Just an FYI - Alex Lifeson from Rush is on tour with a Tonex pedal.
I've watched hours of video on youtube. I'm 58 and Rush was my band when I was in High school, and I would consider Alex as one of my guitar teachers. But Not for nothin' I don't like his tone, at all. It sounds so thin, and mushed together. There is no thickness or separation. It sounds like what people describe when they talk about digital amps.
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Still having the problem!!!
After two weeks with no issues, last days it happenned again We had a small gig, and powering on the unit for a sound check gave me that awful sound. Switched it off-On, all back to normal. The gig went well. Yesterday a somehow bigger event, start the unit bad sound, Restart again normal. After the soundcheck break, when we entered to play, I got the bad sound, restart everything ok.
I was lucky to go through our gigs with no firther problems, my mates were lookong strange at me.
This starts to worry me a lot. I will reopen the siupport ticket and see what they say.
Till now I could not find a pattern when this happenes. I am somehow clueless.
Did you shut it off between soundcheck and show? Because then that's another issue if it comes back after being on. I have a rack but all of our gear stays ON after soundcheck. Usually that's 2-4 hours.
Crap...love it. What's the weight on this one. thx
Never mind I see you stated it. I can't see how to delete the post. Interested, but I need another guitar like a hole in the head, but I wanted this model, arrgh!
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.
? Well some of us don't want to play games. We want to work and would like to know if this is a new tool that we need. They put out a new product and won't say if it's better and has new technology that takes a step forward? Kinda weird if you ask me. They didn't make improvements on the outside hardware, and didn't include the wifi on the rack?
Should MK1 users continue to update firmware versions? Does the term "ALL MODELS" now only refer to the MK2 hardware models? Will there be something that says "just for MK2," or should we assume it is? Has there been any clarification? Is MK1 done? Thanks.
My kemper is on my during show days from Soundcheck usually about 2:30-3 PM until the end of the show & that could be until 1030- 11 o’clock at night. Between the end of soundcheck, & showtime around eight we want nothing touched. The Kemper has been fine for years.
I just got notification from Kemper that MK2 toaster shipped. I'm so pumped about it that I am sure my playing will improve, immediately. If for no other reason than for the sheer joy of NEW KEMPER.
Hopefully it makes you run faster, jump higher, and play better. Report back ASAP.
No change in audio. You just got better👍🏼😉
Do you expect your computer last for 14 years? They cost more than a Kemper if it’s a Macbook or better. The Kemper is better than when you bought it. It’s been updated tons of times. They’re not telling you, you have to buy it, but you can. I have some old fender vox and Marshall. They haven’t updated anything since I bought them. But I have had to put a lot of money into them.
Just an all-around good guy...
Yes, but I kept mentioning/slipping in where relevant that "layout D" thing for rigs for about two years, (with your help of always "liking" it)and I think they got sick of me and did it, so? But, I think you could have your default levels jacked up from the last time you used it now, and they could mess something up, when you turn it on right?
Display MoreThe guys who still use the Kemper and feel home in the "Kemper biotope" do not really care about the screen.
True or not;
For example I am very used to "the old screen" and the only thing I care about is to use my gear as I know it and as I am used to it for over a decade now.
I just dont care about big (and vulnerable) touch & colour screens as long as all the other stuff works 100% everytime I turn on the rig.
Morphing & seamless/noiseless switching are much more important to me (just to name these two)..If a touch screen and all the "other stuff" would be more important to me I would already have a QC or whatever.
Ofcourse just my 2 cents.
Once they made "Layout D," where the rigs were able to have a huge font, that made the screen fine for me. I just needed to see what rig I am on, as I have a different rig for every song. The tweaking is done at home on rig manager. I just need to be able to save ALL of the output settings.
I asked Kemper via chat for hardware upgrade of stage …. It’s Not possible…
Hardware? The unit, it's knobs and outputs, Everything we can see, seem to be Exactly the same, but with a new paint job. The only internal components would be some boards, which could probably be swapped out. I can understand why they don't want end users doing this. However, what if we could pass a proficiency test and videotape ourselves doing it? Ha ha, but I'm serious, I work on higher tech stuff, and dangerous too, as my day job for 30 years. Send them to me, I'll be the guinea pig. 
After some demo by my self. Yes and no. The Fixed Effects IMO should be labeled like Quick Effects.
They are fixed yes, but also simplified or even alternative versions of current effects.
- Double tracker has only one knob vs three in the main effect. Same for chorus, and does the job.
- Trapose sounds slightly different (better?) than the main effect.
- Booster is like Pure Booster
Compressor is amazing and transparent. Simple, easy and effective!
Definitely a nice addition!
How about the efx-loop. I need to ad an effect pedal and I have to use the X-slot. I can't really control anything from the Kemper other than the volume and the amount of the effect, and I have it set differently for each rig. I don't need to "switch" it on or off while playing.
According to the website, head and rack don't have WIFI. Have they forgot to update that? Or it will remain like that?
It is weird that they are the exact same units with the exact same hardware but new paint job, and they didn’t even add Wi-Fi to the rack andthe head? I thought they would update the screen, maybe some inputs, The price coming in lower is great. I wonder if they’re gonna have different levels on that to upgrade? For new users I think it’s going to be a good thing. But the hardware being exactly the same I don’t see why we shouldn’t be able to upgrade the DSP or whatever they changed in there. I imagine it’s just some screws and ribbon connections.
To me it sounds like you can have all those effects but Not have them all switchable. For example, You may have some effects like eq's or chorus, compressors or "Always on type stuff you have on your rig. They'll just be on. Then you can fill up your switches with others.
I have a 60-year-old Bassman to my right and my 2019 Kemper rack to my left. Both work great.
I'm not a huge effects guy, but I use them all minimally. For me, they are all great. If not, I can usually manipulate them to get what I want. All but the compressor. It doesn't work well, and the controls don't make sense.
