Posts by barefly

Nice!

My new live set up : Kemper dry signal (up until chorus block) in stereo power amp to orange 2x12, and the wet signal (in dry/wet configuratie) to stero power amp into two Tiny 8' orange. Sounds great on stage. Direct link to foh.

I am very happy CK had the philosophy to make a unit which would last over time. Every now and then such a product does occur. I have got soms ancient products I still use, f.e. an eventide eclipse, kurzweil synth, tc finalizer, Roland guitar synth. I hope the Kemper will be on this list as well in ten years from now. Its absolutely possible if your design is great from start and as a manufacturer you have the will to really make something good and not only to make money. The same reason why I don't have confidence in manufacturers like line6 anymore.
So i would like to ask CK to stick with his great product, continue with the also great support and let us be happy users for years to come

That is a pity to hear, it surely couldn't have been the music or song: great composition, wel played and recorded, the vocal arrangements are great!
I guess lots of great gigs will follow

Sugarlou, totally agree with you. As mentioned before i wasn't happy with the stage-sound of the Kemper going through a dxr12. The sound through the PA was great, but I missed the cab sound onstage and although I tried couldn't really felt comfortabele with it, as you say: not really inspired by it. So I bought a power amp and hooked it through an old 2x12 orange cab. I set the output on wet/dry, stereo signal through 2x12 and the wet signal via another small power amp into 2 tiny 8 inch orange cabs. From totally dry chops to ultrawide : now I ve got a great stage sound again. And the mixer is happy as well: he gets the dry sound plus a wet channel so he can adjust it to the venue. Did two gigs now and was very happy with this setup!

Great tip , i hear what you mean. I love this kind of break up also very much. thnx tot sharing!

Indeed great sound and nice playing !

Great diagnosis, OCD and ADD. Tot add another : KUD: Kemper use disorder, similar tot Substance Use Disorder.

Great playing and sound!

Thnx for the great link!

Great thread this is! Nice solution DaveC69 for making a box with bass on 1 channel en mid.high on the other! Gonna try that one out.

Hi Andy, great pack! Very nice sounding, all gain stages right on the spot , i love the breakup gainstage. Also nice feature to order profiles according tot matching guitar (strat,lp, tele), that really works. Thanks for the great work!

Sounds great, especially the melody and rythm of the banjo-like sound is very well done!

Hi Sugarlou,
I also struggled a long time with the kemper and a FRFR (in my case first single, later dual yamaha dxr 12). From my experience (for what it is worth ...) you can't get a FRFR system sound the way a 1x12 or a 2x12 cab sounds. I think both solutions have their strenghts and weaknesses. It seems logical that a FRFR will never sound exactly like a 1 or 2x12 because these are totally different soundproducing devices:
Amp: FRFR flat response with no respons between amp and speaker, crossover design.
Speakers: FRFR does have tweeters, the speakers of a cab are not picked to have a flat response but are tailored to sound good with guitar. A FRFR is linear in respons with volume while a guitar speaker is not (compresses somewhat at higher volumes). Sometimes in a 2x12 cab two different speakers are used to balnce the overall sound even more.
Cabinet design: FRFR is made not to resonate and has a bass port tailored to a full range response , a good wooden cabinet is made to resonate and has a specific 'bass port' (open (in all its varieties) or closed back).

All these differences are leading I think towards my experiences with these speakers:
FRFR has advantages at lower volumes (that is beneath the volume of a hard hitting acoustic drummer) At lower volumes we like to hear some more bass and treble (our ears are most sensitive to middle frequencies, but with higher volumes sensitivity is more even across the frequencies). The Kemper is extremely good at maintaining control over the volume and the gain. Escpecially when you play at lower volumes and you play with other soundsources that have balanced volume output (like keyboards or electric drums) this is a great advantage. With a guitar cab you can also easily isolate your sound somewhat too much from the keyboard player. Tube amps with guitar cabs at lower volumes often sound somewhat thin and 1-dimensional.
Guitar Amps have advantages at higher volumes (f.e. in a band with hard hitting acoustic drums): the evenness and richness of harmonics (the '3d quality' or 'amp in the room sound') of a quality amp and cab on it's volume where it is designed for can not be rivaled by a kemper and FRFR imho (but maybe with a kemper and Solid state or tube-amp and cab , i don't know, i dont have experience with that). Another advantage is when you play with two guitar players in a rock band two cab's are much more easy to be differenciated from each other as compared to FRFR on these volumes. Lots of tube amps these days have limited wattages so sound on their best (with crancked poweramp tubes) at bandvolumes which are 'reasonable' (but that's a very subjective term).

Of course this is totally written form the pesepctive of the guitar player. Another point considering is your audience The kemper sends out unrivaled signal to the PA (no problems with miking or leak from other soundsources) and when you adress your public through a pa the Kemper is better than a miked amp, well at least much easier and consitant to set up. On the other hand when you gig the 'old fashioned way' (with guitars through the cabs and vocals through a pa) this can be great too (or even better imho,you give the audience some of your superb cab-sounds ).

Another point is off course you have good and bad constructed FRFR as well as guitar cabs, and the issue of 'breaking in' speakers, and of course everbody bring sin their own ears and experience. If you play 20 years in a rockband with your tube combo and are totally in that sound, it really is a dfferent story when you play on a kemperFRFR. But when you practice at home with a line6 something or a jamvox, picking up a kemper will be jawdropping.

This just to share my experience. No way i want to criticise the kemper, it sounds very very good, the lag is not noticable, the effects are great. Especially when recording it is unsurpassed and the community and support is great as well, the free profiles and lots of great commercial profiles.

Great! Congratulations!

A week ago i received an email saying Kemper had to put a hold on my order and i had tot wait until end of this month for update information. Surprised by the email i got today in which Kemper said they changed my order status and had shipped the remote! A bit of a confusing email communication, but i wont complain now it has been sent

Nice! Love the guitar sounds!

Hi Zapman, i don't wanna sound like i'm repeating myself but i really appreciatie your listening and comments! Thnx

Thnx Peterfr and Duncan ! Really appreciatie your interest and comments. At soms points it was a very dense arrangement. I used about 10 mono tracks and 20 stereo tracks....:-). The vocals we did double, and only on one i added reverb almost completely wet after flattened this track in pitch trough a bit autotuning tot get a reverbtail that is harmonically fitting the track. This way the autotuning is not (or less) noticable. The same for the backing vocals:-)

Thnx Rothko for listening and your nice comments!