Posts by Kim_Olesen

Quote from BayouTexan

Good music! and don't be so serious.

My face “autospasms” when soloing

Quote from Finally

Sounds cool and definitely going to try it tonight. What sort of gain amounts are you talking about?

Not high gain. The amazing part is that as long as you go moderate on each “pedal” it sounds really lovely. You get those “singing overdrive” leads that Mayer often ends songs with.

Just thought i’d drop a “non complaining thread”. In line with me discovering (and liking) the kemper OCD emulation, i tried something else. Inspired by a video on how John Mayer gain stacks his Klon into his TS10, i tried to do just that. One of the Klon presets into one of the 808 presets. Worked amazingly well. Don’t know why i was surprised, but the Kemper drive is certainly capable of sounding natural stacked.

Very nice. Yet a new colour added to the palette.

I had an original bossT-Wah, and it wasn’t difficult to get a good sound from it. I could even strum it and by the strenght of the strum, get a “normal” footpedal wah effect. In my ears the Kemper t wah begins it effect at way too high a sensitivity (ie wrong threshold).

So the addition of a threshold parameter would make much sense to me.

+1

As the title says. If any of you should have a spare to sell.

I knew the Prs SE Silver Sky could make me do guitar faces. But what i didn’t expect was that could these kind of tones in tandem with the Kemper.

Anyway, it’s just a fun little jam, nothing serious.

There is nothing that will you make you sound more like the artist , than practicing what makes said artist sound like they do. What is their vibrato like, how are their micro slides, do they sometimes make use of microtonalitity etc etc etc

But even better (imho) is to play like yourself, with your sounds, fulfilling the role in your way. When it comes down to live oerformance, we often have to condence several guitarparts into one anyway, all played with different rigs on the studio version. So more often than not, one particular sound/part will not cover the ground adequately. It’s more like playing the “spirit” of the song. Seek out live versions, and often you find that even the original artists plays something different/different sounding, to make up for all the “missing” parts.

Quote from OneEng1

This may well be the case.

When digital mixers first came out, people thought they sounded "sterile" and that you needed the "warmth" from the "better preamps" of analog mixers. The difference was, in fact, that the digital mixer simply created a more accurate reproduction where the old analog mixers were filtering off HF. People had to learn to "add warmth" with their own filters ;).

I remember the first time I played a guitar processor directly into a FRFR speaker (Digitech 2120) instead of into a guitar cab.

It was truly AWFUL. I had NO idea that a guitar cab shaved off so much of the HF. I had become so used to hearing rolled off versions of what the amp was putting out, that hearing it without the roll off was painfully awful.

I wonder if anyone will prefer an MK1 profile over the MK2 for this reason?

I would say no. It’s not a matter of higher frequency content. It’s a matter of resolution. For people who know about guitar cabs high freq roll off, there is a high cut function.

Again, comparing analog and digital to mk 1 and mk 2 profiles is like apples and oranges.

Comparing reference points in a profile to analog versus digital audio is like comparing apples and oranges.

Set the high cut to 6500 khz.

I am still exclusively using the Marshall jmp1 preamp profiles i made when first buying my Kemper. I’ve tried other stuff but they’ve never gained foothold within my setup.

Very easy to make, since i just profiled from the emulated outputs of the JMP1. I’ve been a direct into the desk guitarist for 30 years, so no reason to even have a cab and a mic figure in to my FOH sound.

Quote from V8guitar

Boom! I was just about to say the same!

I am increasingly using my Kabinet less and less and relying on monitors. My band has just agreed to move to IEM's and so my Kab will become a rack stand!

I’m playing a substitute gig in a couple of weeks. Apparently they are still non-ears. I’m dreading the amount of high volume i will have to bombard my ears with. Hopefully i can get a mix of a bit of vocals and keys, and just be close enough to the drummer that i can still pop my inears in. My guitar goes to my inears directly, on really small gigs i really don’t need anything but my guitar in the inears, everything else just being attenuated by 25db.

