Posts by Vinny Burns

Quote from StratUS90

Here it is... Note that the MK1 is somewhere bad ...

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/73VYrpDl0bw

Enjoy !

That’s not right. I have two Mk1 Kemper Stage units, classic Mk1 Toaster and also the Mk2 Player.
I know there is no difference with the same profile between my Stage and my Player.

The other week, I was too lazy to go and turn my 79 Marshall JMP 2203 on to try and make a new profile of it that I wanted with a pedal in front of that amp baked into the profile.

So, I first used my Player in the send and return of my Stage to Profile a Profile I already had done previously of my JMP 2203.
That Profile was chosen as the reference amp on Mk1 Stage and also loaded on the Mk2 Player which was going to be the Profiled amp.
Once the Profiling level was adjusted, going between the same profile on both, there was no difference.
Once I took an initial test profile to see if it would work, I then added the pedal in front of the Player and did the Profile I intended to do down in my studio with the real amp.

There has to be something else going on in that YouTube clip for there to be such a drastic difference between a mk1 and mk2 unit.

Quote from G String

You: "Please don’t tie us to laptops for the simplest of tasks that should be undertaken on the units themselves." We don't tie you to anything because you can format your USB stick using your Profiler. And Burkard takes about pre-formatted USB sticks. Nobody want to change anything. All that's been said is that you probably never have to format a stick anyway, hence there is no real need for a progress bar. So what's your problem here?

I have no problem whatsoever. Was just clarifying what was said. Is that a problem?

Quote from G String

nobody talks about laptops.

Well, if you don’t format it in the Kemper, then how do you quickly format it to get a clean slate for a backup?

Quote from Burkhard

True! Are you sure, that formatting is even needed? Any USB-stick preformatted with FAT32 just needs to get acquainted with the PROFILER: You just plug it in and the PROFILER creates three folders (Backups, OS Updates, and Shared) within a moment and you are all set.

Formatting is the quickest way to have a clean slate on a usb stick.
I rarely travel to gigs in the uk or abroad with my laptop.
Before I leave for any gigs, I format a usb stick via Kemper Stage, then backup to it in case of any problems while I am away.
Please don’t tie us to laptops for the simplest of tasks that should be undertaken on the units themselves.

Quote from timo

This is perfectly normal behavior.

First it displays the current progress like mounting the usb drive (2), mounting internal flash (3), opening backup (4), each represented by a orange flashing led, followed by the green bar showing progress of restoring from the backup.

Finally displaying „success“ by alternating green for 4 seconds, before it just reboots.

You‘ve just seen a successful „restore from backup“ procedure.

I thought he wanted to just backup though and not do a restore. 🤔

Quote from TommyH

Hi Vinny!

How does it perform compared to the Kemper's Transpose function? Only tried it against the Digitech Drop which i found a little more accurate / faster but not really worth using it for convenience reasons.

The Boss just feels better and the transposed sound is better. Was very surprised. Didn’t expect it live up to the hype.
I still use the transpose in the Rig menu for playing live but the Boss is definitely better.
Same as you, it’s just convenient to have everything in the Kemper.

Surely you need to fix this at the transmitter/receiver part of the signal before it even hits the Kemper?
I don’t know this wireless system but on my Shure GLXD system, the output gain from the transmitter is stored individually in each transmitter used and set with the gain setting menu in the receiver.
You need to find something similar function wise as the issue is your wireless system.

I am very impressed with the new Boss XS-1. Feels and sounds great.

Quote from Wheresthedug

That’s exactly what a profiled patch cable is.

What didn’t work for you when you tried it.

The Pure Booster after amp block solution is also a viable option though as the pure boost is literally just an extra volume knob in the same way as rig volume or master volume.

Yes agree. This what I use for my Acoustasonic Strat’s. I just profiled a patch cable and then the volume was fine.

Quote from Burkhard

Be aware that Rig Manager supports the import of Performances into the banks of the Player. So in case you have created Performances with other models, it is actually possible to import up to fived Rigs in one go. You can also import the entire Performance set from another model via backup at that model and restore at the Player.,

The problem with importing many Performances in this way is that for me, I have built most of my ‘song’ Performances for live (on my Stage units), from the same building block rigs (mainly 3 or 4 of my own profiled rigs) but then tailored them to each individual song. Let’s say 25 songs that make up the building blocks of a set with some songs coming in and out of the set.
Once you import many Performances to cover these songs in the Player, all Performance names are stripped out as well as Master Tempo and such things.
So, the Player ends up populated with hundreds of (for me) identically named batches of rigs in the slots.
It’s unwieldy and messy and every rig needs renaming and the Master Tempo settings that are now missing need to be manually entered. For every rig. For every song.

Then, we come to the nightmare of the setlist changing night to night. Once all those rigs have been imported, renamed and edited (from my Stage units), I find it next to impossible to move them around easily or quickly to keep the song structure that they came from.

So, while I really wanted to toy with the idea of using my Player for some of our fly gigs, it’s just not practical and the Stage units travel instead.

