If it were me, and I wanted to impress or sway the 'potential target audiences', I would provide a lossless format audio file that could be downloaded and played on studio quality monitors.
Yeah. I hope they post some audio files so everyone can check out the new profiling ie source vs profiled amp.
Will the KPPLV1 machine be updated?
Of course. New OS revisions for all units in due course.
So they went to Manny's on 48th street and bought whatever they couldn't afford before. Among all the other gear Stewart bought a delay machine, and the rest is history.
Yep. They bought a Space Echo and Sting's black strat and a bunch of other pedals etc.
My suprise was great when i got it home and found out it doesn`t even have slots for the bread:(
And now all this talk about a mk2.. And after what i can tell from the description it will have set slots both before and after some chain, so there is hope that they will include place for the bread this time.
Play your cards right and maybe the mods or someone at KHQ will lay some bread on you - if only to keep you quiet about this obvious design flaw.
People underestimate the importance of slots at their peril. I think back to the time I attended a performance at a local music venue. I paid a visit to the restroom and encountered a condom vending machine mounted on the wall. Someone had thoughtfully posted user instructions on the wall beside it. "Place baby in slot for refund."
Clearly the implication here is: no slots, no refunds. Maybe this precedent explains the lack of slots on the KPA.
Congrats on the 10 year anniversary, Bert. Lots of excellent profiles over the years and some fantastic demos to go with them.
For me, a key feature of the KPA has been the ability to massage the amp sound toward the sound you want after capture with all the parameters in the amp block. With the Liquid Profiles you can even modify the tone stack settings. A profile is not necessarily the endpoint of the process whereas with most of the alternatives the capture is exactly that.
Given what an enormous contribution the speaker and cabinet make to a guitar sound, the new cabinet parameters will offer further sound shaping possibilities after a capture/profile is made.
I get that some people were not happy with palm mute sounds on high gain amps for example so more accurate rendition of those sounds would clearly be a plus. Will be interested to hear the results when they are ready for prime time.
Well I don’t speak a word of German, but I’m pretty sure I heard weeks not months.
You can get a full English (or other language) translation in the settings for Closed Captions.
I would expect Kemper to have a significant collection of new spec profiles available at release. That would be part of the process here - collecting and selecting the new spec profiles from all their key partners.
The Toaster was a great piece of design and it has only got better with the steady flow of improvements. Mine's not going anywhere either.
If you are trying to read the control labels on a pedal or a modeller and there are bright LEDs nearby on the same panel you cannot read the text. This is probably worse with older eyes than for young whippersnappers.
OK I am getting that stuff on 305 in the V 13 manual. Seems that if you - for example - put your Stereo FX loop in the Y slot then stereo FX applied in slot X (pre loop) will be summed to mono on the way out to your external device.
Signal path is mono before the amp section but after the amp section you can put stereo FX. The FX loop even if configured as stereo will sum the right and left returns to mono for some reason. If you add stereo effects in the loop they will be summed to mono after re-entering through the inputs you mentioned.
Always look on the bright side of life ( with your Kemper amp).
I didn't realise that the posters of that video had trimmed off what I regard as the punchline:
Roy: A lot of people have asked us why we don't use fly spray. Well, where's the sport in that?
? Well some of us don't want to play games.
I don't understand why Kemper company just doesn't clear things up. For sure they are reading. Why not just answer:
1. Does Mk 2 have lower latency (Leo Gibson on utube will tell us anyway)? Yes or no?
2. Is there any sound change regarding new software?
3. Is there a possible volume change / sound change because of different hardware? Input sensitivity changed?
If not, than there is maybe a bug. I don't want all my trusted rigs change in sound on Mk 2 even if some say it is "clearer, less compressed and better (for some ears)". I want to know what is the cause of it and if I can control it - for example only volume difference.
Where's the sport in that? They will have much more fun this summer if they sit back and watch outrageous conspiracy theories hatch on the forums and metastasise all over the internet. Let them have their fun, they work hard.
Have they made any changes or improvements to the input section and/or how it behaves?
They claimed higher fidelity on the DI signal I seem to recall.
It just seems like if Kemper were going to turn the main board to have different circuits included, they would have universally added the integrated WiFi and True Impedance matching circuits in all MK2 units.
I guess there is always the chance that they DIDN'T turn the board and found pin compatible parts for a hardware upgrade. This hasn't been reported, but I also haven't seen the A/D and D/A chips used on any of the new boards yet.
I am talking about the new Kemper player there.
I’m going to play devil’s advocate…
Before knowing that the Player was part of the MKII line after the recent announcement, nobody suggested the device offered sound wise or tone wise anything different than the other units.
That is not the case actually. One poster on here reported exactly what people are describing - noticably better quality and reduced latency from his new KPP compared to his other unit(s). This could reflect changes in the analog signal path and/or the converters.
This always makes me wonder how much power is in that DSP and what it could do if there could only be one reverb?
Would that be equivalent to a second profile of a pedal before the amp profile?
Captured Amp/Distortion profits greatly from massive oversampling - eg 16x. It is very demanding compared to most effects. I think the architecture/DSP is regarded by the company as unsuitable for extension to dual amps/pedals. Makes you wonder if they could use two of those DSP chips in one box. Hmmm.
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You can load as many delays and reverbs as you like since changes made years ago allowing more FX flexibility. You can load 8 reverbs in the main slots if you want.
