Posts by Monkey_Man

  • Tip #1 Select great profiles

    Quote from Nikos

    In the end I habe made my personal expirience that Floyd Rose(or any floating fixed bridge) "sucks" some of the most important higher mid frequencies of any guitar,This is imo no big news.Just a (physical) fact..


    Same here, Nikos.


    I'll add that well-designed floating bridges such as the one in the Luke™ guitars, and even the one in my JTV69, have much less of a detrimental effect on tone and sustain.


    The FL-licensed bridge in my JTV89, on the other hand, sucks the absolute life out of the sound. No "chimeyness" acoustically (and low acoustic volume), and a distinct lack of high mids. It's plainly obvious, and I'll not use the guitar for recording unless the FL bridge is required; the JTV69's floating trem is more than sufficient in most scenarios anyway.


    I put it down to all the extra weight and metal in the FL models. Much more deadweight there, IMHO.

  • High/Low Pass Filter either in Studio EQ or single FX block

    The parameter could simply be added to the various amp, cab, stomp and mod editing menus. No need for slot wastage, IMHO.


    This is what I was suggesting earlier.


    CN7, I'm not sure it was resistance; CK simply needed to be convinced, and once he saw the "wisdom" of including the HPF/LPFs, he promised them right away. There hasn't been an OS update since then, so I'd expect that they'll be in the next one.

  • ultimate profiling

    Yeah, I thought of this too when I first researched the unit.


    I imagined the profiling signal saying, "When you hear the tone, turn the bass control fully counter-clockwise and slowly sweep fully clockwise" and so on. In order to capture the interactions between the tone-stack controls, the sweeps could be re-done, or just the extremes "sampled" with the remaining knobs at both their individual extremes.


    I reckon a purely snapshot-based method, sans sweeping, could be made to work effectively too, where the intermediate values are interpolated. It'd only be a matter of positioning the various knobs at their extremes when prompted to do so by the signal being fed by the Kemper.


    Easy, peasy... but I'll let Christophe take care of that one!

  • Deleted all rigs - still says its full??

    If you've got the latest OS on the USB stick (you can't re-copy the OS file, I know, as the Mac's on the blink), you could re-install the OS on the Kemper.


    You've nothing to lose as you don't want the existing presets, and I assume the ones you tried to transfer are still on the stick. I only hope the OS is on there too, 'cause then it'll be "problem solved".

  • Popups when hovering overthread subject

    I'm not a fan either, Armando, but there's a "workaround". It's nice to have the option to read the pop-ups for indications as to the mood / tone / depth of discussions in threads, or even just for verification of subject matter where titles are vague.


    I hover the pointer over on the left or right-hand side and use the scroll-wheel to scroll the lists. The pop-ups only appear if I don't do this. Works for me.

  • 9999 and...

    Quote from skoczy

    It's good that forum developers haven't set resetting the counter after 9999 to 0 :D


    Proves they weren't video game programmers back in the '80s.


    Quote from and44

    Hey everyone quick.. find all his posts and click on "Report post" they will all get deleted and send him back to Newbville!!


    Ha! Classic, Andy.


    Well done, Ingolf. Your effort surely empowered many a user.

  • cant upload rig to rig exchange

    Folks, jaschoon has tried using RM; it shouldn't make any difference whether he's used a USB stick to copy the rig or not. If there's any doubt, the rig can be copied from the "My Profiler" folder to a newly-created one and the upload attempted from there.


    The only things I can think of are:
    1) Were you hooked up to the 'net at the time?
    2) Have you set your "owner" name in the RM preferences to match the name specified in your Kemper?
    3) Have you double-checked that the name tag in this rig you want to upload is the aforementioned one?


    It's gotta be something simple, so I'm betting it's one of the above...

  • Any plans for a Kemper 2 amp?

    Further to Don's explanation of RM-preset handling, you can set the prefs so that simply hitting the down or up arrow on your keyboard instantly loads the next / previous preset.


    I imagine it's because the actual file sizes are so ridiculously small that this sort of "browsing", for all intents and purposes, delivers an instant response from the Kemper. That is to say that the buffer-load time is practically zero, meaning that it's no slower than browsing the internal rigs from the front panel. This is impressive IMHO, and is super-handy when a 3rd party is playing and you just want to audition as many rigs, perhaps for demo purposes or just fun, as possible.

  • Copying properties?

    You'll have to transfer / save both rigs to the KPA.


    Not sure how it's done, but I think if you lock the sections you don't want to change and then call up the other rig, all unlocked blocks / parameters will be replaced with the new ones.


    Believe me, many of us wish we could edit from within RM; you're not the first.

  • Melodic shred guest solo.

    Ridiculous. I love watching and listening to your playing, John. You're so far out of my league I don't even get frustrated that I'll never play like that. Awesome!


    It's just like if a girl's hot enough I don't get nervous; it's all those 7->9.5 / 10s that worry me. 10 / 10? no problem. I know I stand no chance. LOL


    I don't do socialist media, so no FB or Twitter for me, I'm afraid. I'd surely "friend" you otherwise (I think that's what you call it?).


    Thank you again, and please don't hesitate to share... er... feed us again... and again, mate!
    Nicky

  • Any plans for a Kemper 2 amp?

    Exactly Sam. I thought it was obvious that if only used for FW upgrades, the USB "gymnastics" would rarely be required, and therefore failed to mention that. I concentrated instead on the fact that the "routine" was far from complicated. In fact, it's the same for my TD-30 brain as well as for the INTEGRA-7.


    Glad you've stuck around, Jason. I hope you understand that folks here, including myself, were simply reacting mainly to the fact that you appeared to value aesthetics highly enough to preclude your purchasing (or even auditioning?) a KPA. There was no name calling, AFAIK. Just a bunch of tone devotees expressing their dismay! LOL


    I'm sorry if my sarcastic impersonation offended you in any way, Jason; it was obviously intended to be funny and I'd hoped that in some way it'd help you to see, at least from our perspective, that the looks vs. sound argument just didn't hold any water. For us. YMMV, of course.


    Your bravery for sticking around will hopefully be rewarded in the form of... a real-life audition of our beloved beastie one day!


    Cheers mate.

  • Any plans for a Kemper 2 amp?

    Amen to that, brother!


    Regarding the Kemper's looks:


    1) IMHO, this is something of a classic. It looks like nothing else, and therefore cannot be considered a wannabe or "me too" offering, which by definition would date it.


    2) If you stumbled upon one of these things in the future and had no prior knowledge of it, you'd not be able to date it by looking at it, IMHO. This too makes it a classic. Timeless aesthetic design. It's future-retro looking to me. It wouldn't be out of place in the Kubrick Space Odyssey films or in a high-tech lair from a '60s Bond movie. IOW, it looks to me like a 50-year old take on what the future might look like.


    The look makes it unique, and that is priceless.
    The sound makes it unique, and that's a feat in and of itself.
    The combination of these factors makes it the no-brainer deal of the century!


    The instant gratification and easy tweaking are icing on the cake... albeit ultra-thick icing.