Posts by steely glen

Quote from Casuso

Looks like you're connecting the stereo signal to a mono balanced input. that's why the "middle" disappears, and the "sides" remains. What are your cables and where are you connecting to?

I purchased this XLR splitter cable. I’m running two XLR cables from the splitter to the rear of my monitors. I do the same thing with TRS-XLR cables on the Player from the Monitor Outs in stereo and it works great. I’m guessing I need some additional part of hardware to run stereo from the Main Out of the Player?

I purchased one of these cables. Any reason why when I switch the Main Output to Master Stereo, I'm getting only wet signal (sounds like a Kill Dry is engaged somehow)?

When I switch back to Master Mono, the signal is perfect, but not so on Master Stereo via the (XLR) Main Output.

Quote from chuchu

Good to know! Thanks.

Quote from Burkhard

It should work with the correct wiring:

Does anyone know of an "off-the-shelf" XLR splitter cable that will accommodate this configuration? I'm not really looking to create my own cable to be able to use this new feature from the Player. Thanks!

Tone Junkies Legend

Drives:

+ is Klon or Archer

TS is tubescreamer

BA is Broken Arrow

RD is Revival Drive

DRV is 1981 DRV

Protein is the Browne Protein (B, G or both for blue and green sides)

KOT is King of Tone

Sparkle is Sparkle Drive Mod

BSPre is Benson preamp

BOLT is the JHS SuperBolt, which rules

ODR is the Nobels ODR-1

BB1 and BB2 are the Snouse Blackbox 1 and 2

SD1, TIMMY, Morning Glory and OCD are their normal names

Speakers:

X is Celestion Blues

OX is the OX Box as the cab

G is Celestion Goldback (sometimes "Gold")

GB is Greenback

V30 is Vintage 30

For Matchless packs, H and M are the two speakers that come in a Matchless cab, G12M and G12H30. HM is both.

In non-Matchless packs, a G12H30 is called “H30”

M75 is Scumback

Numbers are cleanest (1) to dirtiest

“D” where a speaker denotation would normally go means direct, no cab

Vox type amp channels:

B is Bright or Top Boost

N is Normal

J is both channels jumped

HW is hand wired

NB is Normal channel with a bright switch

TB is Top Boost

Fender type amp channels:

N is Normal

B is Bright

J is jumped

V is Vibrato

NB is Normal channel with bright switch

VB is Vibrato channel with bright switch

On Card Scrambler, P andT are the bias switch. P is pentode and T is triode

Marshall style amp channels:

L is lead

R is rhythm

C is clean

Or...

N is normal

T is Treble

J is jumped

Or...

H is high

L is low

MAX is all knobs at 11

On several Bad Cat amps, T1 through T5 are the 5 position rotary tone switch

On some boutique versions of Vox style amps, “EF86” is the preamp channel using an EF86 tube. “12AX7” is the other channel.

LEDs are indeed hard to find, but apparently they’re easier to find than Kemper firmware updates. 👀

Quote from karlic

Kemper offer a full refund up to 30 days if you are unhappy.

Don’t patronize me. I’ve been a Kemper faithful for more than 7 years. I’m just disappointed with the rollout and their slide into obsolescence with a complete lackluster level of support and communication over the last 8 months.

The software support for the Player has been abysmal. Clearly they rushed the hardware to market without a clear idea of how to roll out the software.

As is, the Player is an incredibly anemic platform, especially considering how much Kemper could allow it to do, even if that meant charging users a fee to unlock features. The onboard effects leave so, so much to be desired.

Quote from Ruefus

Correction: HW from Tone Junkie said that when pressing CK for a timeline. CK did not volunteer that.

The plan is to unify the KAOS.bin file. One file to update any Profiler model. I would assume once they've got the Player's individual quirks worked out, they'll do that and follow up with the new effects.

In the video, CK’s exact words when asked by HW, “When can we have this [update]?” were “a couple of weeks.” You’re right that HW followed up with the statement “weeks (not months)” but that was only because CK first said that it would come out in “a couple of weeks.”

A “couple” means 2. It’s been like 12 weeks. So no need to put this on HW and “pressing CK.”

CK said in an interview at NAMM in January that the firmware would drop in “a couple of weeks (not months).”

I expect it to be released in February or March of 2024.

