Is Kemper input LED showing activity during the reamp? What is your soundcard?
Posts by harmonic
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I use the Kemper SPDIF out to record the raw DI to DAW while sending the Kemper analog XLR out (amp stack) to a controller/mixer for mixing with my analog DAW output, then this combo to my nearfields. This way I can record raw DI while hearing a profile with no additional DAW latency. Then later I reamp the DI track from DAW thru Kemper via SPDIF, scrolling through profiles realtime via rig manager, tweaking in context, etc. It's really great. In Cubase, the Kemper can be set up as an external effect (i.e. insert like a plugin), including compensating for the 4.9ms Kemper latency. Very easy and fun to use that way.
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Is this a longer than normal public beta period?
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Here's a cue I did with the MW RokPak on bass and most of the guitars. Really liking the mids in these profiles.
Dang, that sounds good.
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I've been GAS'ing for an air guitar recently.
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Yea, this issue is finally getting some traction! I can't yet believe that a properly wired Gibson LP Custom and LP Deluxe are inherently prone to crackly cleans with a Kemper based on a premise that "some guitars" will cause it to happen.
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I've played one guitar for 20 years and not heard the crackle in tube amps, POD, etc., only after plugging it in to KPA. Impedance range issue sounds like a reasonable guess if kemper has confirmed it with some guitars.
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I worked a summer as a bag handler at the airport. My advice would be do not check anything you greatly value unless the case is such that you are willing to literally sling it across the floor. Those folks are paid lightly to unload and reload hundreds of heavy bags in less than 15 minutes in a typically very cramped space. The dude in the belly of the plane will never have the opportunity to hand crawl each piece of luggage from the back corner of the cargo hold to the cargo door 10 or 15 feet away. That space can also get very cold in the air, and/or very hot sitting on the runway. Somebody once checked an acoustic guitar in one of the paperboard type guitar cases. I gave it the softest handling I could but who knows what happened at the destination end.
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The static in the tail sounds like the same problem I've experienced in many clean profiles. And I believe Armin opened a support ticket related to it. But it doesn't seem to be happening to enough people to gain traction as an issue.
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Doh! Bought some one day too early. That wascally wabbit.
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Recently bought this and was first drawn to 5B and 21B for my LP with a custom8 in the bridge. Took the definition down but I do that with many commercial and free rigs. Overall, these are top quality. This set does not overemphasize any particular genre/production style but will handle many. I've bought several from TAF and Armin without regret, and this one likewise. If you're considering getting it, realize the "chimera" name may not give you the same instant brand experience as another profile set keyed to the name of a classic/flagship amp, but this set covers many of the best kind of tones.
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It would be useful to be able to globally disable stomps, effects and EQ for the local libraries when previewing as an option (without modifying the profile permanently). The Rig Manager is great for quickly auditioning profiles when reamping, etc., but it would be useful to be able to toggle through just the raw sounds when comparing tones.
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It seems pack 52 is missing some tag info. Sounds great though.
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The airstream has such an immediately recognizable... profile.
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This issue was noticeable to me with clean profiles and/or gain at 0, not with high gain profiles. And it happens in the tails of notes/chords, not as baseline or amp character noise.
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Turning Pick + or - from 0 makes it worse. Morgan AC20 seems to have it less than other cleans.
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I recognize what you are talking about in those recordings. I have experienced the same low-level bursty kind of digital hash/fizz noise with clean profiles (and/or gain turned to 0). I'm currently at 2.2.1 but it's happened in multiple earlier versions as well. I've compensated by finding profiles that don't seem to be as prone to it. For example, it's still there when I use Morgan AC20, but much less prone to the problem than several other cleans I've tried (AC30 HW, Armin's AC30, one of my own clean profiles, etc.).
I've experience it over headphones and speakers (including just headphones with nothing else plugged in but the power cord).
I've tried sys reset, clean sense adjustment, multiple guitars (humbucker, P90, single coil), turning down the volume on guitar, different grounding switch options on the back of KPA, moving around the room, and adjusting amp parameters in the Kemper.
Oddly, changing the Pick parameter positive or negative greatly increases the activity/rate of the noise (though not much the amplitude), so I basically have to keep Pick at 0 to get the smallest serving of noise.
The Pick issue seems to be the best potential clue. What could be wrong such that moving the Pick parameter into + or - values boosts the rate of noise spurts?
edit: just tried turning Monitor Volume down (and Monitor plus Main when using headphones)... the noise is still there.
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It was Safari on iOS 7 and Firefox on Win 7. Hmm I'll try some other options.
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Audio demos don't seem to be working on the Chimera Pack page. Tried a couple different browsers.