Posts by timdabel

  • Price drop across the board!

    I would also love a Kemper floorboard version. It would definitely be something I would consider. I bet if they wanted to, they could get the current functionality of the Profiler into a floorboard concept and not lose any of the features. If they create an editor for computer and or ios/android that could solve the tweaking problem. I'm sure they would come up with a way to tweak from the actual unit as well. They are good at this kind of thing, I'd love to see what they come up with if they try and I will most likely buy it if they do!

  • P&W/Worship/Church guitarists, what amps/profiles are you using?

    Quote from KPA_Leader

    After actually trying your setup out as described I was bummed to remember that controlling two delays from 1 remote button doesn't really work. This will only swap between the two, always leaving one on. So to control 2 overdrives, and 2 delays, that takes up every slot pretty quickly. The only other option is to use my looper and tuner buttons to control two other things. The kemer remote really is limiting for those of us that are trying to use 1 rig for most of what they want to do.

    Just saw your response on the delays. Yes, I just switch between delays using the one switch on the remote. I have one set up as a very typical 1/4 note delay that you can basically have on all the time and not really get in the way. That one is always on, then the .8th (or whatever other time signature delay you use) comes on when you click the switch. Not ideal if you need to completely turn off your delay, but you can always use the 'looper' switch to turn on/off a boost to free up one more slot. I experimented with having a tap tempo switch as the outboard switch to free up a slot, but at this point I was running out of actual effects/stomp slots on the Kemper so I haven't added that, but that is an option. I know you probably don't want to do that though. I do use my looper sometimes so I don't want to lose that switch though.

  • P&W/Worship/Church guitarists, what amps/profiles are you using?

    Quote from KPA_Leader

    I PM'd you about this, I've got some questions. I'm assuming your comp is always on? So the first clean boost is to drive the green scream or mouse harder? How do you typically do your gain staging with this setup? And the second clean boost in the effects section is for a solo boost? As far as how you are setting up the remote to control all of this since there are only 4 switches, how are you doing this? I'm asuming you are using 1 switch for both delays and just swapping between the two, so there is one. And then for the two drives, there's two right there, unless you are switching between them on one switch? And then the first clean boost gets its own switch? That could be 3 or 4 switches used right there depending on how you set it up, if the two drives are combined I guess that could give you room for that 2nd effects boost. Just curious how you do it. I'd like to try this setup out but I don't want to have to have a separate slot with the same exact setup to switch different things because I can't fit it all the remote switching in one slot. I hope that makes sense. I guess you could use the tuner and looper buttons to control your boosts as well.
    So when you say that some slots have the delay repeats change as well for a more ambient sound, what exactly are you doing here? Just increasing the number of repeats? Are you going for a wash here or something you can use for swells?


    Sorry for all the questions, I've been struggling how to setup a perfmormance to be able pretty much do anything with it I will need to do instead of setting up one performance or slot per song, I just can't do that for how we do worship which is very free flow, we have a setlist planned, but only rarely do we follow it, more often than not we are pulling songs on the fly as needed, which we can do since we are working from computer screens and PDFs, if the worship leader pulls up a new song or an old one we haven't done in a long time, we play it right then, live with no planning or practice, fun, but requires a lot of flexibility with sounds.

    I PM'd you as well. I left this here because others might be interested. I have been working long and hard to try to do the same thing you are wanting to do. The standard setup I have works pretty good, but to do 'everything' might require maybe 2 performance slots. Before morphing and the delays being able to be assigned to multiple slots, it was pretty much impossible, now it might work. I still have a few songs that I set up specifically and dial those up when we do them, but the way I have this set up, I can get through most things. There is on thing I do really like about the one performance slot per song though, if a song goes from say a really ambient intro, to a quiet picked part then right to a heavily overdriven/distorted part, clicking on the Intro slot, then the verse slot then the chorus part and having those set up with the stomps turned on/off as required is nice (less tap dancing). But this standard layout works kind of like a pedalboard and gives you options for some of that too.


    To answer some of your questions here is what I do: I leave the comp on all the time in stomp slot 1. The pureboost goes in stomp slot 2 and switch I on the remote controls that. The green scream goes in stomp slot 3 and switch II controls that. Mouse goes in stomp slot 4 and switch III controls that, I switch between the 2 different delays (mod slot and delay slot) with switch IV on the remote. I've assigned the tuner button to the 'X' slot for the other pure boost. I use the heel down on my expression pedal for tuner/mute. I use the morph feature to change the delay repeats and the length of reverb (mostly I just have it change the reverb length) so I can go between a more ambient sound vs. a less ambient sound (ie if I am on my 'Verse' slot and I am playing a song that needs a little more reverb, I just hit the 2 button again to morph and have the reverb go to a longer time for a little variation. The difference between reverbs on say the 'verse' slot would be something like a shorter reverb I can strum with without getting blown away to more of a wash type reverb, yes. I have a separate slot setup just for swells.


