Using In Ear Monitors With The Kemper Profiler....IEMs

    Looking at the different output options available with the Kemper in the manual, I can see you can send a signal via the main outs and monitor out at the same time. Therefore, my question is, has anyone tried to use this for a very basic wireless inner ear set up? E.G main outs go to either a desk (sound guy) or mic'd cab on stage with the monitor out sent direct to a wireless inner ear system instead of on stage monitors.


    This would be a very basic inner ear setup I know (guitarist can be selfish like that) but in theory could this work?


    Let me know if you have tried this and what success or failures you had with it. Or if i have interpreted this incorrectly and is not even possible.

    People also use the aux in to receive a mix from the FOH for the same purpose.


    Don't forget, you can use the XLR main outputs and the main 1/4" outputs at the same time too.


    I have have the band's wireless mixer in my rack with my Kemper, so use that for IEMs regardless of whether I have a FOH engineer and house PA or we bring our own.

    Yes you can do it this way, the challenge then is how do you hear the rest of the band? That is where you can Use the aux in to bring in a monitor send from the mixing desk that contains the band! Then blend in your guitar and use the headphone output to feed the IEM. Or you can have the mixing desk blend in your guitar either way works.

    Hooking up an in-ear with the Kemper works very well in my experience but can be a bit challenging to start with as, due to the Kemper's flexibility and many outputs, there are several routes you can go down. Here is what I have tested and found to work well for me: I always run my KPA on top of and via a 2x12 cabinet no matter if for rehearsals, club gigs without PA system, or larger venues with full FOH support. Nonetheless I also always use in-ear monitoring connecting the headphones out of the Kemper via a mono cable with the left channel of my LD Systems GMEI while receiving a blend of the band sound (minus guitar signal!) on the right channel from the mixing console. Here I have also used an ambience microphone instead for smaller gigs where not all instruments were mic'ed.

    Running the LD Systems in its focus mode (dual mono) allows you blend these two signals (Kemper and band sound) and adjust volumes separately and on your own as needed directly on your body pack.

    While running a mono cable in the (stereo) headphones jack may not sound very elegant at first sight, I was told by a technician that it cannot hurt the Kemper and it seems to be the only option left when main and monitor out are already "taken" (for obvious reasons I run a pure amp profile without cabinet on the monitor line). Also this gives you access to the enhanced sound of the headphones section of the Kemper - even though in mono.

    I have been successfully using this set-up for quite a while now.

    Hope this helps.

    I use XLR to front of house and the jacks to our monitoring system. We create our own monitor mix on stage, but tt is always a good sound from the Kemper.

    Karl


    Kemper Rack OS 9.0.5 - Mac OS X 12.6.7

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