Posts by brusky

Hi - has anyone connect KPA with radial SGI for live use? Or is this possible?

it should make a difference what case you use for transport

Gianfranco is a hero to put this together.

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Hi brusky

Please enable reception of private messages on your profile. You have sent me a PM, but I can't send you my reply because "user does not want to receive messages".

Done, thanks. Was not aware of requirement.

Yes and even if they tried to copyright sounds it would be impossible to enforce. For example if I sing one of my songs and use my best Frank Sinatra voice I could not be sued for using his 'voice'. Is it the young Frank or the old Frank? Frank after a few drinks? etc. The possibilities are endless.

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ok, should have said "no longer under development", thanks

When is shipping start for the profiler rack without amp?

Yes I tend to over analyze but I am not wealthy so this is a big expense. Whether to get KPA or invest in a quality tube amp. 99% of comments are positive but do the other 1% make a point. The channel latency would be concern to use this live. But from comments looks this happens because of user settings and not problem with firmware, etc.

Quote from viabcroce

Yes, this kind of machine can't be used w\o ever knowing what one is doing... proper setting (inputs for example) is mandatory; and what was the rest of the rig based on? What kind of cab? Too many sensible info needed to make an aware judgement.

From your other posts, you seem really worried that the KPA may not work for you. But, in the end, two statements stand true:

• lost of professional producers, performers, sound engineers use it; can it be defective up to this point?
• You'll never know how you feel it until you actually try one.

You might wan to read the wiKPA for learning more about the unit outside the "official" docs.

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Hi, I am evaluating whether to order KPA and a couple concerns from researching:

1) Review from Musicians friend - (didnt confirm the reviewer actually ordered KPA):"I wanted to love the KPA. I bought in to the hype and picked one up. For the most part I will say that the KPA sounded like a very good analog emulation but it suffered in the low midrange - especially on clean tones when pushed hard. The 650hz +\- range just got too fuzzy. It never sounded "bad" but, to me, an essential frequency range just kind of disappeared"

Is this a weakness of the KPA? Or just that guy opinion?

2) There was something in the wikPA about 1 second lag when changing channels from midi pedalboard. Is this a common issue? Can it be avoided?

Quote from Will_Chen

Here's a demo with the Kemper Wah (around the :53 mark). Sounds good to me...

https://soundcloud.com/willchen28/kemper-soundside-52-deluxe

Excellent playing and tone! ok i'm convinced - no stomp/pedal wah necessary!

Quote from Raoul23

Personally i think the wah is great. save ya cash

Thanks! I know there are some guys here who do Pink Floyd gigs - would be great if they can pull that off with the wah from KPA.

Trying to decide whether to budget for dedicated wah pedal - or use expression pedal to control the wah in the Kemper. Any suggestion from users - is the Kemper wah good, great or ok? Its important to me to have a quality wah sound like the Mission Wah, or Dunlop, etc. But if you can already get this quality from KPA i prefer to save $ and board real estate. thoughts?

If we buy just the rack now but decide to get the power amp later: What is the price for just the power amp?

Can someone post dimensions including weight? With and without power amp? Also suggested cases for transport?

Quote from BYTOR

Anybody who doesn't buy a piece of gear that they may love & that would fit their needs, simply because of something the owner of the company says or does, is a complete jackass!!

This was not nice. The proper term is Chucklehead, please.

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brusky

Are you really considering buying a Kemper?

Yes. The closest sounding to real amp is a priority. I suppose to summarize this thread if you could combine the amps of KPA plus effects and possibilities of Axe-FX that would be the ultimate rack. But the arrongant owner and fanboi at the other forum is tipping the scales for me toward Kemper.

so it seems like for example if you want to model the edge tone with KPA - amps no problem. But you may need to connect a strymon or some such delay pedal to your rig

Thanks guys - I am leaning KPA so far. Based on the clips samples compare, the sounds seem more realistic. I connect direct to PA and goal is lightest compact rig to transport. So is "frequencies above 11kHZ" an issue if you direct out, no stage amp, speakers?

Thanks guys and as you can tell I am new to research both of these. Some of the other fanboi comments from that thread:

1) KPA is convenient for studio to profile a tone. but Axe-FX is a actual modeler to create your own sound. I don't get it. I though both were amp modeler?

2) KPA effects are ok but not as many effects or chain flexibility

I want to like the KPA better, especially with the rack coming out. Are these just fanboi comments trying to cast doubt without facts?

Hi all - I'm researching amp modeler to buy and considering Kemper. But I saw this in a competitor product forum that concern me. Can one of the knowledgeable members confirm if this is correct? Or if it even matter?

"Kemper's dirty little secret is that internally it only runs at 22.05 kHz. This means there is no frequency content above 11 kHz and everything above that is aliasing noise. If you have good hearing (i.e. young) you will probably pick up on this more readily.

It does sound better than many other products, especially at lower gains where the aforementioned limitation is not as critical." [quote from competitor product]