Posts by fretboardminer

I guess many are making plans about a new, small travell-pedalboard with the Profiler Player. I wonder how I get the power supply for the Player and also for a small poweramp-pedal. If I add two 500 mA outputs together it is still way below the 2A that I calculate from the 24 Watt/12V recomendation in the manual of the Player.

Having watched now this video from CIOX

I wonder how far it is possible to undergo the manufacturer recomendations of current for the power. Do you have any experience with that? I don't own a Player yet so I can't do a measurement myself. And I have no expertise on how safe it is to run it with less Amperes.

I never ever touch the Direct Control Knobs. But I would love to use them. If only I could assign them to the parameters I would love to have them on. That would be so much helpful!!!

Is there any hope that this might be tackled in the near future?

Ah that is good news! Thank you!!

No, there is no switch and no two models.

But yes, I guess I should not worry because the gap from 125 to 190 does not apply to me.

I am just irritated because in the manual there is a different information:

manual: "100 - 240V AC"

website: "100-125 or 190-245 V AC"

I have a Power Head Profiler with voltage for Germany and I wonder if I need a voltage converter if I play in Japan.

In the specs it sais: "Head/Rack 90-275 V AC, max. 0.5 A

PowerHead/ PowerRack 100-125 or 190-245 V AC, max. 10 A

Stage 100-230 V AC, max. 0.5 A"

This looks like the Head is more cersatile than the Power Head, right?

Ah, thank you.

Yes, it worked!

Alas I don't have the courage to install that ASIO4ALL in my System. So I have to wait for the official release of OS9 and do the recordings that I have to do now in the old way with XLR cables to my AUDIENT interface.

I have two Powerheads and always keep them in sync via a System Backup through a USB stick. Now I am so curious about the USB-recording feature on the new FW9. But I don't want to set them both to a beta firmware. Can I still sync my two Heads if one is on the new 9 firmware and the other on the current 8?

Thank you both. I hope I never stop learning.

I think I will do another profiling session with the UNLEASH so that I can do it in my home. Just in order to learn as much as I can about the procedure. And then, later, I will organize a session in a studio. There is so much knowledge about profiling, that the studio engineers cannot help me because it is different than recording.

Especially EQing the profile before the refinement step seems to be crucial. And this is difficult to do when you are in the same room with the reference amp. At home I have a hole in the wall between my kitchen and the livingroom. But I have to tame the amp with the UNLEACH. That's not ideal, but good for a start. My last profiling I did in the rehearsal room of a friend. The amp runs free (without attenuator) but EQing was only through noise-cancelling headphones. (BOSE quiet comfort 35) Now all those profiles are a bit too bright.

Ah! Thank you. I think I see the point.

Maybe later I will try to follow the exact merging procedure. Just wondering if I will be able to use the Studio Profile where I now took the CAB module from. As this was from an earlier session with the same amp.

But until then I am already happy with what it sounds like now.

I have made new profiles of my favourite amp. I like merged profiles best, so I also did a DI profile. And later, at home I made a "merged" profile like this:

1) I brought up the Studio profile and stored the cabinet as a CAB module.

2) I brought up the DI profile, dialled in the new CAB module and saved it.

It sounds great through my guitar speaker and through my studio monitors too. "Monitor Cab off" ticked in the Output section page 3/7. I am only irritated because during what I did there was never coming up the soft switch "merge Cabinet". Is this important?

And looking it up in the manual now I read that they recommend a completely different method using Copy/Paste:

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• Selektieren Sie das Studioprofil im Browser-Modus.

• Drücken Sie den CABINET-Taster für mindestens eine Sekunde bis das Cabinet-Menü im Fokus ist.

• Drücken Sie den COPY-Taster.

• Drücken Sie den EXIT-Taster und wählen Sie das gewünschte Direct Amp-Profil.

• Halten Sie den CABINET-Taster erneut bis das Cabinet Menü im Fokus ist.

• Drücken Sie den PASTE-Taster.

• „Merge Cabinet“ erscheint unterhalb eines Soft-Tasters. Drücken Sie diesen Soft-Taster!

• Sie können den Vorgang mit „Merge Cabinet“ mehrfach mittels des Soft-Tasters rückgängig machen bzw. wiederholen, um die Ergebnisse zu vergleichen.

• Drücken Sie den EXIT-Taster und speichern Sie das neue Profil.

