Posts by V8guitar

Quote from cmbrowns

Completely agree on pickup simulation.

There have been so many comments from people saying "..profiles don't sound like demo's". And this is probably why in most cases.

We have any number of amps, cabinets and effects to use. But the pickups in your guitar will have more influence on what you hear than just about all of these. I've been using a Keyztone Exchange for quite a while and being able to select a different pickup can make a very noticeable difference. They may not be 100% accurate, but still more than worthwhile.

Imagine being able to save a pickup as part of the Kemper rig. For example a Fender rig with a Tele pickup no matter what's in your guitar.

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Hmmm, happy to be proved wrong but I'm not sure pickups make that much difference, I think its more subtle. Yes a 60's single coil will sound nothing like an EMG 81 but the difference between a Seymour Blackout's...I change my pickups more for those subtle changes ( bit more drive usually) but driving a cranked amp as volume?

Quote from BayouTexan

Just like the "ain't" vs the "isn't".

That ain't true, isn't it?

Quote from Ruefus

I’ve had a Toaster for 3 years now. I disconnect and reconnect the Remote cable a minimum of three times a week.

It takes longer to explain this than it does to actually do.

I am careful (deliberate…whatever) when inserting and removing the plug. Don’t pull and don’t rush - let the release tab do the work.

I also make sure the cable isn’t putting tension on the plug. Depending on the situation I may gaff tape the cable to the floor/stand….whatever, leaving enough slop for the plug to find it’s natural orientation. Or, I loop the cable cable in some way (think guitar cord looped through the strap).

That way the plug is isolated from any tension the cable might see when some bonehead (usually me) doesn’t secure the cable elsewhere and trips on it.

I do wish the junction were more robust, but some care and thought has worked for me.

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I think this is the difference...care and attention. I suspect I loosened mine because its in a rack and you have to prod around a bit

Quote from JEverly

I finally started getting back into doing a little recording this past weekend. This is the first time since I replaced my interface. I was previously using an Eleven Rack so all of the modeling was built into my interface. I connected my Kemper using SPDIF to my new interface and it is working perfectly.

One thing that I noticed is that my profiles sound so much thicker and darker than they do through a PA speaker. I dialed all of them in through a PA speaker on a stand setting next to the amp that I typically gig. I turned them up to the same volume level and then tweaked the profiles. I honestly didn't have to adjust much. However, through the SPDIF connection into my computer everything became darker and thicker. Where I really noticed it was when I plugged a 60s spec telecaster in and the bridge pickup had a great thick rock sound. That definitely caught my attention.

I tried a couple of strats and guitars with single coil neck pickups in the because that is the tone I was looking for and knew they would all sound just a little different. I was amazed at how different they sounded through this connection. I made a few tweaks to get it sounding like I wanted it to. I can definitely see the value in having profiles setup for recording and others for live playing. I was not expecting this result at all. It sounded a lot different than it does through a PA speaker. The differences in the guitars was more noticeable as well.

This is just an observation that I have after experiencing this. It was easy enough to work around. I can see why some people complain about their profiles being really dark now.

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I think you raise a very interesting observation that few pure guitarists ( I mean people who don't have a good knowledge of sound engineering as well) realize the affects of both different signal chains and volume have on the sound.

Because the Kemper is a unit that does both and gives the consistent output, we are exposed directly to those variants.

I've learnt a lot since having the KPA as a result

Quote from GuyJames

. Has anyone got any rumors?

No, but its about this time when we start them :).

Quote from janmarten

"A complete signal chain comprising amplifier, guitar cabinet and potentially multiple effects is called a “Rig”." (first line of the manual, oops)

Hey, we all miss stuff.

I always think of the Profile as just the amp and cab and the rig is with any effects ( in my simple brain), but peopel will use the terms fairly interachangeably

Quote from iEddiez

Is this issue super common then?
Just got my Profiler Toaster and want to prolong it as much as I can.
I don't move it much but I will eventually want to take it to a practice. Any tips?

Personally, avoid plugging and unplugging it. I had mine plugged in for 7 years, never an issue. I decided I wanted to have a rack port and managed to loosen mine up where I have to give it a jiggle now. BTW, this is the rack/toaster end. No issues with the remote which I do plug and unplug every gig.

To be fair its the only issue I've had with mine in nearly 8 years, so I'm not going to grumble too much

Quote from dtishenk

Does anyone have the wiring diagram for the ethernet port? Is it just standard? I have the same ethernet port problem on my Powered toaster everyone else seems to have in that is real loose and disconnects the pedalboard sometimes. I have wired ethernet ports before. Is it just a standard jack or are there some additional buffer chips or something also. I am thinking about doing the mod myself.

Write to support, I had this issue and they explained the part to replace etc. but they said it is a standard ethernet port f I remember correctly

Quote from War in D

Hey, I know that guy!!

If you know Nicky, you must be alright

Anyway welcome and ditch the tubes!

BTW big Nuno fan here...( that is Nuno in your Avatar?)

Quote from iEddiez

Hehe. Great topics to avoid.

I'm not. I'm not in a band either. As Frank Turner said "The musicians who lack the friends to form a band...", except that's only partly true. It's only Guitarists and Bassists I know! I know a chap in a MUSE tribiute though, Hullabaloo.
I'd love to be in a casual band though, just to jam a few times a month.