Quote from Ricco

I am a Browse Mode guy. As an IT guy there is something that annoys me generally with the Kemper: Too much redundancy resulting in much editing effort and Performance Mode doesn't make it better.

I use about 80 different rigs which are called mixed up via MIDI program changes and I am limited to do PCs only. I always use rigs ready to go and don't switch single effects on or off or edit parameters on the fly. I use a half-automation with preprogrammed setlists and in the best case I just have to step at my "next sound" foot switch the whole concert, while I can focus on singing.

I never liked Performance Mode cause if you call a rig from a different performance you have a pretty long switching latency from around a second. That forces you to manage banks of 5 rigs in any way and you have to keep duplicates for some kind of standard sounds in multiple performances.

Using Browse Mode was the best way getting rid of that fact. I have my numbered 80 rigs which are MIDI-mapped and the only disadvantage was some light switching latency. But with the MK2 PowerRack the switching got around 100 ms and that is barely noticeable. Side fact: The Player's switching seems as slow as my MK1 PowerRack in Browse Mode.

Quote from musicmad

Interesting. Doesn't switching performances introduce an additional gap?

Long switching times between performances. Annoying on my mk1 rack. Much better on my mk2 rack.

Quote from Yoda Guitar

In other words, the concept of performance and slots is useless? 127 performances should be enough for a setlist, right?

Like the keyboardist and everyone else in the band I get MIDI data / lyrics and a click/cue track from the playback engine.
Unfortunately, to date, Kemper hasn't deemed it necessary to implement something like a setlist import/export for performances in the Rig Manager. Therefore, I programmed a small ESP32 for MIDI mapping and filtering, which remaps the MIDI data to Kemper and filters out anything unnecessary.

For me it is useless yes. As soon as you are at a gig where the setlist can float the concept of neatly arranging performances into setlists is of no use. Singer calls the song, drummer counts in, and everyone better be ready. And i am, because i don’t have to tapdance through banks to find a particular performance. No clicktracks in the bands i play in. Some of them do not even have keyboard players. It’s nice that the singer can call in an extra solo, prolong the song, or end it early, and for me to solo over an extra verse if i feel like it. It enhances the “musical empathy” in a band, and without that i seriously don’t think i’d enjoy gigging as much as i do.

Add to that (for me at least) i play regularly in 3 bands, and do substitute gigs as well. And there is at least 200 songs floating around those setlists. So yes, i treat my sounds the oldfashioned way; i wouldn’t bring 40 amps and 300 pedals to a gig then, and neither will i do something simular within the Kemper.

Quote from Yoda Guitar

This voting doesn't make sense to me, unless you also ask about the musical style. In a blues or rock band, it's 1 or a maximum of 2 performances. In a country band, it's 3 performances because they use different instruments (guitar, mandolin, banjo). In the cover/tribute band, everything is controlled via MIDI, so 1 song = 1 performance. Even if in the last scenario, the same sounds are often used repeatedly with small tweaks.

I play cover gigs. Lots of them. I never use more than two performances. If i were to use a performance per song, i’d have to have more than one kemper.

One performance for rhythm sounds, one for lead sounds.

I control the kpa with a roland fc200 midicontroller, which has 10 program change buttons. So every rig i use has direct access without bank changes.

I do have a lot of expression pedals attached for efx on/off-morph and global delay on/off.

Quote from waraba

Mine collected dust , I did not like it , neck , feel and tone , sounds to sterile for me and not fun. I shouldn't have bought it (online during the pandemic, only option) in the first place.

I went back to my classic vibe squier (heavy mods & lutherie ) and recorded more than 100 tracks with it since

I was very surprised to like the neck on the Silver Sky. I’ve always thought of myself as a “slim neck” player.

Quote from Kellerblues

You're contagious....

I absolutely adore mine, my american fender strats haven’t seen one single gig since i bought my first Silver Sky. How do you like it? I always string mine with 009 and lower the action. (And sometimes have the slots in the nut filed a bit).

Once you are almost exclusively gigging with in-ears, amp in the room feel ceases to matter.