Posts by Bilbosmeggins

Do you think the Kemper would ever emerge as a combo unit? And would there be a market for it? Once a week, I have a practice session at a mate's house, but, as much as I love my toaster, it has become a bit of a faff about, what with disconnecting everything, bagging it all up, carrying around the DXR10, and all the cables etc. So much so, that I've just bought a little Blackstar ID15 to fill in for my practice nights. It's not a bad little practice amp, but it's certainly a step in the wrong direction. I just got to thinking that if a KPA were to emerge, housed in a FRFR cab, it would be a sure-fire purchase from me. It could have cut-down specs, and could probably lose the ability to profile too. As long as it did what it does now and plays host to profiles and rigs. I could always buy the rack version, I suppose, and do a bit of a Heath-Robinson bodge cabinet conversion myself, but would much prefer a "proper" option

Hi all. Thanks for all of your suggestions. I'm definitely leaning towards a clean slate. I shan't really get a chance to tackle it until the weekend, what with work and rehearsals, but I have to do something as I'm totally swamped at present. I do have some profiles favourited though, so I can access those quickly enough, but, ideally, I'd like all of my profiles to be favourites, or at least necessary for certain songs

Quote from RichEmme

I also had 1000 rigs at one point, so I did the sensible thing and bought more

All joking aside, You have to audition the rigs and see which ones you like best with your guitar(s). Since this was a daunting task, I moved the rigs to Rig Manager and deleted everything on my Kemper to start fresh. Since I also use the Kemper for bass, and there are fewer bass profiles, I started by auditioning the 300 or so bass profiles I had. I ended up with about 30 bass profiles I can see myself using and saved them in a folder within RM, BUT I only selected 12 as my favorites and moved those to the Kemper. This took me about 3 days, but I am very happy knowing I have a dozen bass profiles I really like.

I'm now repeating this process for my guitar profiles, but since I had almost 3x as many guitar profiles than bass, I had to break the steps down further. I first split the profiles I have paid for vs the free ones. Like you, I felt I needed ALL of these since I had paid for them, but this really should not be the case. For example, I bought TAF's Victory Amps package, which includes about 100 profiles, but after some careful listening and auditioning I ended up keeping less than 20 profiles. It's not that there is lot of fluff just to fill space, but TAF's methodology (at least with this package) was to record the amp setting (Clean, Breakup, Crunch, Drive, etc) with 3 guitars and 3 mic/positioning variations to give the listener options that work best with a given guitar (Les Paul, Strat, Tele type). Therefore I selected the 1 amp setting that worked best for me for the type of tone I was auditioning and amp.

One case where I did keep all of the profiles I purchased was from Guidorist's Bogner XTC profiles since his methodology is to make only "sweet spot" profiles, so you end up with about 8 profiles where each one is very unique (not a repeat or slight variation)... I really like this sweet spot method and wish other people would do more like these, but I appreciate the amount of work and options such as the one TAF provides as well

My next step is to continue the auditioning and down select process for the rest of the free profiles I have. I'm thinking of grouping them by type and by manufacturer erasing the profiles I don't like altogether, and as a final step moving only the favorites to my Kemper. I would like to end up with no more than 50 profiles (35 guitar, 15 bass) loaded in my Kemper for ease of browsing, and keeping the other profiles I like in RM. I hope this approach will help you or give you ideas on how to manage such a huge list of profiles.

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Phew!! Wow, thanks for that

It sounds like you have a pretty systematic approach to your music. 3 Days just to organise your bass profiles is quite some time investment. But I guess it's time well spent as you now have immediate access to the good stuff. No getting distracted as you stumble across "interesting" profiles that have little to do with the music you are about to embark upon.

Well, you've certainly given me food for thought, and it's not like any profiles are getting tossed on the fire. They can all be easily resurrected again. Looks like I've got much work ahead

So it's probably best to pretty much empty the profiler then, and save everything to Rig Manager, then slowly re-introduce them as the need arises? I'm a bit of a bugger for flicking back and forth between 4 guitars, so maybe I also need to create guitar-specific folders to get the best out out of them.

