Posts by Kim_Olesen

  • About IEMs, gain and EQ

    Quote from musicmad

    Thanks Kim. And those ue5 you speak of. Do you have a link? Seems to be quite a few different versions.

    Here you go. I can see they brought the ue5 back into their product line-up. Probably by popular demand. DON’t choose the ambient option. When you have your fittings done, have it done somewhere where they are used to doing it. It’s important they follow the instructions from Ultimate Ears.

  • What kind of music are you listening to right now?

    Ultra-nerd warning!

    Been restoring a bootleg that collected the best sources (soundboards and very good, almost soundboard, sounding) audience recordings, of Kraftwerks legendary 1981 Computerworld tour. The last couple of years has brought huge advancements in "audio mangling" tools, and i brought this very close to "could be an official live album release" level. It's as close as we'll ever get anyway, since Kraftwerk is dead against archival releases. There was a couple of tracks who had built in "verschlimmbesserungen" made by those who collected the sources way back when, but all in all i've found huge enjoyment in the project and the result.

    The Computerworld tour took live performance of synth music to new levels. Things you could easily do now on compact equipment, loaded in the back of your compact car, required them to take truckloads containing their entire studio on the road. And still the performances were a bit primitive sounding compared with their studio counterparts. However there was LOTS of variation since most songs included jams and improvisations. Some of the songs had evolved a lot from their original versions. Radioactivity was evolving towards the uptempo crowd pleaser it would become in the 90s. Autobahn is fast totally different, while It's More Fun To Compute is almost a new song. Also present is the never released song "Die Sonne Der Mond Die Sterne.

    Add to that: the level of live tweaking of sounds and sequencers is very impressive for 1981, particularly since so much was actually played live, including lot's of e-drumming, while tweaking.

    Did i say nerd? Sometimes nerdery is what brings peace of mind :)

  • About IEMs, gain and EQ

    Quote from musicmad

    Thanks for sharing your experience Kim. Any suggestions for an EQ in the chain to tailor your inears mix?

    Back before i was on a Kemper i had a graphic eq sitting in the chain to inears. These days i don’t seem to need it since i high cut at approx 6,5 khz. BUT this is where the iems themselves comes into play. I bought mine not for high fidelity, but for a coherent guitar sound. But if your iems are not bought with that in mind having a graphic eq in your chain will do wonders. As many bands as you can have in a rack eq.

  • About IEMs, gain and EQ

    Chiming in as an iem user through the last 15 years:

    Don’t run your iems from the back outputs on the Kemper. What is good for the PA is not great for your ears. Feed your ears from the headphone jack. There you can put all the headphone space on you desire, without compromising the pa feed. AND you can have an eq in your chain where you tailor the sound to be pleasing in your ears, because, as i said, it wont be the same eq that is needed for the pa.

    And a suggestion on the iems themselves. Good hifi sounding iems are not necesarily great for guitars. Bad frequency dividers feeding the drivers, sitting where the guitar sound should not be messed with will pick your tone apart. I’ve settled on Ultimate Ears ue5 (costum molded) because they sound great on guitars. The frequency divider is nicely in an unimportant part of the spectrum. Ultimate Ears does not officially make them anymore, but will make them on request. Here in Denmark the ue5 is considered the “secret weapon” of iem among many guitarists.

    And they are not expensive, so if you should happen to be unable to get used to them, the loss is not too great.

  • 127 patches via Midi isn't enough!

    Quote from gstrotmann

    Sorry, there is no Midi limitation to access more slots.

    You can use a lsb (lsb+msb= access to more than 16.000 adresses) value to access higher patches.

    See in the manual:

    I use forescore in my iPad to select a bank. Then I can stepp through the rigs in the bank.

    Perhaps read what i said. If you use a midi FOOTCONTROLLER. Very few of those, if any, can do more than the standard 127 program changed.


    I am ofcourse aware that you can do all kinds of stuff with lsm and msb. I used to sysex program midi messages when i was young. But, as i said, not possible with most footcontrollers.

  • More effects slots (software only)

    Quote from Ruefus

    Which has been said for at least the last decade.

    I get your point. But just like adding dual profiles…..like it or not, adding ‘software’ effects would be a pain to manage.

    I forget what morphs I’ve applied half the time.

    If Kemper’s way fits, great. If not….move on to those ‘ahead’.

    I would move on if i could take my own profiles of my jmp1 preamp with me!!! Trust me. But i can’t so i’ll have to stay. I did expect the Kemper to evolve on this point when i bought one, which was not long after the Kemper was issued. But we are still seeing a stubborn refusal to adress this, the MOST asked for request through times.

    I deep learned my GX700 (which i used in conjunction with my jmp1.) It wasn’t hard, even if all the slots were kind of virtual. No pain for me to manage a bit more menu diving. So many things have been added that requires menu diving anyway. Don’t tell me your life will go south if we had to go through a menu to reach a 5th pre amp slot. Come on.

    There are many ways that virtual slots could be implemented in regards to interface.

    The thing that strikes me particularly here is that people who does not think they need a feature seem so against an additional feature being implemented. I just don’t get it.

  • More effects slots (software only)

    I still don’t care what “interface nightmare” software slots would be. I’m intelligent enough to get around software quirks.

    Give me possibilities, not limitations. Despite what excuses some users will make for Kemper, Kemper is simply getting left behind by the competition in this regard.