Check your Main Out (assuming this is what you send to FOH) setting and EQ.
Posts by DonPetersen
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try changing the cable connecting the guitar to the PROFILER,
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Thing is, when I play the part on Cubase there is no input light flashing on the KPA which I presume is what would happen.
which seems to indicate that something is amiss in the output settings of the soundcard,
can you hear the test tones through the amp sim? -
are the profiling tones audible / do they reach the input/plugin?
is signal going through the plugin - in some sequencers you have to set a track a certain way for live input signals (IN in Live for example) -
threads merged.
please refrain from double posting in the future. -
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mrguitar , thanks so much for sharing!
I do like the red one pretty much, very cool. Small comment and aspect for improvement: Definition is instantly at level 10 - so no chance to adjust that a bit higher which would potentially help the folks above who want it a bit less dark. If the Definition would be around 6-7 for the red profile as is that would help a lot to keep it tweakable.
the Definition value is determined by the PROFILER during the profiling process, it's not a user/author set value.
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Two Tap Delay
look up / calculate the delay time in ms for the desired tempo and note value (it's not that hard), set Delay 1 Time accordingly in ms,
set Delay 2 Ratio in %
https://sengpielaudio.com/calculator-bpmtempotime.htm -
If you are just doing a cover song for a gig then no one is really going to care. Just play it good.
exactly.
play it correctly (!), get the timing right, play it with the same energy and attitude and the guitar doesn't even matter anymore IME -
the influence of A/D and D/A conversion on sound ist vastly overstated and has become the knee-jerk reaction of the internet
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that should work - every PROFILER I connected to my machine here immediately showed up.
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Thanks for the detailed guide, but to avoid all these steps, it would be nice to have a tonematching function inside the Kemper!
profiler + tonematching = killer machine ever!
I've been involved with tonematching ever since Steinberg's Freefilter was released in the late 90s.
I did a lot of tonematching, even commercially for the AxeFx, that was before the first PROFILER hit the market.
It is on paper/in theory a very promising field, but it falls ultimately short in the real world. mainly for two reasons:
1) the sound of the reference only makes sense in that context, it was specifically shaped to fit together with the other, also heavily modified parts to create a working mix.
2) technology won't 'save you', but your ears might - when users apply tone-matching, they often go for the highest resolution the tonematching EQ has to offer (mistake #1) and set the match or mix percentage to 100% (mistake #2)
one can learn a lot from the way guitar tracks were eq'ed, but slavishly following this example (full resolution, full strength) is not the way.
Generally, a 'softer' eq curve sounds much more pleasant then a 120 band zig zag line trying to 'fix' every single discrepancy.
Also, just applying a bit of the EQ strength pretty much always sounds way more musical than simply turning it up to maximum.
There are a few things that become apparent when listening to the results: guitar tracks typically have way too much bass and not enough treble to cut through.
Something that's easily fixed by a highpass filter and a very broad, nice sounding high frequency boost (I like Pultec-style plugins for that, some sound better than others) -
you could start with an IR, use Fabfilter to do the EQ matching, then use Voxengo Deconvolver to create a sweep of the IR + Fabfilter,
turn this into an IR (again, with deconvolver) and import this IR into Rig Manager.
Since just disabling the CABINET activates CabDriver, you'll have to import the 'starting point' IR first, and then record your track to be matched with FabFilter. -
"The main purpose is to maintain full backward compatibility to Rigs that have been created before the advent of PROFILER operating system 5.0. The architecture of the Legacy Delay is like that of the Two Tap Delay. However, it features a bandpass filter with the parameters Center Frequency and Bandwidth – this is in contrast to the other delays, that all utilize the more intuitive low cut and high cut filter. If you are going for deeper edits of an already existing Legacy Delay, we recommend changing the type to Two Tap Delay, or any other type, by using the TYPE knob. This way, you will benefit from their improved parameter set."
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could it be a setup issue of your guitar?
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I See, I can connect a real cabinet also to the Capture. Which one is better?
looks like the Capture is a speaker-level capable DI box.
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DonPetersen is a DI box like these more faithfull or more reccomended for this?
I still have the behringer GI100 around.
yes, but this would require you to connect a cabinet also - the difference is having a real cabinet as load instead of an artificial load.
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while this has been stated repeatedly in the past, I'd like to mention it again anyway:
it is not recommended to use a loadbox during Profiling, since such a device will not create an authentic amp/cab response.
Even if the load is labled as 'reactive', it will at best behave similar to one type of cabinet/speaker(s), but it can in now way reproduce the detail and uniqueness of a real speaker. -
I also rely on IEM only, but am thinking of bringing an extra monitor for some speaker-strings interaction. Can be very helpful, if you‘re as mediocre as I am 😂.
you'd need a seriously high level of stage sound to get excitation of strings - which completely defeats at least one purpose of IEM, influences the FOH sound and can keep the band from being booked again these days.
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I've played a lot of gigs with IEM and couldn't be happier. This is the best way to go.
Next best sounding combo is the PROFILER with KABINET, which I used before IEM.