ mean” can be put to rest.
…and we can decide on the next thing to speculate about.Yeah. It doesn't seem to me that Kemper have historically timed their various announcements with trade show dates very much.
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It's not surprising that many (most? all?) of the upgrades since XX are related to either the player and MK2 - that's where they will find the most bugs in the code. MK1 has been running strong for many years.
I get what you're saying about keeping them separate, but I think it's probably a benefit it's the same codebase for all the models - it makes it more likely that they will keep doing updates for MK1 models for longer rather than stopping support altogether.
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Kemper has always been about the features and not the spec sheet. Never about "this processor is x % faster than the other one".
I don't see them going into details about the internal components - ever.
The one thing I do get is the concerns about potential longevity if they use the same DSP unit in the MK2 series. But then again - if the KPA had just some out, how much scrutiny would the internal components be under? Not much I guess. It's funny.
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Find a track in your music library and try playing that back through your music player of choice, and then drag it into reaper and do the same - to rule out reaper setup being the culprit.
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Not placing it ‘on’ the customer. Just their reaction to if (or when) their expectations aren’t met.
Development (almost always) takes unexpected turns. How that is on the company, I’m not sure. It happens. Sometimes it speeds things up. More often than not, it pushes release dates out.Sure, it's the nature of almost all development. Though I rarely see the unexpected speed things upas far as releasing it goes
What I meant was: When a company decides to state when a product or update is released, then that is something of a commitment to the market. If they make that commitment based more on hope than on maturity, then that is their issue.
We are of course not seeing that here - yet, at least :-).
People are maybe impatient (because they are excited). But calling that "entitlement" is far off the mark.
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When it doesn’t happen on whatever schedule ’we’ think it should - there will be plenty of upset people.
Happened when RM took a long time and most recently when the new trem effects didn’t appear in ‘weeks, not months’ - which was taken as gospel when it was said as an off-hand answer to a question. Not an official comment during an interview at NAMM.
It’s software. Meant to be a game-changer at that.
So…important to get it right.
I’m not a software engineer, nor am I in IT. Yet I know that tying software releases to a deadline or an expectation usually means the date or expectation of a date is more of an anchor than wings.
Eh.
I have no skin in the game. But Kemper launched a new product with the message that updated profiling will drop this summer.
True that development can take unexpected turns, but that's on the company and their communication, not the customers.
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I must say I agree with you. Some threads are closed prematurely. Surely not all of them, but still..
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When Kemper sells an update it costs them nothing. It's $300 straight to the bottom line.
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You guys could still be right though. It's possible this feature will remain limited to MK2.... but I'd betcha a coke ;).
Well, it would incur the cost of maintaining support for almost double the number of devices (including testing new releases, bug fixes, etc etc).
Also the cost of a hit to their reputation, whatever that may amount to (whether they have explicitly stated that it's not possible to perform MK2 profiling on a MK1 device or not is irrelevant, as it's down to the perception/interpretation/memory of the individual people).
Depending on pricing, sensitivity, and purchasing+manufacturing costs, it could also mean some impact on profitability of the MK2 units (some of that might be only in excel, and not in the real world).
Not saying it would be a bad business decision all things considered, just to say that it's not likely a total freebie.
I'd be willing to bet a coke on the outcome
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So i guess i will just have to remember to move the volume pedal the first
Stupid suggestion, but maybe it would work fo you to put a ribbon or something on your strings when you pack your guitar for the gig. Just to jog your memory in the chaos of setting up, as you say.