• Nach dem Speichern kann der Merge-Vorgang nicht mehr rückgängig gemacht werden.

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From earlier times I remember that merged profiles were marked by an "M" somewhere. I can't find it. Or I don't remember well and there never was this "M".

I mean it sounds awesome right now. But I just want to be shure that I won't face any problems during next soundcheck on a larger stage.

Thanks for all your kind recommendations and help!

I only now discovered the softswitch POWERAMP OFF in the on page 7 of the Output Menue. Does it really help a lot to switch off the poweramp in terms of

1) hardware wearout?
2) saving electricity?
3) heat reduction?

I guess yes, but with 1) I am not so shure. Does it? I know my tube amp was always grateful to have a rest when I made a pause of playing, but is it similar with class D power amps?

I will faithfully try to switch it off just to safe the planet, but I am shure there will come the day when I turn the KPA on and I am totally terrified because the loudspeaker is dead because I forgot to switch on this softswitch again.

Ok, thanks lightbox. So I wait until 7 is out and now I better go out into the sun with my bicycle before the next cloudy days come. ?

Hello Kemperers,

I didn't have time to update for a while, so my KPA is still on Version 5.5.2.13463. It runs flawless and I don't miss anything but now I would have some time so I am asking myself if I should install Ver 6 or if it would not be better to wait until Version 7 will be out soonish.

Is it necessary to allways update incrementally from one Version to the next release or can I skip Version 6?

best greetings
Olaf

How can I inverse the morph pedal so that the original sound is on toe down (not heel down as it is now) and the morph sound is heel down?
I use a Zoom FP1 into the KPA´s Pedal 2 jack. Output Setting's Mode pedal2 or pedal1 makes no difference.
Thank you for any sugestions.

I once had a KPA head. I need to fly low budget so I checked in my Strat (neck unscrewed inside the suitcase) and took the KPA head into the cabin. Then the rack version came out and I thought: "wow, that´s much more practical!" After two years I sold the KPA for some other reasons and since then I travel again schlepping a small tube-amp with me.

Now I am decided to buy a KPA again but I am not so shure whether the rack really is the best choice for me. It certainly is ideal for musicians who tour with an equipment truck and a roadie-crew but I am more touring small club-gigs where I myself have to carry all that I need in trains and busses and airplanes. I read the rack KPA needs a 4 unit rack case because of the heat dissipation. (I want the powered version). A 4 unit case might be a problem with finnicky check-in controls, the height exceeds the stupid 55 x 40 x 20 cm rule.

The head weighs half a kilo more than the rack but if you carry it close to your body it can go inside a simple bag and only needs a little foam to protect the dials. The rack is much more bulky and heavy if you include the case in the equation.

I am thankful for any hints, advice and reports from your point of view.

Yes, this is very much what I was looking for! I think 300W should be more than enough for my needs. Thanks for the link!

It is a bit pricey but thats ok if it saves trouble with blown speakers. And hey, after all it seems to be really sturdy:
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Normally the volume of a single 25W speaker is enough for me, but I also have some bands that go really loud into the Keiji Haino, Peter Brötzmann region of volume.

Can I divide the control dial into "fractions" of the wattage? That is how I do now with the BadCat Unleash: Unleash has 100W/8Ohms so when I connect a 50 Watt speaker I only go until noon. So far this always was a good guide. That said: noon in maximum, normally I am way lower than that!

Except the afore mentioned occasion where I killed the Jensen P12R. That was a gig with a larger Freejazz ensemble with many saxes, another electric guitar and electric bass-guitar in a large venue without PA. So it was not really "really" loud in terms of Rockmusic, but just a deadly bit louder than I usually play. It was a 25W Jensen with the 100W Unleash poweramp so I started with the volume dial on 9 o clock (one quater) and in the middle of the gig I dared to go to 10:30 (one third), which was too much.

I am just a bit worried because wit 600W the KPA has so much more power than my Unleash now. I don‘want to destroy a rented speaker...

I am thinking about travelling with a KPA (power rack) and plugging into backline guitar cabinets that the venues offer. Very often this will be 4/12 cabinets with enough power-handling to go with the 600 Watts from the KPA‘s amp. But what if there is only a small combo amp with a single 50 Watt speaker or even weaker? Is there a technically reliable way of guessing how much I can turn up the output volume before destroying the speaker? I once had the similar problem with the Bad Cat Unleash killing a cute, innocent 25 Watt Jensen P12R in the heat of a gig.