Cabinets from non merged profiles?

Dynochrome · Oct 28th 2020

I have some non merged profiles in my KPA. If I go to cabinets I see cabinets there. I'm guessing that is the part cab driver has recognized as the cab correct? Because as a non merged profile there is no separated cab, and when turned off gets bypassed. I was just wondering what I am getting if I have a non merged profile, and use the cab from it in another rig. Am I better off using a cab from a merged profile or it depends and you just use your ears and find something you like whether extracted from a non merged or merged.

paults · Oct 28th 2020

If you are experimenting with changing cabinets, I suggest not limiting yourself. Trust your ears.

luntho · Oct 28th 2020

most of the cabs I use come from studio profiles (non-merged) ...whatever sounds good...

Dynochrome · Oct 28th 2020

So the cabs there MUST be what the Kemper "thinks" the cab part is correct?

Wheresthedug · Oct 28th 2020

yes, correct. The Kemper has some wild voodoo going on which allows it to estimate where the amp stops and the speaker starts. It is only an estimate but most of the time it does a pretty good job.

Dynochrome · Oct 28th 2020

I agree it does do a good job. When I run a cab from my power head it sounds great. If there is any baked in cab in the sound it isn't hurting anything.

I do see why they moved to merged though it makes it a clean separation. When played through a cab, Trying out a profile that has both Studio and merged offerings, they are super duper close and I'm guessing much of the difference is just how the profile was recorded at the time. Pretty cool thing that cabdriver. At first I didn't want to use profiles that weren't merged and didn't trust the cabdriver as it wasn't believable to me that it coud do what it does as well as it does. I'm using studio only profiles(cab off ) through my cabinet and they're awesome.

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