Posts by Laurens

  • Victory amps?

    I haven't found any, but Cornford has the same flavour to it. They are made by the same man with about the same goal, so it's pretty straight-forward why do sound alike.


    Guthrie Govan even went from Cornford to Victory just for branding, I think. His sound has hardly changed.

  • Output light showing it's clipping at every volume.

    Nope. It was just high rig volume somehow. I normally keep them at 0 and -3 or -6 where needed, but the profile I was using had jumped up, apparently. No harm done, however, it was only a demo session, not an actual recording session where the best signal matters. :)


    Still figuring the unit out, so I might ask more questions later.

  • Output light showing it's clipping at every volume.

    So, another thread, because I thought updating my first thread would be a less convenient should someone ever have the same problem.


    My first recording session with the Kemper besides noodling around and I notice the output light keeps blinking red. I tried lowering the master volume, which I keep at 5.0 normally, but that didn't help. I went to the output settings and set the main output to -50 dB and it's still doing it. No clipping in the DAW or on the interface, though and it sounds just fine, but I would like to know why the Kemper thinks it's clipping. The input light is bright green at all times.


    I just updated to 2.6 so it might be a little bug in the FW, and I wouldn't know if it's the FW because I only noticed now - post update.


    Cheers.

  • USB stick not recognised for update (recognised for backups etc though).

    I tried again and it didn't work again, but then I used another stick and with that, it worked. Really strange, because the other one works with any device (from PC to Mac to PS3 and whatnot). Ah well, got it to do what I needed, so that's the most important thing.


    Could it be the formatting, though? I formatted the other stick on my Mac in Mac OS Journaled, and the one that worked was an old one I had laying around that was formatted on Windows in FAT32 or NTFS (not sure).

  • Why yes, I do own a Kemper; thanks for asking!

    Still figuring out the Kemper effects for sure. I'll get the hang of them soon enough, I guess. More than enough options, of course. :) I've got some quirky sounds going on already. ;D


    Ingolf; maybe I didn't choose my words carefully enough; I meant that it would be great to be living of what I'd do in the music industry, unlike having to balance a day-job in another field and something in the music industry. :)


    Cheers everyone, by the way! :)

  • Why yes, I do own a Kemper; thanks for asking!

    Baffled by what it actually sounded and felt like while sitting in front of it, as opposed to just having heard it in recordings, I recently picked up the Kemper rack. While at first I had my doubts concerning effects (being a hefty pedal- and gear-enthusiast), my doubts were completely swept away as I gazed upon the massive, yet still not ridiculous, amount of types of effects built-in. Not having been very eager to sell off the fantastic Strymon pedals I had, I was more than comfortable with it once I had the shiny Kemper unit on the desk in front of me.


    While the Strymon Timeline offered vastly more types of delays than one could hope for, I actually was relieved to return to a state of only having what I consider to be a barebones necessity. While I was a big fan of the Ice-delay, pattern-delay and filter-delay options in the Timeline, I do not think that any member of any crowd (or even in the band, for that matter) ever noticed the slight harmonic overtone, the mild pulse, the light tone-sweep hiding away in the settings of one of many pedals. Thus, the deed was done and no longer did I bear the need to have every single option laying at my feet.


    The whimsical type in me would prefer a little more icing for the atmospheric touches one might add; a self-created musical chaos as it were. But then again, I'm but a bedroom applicant, so why float away on features that far-fetched.


    And so it happened. The huge case filled with shiny goodness and heavy amplifier clothed in orange tolex, weighing in at about 60kg in total, were deceived, for there was another. The age of the Kemper had begun.


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    In all seriousness and all epic use of words aside, I do love this thing. It's intuitive, offers many great features and is astoundingly light-weight. I went for the unpowered rack, as I will just be going straight into the PA live and use powered monitors at home, and it fits greatly into my demands. It outshines anything I've ever heard, which includes the Axe-FX and many boutique amplifiers.


    And for people wondering: I'm a twenty-one year old student in graphical design from Belgium with a lot of ambition in the musical field. When I'm not busy playing an instrument, I'm probably reading up on gear, producing, mixing or just listening to music. Being a professional, fully supported financially by the music industry would be one of my lifetime achievements.


    Any questions, be sure to ask and answers will be given where suited!

  • USB stick not recognised for update (recognised for backups etc though).

    Hi,


    my first post around here, as I'm still fairly new to the Kemper, but I'm having an issue with updating already, unfortunately.


    So, I formatted a 16GB USB stick on my computer, put it into the Kemper to have it formatted for the Kemper, put it back into the computer and put the update file (kaos.bin, IIRC) in the correct folder. All as instructed in the update folder.


    Then, when I plug the USB stick into the Kemper (doesn't matter what mode it's on), the Kemper seems to get stuck. The tuner no longer moves, I can no longer adjust parameters, or whatever. When I switch from the tuner to the browser (e.g.), it just acts as normal again and recognises the USB stick; however, I get no option to update the Kemper. I can backup rigs and whatnot just fine.


    FWIW; I'm using the unpowered Rack-version, it's on 2.4.something and I'm trying to update to the latest firmware.


    Kind regards,
    Laurens