Can someone confirm that this sounds normal?

What guitar are you using? What pickups are in it? New/old strings? How low is the action?

The noise over the "keith marrow loomies.mp3" is prominent. And in the sample "keith marrow loomies vibrato.mp3" I can notice than vibrato takes away this noise.

I will listen to your recordings later or tomorrow. I think I know exactly what you are talking about, if it is the same you brought up once (and totally understand your feelings).

I have had some "uncertainties" too. What I can say today is, that ALL "weird" phenomena I have experienced with the Kemper turned out to be normal behaviour of REAL (tube) AMPS (and/or normal "effects" guitars are sounding like). I could replicate every "issue" on real amps (not amp sims!). I just didn't notice those details before.

Certain tones fretted on certain areas on the fretboard do sound in a certain "weird" way if you let ring the notes out (without vibrato) and listen very closely. That's simple the characteristic of our vibrant instrument played through tube amps. The Kemper only does a good job being a kind of picture of that. But some things could be emphasized a bit on the Kemper maybe, cause it profiles a signal chain including mics and so on.

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I consider this a "yes".
Thank you!

Yes, it does not.

how about the noisegate (internal or stomp)?

Stupid question here, but did you try swapping guitar cables?

I do hear it.
I use 5 different guitars, different pups, tons of different profiles and never had a similar issue.
Do you hear this on all individual KPA outputs?

I hear some artefacts of the noise gate, I believe - try turning it off completely (ie. turn it all the way to zero). Be aware that if you don't lock your input setting (in the inpu menu), the profiles themselves may have a setting higher than zero that will then "override".

I do hear another problem in especially the Guido example, which I've also noticed on my guitars (several of them, if not all). I've also contacted Kemper with this, and the result was the same as yours.

Sounds like 60 cycle hum/hiss combined with the noise gate. Tonally it sounds normal, although I would never use any of those tones, personally.

That sounds like a neck pickup. Fairly normal I'd say overall for a warm pup in that position.

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Thanks in advance. I don't hear it in most KPA-videos and have not experienced this with any other gear. It's also not just in one fret area. Curious what you think

If you mean the "kind of added high frequency crackling" that appears after hitting the string - yeah, that is normal behaviour. That was what I was talking about. You can hear that with tube amps - and the Kemper alike.
Just try out any real amp, if you can reproduce this "issue" without the Kemper in the chain. Maybe record and compare.

So I would say the clips sound "normal" - but JCM 800 has heavy noise gate and is dark.

Here is the creeepy thing, i just now for the last 2 weeks have been getting static noise BUZZ ringing out on ALL GUITARS on my second kemper, i hit the LOW E string , just at the end of the sustain, Fing buzz.

Does not happen on the identical profile i play on my second kemper, and after 10 mins it can vanish!!
(but strange it some times goes away, only happens on one of my kempers)

Now at first i thought it was my mission cab, (i run 2 kempers and 2 mission cabs sorry stereo cabs )

I have high end TRS and guitar cables, you know me i dont muck around with music equipment, i was running a Morley ABY and going into the Mimiq i thought its gotta be the cables and connections right? Soon as the Fing Buzz came on my 2nd kemper, i plugged it into my second mission cab with a brand new cable and ones i am using ..no buzz. (so i knew it was not the cab or cables tried different guitar , maybe it was the kemper?)

Freaked me out...because it will show up on certain rigs only, then it started showing up on all , but then it goes ..then some times returns when i fire up the kemper.It a loud Buzz man, sadly i cant record as i dont have an Audio interface (saving up as most know)

But its there.
Then its not, does yours vanish after a while?
If so then its the same as mine Bro
really sorry your having that prob and even worse i cant suggest a solution

Ash

Sorry to hear this guys, is it on the toaster's or rack's? Powered versions? Do you use power conditioners or are there any magnets close to your units (KPA"S)?

I run a toaster and Rack version, the buzz came up on the rack version(both non powered) , but strange its not there some days, its the most amazing sound in the world to me both kempers and 2 stereo FRFR cabs.

Here is some thing even stranger or may be relative, THE DISTANCE OF THE GUITAR TO THE PROFILER, effects the noises..(not just the random buzz some times)

So for example, i sit down on a couch have one kemper either side, now on my actives (loomis 7 string) and strat if i STAND UP and go back a bit from the profiler(s), some rigs when i need a noise gate, the noises are not there!. Prob nothing to do with the mystery buzz but i just thought i would mention it. I had no Buzz on the 2nd kemper few days ago, only buzz i had was the beer

Ash