Indeed, to the fine folks at the Kemper Mothership-Happy Holidays, and thank you very much for putting up with all of our crap through the years.
Posts by Frodebro
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For me, Rig manager updated my Rack to 7.1.5 and then told me I needed 7.1.6 but RM would never download/install it. Not sure if I had RM set up incorrectly but I ultimately put the newest OS on a flash drive and updated it that way. Worked like a charm.
Somebody mentioned elsewhere that RM won't install a beta software if it's also a beta version. Don't know if that's true or not, but I had to use a thumb drive to update my profiler, which I usually don't have to do.
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Hi There,
Is that right?
I have a 4x12 Celestion Marshall Cabinet 8-16 ohms
and it sounds really low, increasing the master monitor volume just craps the sound...
and with any amp like a fender vibrolux it sounds great, flat frequencies and low volume
Kemper does not work with passive cabinets????
Thanx
The powered Kempers (with an integrated power amp installed) will work with passive cabinets, but the standard models do not have a power amp in them and therefore cannot drive a passive cabinet. The easiest way to tell is to look at the back panel-if you see a jack with a red plastic lock nut on it, that is the speaker out jack and you have a powered version. If you do not see that jack (it's on the same side of the panel as the IEC power cable jack), then you have a non-powered version and cannot drive a passive cabinet without adding an external power amp.
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If you have the powered head or rack, you need to use the speaker output jack (the one with the red ring on it) to drive a passive cabinet. If yours is not a powered version, you need either powered monitors or a power amp to drive your cabinet. The main outs are instrument/line level, and are not meant for driving passive speaker cabinets.
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Exactly that.
Thats a point ive often pondered for years.
I personally care about my gear and sound.
But i dont thing joe public gives a toss as long as it sounds pretty good.
Ive never had a non guitarist ask me what pickups amps or cabs i use.
The way I always looked at it, I'm playing songs that I'm tired of because that's how you keep the audience happy (and keep getting work), so in exchange for that I'm going to do whatever I can to make it as painless as possible for me. Great tone coming out of your rig is part of that.
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I'm hoping the 1x12 Kabinet has a parallel output so you can use two speakers with the powered Kemper. That would be fun.
A splitter box (either parallel or series) is pretty easy to build, and not expensive at all.
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Pairing an HXFX with a stage would be a very good combination. Use MIDI to send PCs to the HXFX and you can call up a "board" that is set up for specific rigs/performances. The HXFX would be a much better choice for this than the Stomp, as the Stomp is mainly an amp modeler with effects, the HXFX is effects only and is designed for just such an application.
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I would return it and find one with no issues. It might cost you a little bit more up front, but it will save you time and money down the road.
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can you connect your phone to the kemper stagefor ba backing tracks?
You can use the loop returns in one of the loops as a stereo auxiliary input, but there is no Bluetooth feature.
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I’m the opposite. Option paralysis has never been an issue for me either but it’s because any tone I try is inspiring for me, so rather than trying to shape the tone rigidly around me I will flow with it and see where it takes me. Every tone has a melody within it and it is the task of the guitarist to discover it.
Perhaps it’s because I’m just not in a situation where I have to be precious about the finished products, they’re all WIPs to me, they’re not my income, just Art. There’s no pressure to find that final perfect tone, so every tone is perfect in its own way, at least for one specific task. And on top of that I’m not caring about mix when I’m picking a tone, that comes later, I’m still learning, so it’s all delightful.
We're actually not that different. If I have a specific goal, I stay 100% focused on achieving it. However, sometimes I like to just spend a couple of hours browsing through the Rig Exchange and finding inspiration in sounds that I otherwise would not have sought out.
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I"m new to the Kemper (Stage) and the first few days are like (yes option paralysis), seeing something like 16000 rigs available. Turns out, what I like is pretty much what I've been using on my old pedals, and I actually profiled them and am comparing to real amp profiles, they sound pretty dang good. I like the edge of break up (e.g. Tim Pierce), and to push into overdrive with pedals which the Kemper has lots of options. So far, very happy with this purchase, but still amazed by the options in profiles.
Just think of it as being similar to walking down the beer aisle at the grocery store. If you have an idea of what you're after, it's pretty easy to pare down your available options fairly quickly.
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Option paralysis has never been an issue for me-I know what I'm after, I know how to get it, and I'm not distracted by the things that aren't part of achieving my goal. This is true of my life as well as my gear.
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so could there be sound diff between "old" and "new" Hardware ?
did they change maybe the DA converters too ?
Probably no sound difference (or at least nothing that a "normal" person would be able to detect), but this is the kind of thing that people will dedicate a significant amount of time arguing about on the gear forums.
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I currently have no plans for a Stage, but I do already have funds stashed away for a pair of the new cabs when they hit the market.
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Well didn't Jim Marshall copy fender ybassman in the beginning? Also the naming is still a lot better than ,"swollen pickle," or "way huge". When you play a Friedman, you will forgive the naming thing because his amps are really special. Check one out and you will know why he is who he is in the world of rock amps
Pete Townshend brought his Fender Bassman into Marshall's guitar shop in the early 1960s and asked them if they could build him an amp that sounded like the Bassman, only louder. So yes, the first Marshalls were based on a Fender circuit, but Jim Marshall probably would have never even considered entering the manufacturing business if Townshend hadn't put him up to building that first amp.
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I have no idea what it is.
I have no idea what it will do.
I have no idea what it will cost.
I want one.
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Yeah, he's only running through two speakers but if it works, it works. It is possible for the KPA to run at 4 ohms, but it's risky without an internal cooling fan. That's probably why bass players have largely avoided the PowerHead
I run my power rack into the 16 ohm input of a 1960A, there should be no reason at all why it's not producing enough volume. My guess would be that gain staging somewhere in the KPA itself isn't optimized for full output if somebody isn't getting enough volume with 300 watts. A 100 watt Marshall tube amp into that same cab is going to be louder than snot, and pushed hard it's still "only" delivering upwards of around 180 watts.
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In stock form, the 1960 cabs run all four speakers in either 4 or 16 ohms. In stereo, it's 8 ohms per side. You cannot get an 8 ohm total load from four 16 ohm speakers.
