Kemper Amps Forum

I thought that clip of Matt Damon playing Van Halen was pretty average at best. Am I off topic?

Armin - That seems to be the beauty of the process. We can use any additional tone shaping while profiling and it becomes part of the profile, including pre-eq Regarding fizz, I have always felt most guitar amps sounded too fizzy for distortion until the master volume was cranked high (unless additional processing was involved). Ironically, I haven't been able to get serious with my KPA yet because it arrived during our concerts in Hawaii, and as soon as I got home I had to build many of 'the boxes that must remain unnamed'

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Armin - That seems to be the beauty of the process. We can use any additional tone shaping while profiling and it becomes part of the profile, including pre-eq Regarding fizz, I have always felt most guitar amps sounded too fizzy for distortion until the master volume was cranked high (unless additional processing was involved). Ironically, I haven't been able to get serious with my KPA yet because it arrived during our concerts in Hawaii, and as soon as I got home I had to build many of 'the boxes that must remain unnamed'

So do you use one of those Harmonic Convergers with your Axe-Fx racks? I thought the Harmonic Converger was done by now, that was the old PodXT days but it sounds like many fully grown men are still using them.

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Armin - That seems to be the beauty of the process. We can use any additional tone shaping while profiling and it becomes part of the profile, including pre-eq Regarding fizz, I have always felt most guitar amps sounded too fizzy for distortion until the master volume was cranked high (unless additional processing was involved). Ironically, I haven't been able to get serious with my KPA yet because it arrived during our concerts in Hawaii, and as soon as I got home I had to build many of 'the boxes that must remain unnamed'

So do you use one of those Harmonic Convergers with your Axe-Fx racks? I thought the Harmonic Converger was done by now, that was the old PodXT days but it sounds like many fully grown men are still using them.

LOL! I prefer my AFXs with the 'box that shall remain unnamed', but have never felt I couldn't get great tones without it - I just find it makes my programming job easier. The 'box that remaineth unnamed' was created for people like myself who actually *break out in hives* at the onset of fizz!

Regarding the KPA, I probably should have said the *profiles* I have tried sound fizzy (haven't tried that many yet).

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Quoted from "Radley"

Armin - That seems to be the beauty of the process. We can use any additional tone shaping while profiling and it becomes part of the profile, including pre-eq Regarding fizz, I have always felt most guitar amps sounded too fizzy for distortion until the master volume was cranked high (unless additional processing was involved). Ironically, I haven't been able to get serious with my KPA yet because it arrived during our concerts in Hawaii, and as soon as I got home I had to build many of 'the boxes that must remain unnamed'

So do you use one of those Harmonic Convergers with your Axe-Fx racks? I thought the Harmonic Converger was done by now, that was the old PodXT days but it sounds like many fully grown men are still using them.

LOL! I prefer my AFXs with the 'box that shall remain unnamed', but have never felt I couldn't get great tones without it - I just find it makes my programming job easier. The 'box that remaineth unnamed' was created for people like myself who actually *break out in hives* at the onset of fizz!

Regarding the KPA, I probably should have said the *profiles* I have tried sound fizzy (haven't tried that many yet).

Interesting. I wasn't very thrilled with either Axe-Fx I owned, Ultra or II. I think I remember reading once where that Cliff man was teasing you about your Harmonic Converger? I may be wrong, I didn't stick around at the forum for long.

Armin - I believe the AFX II has improved considerably since you tried it, but I'm enjoying owning *both* right now Did my first serious tweaking of the KPA today, and it was pretty easy to make it go in my preferred sonic direction Gotta wait for the wife to run errands before I can do any serious profiling however - too much noise!

I'm glad I've kept the AXE II, otherwise i'd be in trouble using the KPA live for gigs.. I know a few of you are using it live, but I can't even assign MIDI PC #'s without it locking up, and then loosing all the assignments, how the hell are you supposed to change patches live? I think the KPA is a great idea, and works fairly well, but they really need to get this thing reliable, I'm sure they'll get it with time, it's not a huge deal to me because it's only to be used in the studio, but if i had bought it to use live i'd would have returned it, no matter how good anything sounds it needs to be reliable for live use, and it's not there in my opinion.. hopefully soon.

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Gotta wait for the wife to run errands before I can do any serious profiling however - too much noise!

Make sure any pets are well away from it, too!