Posts by Noisenet

Quote from Tony G

Why don't you try and profile a patch cord and see if there is something wrong with your unit. It should come out perfectly clean.

Great idea, I should've thought of this but I didn't.

I tried it, got the expected results so, I guess, no hardware problem. Again, this only seems to happen with a profiled amp, AFTER the profiling process but still in Profiling mode - if I switch to reference amp it sounds as expected. Then after saving the profile, in the Rig Pool it sounds better.

I wondered if somehow I'm hitting the front end too hard, but other profiles sound like they're supposed to. In the Input block, all sensitivities are set to 0. Noise Gate off.

I've been encountering something strange with my Mk2 Profiler. After creating a profile, when I play back to check the sound of the profile, it sounds terrible. Muddy, distorted - like my input signal is too hot. If I switch to the Reference amp, it sounds perfect, like it's supposed to.

And it happens with both low/mid gain sounds as well as higher gain. Today I was making some profiles of my Marshall Jubilee - even with the channel gain (lead mode) set down between 9-10:00, which isn't high gain at all, after I'd capture it, the capture (before saving it into my rig pool) sounded flubby and distorted.

So I run the refine process, sometimes a few times. It gets better, but never very good.

Now here's where it gets weird.

After I save it, if I switch to browse mode and then bring up that saved profile, it sounds GREAT! It's only in profiler mode where it sounds bad. What's up with that?

Anyone ever experience this?

Thank you in advance for your help!

Quote from jasonmi3

Looking forward to checking out the freebies on the rig exchange over the weekend. They sound wonderful on the video and great playing!

Thank you - I hope you enjoyed them!

Quote from pikman

Hi i was wondering how many studio or full profiles are in this pack? Also, how long is your introductory offer good until?

Hi Pikman - I have no plans to take the packs off of introductory pricing for a good while - the introductory part is because my company is brand new & I really want it to grow. I hope you'll check 'em out! Thanks for asking!

I live and gig on the Southeastern US coast and average 220-250 gigs per year. From April through Oct 95% of my gigs are outside in the South Carolina heat and humidity. I’ve used a Kemper on every gig I’ve played since early 2019.

My Kempers have impressed the heck out of me with their durability. I’ve only ever had one problem - in early 2023 my Power Rack froze on me mid set - with a message on the screen and wouldn’t allow me to switch….anything. When I rebooted, it kept going to the message. We took a break, I looked up how to factory reset the Kemper when it won’t boot. It worked, I then loaded my sounds from a thumb drive and was able to finish the gig. At home it kept freezing so I sent it to British Audio in Nashville. They ended up replacing most of the circuit boards, only charged me for labor, parts were free as per Kemper policies.

That’s after 4 years and upwards of 900-1000 gigs of trouble free performance.

In 2024 I switched to a Kemper Stage (downsizing) and it’s worked flawlessly for me. Once during boot up it showed me an error screen. I turned it off and back on, worked like a charm.

I mention this because, being a floor unit it’s been used on some dirty outdoor beachfront stages, survived drunk bar patrons’ indiscretions and generally been bulletproof.

Quote from darthwain

the freebie sounds wicked great job

Thank you! And there are even better sounding profiles in the pack

Quote from whippinpost91850

Can’t wait to give these a try

I hope they'll work great for you! Thanks!

Quote from jaeger 28

I like them - they seem kinda unspectacular by themselves, but sit smack in the mix, very usable variations!
Also a nice touch that you actually added quite some Effects, which I always wonder why other profile makers don't do it.

Thank you - I'm glad you mentioned that they sit in a mix - that's the whole goal & I'm happy you noticed! As for effects - I wanted the profiles to be useable immediately so I just set up some basic effects settings. Again, thank you for noticing! I hope you'll get years of enjoyment out of them!

Quote from Ibot39

Good job...and great playing! Are the full profiles studio profiles or the same direct profiles with IRs? And if they are studio profiles, maybe you can sell IR packs of your cabs too? I just like the combination of direct amp profiles with IR better.

The DI profiles are separate captures - I ran a DI line from my Fryette Power Station into my system and captured from there. I did a DI capture for every amp setting.

