Posts by Maurizio70

  • A METHOD for ordering and naming KPA sounds (useful also to compare Amps and Rigs)

    Hi to all my KPA users and friends,
    I put at the beginning of the first post the link to a first version of my KPA BACKUP file.


    Be careful before try it to do first your FULL backup using the KPA feature and also to save ALL the RIGs using the feature "export all rigs" in the KPA. In this way you will not loose any rig created by you that you can easily recover.


    In the coming weeks I will upload a new version with more optimizations. Anyway, the idea is to have just a starting point where you can after easily refine and improve...


    Ciao!

  • A METHOD for ordering and naming KPA sounds (useful also to compare Amps and Rigs)

    *** NOTE on February 2014 ***
    If you want to look for updated rigs/presets/backup, here is the newest thread:
    "Starting Pack" for Beginners: Maurizio70 RIGs, PRESETs and BACKUP (updated to August 27th 2013)
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    UPDATED to Feb 10th 2014


    Here you will find my latest KPA BACKUPs (right click --> save as):
    BACKUP


    Here you will find my FREE Rigs/Presets collection (right click --> save as):
    RIGs & PRESETs
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    SEPTEMBER 19th, 2012


    On this latest version of my backup file (on 1.1.1 KPA firmware version) you will find the following profiles normalized in volume in the way that with Master Volume at 9 almost all of them are near the maximum peak without clipping:
    1) in total there are about 500 profiles selected (corresponding to 130 Amps more or less) including:
    -Kemper Factory Default including Rig Pack 1 of April and Rig Pack 2 of June
    -And44 free profiles
    -Guitarnet selection profiles of last March
    -Acoustic and Bass Amps profiles and Acoustic Guitar SIMULATORs
    -Several updates and adjustments to the previous pack/backup
    -High Gain profile selection from SilentUndergroundStudio.com (added in this latest version)
    -High Gain profile selection from Juanma Blanco RIGs (added in this latest version)
    2) 120 profiles listed as "Preferred" ones to be sorted with 1.1.1 firmware;
    3) The RIGs created to match specific song sound are now ordered and grouped with the first character going from “0” to “9” to switch and move between them more fast


    and for the presets:
    1) 450 Stacks presets ordered by gain in 5 categories: Clean --> Crunch --> Drive --> Lead --> Metal, all normalized in volume
    2) 100 Cabinet presets selection of And44 Pack and Tills Pack plus others few ones, all normalized in volume (added in this latest version)
    2) 80 Stomp presets ordered by Effect Type including 8 Compressor presets
    3) Delay and Reverb presets ordered and with some additions


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    JULY 9th, 2012
    Hi guys and KPA users,
    after the first months with the KPA and waiting for a PC tool to better manage names and Rigs I found for me a method to organize the Rigs that I want to share with you, hoping it can give you some ideas and have your feedback on how you have done.
    Let’s start with my previous difficult in using the KPA that I try to override:
    1) Different profiles of the same amplifier was in no order in the KPA :S
    2) Same level of distortion of different amplifiers was in an open order too in the KPA 8|
    3) Same brand of amplifier the same, always in no any order… ?(
    4) Profiles of amplifiers strongly tweaked mixed with simple profiles with no effects or with no tweaking and mixed also with rigs that try to matched particular song sounds :S
    5) Acoustic and bass profiles mixed in open order
    6) Volumes completely different between different amps and between different rigs that complicate a lot the research of a sound and comparison among them switching from one to another ;(?(


    Starting from these problems and trying to override them, I organized my RIGs collection in this way:
    1) Every RIG where it is present only the AMP section or very little modification is named in this way: AmpFactory Model GainLevel PUType, for example
    a. FEN Mach Crun NE means: Fender Amp, Machete Model, CRunch sound, best suitable for NEck Pickup
    b. MAR JTM45 Cl BR means: Marshall Amp, Model JTM45 Clean sound, best suitable for BRidge Pickup


    2) All these RIGs with Amp Factory and Models are now ordered all with the same Amp Factory and then Model and you have one near the other to better compare the various sound, moreover I normalize the Volume RMS sound to be more comparable and in a way that you can exploit all the dynamic range without “clip” the Output LED


    3) Moreover in the STACK PRESETS I did a long but very useful work: for the same AMPs I ordered in the RIGs I save only the STACK section in the STACK presets, but this time ORDERED by the type of SOUND from Clean to Crunch to Drive to Lead to Metal zone, also these PRESETS are normalized in RMS volume with the tweaking of the CABINET VOLUME. In this way, when you search for a type of sound instead that for a type of AMP, for example CRUNCH you can go one by one all the crunch sounds ordered and similar in volume to compare the various output. UNFORTUNATELY we don't have the possibility to share these PRESETS in the KPA unless we use the BACKUP method that replace all. For example some STACK presets are:
    a. CR FEN Twin NE that means Crunch sound, Fender AMP, Twin Model, suitable for Neck pickup
    b. DR Corn Harlequin BR that means Drive sound, of a Cornford AMP, Harlequin model, suitable for Bridge pickup


