Posts by AndySchick

Maye you have accidentally switched to a morph pedal, instand of switches?

Afaik, the Kemper guys are very good at programming „lean“ code to be executed on their hardware. AI in general is very resource-hungry. Will not work with the current hardware.
This is a general problem with AI. Everyone knows about global warming but doesn‘t care about the energy wasted with every ChatGPT (and others) answer. But I‘m getting out of topic - sorry.

Hmm,

maybe I haven‘t described the setup well enough. So, another try:

I have plugged my mike into the console (obviously) und fed my in ear mix (minus Guitar) into the aux in of the Kemper Stage. Then I used its headphone out to power my (Custom molded) in ears. These sit pretty tight and I hear a lot of „bone conduction“ (don’t know if that is the right Term).
Now my in ear mix comes through my ear buds, but aparently with a delay of some 3-5 ms I‘d guess. No problem for playin guitar or listening to the rest of the band. But the interference of the direct, bone-conducted voice with the delayed vocal monitoring signal makes my vocals sound very phasy. Replacing the Kemper Stages headphone amp with a dedicated one does not yield this phenomenon.
However,

I for myself have found a solution - just don’t use the Stage like that, but a dedicated headphone amp instead. That is what I have done for years, just thought I could save some batteries for the in ear Amp. But all is good now. Just wanted to point that out in case anybody else has a similar issue. But doesn‘t seem to be the case.

Best,

Andy

Its not the latency of the wireless, its the one of the stage. I suppose that the aux in signal is delayed inside the stage in order to be in sync with the processed guitar signal. Of course just my assumption. But the effect is gone when using a dedicated headphone amp, so it must be the Stage and how it deals with the aux in.
But maybe I am more sensitive to this than others. I allways habe problems with (vocal) Intonation, when having both plugs in my ears. Gladly our new console allows for seperate eqing on the monitor channels. High passing my vocal Signal helps a Lot.

I don’t think it adds extra latency, it‘s just the stages latency. Of coursee it makes sense for the aux signal to be in sync with the guitar playing. But those 4-5 ms of the stage are already enough. If you have a digital console, you can make the experiment and plug your in ears into the desks headphone out. Then take a mike, plug it in and gradually increase the input delay of the mic channel. I start hearing the effect at about 2 ms.
We plan to buy wireless Systems for our band. Here the over all latency will be important. I plan to go analog for that reason.

Hi,

I‘m only talkin about vocals. I don’t know if bone conduction is the right term - stick your fingers in your ears and sing. What you hear then is what I am talking about. Adding latency via Input delay of the desk would make it even worse, as the delay due to the stage s latency would make it worse. But I found a solution - don’t use the stage as a headphone amp when singing and monitoring via tight iem.

Hi,

I‘m not using bone conduction, I use custom molded iems. Maybe I have more bone conduction than usual - for instance I use a high cut at 400 Hz on my vocal monitor signal in order to fight the low-mid muddieness. But meanwhile I have double checked with a Fischer Amps in ear stick- my problem arises from the latency in the stage and the interference of the bone-conducted with the delayed iem signal. With the analog amp the phenomenon is gone.
Best,

Andy

Oder alternativ einen Stomp für einen pure boost opfern und den ein-/ausschalten.

Morph kann jeden kontinuierlichen Parameter regeln. Entweder zwischen zwei eingestellten Werten, oder kontinuierlich mit einem Pedal. An deiner Stelle würde ich das Rig Vomume morphen. Bei meinem Stage und Toaster drückst du einfach auf den morph Button und stellst den veränderten Wert, in deinem Fall erhöhtes Rig Volume, ein. Fertig. Speichern nicht vergessen 😀.
Ob das beim Player genauso geht, weiß ich allerdings nicht.

Hi all,

today I tried using the Stages headphone amp as (wired) IEM Amp. Everything sounds Fine, especially guitar in stereo 😬!

But I encountered a problem when singing - my voice sounded very „phasy“, kind of a comb filter. How large is the Stages latency? Could be caused by intefering contributions from bone conduction and delayed IEM signal. Has anyone encountered this or a similar issue?

Best,

Andy

Hi,

Yes, the nonitor out is what you want to use. I think that it is symmetric, so you can either use a TRS to XLR cable, or simply a guitar cable. The XR18 has combo sockets, right? If not, you‘d have to use the TRS to XLR cable.
You can control your monitor volume independently from the others (master, phones…)

Best,

Andy

Is it also possible to control a stage with a MIDI Captain pedal?

And check out the update steps. As far as I remember it, you need to at least make one stop at OS 7.x. Dunno if there are others, I‘m on 8, I think 😂

Wir haben vor ein paar Jahren universalhörer von Vision ears für die gesamte Band zum Testen bekommen und konnten sie bei zwei Proben um nem Gig ausprobieren. Klar ist der memory foam was anderes als die fertige Otoplastik, aber Tendenzen waren schon klar zu hören. Bei mir sind es wegen Gesang und Gitarre die VE5 geworden.

Sorry,

I‘m out. Never had any problems with buttons. Neither on the remote nor on the stage. In contrast to line6.

„Kemper Stage bank up button not working“

Hi,

in a thread below someone hat similar issues and there seems to be some kind of spy mode, that might help.

Everyone to his (or her) taste. For me, adjusting gain without having to readjust the volume is a key feature of the Kemper. Makes dialing in sounds so much easier…

But, if this is a benefit for some, it is good news, of course.

Additionaly, a pure level meter wont help much. In order to judge the perceived loudness, one would need a loudness meter.

I typically boost around 1kHz to help my crunch/distortion sounds cutting through the mix.

But your description sounds like there is something else going on. Maybe you have a high cut in you output set too low?