Tweak or Play

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Armin

Professional

Posts: 1,280

Thursday, January 26th 2012, 11:59pm

Tweak or Play

The biggest difference between the KPA and modelers is (IMHO):
When I wanted to play some guitar with my modelers - I ended spending a lot of time tweaking the thing.

This evening I wanted to continue profiling my Lonestar Special - and ended NOT profiling anything but just playing two hours with one profile - and it was exiting all the time - and I had no need to change anything ...

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grorig

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Posts: 150

Friday, January 27th 2012, 12:06am

RE: Tweak or Play

Quoted from "Armin"

The biggest difference between the KPA and modelers is (IMHO):
When I wanted to play some guitar with my modelers - I ended spending a lot of time tweaking the thing.

This evening I wanted to continue profiling my Lonestar Special - and ended NOT profiling anything but just playing two hours with one profile - and it was exiting all the time - and I had no need to change anything ...

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sheguitarplayer

Intermediate

Posts: 436

Location: Berwick upon Tweed, UK

Friday, January 27th 2012, 12:20am

Yep. Me too. Its funny.
There is loads of scope for tweaking on the KPA.
Its just that I very rarely feel the need.
If it is required most anything can be solved with gain/eq on the front (whaddya know? Just like an amp!)
Then if you want something COMPLETELY different, go to definition/sag and play with the gain.
Im way past the stage where I should be starting to nitpick with the KPA, and Im still astounded daily.
Best piece of gear Ive bought in 35 years of guitar playing.
Loving it.

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XpennoKPA

Intermediate

Posts: 307

Friday, January 27th 2012, 12:29am

Agreed 100%! It is a massive difference, today I got home, plugged in, and played. Before it was more like, plug in, hmm font like that sound today, tweak, nope still not there, tweak some more, nope not yet, tweak................ Switch off and go to bed

Happy days indeed.

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schneidas

Master

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Location: Athens, Greece

Friday, January 27th 2012, 12:41am

Quoted from "XpennoKPA"

Before it was more like, plug in, hmm font like that sound today, tweak, nope still not there, tweak some more, nope not yet, tweak................ Switch off and go to bed

This exactly!

+1 to everything you guys said!

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rolandvdh

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Posts: 152

Friday, January 27th 2012, 12:44am

Same for me!+1

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guitarnet70

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Location: Denzlingen, Germany

Friday, January 27th 2012, 1:12am

Even using the advanced parameter I don't need more than 5 min to setup a full rig (including FX) that I like, and this starting from mostly any profile! (Some of them I cannot really use , but it would be the same with the respective amps).

Is absolutely inspiring to play with the Kemper

"Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music" Serghei Rachmaninoff

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Bluesman

Trainee

Posts: 88

Location: Thailand

Friday, January 27th 2012, 8:03am

That's also my experiences. I sometimes would like to tweak a bit, but I don't now what for. It's already perfect. I just use the normal EQ parameter most of the time. The KPA is not a tweaker - it's a player!! So there will be different types of musician using the AxeFX rather then the KPA. It's ok for me if someone wants to tweak instead of playing. There are also people tuning their motorbikes the whole day instead of driving it. Why not? But not for me.

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mDan

Intermediate

Posts: 471

Location: Frankfurt - Germany

Friday, January 27th 2012, 8:05am

I think I never use the Advanced parameters at all. Most of the profiles are SO great that there is no need to tweak for me. Maybe a quick adjust in Gain/EQ (it's awesome with those "physical knobs") and that's it. This thing rocks