Posts by Joptunes

Quote from hafi19

Someone suspected that this amplifier could color the sound.

I received my BAM200 Today and spent some time with it tonight. Overall I'm very happy with this amp powering the Kabinet. I tried running the gain higher and the master lower, then also running the Master wide open with the gain lower. All of this this was with the eq section straight up on all 3 bands. I Couldn't hear any difference or coloration in the tones when moving between these approaches. Unit is very small, plenty of volume, runs 4 ohm cabinet with no problem and can't beat the price. It's a keeper for me when I want the in room experience. Can't wait for more imprints and future features where we can store the imprint at the rig level!

TC electronics BAM200 is supposed to show up tomorrow. Will see how it sounds with the Kab.

Just ordered the tc bam200. We'll see how that works.

I think of the Kone this way. If you play from your Kemper straight to FOH and use in ears 100% of the time, or only plug your Kemper into your interface at home and only monitor via studio monitors then the Kone isn't really going to do much for you. As the main outs to FOH are not impacted by the Kone imprints.

If you are using the monitor out today to play through a FRFR speaker or a guitar cabinet then the Kone is probably worth looking at. The Kone can operate in a FRFR mode, or can be used to replace your guitar cab and have different imprints,for each rig (future upgrade).

It's light, sounds great and provides a cabinet in the room feel. So it really depends on how your using and monitoring your Kemper to see if it will do much for you.

Hope that helps.

Maybe a few things to help troubleshoot.

Does it do this in the headphone output?

Any pedals or remotes plugged in? Unplug see if anything changes.

Just throwing out ideas.

I'm sure it's been asked somewhere but I can't find it. Any issues with connecting a single 4 ohm Kemper kabinet to the powerhead? Back of the powerhead states 8-16 ohms.

Thanks

My Kabinet arrived today

So far sounds great. There are some subtle changes especially within a speaker manufacturer. For example switching between the G12H Anniversary and the G12H Heritage give you some subtle change. But if you pull up the famous MorganAC20 patch and jump between the Celestion Blue, then to the EV12L, then to a vintage Jensen you can hear the characteristics of each speaker. Well done Kemper !! Now we'll all be looking for more imprints, ability to assign cab imprints per rig, etc. The future sounds great !!

To me it sounds like a normal octave below harmony. Quick and easy effect on the KPA is the analog octaver which adds in the octave below note. You can try it before the amp block or after, and depending on whether you're using a fuzz pedal or just an amp for the distortion it should get you close.

Is there something in particular you're looking for? For example the guitar solo on Owner of a Lonely Heart from Yes? That has a specific sound to it, versus something like simple octave up or down, etc. 5th above like owner of a lonely heart is popular because it's pretty universal and works in all key signatures, just like octave up/down. So if you set one note to be 5th up, and another note to be 4th below, you get the same harmonized note just an octave apart. You can get into a lot of other options if you want to use intervals that are specific to the key you're playing in to create some complex harmonies. So it really depends on what you're looking to do. Even some of the delay presets now can adjust the delayed notes to create pseudo harmonies, so lots of options.

The main out signal going straight to FOH will have the cab sim on and that's the way it should be. If you hook up a guitar cabinet on stage and monitor that from the monitor output of the KPA, you would turn off the cab on the monitor output. Hope that makes sense.

Good luck.

Pretty sure he uses a couple of fender twin heads with tc chorus and echoplex for the clean sounds. There is a recent rig rundown where he shows his setup and how the echoplexs have been modded etc.

Saw him live recently in a small club and his stage volume is down compared to previous years but he still has that violin like tone.

The new fender Virginia guitar uses a DiMarzio pickup in the bridge with only one coil hooked up? Go figure ? It's 99% hands with Eric.

Just saw him in Vegas and noticed 3 keepers in their rack. Sounded good live, and yes the new record is good ?

Did you by chance launch rig manager without the KPA turned on, then connect the KPA later?

i did that today and notice that i had to relaunch rig manger with the KPA already on. If i turned on the KPA after rig manager was launched, i couldn't get the preview to work with clicks or double clicks or any combination. After shutting down rig manager, and launching again to make sure it saw my KPA, then the preview worked as before. I'm on MAC OS

You should be able to drag the preset and drop it into an empty stomp or FX slot within rig you have selected. Then you can click on that fx/stomp to turn it on/off and edit the parameters.

I'm assuming that when you say you can switch rigs and they change in the KPA that you also can see the rig controls down in the bottom third of the rig manager screen. That is where you drag/drop the presets to.

Quote from ian1977

I don't get the little arrow in the bottom corner to open the editor either how you i fix this

Is your Kemper connected and online/synced? That’s needed for the edit window to show up

Thanks for sharing, sounds great.

Using the KPA just as clean amp platform and drives/delays etc from pedalboard?

Sean

Update to 7.1 for the expression pedal via midi fix.

My upgrade went ok. This does fix the midi volume/wah/pitch issues that I was experiencing.

Did have to go and reassign about 5 out of 128 rigs for midi PC information, which took just a few mins. Everything else seems to be working so far.

Thanks Kemper team.

Same here, i opened up a support ticket. When i plug my mission pedal directly into the KPA everything woks fine, but when doing volume or wah via midi nothing happens. You can see the bars sweeping up and down in the 'show controller data' menu but nothing is happening to the sound. I'm using a liquid foot controller, fyi.

hopefully an easy fix.

I have a midi foot controller instead of the remote and use NRPN messages to adjust output level on KPA. I usually set it for a 3db bump. That way it doesn't take up a slot or morphing scenes and as long as the sound guy knows about it we don't overdrive the PA.

So far so good.