Posts by pippopluto

Give a look at Red Sound, they make any sort of monitors for modellers

HTH

One thing I often do is to set the NG in the Input section to very high levels. With the right profiles this creates a peculiar attack that I love

HTH

While I am not strictly interested, you are not using a Stage, are you?
In order to get a realistic response modelled fuzzes require a different impedance at the input, that only the Stage is able to offer.

NSTH

Looper quantisation is the most missing feature in the KPA IMO. It makes performing live a toss of dices...

Some Kemper Packs (also accessible via RM) are meant to cover specific sounds (Gundy Keller's excellent work coming to mind). In the case of professional packs/profiles/rigs you'll almost never find them via the song's title for copyright reasons. Best option is to just try them, and/or have a listen to the related video (Kemper's page).

As for third-part signature sounds, it's matter of knowing who produces/produced them. Pretty sure the right search (in the Internet) will bring up many.

I remember for example such rigs from Sweet Spot, RigBuster, Pete's Profiles. Pretty sure there are (many) others tho.

HTH

I'd agree this to definitely be one of the weakest points in Kemper ecosystem

Quote from quemper

The official Kemper manuals say otherwise

I agree with the opportunity of charging devices via USB. I couldn't find any opposite statement on the manual tho (i.e., suggesting you can)?

Quote from quemper

This might violate the USB standards

I don't think it's a matter of standard, there certainly are devices that can recharge others via USB. I believe it's a matter of implementation, where some circuits are designed with a higher current acceptance.

Quote from JC JGB

there was a mention that the USB port could connect and power your phone

Ah, chances are they have "improved" their USB implementation (and therefore maybe removed any warning from manuals?) in Mk II...

Quote from where is christophe

This will have to be double checked but I'm pretty sure I've read here that the Player's USB port is not designed to power anything and that it could lead to hardware failure.

This.

IIRC, Kemper has always advised against charging anything from their USP ports

Quote from EduDeathcore

My message was addressed to the colleague posting, not to Kemper community manager 🙂

Burkhard is from Kemper

Quote from EduDeathcore

We are just sharing our own experience in live situations and where we see a clear improvement, not trying to convince you or reinforce your own view on the subject

Well, I have no horse in the race but if you want to have a chance to convince Kemper to do anything, you should at least try and... convince them IMO

Hey Rudy

In Kemperland you don't need scenes: on a Player, groups of 5 rigs are loaded onto memory and ready to work seamless and gapless, as if they were different scenes of the same preset (in its bigger brothers there are Performances, which would work in the same way in this respect).

Another way to modify the starting rig (patch) is through Morphing, if you are at least on Level II: you can modulate almost any parameter from a starting value to another of your choice and this includes for example gain,volume, distortion, any Mix in fx and the like.

As for me (on a Toaster), I devote as many rigs to a song as needed: when I can't proficiently use Morphing I just add a second/third/etc consecutive rig.

HTH

Check if the related USB port is set to save power (sleep mode) after a while.
(As for me, I have switched every power save option off on my desktop)

Nice suggestion for sure (maybe to be implemented as an option?).

As for me, the thing that makes the looper unusable is the lack of quantisation tho.
Should Kemper ever take improving the looper into consideration, I'd definitely prefer their efforts to go there...

A Pure Booster in the Effects section is exactly a transparent amp! Anything that sounds different than that is indeed adding colours (= distortion).

I agree, locking the Input is critical in order to not have parameters messed up at every different rig recall.

As a side note tho, Clean Sense serves other purposes as well (see Main manual)... a further reason to have it adjustable per rig.

AFAIK, the only thing you can do while waiting for a technical solution would be to save rigs (or copies of them) with the CS setting you need.

HTH

Generally speaking, here are the things that I'd advise about:

• As others wrote, sound perception changes with volume. The louder, the more lows and highs we hear; so when you tweak your sounds at home volume be sure to cut lows above all, but also highs a bit: electric guitars need mids in order to cut the mix. In a rock context I'd cut everything below 90-100 Hz, at the risk of sounding anemic: a gorgeous tone at home is usually really problematic on stage.
• While soundchecking, use a PEQ to cut mids as much as possible, and play a typical part with the band; sweep frequencies and chase the ones at which your guitar disappears the most; give full gain to that band.
  Along with low cut, this should ensure best cutting (the mix) if you have little experience.

HTH

Quote from DonPetersen

you can use the GAIN control of a non-Liquid Profile. That one relies on the Kemper Generic tonestack, which is completely tone-neutral

So are there further differences between liquid's and traditional profiles' Gain controls beside the latter's wider range?

Thanks

Quote from Gary_W

I thought that (with mk2) the variable impedance would come to all models

It's a hw feature AFAIK

Quote from GuitarHome

Thank you very much for the kind words.

I'm aware of the possibility of using a single capture with a drive pedal and an amp. However, sometimes I like to use very specific things. I currently use an HX One for drive pedals before my Tonex. I'm fascinated by Joe Satriani's lead tone from the Live in San Francisco show. That tone is basically a Marshall 6100 on the clean channel and a DS-1 Keeley with maximum drive settings, minimum tone, and controlled volume, a slight chorus and delay. I got an incredibly similar tone using the DS-1 Keeley mod of the HX One in these settings, and the Tonex using an Amalgam capture of a Matchless clean (due to the lack of a good capture of the Marshall 6100's clean channel) was so similar that I even gave up looking for the Marshall. In this case, I don't have the amps to capture it, and I don't know if I could somehow replicate that tone, which I think is spectacular, on the Kemper.

Yes, clearly yuo can't reproduce any possible tone with a given device. But spend some quality time with the several dist pedals available in the KPA, maybe with the Main Manual open
You'll see you can get a lot out of it.

Furthermore, there are some simple but powerful parameters in the amplifier section that can really help shaping your tone: see for example this thread's last posts from Kemper crew.

HTH and... happy music!

Quote from dfdfan

Currently you can profile a drive alone, but you can only load that as an amp block, not separately as a drive block with a different amp.

For the newcomers: you can profile a drive going into an amp tho. There are perhaps hundreds of such profiles already available.

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