I've definitely got plans for IR's of my cabs, I just haven't quite got that process figured out yet - I know how to make IRs on my Mac, but I don't know how to make 200ms and 500ms variants, etc... But one day I hope to have those available!

Thanks for watching and for your kind words!

Quote from BayouTexan

The Kemper profiles are definitely more "alive" than the Tonex or Quad.

I use a Kemper for all my live gigs - I'm certainly looking forward to playing these live!

Thank you for watching my video!

Hi All - I've just released my first Profile Pack (and for a couple other platforms as well) of the amazing MESA/Boogie Badlander. This amp's kind of a sleeper, I think, because of being branded a 'Rectifier' when truth be told, it's more a cross between the Mark VII and a Dual Rec. Beautiful cleans, great light breakup as well as classic crunch and super tight low end for heavy crunching - not to mention more than enough drive for Metal and Lead stuff. TBH - it's easily my favorite of the Rectifiers.

Here's a demo of a few of the tones. I hope you enjoy!

Full pack available at https://theguitarnerd.com/pages/kemper

Quote from Alienator

Cool video – thanks for sharing. Quick question about the MKII's performance under load:

What always bugged me with the MKI is how easily spillover tails (especially Ionosphere and long ambient delays) get cut off when switching slots in a performance – especially with complex FX chains.

Have you tested if the MKII handles this better due to the improved processing power?
Does it preserve tails more consistently under heavy FX load?

Would really appreciate any insight – I’ve asked before but haven’t seen it addressed. Cheers!

Hi, thanks for watching!

To be honest I never ran into that issue on the OG KPA & I haven’t spent enough time yet on the MkII to know if it happens.

Sorry.

Quote from BayouTexan

Reviews like this ensure me that I am not selling off my original Mk1 too soon. Thanks!

Right now I think there’s not a lot of urgency to move to the new MkII but as I said in the video, I truly believe this to be an evolutionary step. Kemper’s never been about urgency so much as a slow but steady forward movement. After a few steps of you look back you see how far it’s come. The new hardware will enable the next steps.

I haven’t seen any video on it yet, just heard a few people mention it.

Honestly though it’s not about profiling at all gig or even away from the computer, it’s that using a computer to profile, ala ToneX, is a pain in the ass & to be honest, the speed of the original KPA profiling process (before refining) is the one area where it still shines above the others.

A little video I made showing the new MkII Unpowered Rack and a quick sound comparison with the MkI.

I am starting to see a rumor floating around that the new MKII Profiling, when released, will only happen when profiling using Rig Manager with a computer and not on the Kemper device itself. This rumor is being attributed as coming from someone here - anyone hearing anything about this?

Received my MkII Rack today. I've only played briefly through it as UPS was later getting here than usual.

I do like the updated look. it boots fairly fast. On the screen you can see places for the extra effects but I haven't yet learned how to delve into all that yet. Haven't hooked it up to my computer yet to look into Rig Manager.

Loaded up some old profiles and A/B'd the two Kempers - I'd swear the new one sounds a tad bit more 'crisp'. I restored from a backup I'd just made from the MkI unit so everything's set identical. Might be Placebo but I'm not sure. I'm working on a video that'll probably release tomorrow & I'll be sure to include this.

Only hiccup so far is this - I'm in the US. The Profiler shipped from Kemper Americas in Illinois. This is the power cable they shipped LMAO!!!!! No biggie - I got a bunch of US IEC cables lying around.

Gonna dive into the software & see if I can find anything different.

I read through this thread as I sit with an eye to the window looking for the UPS guy so I can take delivery of my KPA MkII.

What keeps going through my mind, and what led to my decision to purchase the MkII now is this: in 2019, when I was researching profilers/modelers so I could make the switch, what I kept finding was that if I wanted real amp tone AND feel, go with Kemper. If I wanted better effects, go with Fractal. So I went with Kemper.

Then over the next couple years more and more updates came out and then suddenly, Kemper was great for effects too! Great drives, delays and reverbs, then the acoustic simulator - which has kept me on the Kemper platform even though I’ve found that other platforms now DO create more accurate amp recreations (in my experience, ymmv).