Paul at Zilla built me a Super Fatboy 2x12 cab that I loaded with Kones. Absolutely stunning results.

I had a Kabinet and didn’t like it at all. My previous experience with FRFR has been Tech21 Power Engine 60, Atomic CLR NEO MkII, and Line 6 PowerCab Plus. I had the chance to A/B against the PowerCab. The Kabinet was very bright and had less low end. The brightness was a dealbreaker for me. I have since put 2 Kones in a Zilla 2x12 cab with drastically better results.

I attribute a lot of the Kabinet’s bright sonic properties to the tiny 12” closed back cabinet than to the Kone speaker itself. The Kone does great in larger enclosures.

Quote from crankyrayhanky

This looks awesome!

Talk about that pedal integration you have goin on

Thanks! Only a compressor and drives running into the front of the Kemper. The Waggi W28 board stores them neatly under the Remote. I’m still deciding which drives to keep on there. The Jackson Golden Boy, Greer Lightspeed, and Wampler Tumnus are solid but I’m not loving the 1981 DRV. Might just stick with the three above and omit a fuzz.

What else would you like to know?

Best of both worlds: two Kones in a 2x12 cab. Sounds absolutely MASSSSSIVE.

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Quote from JSB

It would be nice if the Kemper could do absolutely everything external pedals also do, but I wouldn't count on that, or hold my breath waiting for it. The Kemper has incredible tone, the input pre, and effects loop are first rate too, why not just add pedals to it? Why wait and complain that something's missing, when you can have it all? This past year I've collected some of my favorite pedals, even the vintage ones sound correct and true with the Kemper.

That’s the direction I’m headed for my drives. I’m pretty much satisfied with the wet effects. I guess I just see the potential that this green box has. If there were some developments in a few key areas, neither Line 6 nor Fractal could touch it.

Quote from ckemper

Tell us more about that. What are the differences?

In the department of overdrives, there are so many drives on the market not currently covered on the Kemper. A King of Tone, Klon, OCD, and Marshall Bluesbreaker-style drive would be a major help for users. Right now, we rely on baked-in drives from profilers like Michael Britt, Tone Junkies, etc. The Helix really is on top of its game in the drive department and the Kemper is lagging way behind.

Quote from Monkey_Man

Just reboot the app for alphabetisation, Glen.

Answered you here in another thread when I noticed nobody else had.

many thanks!!!

Quote from Wheresthedug

I know what you mean and would like to be able to reorganise folders etc but in practice the example you describe doesn’t need sub folders.

Simple enter the MBritt main folder then search for whichever amp type you want the new list contains only the amps you want so you can now do any sorting you need on the search results only. Unfortunately there is a bug just now which is screwing this up but they are aware of this and will fix it again soon.

The search function has helped me navigate up to this point but I really think we should have a multifaceted way to organize our profiles. That’s what Rig Manager is meant to do: help us manage our rigs. Creating sub-folders for each set of profiles would help me visually see very quickly what I have at my disposal. A search function doesn’t quite do the same thing.

It seems that most file organization software makes it easy to arrange folders and sub-folders however you want. RM shouldn’t be any different.

I just realized that RM has no way to reorganize sub-folders. For example, if you have 600 Michael Britt profiles and want to arrange them by amp via sub-folders under a main "MBritt" folder, there is no way to alphabetize or drag-n-drop the sub-folders. The order you create them is the order in which they must stay.

How has RM gone this long without that very simple functionality?!?

I just popped in to give a big old "+1" to this thread. I'm a new Kemper user and now that I've built a solid library of profiles, I'd like to organize them. For example, under all my 600+ Michael Britt profiles, I'd like to create sub-folders for each amp, such as....

• 1956 Fender Pro
• 1956 Fender Twin
• 1958 Fender Tweed Deluxe (and on and on....)

However, there is no way in RM to arrange the sub-folders alphabetically....or even to manually re-arrange them by "Drag-N-Drop" method. They are permanently arranged in the order you create the folders. That creates lists that are a hodgepodge and not helpful.

Certainly RM3 can do better than this. Can we get some kind of sub-folder organization upgrade?!?

Quote from Wogo

I run it on a MacMini 2018 6 core i7 without any beachballing on 10.15.2

Good to know. Must be something else going on then. Thanks.