Posts by klarts

I'll post a couple this weekend. I would say that through a lot of work, some profiles ended up being close to the AX8 and some sounded good enough to where the tone is pleasant and usable. In any case, I added my own tweaks to the profiles with stomp eqs but you can still get the original direct tone by turning off the stomp effects. Also all my tweaks were done with purecab and headphone space on so you need to use my settings to hear what I hear.

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Yes, our deadpan seems to be getting the knack for this.

I don't know, mate. I'd have thought it has more than proven its ability to cut the mustard over the past 4+ years.

I realise you weren't happy with them, klarts, but mate, I reckon a whole heap of us, including myself, would really appreciate your popping them up on the Exchange.

Doable?

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also, some amps the kemper couldn't nail at all, not even close. The gain structure was way off.

I got pretty frustrated at the whole experience and the fact that my existing 3rd party profiles sounded so much better than what I was able to do made it worse.

In my experience, getting the low end and gain correct were the most difficult. What about you Deadpan?

I profiled the AX8 when I had it briefly, I had 75% of the presets profiled. Was a huge pain to get it somewhat near accurate.

All I had enabled on the AX8 were the amp and cab.

Heres a tip though, use the profile you made of the preset to re-profile the preset, it somehow gets closer.

also I found in a lot of cases, refining made the profile more different.

finally, play around with the definition and sag knobs to really dial the profile in.

I thought the process would be as simple too but it isn't. Why is it?

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I'm working on them!

10 done so far. If it was as easy as just hitting profile and refine I would be done by now but I will not accept less than 98%. The whole point is accuracy.

I did the same thing myself and the kempers profiling wasn't even close to the original AFX's tone and feel.

This experience along with my profiling experience makes me question the Kempers ability to accurately capture a sound.

Is there a way to save rigs that are modified in performance mode as new rigs?

thanks.

Amen!!!

i had the Ax-8 briefly and matching IRs to each amp models drove me nuts!!!

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I for one am so glad that with the cabs in the Kemper the whole IR hunting is a thing of the past.
Kemper cabs sound was better than IR's.

I echo what others have said here and back it up with my personal experience.

Third party IRs don't sound as good as the Cab profiles created by Kemper. I'm not sure what the reason is but eventhough third party IRs and Kemper profiles play along together, there's something realy off with the resulting tone.

I'm using it pretty much the same as bugnog. SS2 is light, highly portable, and waterproof.

Also the ease of connectivity with the kemper. You can program it to do some cool things with the kemper.

I think this will take substantial resources to develop, resources spent better on more important/pressing things.

The current tuner works more than fine sans Buzz Feiten offsets.

I rather them spend RD money on the foot controller/auto tune/fellatio simulation feature than on a strobe tuner.

Never considered that the firmware might caused the difference, it was easier to assume it was caused by hardware.


Anyone want to test?

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OK, I made joke, thinking everything is the same , including firmware.
Now , this is proving my theory that different firmwares sounds different , especially last one, 2.4.2 .

Yea...its noticiably different.

Its not better or worse, just different.

Thanks for your efforts! Cheers!

Has anyone have experience with a newer kemper and older side by side?. You can tell as the button on the newer one is labeleld "OUTPUT" while the older is labeled "MASTER".

2.4.2 on the older kemper.

The one prior to that on the newer kemper.

Again, all variables I can control was thought of, please no more on this subject.

Midi expander box...

Not to be rude, but are you familiar with or own the Softstep 2?

Doesn't sound like you are or do.

Those who have the Softstep will know what I'm talking about.

Somehow...you're not funny....

I can set up patches like that for my Softstep.

It's that the soft step is not fully communicating with the Kemper such as displaying current status and tuner.

Different firmware,

but everything else is the same....clean sense...etc.

I was VERY thorough.

Hi,

My friend and I have been using the Softstep 2 with my Kemper.

Is it possible to get some official support for the Softstep?

Thanks.