I had the same issue. Try turning up the Wah's Peak setting and fiddling with the Pedal Range a bit - I find that most of the KPA presets have it around 30-35, and turning it up to 45 makes a big difference.
Posts by Lokasenna
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True, but your level is covered in snow, the Kemper one isn't.
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Do you mean that it doesn't affect the original rig? If so, that's on purpose - Performance Mode is meant to let you set up a billion different tones using the same rig, without having a billion different copies of that rig on your Kemper.
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If you're at all mechanically-inclined, you can also rewire the FCB to have jacks for your expression pedals and remove the shitty Behringer ones completely. It's dirt simple.
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A Hertz meter might be interesting for people who have to tune to 442Hz, etc. Not that I would ever use it.
You mean the "Master Tune" knob at the bottom of the Tuner screen?
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On its own, the FCB can be *really* frustrating to program, and doesn't have any ability to listen to information that the Kemper is sending out - for instance, lighting up the stomp buttons on the floorboard to match the stomps you have active in the Kemper. The Uno4Kemper chip turns the FCB into a dedicated controller that doesn't need any programming and has full two-way communication. For instance, when you put the volume pedal all the way to zero, your KPA goes into tuner mode, and with the chip the FCB's display also turns into a typical pedal tuner.
I just got mine a few days ago and it's great. The FCB's expression pedals aren't the best, but for $100 and another $50 for the chip, it's definitely the best value you can get right now.
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I use a level all day at work, so seeing the bubble on my Kemper makes guitar time feel like work too. Change it immediately.
Kidding, of course.
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A couple of weeks ago most of the music sites had great deals on all of the Toontrack EZDrummer stuff - I picked up EZD and their Metal Machine pack (recorded by Andy Sneap and John Tempesta) for about $150. Between those and Jamstix, I'm pretty happy.
It really depends on what kind of music you're doing, though, and whether you want to program the drums yourself, use loops, or have something like Jamstix/Addictive Drums "play" them for you.
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An expression pedal needs the stereo jack all by itself - one wire to send voltage out, one wire to get the reduced voltage back from the potentiometer, one wire for ground.
So nope.
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Ah Gianfranco, but now we know anyway...
Of course. Cats saying funny things in a really large font.
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I did try calibrating it when I noticed the lag, since I figured it might be an issue detecting the heel position, but that didn't help.
If I'm playing at roughly 120bpm and put my heel down right at the end of a bar, it's about three eighth-notes before the wah turns off. I play metal, and if I want to go from a lead line with the wah straight into a rhythm part, this means that the first few "chugs" are messed up.
Example: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.…1524/wah%20comparison.mp3
The first part is the Kemper's wah, second is my 95Q.
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I'm used to a Dunlop 95Q, which bypasses itself when the pedal is in heel position, so I was thrilled to see that my Kemper had the same feature. However, the lag time between putting my heel down and the wah being switched off makes it almost unuseable to me.
I know Christoph has said once or twice that it's intentional, as the Kemper needs to know that you actually want to turn the wah off, but is there any technical reason why that lag can't be made an adjustable option somewhere? The smooth fade that we get is neat and all, but I'd be perfectly happy with a sharper jump from wah to bypass if it meant having a minimum of lag time.
P.S. The 95Q ships with about a second of lag, but it has a trim pot inside that can dial it down to basically nothing, just as an example.
P.P.S. Aside from the lag, the wah stomps are great. Cheers.
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Another +1 for Mission Engineering. I picked up a couple of their generic pedals, one with the spring-loaded option so it's just like my Crybaby, and they're damn fine.
Also, I think I read somewhere that Line 6's expression pedals are wired differently, and won't work with non-Line 6 stuff out of the box.
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Of the two options, definitely go with pitch-shifting the bass down. You'll notice, though, that the Kemper tends to feel a bit laggy when you transpose down - it's an unavoidable side-effect of pitch effects.
What I'd do is record your bass direct, playing the part in E, use a pitch shifter on your DAW to drop the tuning (Reaper's ReaPitch plugin is great, as an example), and reamp that through your Kemper. The result will probably sound better, especially if you play any chords or really fast bass lines, and won't have shouldn't have any lag since the computer can pre-process everything.
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Man... just when I thought I had my FCB-modding plan all figured out, you come up with this. I was going to rewire mine to run on a single Ethernet cable, but now I might have to find something with more wires just in case I feel like adding a few more switches.
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I'm running into either my 6505 2x12's power amp and out the speakers or my M-Audio desk monitors, depending on what I feel like at the time. I don't generally notice much of a difference in terms of "in the room feel" and all that unless I take a profile with a similar cabinet to mine, listen to it through the monitors, and then turn off the cab and run it through my amp. At THAT point, the 6505 tends to sound a little better, but I'm pretty sure that it's just because I'm comparing 12" speakers to 5" ones. It's not a huge difference at bedroom volumes anyway.
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Now that I've finally got my new rig in working order, I figured it was time for some tonematching practice. Where better to start than the mighty Mr. Schaffer?
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.…t%20-%20Horror%20Show.mp3
The amp is the same Bogner profile that VESMedic1 used (r.u.sirius - Bogner XTC CH3 Plexi), but with a Marshall 1960 cab from the JCM900DECAP profile on the rig exchange. After that, just a little bit of EQ on the guitars to fit the bass in and the usual bells and whistles on the master track.
(The clean part is the Amp Factory's Jazz Chorus profile... I think it's called Remember Me, with a bunch of post-processing to cut out that electric guitar "quack")
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Works for me. Cheers.
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I haven't heard good things about those ones, personally.
What kind of use/abuse are you expecting to be putting it through? Sitting at home, occasionally going out for a jam? Going out on tour? Your needs are really what will dictate the kind of case you want.
For instance...
http://www.gatorcases.com/p/39155-54/gr-rackbag-4u
http://www.skbcases.com/music/…24&o=&offset=1&c=114&s=80and all the way up to
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Is there a URL I can bookmark to go straight to the "View posts since your last visit" search? If not, it'd be a nice thing to have.
Cheers.
