Posts by timowens

Quote from bshaw92

Did you have a boost in the chain on the first profiling session? They were much louder than the second ones. The second ones seem to be more volume balanced with other downloaded rigs.

I don't think I did but obviously something happened. I noticed the difference in levels and I don't know why it happened because I thought the KPA automatically set the levels of the profiles. All of my other profiles seem to be relatively close in level, I can't figure out what I did to cause those to be so loud.

Hi All,

I made some profiles of my Splawn QuickRod in 1st gear (I never really use the other gears). Let me know what you think, thanks.

I did the profiles one more time with a Marshall 212 with Greenbacks, the previous 412 had V30's. I sure enjoy this profiling stuff, what you put in is what you get out.

Okay, I redid the profiles, I lowered the treble on the amp and that made the biggest difference, I also moved the mic off axis a bit. The tone controls on the Triptik are a bit touchy, they remind me of the tone controls on a Mesa Boogie, but not that bad. The profile names are the same except they have an "a" at the end, for Rev-A.

Thanks Tone - I was going for bright, but maybe I went too far. I can try to back off the treble on the amp and/or change the mic position a bit.

Hey All,

I reprofiled my Triptik 50, these new profiles are much more bright and alive. Please tell me what you think.

EDIT: They are the profiles dated May 25, 2013 and have the Marshall 412 cab.

Thanks for all the comments everyone. This certainly wasn’t a scientific experiment by any means, the sound guy and PA were provided by the venue and we’ve never played with him running sound, the mix was clearly different between the two days. And it is pretty much impossible to put a recorder out front and get consistent results with people wondering around. The reason I did this is because I don’t think there are any live A/B comparisons like this, at least I’ve never heard one. And I was really curious how the KPA would do in a live setting like this. I was very happy with the KPA, I actually enjoyed using it more than the amp and that surprised me because I’m an “Amp In The Room’ guy, this experience might be changing that.

Anyway, to answer the question, the first sound was the KPA and the second was the amp.

Quote from Delinquent

To me there is know reason to demonstrate how close a kemper can sound these days. We all know it can cut the mustard. The truly impressive thing is the feel. No clip can demonstrate this unfortunately.

Yes, but are there any live A/B comparisons? I'd like to hear them if anyone knows of any.

I played two outdoor rock gigs this weekend, one day I used the KPA with profiles of my amp and cab, and one day I used the real amp and cab. The amp settings, mic placement and everything was as close as I could get it to the profile settings. On the recording you’ll hear setup-1 play a riff and then setup-2 play the same riff, there are several riffs and each is the same order, first is setup-1 and the second is setup-2. Can you tell which is which?

There are two guitars, my guitar is the more distorted guitar, and in most cases it is the more dominant guitar. The recording was made with a Zoom H4n sitting next to the sound guy and the post processing included levelizing and wave hammer (all dynamics processing).

Here’s the link to the recording: https://soundcloud.com/tim-owens-2/kpa-vs-real-amp-mp3
https://soundcloud.com/tim-owens-2/kpa-vs-real-amp-mp3

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Well, I rewired the pedal and it works fine now, but I still wonder what Type-1 and Type-2 does, it doesn't do what I would have thought based on the manual.

I picked up one of the Mission Engineering pedals from Sweetwater, the one designed for the KPA. But when I use it the polarity is backwards, full volume is heal down and minimum volume is toe down. I tried changing it from Type-1 to Type-2 in the System menu but both settings seem to work the same. I'm sure it's something simple but I can't figure it out. I suppose I could just rewire the pedal but it seems like changing from Type-1 to Type-2 or vice versa should fix it. I'm at Ver 1.6, any ideas ?

Right on! Thanks for sharing, that was a really nice demo.

Quote from waraba

Thanks for the explanations ! Will also try the 4x12 this week-end. They sound really great with HB with that huge amont of basses, did you profile them with a HB guitar ?

Yes, I used humbuckers.

Wow, thanks for all the kind words. I should note that I also did these profiles with a 412 cab and uploaded those profiles last night. Here's some info on the profiles...

Clean-1 and Clean-2 are the same amp settings, the difference is Clean-1 was profiled as a clean amp and Clean-2 was profiled as a distorted amp.

Lead-1: Classic Mode, Drive 1:00
Lead-2: Classic Mode, Drive 4:00
Lead-3: Modern Mode, Drive 1:00
Lead-4: Modern Mode, Drive 4:00

The tone controls were set the same on each channel:
Treble: 2:00
Mid: 12:00
Bass: 12:00
Presence: 1:00

Here's a photo of the amp as it was profiled: https://www.dropbox.com/s/dp128rsc98sqepg/Triptik.JPG
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The "TRIPTIK LEAD-2" is the profile of the amp like I normally have it set, the other profiles were to just to see how some different settings would turn out when profiled.

I just uploaded some profiles of my Carol Ann Triptik 50. I'm still new to this profiling stuff so I'm curious how they sound to other people.

Thank you.

Quote from Guitartone

You know what I mean? ...in other words, you're not really paying for it, you're kind of hiring it.

You know full well you can't afford to spend $1850.00 on another modeller because you already spent lots of $$$ on another modeller...so you use the Credit Card, buy the KPA, knowing full well you'll be returning it in 30 days.
Your wife runs the accounts in the house, there's no ways she'll let you spend another $1850.

You spend 30 days having great fun with the KPA, you love the tones you're getting, but you have 29 days to convince yourself something is wrong with it, it's still in beta, it doesn't feel 100% like your tube amp, you hate having to wait one minute for it to load up, it doesn't have a PC editor, it crashes occasionally, the FX are ordinary, the preset Profiles are not very good, most of the user Profiles suck, you hate the way it looks even though you have to concede it sounds fantastic with a few of the1500 Profiles, blah blah, etc, etc.

Of course most importantly, you own one, you paid $1850.00 for temporary 30 day ownership, so you now have the 'internet right' to say whatever you like in your reviews.

Finally day #29 arrives, now it's time to return it, now you can really blast it in your final review...all this for free, life is good.

Tongue in cheek.

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That is quite the conspiracy theory, are you talking about the resent thread on TGP or was that just a coincidence?

Quote from 60Strat

My Sweetwater rep said today "..tracking info entered this morning. The ETA here is 2/10. Looks like they are definitely in route."

Just in time for the weekend, congrats.

Thanks for the replies, I appreciate it.