Kemper Amps Forum

Interesting thing happened to me on the weekend.

I have had not a single error on my Kemper.
At all.
Been smooth sailing since I plugged it in, besides the pops issue in 1.0.5
I'm on 1.0.6 now with no issues.
Using it daily for at least 4 hours a day, sometimes much more when I can.

...but this may be because of how I use it.

Had a friend around on the weekend and he mentioned he had started using POD exclusively, not the HD, just a smaller one.
And was thus all into modelled sounds and how they are better than real amps.
I made him try out my KPA.

He was obviously suitably impressed. We were both praising it and enjoying flipping through many rigs and stomps.
He was stunned by the thing basically.

Right in the middle of all this the KPA throws up an error screen and reboots itself.
First time I have ever seen it do that.

The first words out of my friends mouth were
"Ah mate, this thing sounds good but I need someting reliable, that would scare me"

Literally the first error I've seen on mine.
Sigh.

I basically pick a rig, tweak it and record.
I have cabs I like and always go to.
I've found rigs I like and always go to.
I import a new few that interest me every now and then from the rig exchange.
I've profiled my amp and use those profiles often.

Other than that I don't fly through settings or tweak endlessly, I'm too busy using it to record songs.

I hope it becomes rock solid stable in a short while, otherwise I'm not sure how many people will pick them up.
Early adopters have got them. We've made the choice.
Now the general, less brave crowd of guitarists needs to be convinced of the KPA and its virtues.
I know of at least one potential customer that has been put off.
Unfortunate timing, but true.

I know.
I would report any error and help where I could.
But it literally sat on the screen for about 10 seconds, I said something to the guy sitting next to me and before I contemplated getting my phone to take a photo the KPA rebooted.

It came back absolutely fine and normal, right back to the profile we were using.
I used it Sunday and yesterday to record again, no issues.

Does it keep a log file or create a dump or something that I can access?
I'll happily send off a log to support if there are such things...

That might be it.
There are profiles I don't use often, and we were jumping around through all of them to show him different sounds.
I have used all of the profiles I've kept in the kemper.

I don't have many. Perhaps 100 - 120, would have ot check.
I've deleted any I didn't like or wouldn't use.
Possible that there could be a corrupt one in there.

I'm on 1.0.6
I can't recall what profile we were on when it happened.
I would've liked to load that up tonight and try it for a while to see if it crashed again.
Oh well.

It has been flawless besides this so doesn't really bother me, just wish I had recorded the error or could get some sort of log file to figure out exactly what it was.

Those POD devices never interested me at all
:p

I never used one.
I'm glad I didn't mess around with any modelling stuff.

Was all tube amps and mics till I moved to London.
In South Africa I had the room to make noise and mic things up.
Full drums kits and loud as I wanted amps.

Here I had to look into going silent more of the time.
I had a Palmer PDI-03 for a few months. Which was actually really great.

I'm glad I've ended up with the KPA.
Options, I like having lots and lots of options.