Why don't you guys see it this way: IF the helix sounds any good, which remains to be heard, you might simply take a profile of it and keep the Kpa.
I am getting rid of the KPA as much for the clunky interface as the fact that I can't get it to sound the way I want it to. There is no debating that the KPA is an incredible machine, it just isn't for me.
Pretty sure I'm going to sell my KPA. I haven't done any profiles with it since I got it and I am just not having any luck with downloaded profiles. I will go blindly with the Helix because I've always loved Line 6, the POD HD Pro was an awesome unit my only complaint about it was the noise. I thought it sounded great and I could coax some really nice tones out of it. Even after significant tweaking I can't get a profile to sound very good. Yeah, I'm probably doing it wrong but I feel like after owning the KPA for about a year it is just not for me.
Okay nevermind they have rack unit already.
I can dig it. I would be waiting for a rackmount version though because I'm not so into the idea of all in one floorboards. That is where the beer always spills at shows
Yep, nothing bad in learning by experience! I guess the point of this last part of the thread is in your (and I am freely interpreting your last posts) "I don't like how it sounds because I don't get how the controls work".
If you read it again I didn't say I didn't like the way it sounds. I said I don't like the way it is set up.
Display MoreIm not surprised , this is something that seems to be a problem for all direct guitar solutions , modelers and the kemper , struggle to get a good tone on stage using monitors .
I used the pod for years this way having to run it through a regular tube head power section and guitar cab and then the tried the axe fx had same issues monitor sound sucked
, the monitors sound like sheet for guitars thin and whimpy . , the kemper might work great out front , but hard to play and feel inspired unless the guitarist hears a great sound back at him on stage , so its not something to do with the kemper .
I went back to using real tube amps live, and since i l play only small venues it works , if i ever do large ones , ill use the kemper fed directly to front and the monitor out of kemper (cab off ) to a tube power head and guitar cab (2x12 so i dont have lug 412 ) seems redundant but works !
otherwise i seem to struggle with eq for hours trying to get a decent tone on stage using monitors etc
the amp i use is not a precious marshall or mesa its more of a workhorse with a great tone so i dont mind beating it up traveling around , an ampeg vl1002
just my 2 cents
Yeah I used a POD HD Pro for a while in a band and in the studio it sounds great but at practice and shows it was lousy. We need a solution for amp modelers. I had a Johnson Millennium and that thing sounded great everywhere. The only problem I had with it after time is I could not get more modern tones out of it. It would be nice to see companies like Fractal and Kemper making a combo amp type rig that was designed for their platform. They could make a 2x12 combo and offer an extra add on 2x12 so people could add more speakers if they wanted. Partner up with kpasolutions on this!
That's all good and well -
until you get stuck not knowing how it works, and then you read the manual. That's sort of the point.
And that may well be where we're at! Guess I know what I'm doing this weekend.
How can you expect the KPA to sound the way you want without reading the manual? The Kemper is no toy or a single channel amp with 5 knobs...
The same way I taught myself to play guitar without instructions, I just figure it out. Granted there are probably some helpful things I can learn from the manual, its just a matter of actual reading it. Also I haven't had a hard time figuring out how to run other modeling amps (Johnson Millennium, POD X3 Pro, POD HD Pro). I am also a recording engineer and PC technician so I am fairly technically inclined.
Mathias, have you studied the parameters described in the manual? I understand that they are a bit unusual (not a big user of compressors before owning the Profiler).
Anyway, +1 for adding more parameters to the stomp
I suppose I could resort to the manual but I like to just mess around with things.
Reverb is probably coming, I think maybe a different delay, the hi/low pass, who knows what else! Just seeing as to how it has been months since update maybe we'll get a chunky one!
Been a while for update and I've seen that there is High/Low shelf in the works. I am starting to feel like a massive update is inbound at some point. Could it be game changing?
I have used the stomp compressor and I don't like the way it is set up. I am used to attack/release etc so I find the KPA stomp compressor hard to tweak because I don't really know what I'm doing with the values.
I found the Misha FW18 patch very good!
+1 to that bro!
I´ve uploaded the Profile, I hope it works (" Misha FW18 Rythm ")!
Quitty is right!
Tweaked it a bit and there you go with the CHUGGING from doom
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Sounds really good!
... You're kidding, aren't you?
You are quoting a person that I quoted. I never said anything about tube amps. I just said the KPA needs to boot faster.
Wow. That comparison is not even fair. The AXE wins that by a landslide.
If I am understanding correctly the 1st, 3rd, and 5th takes were the AXE and the 2nd, 4th, and 6th were the KPA?
If so I know what I'm doing.
We all know that profiling is an art form, but does that mean we shouldn't get credit for a profile we have tweaked and made something amazing with? I suggest a "modified by" area maybe underneath the area that shows who originally made the profile so that when someone makes a great version of a rig that was profiled by someone else they can get some recognition for the edit. This should not replace the original profiler's name but be a separate value. We can't all contribute great profiles but maybe we can edit some existing ones for specific uses.
Happy birthday. Hope you had a good one.
Display MoreSlow startup has been the "elephant in the room" for a long time. There's no justifiable reason why a small computer in the twenty-first century should take over a minute to start up.
And just because there *is* a dependence on rig count doesn't mean that there *must be*. Think about it: if the KPA is reading *every* rig on startup, then that could be done *one time* and the pertinent data stored in an index so the work doesn't have to be repeated on the next boot. Hey, there's even a real-time clock: the Kemper could easily detect when the rig directory has changed and update the index accordingly.
Looking at this from the perspective of other "high-end" guitar processors: My Eleven Rack boots in 15 seconds. My Axe-FX boots in 7 seconds. (While I'm new to the latter, I understand that there were howls of protest from the user base when the AFX boot time increased *to* 7 seconds...)
On the other hand, I suppose I could buy a second KPA *and* a UPS, reserving the second KPA as a "hot spare" just in case I didn't want to wait for over a minute in the (thankfully, exceedingly rare) event that a glitch takes down the active unit. Hyperbole? Sure. For me it is. But I'm certain that touring techs lose sleep over scenarios like this... OTOH, never mind: if a touring band can afford a tech, they can certainly afford to pay for redundant hardware...
Seriously: fix the ridiculously long boot time. It's aggravating. Even a tube amp can be ready to play in eleven seconds.
I wholeheartedly agree with all the above statements. There is no possible reason that it has to go through every rig on startup. I also like the fact that on top of saying it doesn't need to, you actually offered an idea on how to fix it.
Bravo! Very good I couldn't tell the difference on the speakers here at work.
