I'm running two in the loop, and don't have any issues at all.
Posts by Frodebro
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Yes, the front panel is plenty sturdy enough to support the weight of the unit under normal conditions. If it's a concern, though, it's easy enough to put something under the feet at the rear of the unit so that it isn't just suspended by the front panel.
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Download the H9 Control app, it's an editor that lays out all of the controls and makes things really easy to dial in. I have two H9s, and I haven't touched a button on them ever.
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My experience has been different, though I have three Factor pedals that I have been using with my traditional amps for a long time, so I am extremely familiar with the features and capabilities that are in the Eventide products. For me, the delays in the KPA can't touch those in the Eventides.
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What I see in this short vid is the Gain parameter appears to be controlled by an expression pedal. This hits both my happy and sad receptors. Happy, because I spent a good deal of time developing a stand-alone pedal (gain/distortion type) that could migrate from pristine clean to over the top distortion in by simply engaging the pedal in the same manner as a volume pedal. Sad because it kind of negates the need for my pedal research. Think Boston's "Foreplay/Long Time" build-up and you can start to imaging how useful this can be. Or, think of how Jeff Beck so masterfully uses his volume knob. Jeff's rig is set up with gobs of gain but he rarely goes flat out, instead preferring to use the gain to help punctuate the mood of his solos. Using the expression pedal to control the gain allows for a HUGE amount of variable in a single preset. Rather than switching from a clean preset to high gain preset, we would now be able to gain the full range from one profile. Pretty useful stuff!
MIDI CC#72 already allows you to control the gain with an expression pedal, I use it on a number of presets (using a Voodoo Lab Ground Control Pro).
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Do you see a red LED when you hear it?
Something in the chain clipping was my first thought as well. I have a bunch of MBritt's profiles, and none of them has any issues for me, even running EMGs into them.
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I'm running two Eventide H9s in the loop of mine.
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Rig Manager stores files separately from the Kemper unit itself, so profiles that are in the folders other than the "My Profiler" folder are saved on your computer but not in the Kemper itself (which is why you can't see them on the Kemper screen).
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The Cab Clone can function as a load box, yes. You'll just want to remember that it adds a cab emulation, so it will be a variation of a "true" DI signal that represents just the amp alone.
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Most of the pedals I use are in a small rack case that the KPA sits on top of. Those pedals are controlled by midi commands sent from the KPA. Helps me have a small footprint in front of me. Don't know about the M13 as far as being midi controlled, but if it can be, rack it!
I have both H9s in the same rack as my KPA, each of the three units being on a separate MIDI channel. My controller is a Voodoo Lab Ground Control Pro, and it is configured to send individual program changes to each unit depending on what I want for each overall preset, which makes setup fairly simple.
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I'm a long-time Eventide user and when I bought my KPA I found that the delays and reverbs weren't quite what I was used to, so I'm running a pair of H9s in the loop. I'm sure that down the road those effects will be updated in the Kemper (and at that point I'll probably ditch the external effects), but until then I'm happy with this configuration.
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For stereo effects the input is the left channel and the alternate input is the right, so you need to connect the two outputs of your stereo effects to both of these inputs (don't use the XLR).
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There are some acoustic DI profiles on the Rig Exchange, I know I've seen some Fishman stuff in there someplace.
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The sound that comes out of my Saffire Pro 40 is pretty close to the KPA headphone out, I probably just got lucky and somehow managed to have all of the main outputs in the KPA set ideally.
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I have the original iRig (plugs into headphone jack). It was so noisy it was almost unusable.
I have one as well, but I disagree on it being useless-my cats love swatting it around on the floor.
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There are quite a few audio interfaces available for Android and iOS, but be wary of the ones that plug into the headphone jack on the phone (these usually have poorer sound quality than the ones that connect through the digital port).
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Plugging the speaker output (the jack with the red nut on it) will damage powered monitors, but the main and monitor outputs are line level and perfectly safe to plug into your monitors. I have a power rack as well, but normally run it into a pair of powered monitors.
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Ooh. What would be cool is a template where we could enter in values and hand create our own custom amps! Not exactly sure how it would work but it is nice that you could create an amp sound without actually having an amp.
That's called "modeling."
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My initial impression of my Kemper was actually rather lackluster, meaning I wasn't completely blown away in the beginning. It took a week or two of playing around with it to get a feel for what all of the parameters did before I started thinking "Okay, there's something to this thing that is pretty different and cool." It took another week or so of surfing through all of the profiles available on the Rig Exchange before I finally found some profiles that made my ears perk up. Finally, I dipped my toes into a few commercial packs, and that's when I was finally 'blown away'. Obviously what works for me may not be ideal for somebody else so I wouldn't even try to recommend any profiles to anybody else, but I can say that the magic truly lies in the profiles themselves, and if you're patient with it you'll find your own perfect sounds.
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The KPA only has one set of jacks for the loop. You can assign it to either pre or post amp block (per preset), though.