It really needs some thought as to how to make it possible on a day to day basis of shuffling rigs grouped as songs around.

Have it all here. Wired up on a Pedaltrain Metro 16. Waiting to be used. Even bought the Retrovision screen to make this possible. Player, Kemper dual Switch, Pedal Power 3 and a Shure GLX-D6

Still grabbing the flight case containing the Stage from the studio though. That doesn’t bother me, it’s a great system and works fine every single gig. Be much easier and cheaper through the airport with the Player pedalboard in a backpack.

Are they both units on the same OS version?

The only time I have seen a thing similar is on two Kemper Stage units when my backup from a newer OS was installed on a Stage with an older OS. Everything was populated with Rigs labelled as Crunch.

Once I updated that particular Stage to the latest OS, all was fine with reinstalling the backup

Quote from lminiero

I'm not 100% sure that the reverb has an octaver: from what I can hear, it's the synth string section that's orchestrated in layers that double at the octave, and that in a few phrases double what the guitar is playing (or at least that's how I've transcribed it in MIDI it so far). But yes, it *is* drowned in reverb

Sounds like the ‘filtered’ tone you can get on a Strat by having bridge and middle pickup selected in position 2 and the tone rolled completely off on the middle pickup. Needs a Strat with no tone control on the bridge pickup.
Almost like a cocked wah but much more subtle.
Certain notes on the fretboard then start to fade into that octave higher overtone during the note duration.
On ‘my’ Strat’s, the higher overtones pop out on the 9th and 10th frets on the B string and quite prominent on the 2 fret on the G string. They pop out in more places than that but for setting up the sound, I experiment at those starting points whilst dialling a pedal into the amp.

Definitely need to be able to have a facilty where whole banks can be easily be moved up and down.

Needs to be doable on mobile devices too. I don’t take my laptop to fly gigs.
At the moment, my Kemper Stage units still do all my gigs as I need to rearrange set lists on a gig to gig basis.

The backpack sized Player pedalboard I put together sits gathering dust.

I would love someone to demonstrate how to best reorganise an 18 song set on the Player with the tools we have been given. In my case, each song is allocated a bank to itself. So 18 banks of up to 5 rigs per bank

Better still, demonstrate this on an iPad or phone. I never take my laptop on tour with me.

Quote from Ruefus

Del-Rev Mix for one.

Ha. You posted this as I was typing the same. 😂

Quote from Wheresthedug

I think even the "esoteric" paramaters are still available on the player via Rig Manager. Maybe I've missed some but I can't think of any off the top of my head.

I haven’t been able to find the Del-Rev parameter on the Player that is on the other profilers. Think it’s normally in the Rig menu.The one that controls how much or little of the Dly slot feeds into the Rev slot.

Was trying to do two separate delays in the Dly and Rev slots in the Player and there was no way of keeping the two delays parallel. One always feeds into the other.

Was trying to create 80s style PCM70 Pan Delay and Circular Delays that can be used together but are always in parallel when you do so.
Hope Kemper might add this soon.

I seem to remember the Stage outputs are about 7db lower than the Head.

Quote from where is christophe

I use this low footprint hw piece with the Player : https://ottercustomdesign.com/collections/ex…=48603214807305

With it you have a total of five switches, as an example one per preset or three presets and bank up + down, etc…

Compromise yes, but 17 years old me would have never dared dreaming of the gear available this current days 😅

Well, my statement was about the unit straight ‘out of the box’. I did actually add a dual switch.
I threw as much money as I spent on the Player for me to try and get something gig worthy that would slip into a backpack for a flight.

Quote from DonPetersen

it's actually all Performance Mode

When I put one of my Performances into the Player, all rigs are ‘orphaned’ from that point forwards.
In other words, they are just 5 independent rigs. Not 5 rigs ‘tied together’ under a common Performamce name.
This makes moving songs round in a set a chore to say the least. The fact they just get individual rig names and not one single name tied to 5 rigs inside a Performance makes it even more of a pain.

It was an absolute pleasure to pack the player away last week and rehearse and play with one of my Stage units for two gigs this weekend. Love my Stage units. I really wanted the Player to work out for certain fly gigs

Everything on the Player is a compromise. Starting with the power supply all the way through to the cryptic colour coding to indicate what bank you are on instead of just putting a small screen on there where the useless illuminated logo is.

The Player is not even fully usable straight out of the box. With only the unit, your first compromise is deciding wether to have 5 sounds per bank accessible with the foot switches……. Or 3 sounds per bank and an ability to go up and down through the banks.

It sounds great, just like my other Kempers but everything about it feels like a compromise too far. But hey, it fits into the little compartment in a Gibson guitar hard case 🙄

I might still find a use for it but for now, I am 100% back to my Stage units for live and enjoying them.

It needs a Performance mode. Where 5 individual Rigs can be grouped together under one Performance name.
I bought the Player and at every turn, it’s a brick wall to use live.
How can you easily re arrange a set list when no Rigs are grouped together or have a Performance name?