    4) I organize all my RIGs using the ones available for free in the Forum RIGs and in the Factory default plus the And44 ones free plus the Factory RIG Pack of April. Now my collection, deleting the worst ones for me, and the duplicates or the very similar ones consist of about 500 different RIGs for 100 different AMPs. I believe it’s a good compromise from the thousands available…


    5) Then I use these others conventions for others type of sounds and rigs:
    a. All the RIGs that I found very impressive and good, useful to maintain but that are created from an original AMP and then strongly tweaked I keep them starting with a $ symbol, do for example I have these:
    i. $ Walking Moon
    ii. $ TillS petrucci jaws
    iii. $ Strumming
    b. All the RIGs that are created to match the sound of a specific artist/song are named in the KPA as # Artist Song Px where Px is the pickup position used for this type of song, for example:
    i. # PF ComfortablyFirst F1 means Pink Floyd Confortably Numb song First SOLO sound Fender Strato Pickup position 1 (bridge)
    ii. # GM StoryBlues G1 means Gary Moore Artist Story of the Blues song Gibson Pickup position1 (bridge)
    c. All the RIGs special for ACOUSTIC or for BASS or for VIRTUAL sound like the VG-99 ones present in the forum I named as & TYPE Sound, for example:
    i. & Piezo Acoustic1
    ii. & MarkBass602
    d. Finally I create some BLANK PRESETS where all the modules and effects are switched off but ready to create a sound or to tweak in a very user friendly way and ready to start a new sound from scratch,. This particular presents are put at the beginning of all the RIGS starting the name with !!, for example:
    i. !!_BLANK_RIG1_!! With Comp in position1, gate2:1 in position2, Overdrive in postition3, EQ in position X, Air Chorus in position MOD, Free Delay and Hall Rev.. all switched off but ready to be tweaked in few seconds


    Obviously this is a continuing refining and optimization process that goes ahead day by day, but if someone is starting from scratch with his KPA and wants a good starting point avoiding loosing himself in the RIGs Jungle :D I can send him my BACKUP file. I have no problem to share with anyone my work (I underline that every rig in my backup file is available for free in the forum or in other place over the internet).


    Let me know comments and new ideas for the future and how you override my problems in having so much damn GOOD profile to manage :)


    Ciao!

  • Mixing multiple amps !

    I completely agree, I used a lot Boss units to mix amp and I create a lot of incredible and personal sounds. I believe that KPA with this feature can leave all the users astonished!!


    Vote for this!

  • Dual delay

    Also for Gilmour sounds sometimes are needed two different delays. I use for them the ones from the Boss GT-10, but I hope in the future to use only te KPA... but is needed another type of delay to add in the unit.

  • FW. 1.0.9

    Quote from G String

    i was simply wrong ... what you say is right: it contains Rig Pack 01 and 20 additional rigs.
    cheers, gs


    Since I have just finished ordering all my rigs with different names and so on ;( is it possible (or can someone do it) to have a zip and download only the 20 added rigs, to avoid the reset of the factory ones that can override my modifications?
    Thanks you!

  • FW. 1.0.9

    First of all I understand that also the Standard Noise Gate has been improved. Is it true?


    Can someone explain better the differences between:
    1) Standard noise gate
    2) New noise gate stomp with ratio 2:1 (a soft expander)
    3) New noise gate stomp with ratio 4:1 (a steeper expander)


    Then other questions are: where is convenient use one or the other? Why insert a stomp and don't use the standard one? Is the reason because can be useful apply Standard Gate and Stomp Gate together? In which situation?


    Thank you so much to anyone can help me to understand.


    Ciao!

  • is it possible to use the looper of the HD 500 with KMP?

    Quote from DocLine6forum

    I'm using the KPA + HD 500 with the 4 CM.
    I put the KPA in the Loop of the HD 500.
    I only use the KPA's amp and not its effects ATM, as there's still some controllability missing from the Kemper FX (Delay Mix, wink wink nudge nudge).
    Of the HD I only use the FX.


    I'm doing the same 4 CM using the KPA + Boss GT-10 MultiEffect unit.
    In this case I use the KPA, in the loop send-return as the "real AMP" and the GT-10 for the other effect chain.


    Other times I use the KPA alone with its effect build in, and they are less programmable and flexible, but very good.

  • Some Looper Thougths/Propositions...

    A looper can have three type of use:


    1) to create "perfect" profiling and profiling verification/refining not depending on the hand and on the moment feeling
    2) to create tone and sound tweaking the KPA while the looper go on on a specific phrasing
    3) to real use the looper in LIVE situation


    I believe that for the first two items it can be very simple to implement a looper with direct access to play/rec function on the KPA itself, while the third one can be more complicated and CPU consuming.


    So, for my opinion, at least the first two option can be easily implemented in the future and can be really helpfull.


    Thank you!