Hi everyone, I’ve had my Kemper Powered Rack / Remote / Kabinet for quite a while now done many hundreds of “studio” profiles (to use Kemper’s words.). Now I’m finally trying to do some Direct Amp profiles. I’ve done over 100 in the last 3 days (Trainwreck, Tweeds, and high gain makers). I’ve found without exception the the direct profiles when using the Speaker Out and routing the signal back into each amp’s original speaker/cabinet fall horribly short of a near perfect profile. Even after I refine the profiles. They are WAY too bright and almost sound as if you are listening to a “studio” profile but with the cabinet OFF.
Here’s my set up and signal flow:
selected amp’s speaker output (all amps set to 8 Ohms) into Two Notes Torpedo Captor 8 (plugged in to the “red nut” input or course), speaker cab emulation turned “off” and coming out the XLR into Kemper Power Rack Head’s XLR RETURN. Profiling levels, signal, and execution of profiling are fine. No problems. I refine the profile and save. I take the Speaker OUT from my powered rack head, plug it into the original amp’s cabinet and play. It sounds so far off from the original that it’s shocking to me. On a scale of 1 to 10 (ten being “indistinguishable from the original”) I rank it a 2.
I’ve read some of the other forum posts about DI choices and the manual’s advice as well. The Two Notes DI is a very solid DI and load box and specs are WAY more than my 100W, 45W, and 18W amps could ever put out. Does anyone have any tips or insights into this process? Has anyone had absolute 10 out of 10 success with using the Kemper DI?
Thanks in advance for any comments.
Frustrated with the Kemper in Nashville…again
Bryan.