Coolio!

Quote from Bill B

Thanks for all the warm welcomes. Deep into it, and no looking back. I'll try and post any further questions in the appropriate thread.

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Welcome dude.

1 tip from me, make the Kemper as complex as you want. In other words, I don't tweak much, I treat it as plug and play. If you like deep editing and refinement, great, but much of the sound out of the box should be 90% there.

So:

1) Backup what you have

2) Do a factory reset - why not and best to do this before you invest heavily in "fiddling"

3) Connect to RM so you can easily see the settings

4) Try to find a good quality Rig to baseline your sound

5) Build from there

If you are still not getting good sound, then its possibly your monitoring/signal chain.

I think its easy to get caught up in trying to e.q. out a problem that is in the base settings.

I use mine live just like a regular amp, with added flex.

Quote from Ricisp

Thanks, it worked! Sometimes the problem sits in front of the device. ?

Glad it was resolved quickly and welcome!

Quote from iEddiez

There hasn't been any animosity yet :')
Helpful folk which is always nice to see on the internet. Kab is awaiting shipping from Kemper

Give it time...raise a discussion on the Quad cortex, Kemper2 or RM stability

Most people on here are nice and helpful...except me, I'm horrible!

Are you in a MUSE tribute? Im in a CULT tribute....

Looks great, how are you getting on with the Akai? I couldn't get mine to work particularly well so went for a Jamman for samples.

Quote from xungal

You will see me several strange phrases because my English is very poor. Most of what I write I do with the google translator. So the result can be very dangerous ???

Excuse me, I have no other way.

I really like humor but I can't make much use of it here because of my language problems. I just hope that if I'm wrong, at least you laugh with me for a while.

By the way expand more information about me. I live in Spain, I'm 49 years old, and I still have hair ??? and I play in two rock cover bands. And although I have and have always had a good set of amplifiers and guitars, I have never had such a good sound as now with the kemper. And that I still have a lot to learn in this wonderful forum from all of you...

The doctor did not prescribe Kemper, but I have noticed that I have less back pain ??

Greetings and thanks

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Your English is actually very good. We like humour so we will try to laugh with you

Im 53 with no hair

My back is in much better condition as a result of the Kemper.

Welcome!!!

Assuming you use this with a passive cab, using the red speaker output to your cab:

1) Main volume isn't a factory setting, its the value you last left it at. So you turn that up to taste. The watt meter will show how much you are pulling. You should find ear splitting volume at 20 to 50 watts. If not, there is an issue somewhere in the settings

2) Power amp - at that level you should get plenty of power but no reason why you can't increase it.

3) unlink your volumes

As said, there should be plenty of volume and headroom from the 600 watt internal amp.

Quote from Kim_Olesen

The nice thing about using performances is the easy storing of all 5 (e.g. Lead) sounds in another performance, and then tweaking those for a different guitar. Much faster than individual saving, renaming, assigning new midi pc etc in browse mode.

Makes sense.

Not necessarily useful for me although if it was there I might use it :).

It should be possible as I think some of the effects already can get you close - isn't there an infinite setting in some of the delays? I don;t use them much so I can't remember

Even so, having it in a virtual pedal would be cool.

+1

My top tips are basically the same:

1) Make sure you have the -12db ticked to avoid frying the desk or reduce your output volume

2) Unlink your volumes, so you can control your on stage with no impact to the desk feed

3) Sort as much as you can at home prior and be clear on the main settings. So be ready for the xlr lead from the engineer so you know where you are plugging in and its already set to master mono. Play with switching your sounds, make sure they are balanced etc.

4) Sort the FOH sound first and check engineer is happy. He can feed you monitor signal worst case. Then sort your on stage.

5) Allow a bit more set up time. Tell the engineer its a new set up and that you'd like to plug in early to check everything.

Its probably too late now but I would also have auditioned the sounds via an FRFR speaker at volume as the sound from your Kabinet will be different.

In general though, its relatively straight forward. As long as you get a good sound, then you can tweak later. Don't let a new set up stress you out or ruin the show.

One of my first times out, it sounded different to what I thought it was in my head. I stressed the whole gig, only to be told by the engineer what a great sound I had, so I had stressed myself out for nothing - no-one ever told me that when I had my valve amp!!! Also unless your sound is dreadful, no one will really know, but they will know if you are stressed i.e. keep it in context!

Oh, one other thing - ROCK OUT!!!!!

Quote from Kim_Olesen

Not as much lag as guitarists that have to switch off three pedals, then switch two others on and fiddle with their volume pedals.

Really the lag is negligeble. Perhaps 0,3 seconds. The big lag is in the display, and i never look at that while playing. It’s never been an issue for me.

I think you miss the point. You don't need them in a performance, you can just select from midi and saves loading. I suspect ( not that its an issue) that you are not using performances in the way they were designed/intended, hence why I asked the question of putting all your rhythm sound sin one performance.

Anyway, as you use midi yes I can see you can switch between performances without scrolling, makes sense now.

I certainly don't have to switch off 3 pedals or mess around with volume pedals but then I don't use/need external pedals. I also moved to the remote as other switchers were imprecise - particularly if I accidentally clipped 2 pedals, it would freeze, but hey whatever works for you.

I also came from rack gear ( well back in the 80's) but a trimmed down.