Kemper Amps Forum

Hadley, your comments and answers weren't too helpful yet.

Quoted from "Radley"

Christoff - I am trying to be helpful. I am very impressed that the KPA can copy my show-tested presets from another modeler so well - it is a very handy function indeed! I profiled 3 more of my amps yesterday, and it's getting better and better. (I guess I still don't understand why my requests for thread deletion have not been honored - they were not posted to create a 'kerfuffle'!)

"Kerfuffle" now thats funny

Hadley

It's not flaming, it's discussion.

Do you enjoy playing your 12 year old GS10 more than you enjoy playing your Kemper?
Which tone do you prefer to feel & play, one of your GS10 tones, or your Gibson Lancer that you Profiled?
If the sonic level of the Kemper is less than a GS10 then why would you want to keep the KPA?

The thing is.
You enjoy modding things, experimenting, think of all the amps/pedals you've modded over the years, do you have anything that's still stock 'standard'?
Not everyone would have modded their gear exactly the way you have over the years, your mods were made specifically to satisfy your ears, your fingers.

Basically, you want a modded Kemper.
You've requested at least a dozen or so changes/mods be made to the Kemper, beginning at the foundation.
Unfortunately for you the Kemper isn't a tube amp where you can open it up and change transformers, etc, and have someone or yourself perform all these mods...you need about 25 years of DSP coding experience to mod your KPA.
CK doesn't know how to please you, he has a thousand guys raving about the "Foundational sonics of the KPA", and one guy complaining that it's all wrong.

If you were CK what would you do, how would you please you?

Blessings & Shabbat Shalom!

Quoted from "JonG"

Quoted from "guitarnet70"

I'm more traditional....

Now you're talking my language

As far as I know Radley's posts are genuine and not directed to manipulate any sort of argument and clearly few people here are getting so weird about it.The only 'thing' it can't get better is the beauty of those smiling happy girls .If you probably spoke to their parents and explained to them how their daughters could be improved..well probably you would get a kick on the back side immediately and probably you would be told 'If you don't like them then go and look for some other girls'. Fair enough!But here we're talking about a tool that helps musicians do a better job than they would with an amp. So it's perfectly fine (in my opinion) to be unsatisfied with the KPA and pointing out potential issues to its creator. I personally don't like the argument 'Ok -- if you don't like it then sell it' or 'You don't like it??Then use your 30 years old boss pedal".
I hope there will be still room for improvement for the KPA.I deleted several profiles as I could hear some sort of 'staticity' as well. However I'm quite happy with what I've got and I still need to learn how to tweak those parameters in the amp section Mr Kemper (entrepreneur and genius) was kindly talking about . So all I do I keep what sounds good, I delete what doesn't sound good. Easy like that.Personally I'm enjoying the unit and very happy about it.

Cheers

Quoted from "Radley"

I actually agree with this part of what Hadley said and many have felt it. They usually describe it as 'stiff' Hadley There are things you can do to mostly but not completely eliminate this the first being turn down the input sense below what you think would be ok secondly roll your axe volume/tone down a bit more than you would with other devices and only if needed compensate any lack of sustain by adding a little compression with the amp block parameters. Ive found this gets me the fleshy dynamic sensitive feel i like but it took me a while to get there. obviously getting the right profile to start with is important. I love my Kemper and have no purchase regrets but i did notice this stiffness from day one but you can get it where you want it with some experimenting. I think if CK added an input impedance selection choice it would greatly help in getting this type of feel as much lower impedance settings naturally get you in this ballpark.




Chris

Quoted from "Radley"

Take your favorite distortion pedal or overdriven amp - play something sensitive with your fingers - that's right, bare flesh on the strings (a la Jeff Beck). Listen to the way the attack translates into tone - now do the same on the Kemper with a similar gain patch. It is *not* the same - it is a different feel/response altogether.

Quoted from "ChrisBeaver"

Quoted from "Radley"

There are things you can do to mostly but not completely eliminate this the first being turn down the input sense below what you think would be ok secondly roll your axe volume/tone down a bit more than you would with other devices and only if needed compensate any lack of sustain by adding a little compression with the amp block parameters. Ive found this gets me the fleshy dynamic sensitive feel i like but it took me a while to get there.

Chris

what he said. this helps a bit. i also belong to the "still-missing-a-little-bit-of-true-amplike-response-crew", especially with extremely dynamic picking styles, as described by radley. stop beatin him for having a point here fellas... ;-)