Kemper promised to continue to support their original units and they have! For 14 amazing years, which is an eternity in this game, they’ve supported and improved! To me that is a classic example of overdelivering on modest promises.

So when I see a MkII version come along with its touted much improved processing power as the only real improvement, I just gotta think that they’ve done this now because there are things they wanna do, improvements they wanna make, that the original architecture simply won’t support. To me it looks like a simple matter of horsepower. Kemper has never marched to the beat of the drum that ‘the market’ dictates. They’ve never made a move to play catch up.

Kemper INVENTED the world of amp capturing, don’t forget that!

So to me the question wasn’t ’is it worth it to upgrade when it doesn’t APPEAR much has changed’.

To me the question is/was ‘gee, I wonder what CK has, in that mad scientist mind of his, has planned?’ I only wish they’d let me help with the beta testing cause I got a LOT of amps here to profile!

So like I said, now I sit and wait for this blessed UPS driver to arrive…..

And may the updates come soon!

When I see talk of the Kemper Profiler and profiling in general it's usually based around the accuracy of how it creates profiles and of course that's as it should be. What I rarely or even never see discussed is how amazing the tools built into the Kemper OS can be not only with regard to refining these profiles, but in making some pretty big changes & transforming the profile into something new and, sometimes, even better - so that the actual profile is just the starting point. I mean, I get it it that the whole point of the profiling process is so that we can have digital versions of the amps we love and have them all in one place, with the ability to instantly recall them at the touch of a switch (or two).

But I believe that ending the discussion there kind of sells the Kemper short. Previously, but especially after the addition of Liquid Profiling, it's entirely possible (and easy) to craft an amp with the sound and feel of an amp we love but with some characteristics of another amp.

Here's an example - I have a Marshall JCM2000 DSL100 with a custom modification from Voodoo Amps that I really love. The mods are built around my playing style and feel, and it's just fantastic for me. I also, however, love the sound and feel of a cranked Plexi type amp - how the tone controls affect the tone of the amp when it's really cranked up.

A few days ago I wondered what it might sound like to graft the tone/gain stack of such a Plexi type amp onto my beloved DSL & then do some additional tweaking as I would in the control room of a studio; so I decided to give it a try and made a video of the process. I gotta say, it turned out even cooler than I'd hoped it would. It still has the underlying DNA of my DSL but it's also got the string clarity I get with a well tweaked Plexi as well as some of the squish while maintaining the balls, drive and girth of a modern 100 tube amp. I used it last night on a gig for the first time and it worked extremely well!

BTW - in the video I was kinda focused on a heavy kinda sound but this same technique (for lack of a better term - is this really even a technique?) can work with any type of sound while preserving the underlying tone of the original amp.

Check it out - see what you think. I'd love to hear your thoughts.

I have and use a few of Electro Harmonix' 9 series pedals (the Synth9, B9, Key9 and Mel9). I use these by running them through a Midi capable loop switcher and into the effects loop in the KPA - then assigned to one of the effects slots. This way, depending on the song, whatever patch I call up sends a Midi channel message to the loop switcher, turning on the loop for whichever of these pedals I need for that particular sound. This way I can also turn the effect on & off with one of the buttons on the remote.

These effects generally sound best when run without any amp profiling happening. For some use cases it works great to have a patch set up with the Stack section turned off. For others though, such as when I just need to switch one of those pedals in for a quick little part (think PYT from Michael Jackson, the little synth line in the chorus) it works better to just step on the button assigned to that effects slot, play the line, then hit it again to get out of it. For this kind of use, it sure would be useful if I could also program that button on the remote to turn off the stack section so I'm getting the synth sound clean, with no 'amp' coloration.

I know I could achieve this by just running the pedals to FOH on their own feed, but I also use a 4x12 loaded with Kemper Kones & wanna hear everything through those - AND I make fairly extensive use of the KPA's looper, including looping lines played through those pedals, so they have to go through the Kemper.

I realize mine is probably an extremely uncommon scenario but this would sure be useful!!!!!