    Don't worry about the questions, I like answering them! I don't claim to be a worship guitar genius or anything, I'm mostly just a hack with expensive stuff :) But I do know quite a bit about the Kemper and I have been using since 2013 live and love it, so I am pretty comfortable with how I have it set up. I'm glad to offer any help I can.


    We don't do variations on the fly like you guys (brave!) but quite often we change the set list on Sunday morning at soundcheck, and sometimes we do it just before worship or during if need be. I like to have a 'standard' setup to use for that plus it makes it easier for practice when we don't know the set list up front, I don't have to create all the nuances of a song there while everyone is waiting, I just use my standard settings and tweak later.

  • Delays out of phase

    Don - that could be, but to the best of my recollection this was an issue since I purchased my KPA in 2013. I believe what you are quoting from reference manual 5.0 is for the latest delay parameters. It seems to be better to my ears now, but sometimes I still hear it. I haven't really done a very scientific analysis though, so I may just be crazy. :)

  • Recommended IEMs for live use?

    Quote from Nightwish2

    Aren't the 215 considered as linear? At least I have read that. And I don't think they are bassy at all and I play a sevenstring guitar ;)

    I don't know if they are considered linear, but I bought 3 different sets of IEMs to try out and the 215's seemed to have quite a bit of bass compared to the others. It wasn't bad, just seemed more. Most of the reviews I've read online also say that. It all comes down to personal preference though. If they do have more low end, I'm sure that would come in handy with a 7 string too :)

  • Delays out of phase

    I've often wondered if I was just hearing things or if the delays were really having phase issues when I run master mono out. I just thought I was hearing things. Maybe there are some issues. Not really enough to complain about, but it is something.

  • P&W/Worship/Church guitarists, what amps/profiles are you using?

    Quote from vcao

    Have you tried this yet on a live setup? Just wanted to see how many people are using profile overdrive and then using wet effects (Timeline/BigSky)?

    I used to use a Neunaber Wet reverb in the loop, but I simplified and now just use the Kemper all by itself. The neunaber wet worked great in the loop, but it is a lot easier to setup/take down and the built in Kemper effects sound good too. I use the built in drives and turn them on/off just like I would in a pedalboard. In the stomps section I have a compressor, clean boost, green scream, mouse ds, in the effects section I have s clean boost (for level) 2 delays (on in the mod slot one in delay slot) I switch between a straight forward 1/4 note delay or .8th delay as needed) and a reverb. For each slot, I have morph set to change the reverb time from short to long (some slots have the delays change repeats too), that way I can go from a more ambient sound if I need to for that particular song. I'm using Mbritts' AC30 profile and it sounds great!

  • "Pedal Board" Mode for KPA Remote

    I like this idea, I could use it myself. Currently I do this with the morphing feature. I have one performance set up with Intro, verse, chorus, bridge and solo slots. I have morphing to switch between the two reverbs (basically short/long) in each slot. Since the short and long reverb for a typical intro I would do is different than the short long reverb for a chorus, it gives me lots of options. I know that doesn't really do exactly what you want, but by having a typical song setup in one performance, I can get through 90% of what I do on a regular basis. For very specific songs, I set them up as an individual performance.

  • P&W/Worship/Church guitarists, what amps/profiles are you using?

    Quote from JerEvil

    So I used the new AC30 pack from Mbritt last night at church and really liked them. I may switch back to the Guyatron for tomorrow nights service.


    Anyone tried anything good/new? Also how are you all liking the new delays?

    I just got the new AC30 pack the other day and tried it out a bit, but haven't settled on one I like more than the original AC30 profile I got from MBritt. I do really like the dynamics of this new profile, you can really go from clean to dirty just by strumming light/hard. I think I may replace the AC30 I'm using eventually when I have time to pick through the profiles. I haven't been using the new delays too much yet, but I created one that uses morphing to go from the dual delay setup like a regular tape type delay, then morphs to have pitch shifting on the repeats when I morph. I figure I could use that for swells/tremolo picking sections when I want pitch shifted repeats.