BERNARDIJ EMGHZH4 pickups are not known for being the best pickups. Like some of Ibanez less better pickups, even on some of their more expensive models, eg. v7 and v8. They're made by Dimarzio anyway. The EMG 's are the same, less good and cheaper pickups. Swap them out for something better. If you can't find a profile you really like that means it's not the kemper or profile that's wrong with. I bought two used Dimarzio Crunch Lab. I installed one in my Ibanez and whooo what a great sound! I installed one in my Schecter and...yuck! I will put back the pickup I had in it before. But you got to try and see if you like something better or not. My point is a pickup can sound killer in one guitar and in the next not. Do you like the sound of your guitar unplugged? If you do you're fine but if not, it doesn't matter what pickup you install. You will never like the sound. I know. Been there, done that.
Posts by GearJocke
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Where's that profile?
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One of the most important factor as a guitarist and mixing is to stop thinking like a guitarist. I know it's not easy at first. But we guitarists love to hear the guitar(s) loud. Always have reference tracks and compare both mixing wise and how to set individual levels to all tracks.
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... and Vinnie Moore is one of my all-time faves.. especially the first 2 solo albums.
I listened to those two so much when they came and occasionally nowadays. The first time I heard Vinnie was from Guitar Player and inside you got a very thin very soft black vinyl you had to rip out from the magazine. It had Daydream on one side and a jazz song on the other side.
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Classic 80's metal and still a very good album
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Theres definitely some magic in great connections between band members and a band being in sync and on point. That's something special to behold for sure!
As far as the ODs go, I just hope they update them soon. The Axe FX III and FM3 firmware was just updated and had some new ODs added. Even a Precision Drive!
Which is an OD designed for tightening up high gain amps. I'm like, praying and hoping that something similar is added to the stomps with the OD updates, or that there will be a way to recreate that OD with whatever parameters are utilized for the general OD stomp if that's the route they go. The Precision Drive was amazing when I tried it but I can't afford one. It'd be awesome to have an option like that in the Kemper.Honestly, seeing how many ODs are in the Axe FX III and FM3, compared to the Kemper, is super sad and disappointing lol. It legitimately bummed me out to see my favorite OD added to the dozens of ODs already in the Axe FX. I'm stoked for everyone who uses Fractal gear. But, it would be nice to have those kinds of options in the Kemper.
I know these things take time so I'm not rushing the update. I'm just saying, seeing another competing product that already has such a large variety of ODs compared to the Kemper, get even more really great ODs added while we're all waiting and putting in feature requests for ODs all the time, kind of sucks lol.
I hope that they update them in the near future at least! But regardless, I still love my Kemper lol.
Using an OD as a clean booster it doesn't matter that much which one you use. All ODs can be used to tighten up the amp. So there's no magic with the Precision Drive.
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What many attribute to the cab is the cabinet, micing, room, preamp and more. All accumulated is a large part but none alone is greater than the amp.
What you say I will take with a pinch of salt since you're biased as a vendor.
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I agree when the topic was discussed in a another thread where we seemed to agree there and someone wrote "Polytune is a great idea, in theory. But it doesn't work." I had a polytune but when kemper updated the tuner I sold the pedal and don't miss it.
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I agree totally and I also found this with my Engl.
I find better quality sounds which show better articulation of each note also show up any sloppiness.
As CK says, gain will help but actually lower gain will improve your technique!!
This is why I play with so much gain, to disguise my crap playing
We can thank the gods for tons of gain where one can bury crap playing, especially solos.
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No one says a fender twin will sound like an engl. But this was about high gain amps.
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I used a Digitech GNX 4. Very old.
I guess I’ll just keep practising with the Kemper and see if I get used to it.Well no wonder why. It took me a little shorter while to polish away my sloppy playing so will you too. As cjgomez said the kemper is less forgiving. Just like a real hw amp is.
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What old floorboard did you use? A Boss floorboard? Anway there's no difference playing legato on a real hardware amp and a kemper. I used to use amp sims in the computer and when I bought a kemper I realised how sloppy I had become playing guitar. Simply because, at least then, amp sims masked a lot. Maybe that was the case with your old floorboard?
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So much more convienent with spdif. Well that's my opnion. One in and one out. Set and forget.
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Sometimes I think:
How longer the fingers - then better the guitarist.
Half of him is a spider.
The thinnest long fingers I ever seen on a man. So yes they remind a lot of a spider.
If it's something I wished for my body it's always been a little longer fingers. Damn parents, why did they give me their short sausage fingers. 
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Does anyone know what happened to them? I just went to buy a bunch on their website and you can’t checkout?
You can pm him here. https://www.kemper-amps.com/wb…er/29121-deadlightstudio/
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Welcome and there are plenty of other free profiles. Check this thread: What are "your" hidden gems in Rig Exchange? Post your best finds here ...
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Maybe you should mention what your packs are, put a few clips here too.
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You can also use the main outs with monitors or two FRFRs, and the monitor out with a cab, which is like having FOH plus the cab. And obviously two Kempers with a cab each, using the same profile and two different cabs, or even two profiles, dual amping. If money is no problem.... And the neighbours won't complain...And the wife won't either...
But we are asking too much from our Kemper, however versatile It may be...Sure but robbon is talking about inside the kemper and not using monitors or two FRFR. You're still stuck with one profile and one cab and not one amp and two cabs as he wish for.