I guess I shouldn't complain, as it's a nice position to be in, what with having too much good stuff to choose between. I come from the Line 6 camp, where 90% of the presets were totally unusable. The other 10% needed major tweaking, lol

Sincere apologies. I thought I'd answered this post ages ago. Thanks for the video suggestion, though I had seen that one before, and, although very useful, it doesn't quite tick all the boxes. I guess I might have to conjure up something myself when I get a chance. Thanks all

Just curious as to how you guys sort out which profiles to keep and which to sling? When I first powered up my new Kemper, there was pretty much close to a 1000 rigs on there. I also bought a TAF package as a bundle with my KPA, which consisted about 370-odd rigs. Naturally, because I'd bought these I wanted them installed, so I deleted loads of ultra-high gain stuff that doesn't interest me, and some random profiles. I then bought a Top Jimi pack ('74 Marshall Super Lead) which is awesome. So, again, I squeezed them on. The thing is, that I now have a toaster that is nearly full to the brim, and it's almost impossible to properly audition each rig properly as there are so many variables involved. I'd hate to get rid of a rig that I thought was mediocre, only to find that if, for instance, I had plugged in a strat instead of a Les Paul it would have been amazing.

Ideally, I would like a Kemper that played host to no more than about 50 profiles, covering a wide spectrum. As things stand now the whole thing is a bit overwhelming. It would be easy if most of the profiles were junk, but the majority that come with the KPA are of a pretty high standard. I really don't know where to start to be honest.

Quote from Eltzejupp

Take a look at the Thomas Dill workshop on youtube. Imo its a good presentation of the kpas flexibility. Its not one tweaked rig but he uses good rock sounds and the rig are for free if you like to download them. Good setted effects and a good describing handout downloadable on the kpa site.
Maybe this tip will help a little

Hi again. I had a look, but, unfortunately for me, I could only find a German video. And my German is not good. Shame, as it looks a very comprehensive overview.

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll have a peep

Thanks for the video, and apologies for the delay. I've been away on a mini-break, with no online access. That's the kind of video that I had in mind, but preferably not metal orientated. Was rather hoping for some classic rock type stuff. No offense, but I think metal is one of those love or hate genres. Unfortunately, I'm in the latter camp

Can anybody point me towards a video that showcases just how flexible the KPA can be within a single profile? Changing the gain, eq etc. I'm trying to educate a bunch of nay sayers who are fixated on this "snapshot frozen in time" nonsense. An idea not helped by Anderton's recent Helix promoting video. They've got it into their heads that you need 100-odd profiles of the same amp with slight variations to cover any ground. I know that I could record something myself, but my dodgy playing would overshadow any toaster glory

Thanks in hope

I owned a Pod HD500X too. Whilst there were some decent sounds in there, I spent half of my life on my knees fiddling about in a painful menu system that I never really got to grips with. Pretty much just ended up using stock presets 'cos it was such a pain to use. Okay, there is plenty of deep-editing available on the KPA, but the main bones of it is simplicity itself. I can pretty much dial in what I need in little to no time. And it feels incredibly organic when playing. I found the pod to be quite sterile in comparison.

Thank you Fero, and thank you Scott. Just downloaded them and shall try them over the weekend. Most generous

Much appreciated

Andy

Wonder if left-handers will be allowed back into their catalogue again?

Couldn't agree more. So many people just associate tapping with the likes of EVH etc, and likewise for other techniques. As you say, they get pigeon-holed. I just can't get over how this guy manages to implement the whammy-bar in his performance. That is some amazing dexterity.

Thanks both. Looks like the update has sorted my troubles out. Just created a test performance and everything seemed to go correctly. Much appreciated

Thanks Ingolf. That has certainly got it moving. It's just updating now, so fingers crossed the slot problem will be sorted

Formatting made no difference. I'm beginning to think that my KPA is faulty. I had an issue some weeks back where it announced that files were corrupt upon start-up, and then it performed some self-diagnostic test and appeared to remedy the problem. Is there a way to force an update seeing as it's refusing to look automatically?

I'll try doing that now

Currently on 3.1.1.11316b. I did try to update but the Kemper doesn't read the data stick on start up so I gave up on that side of things.

Just received my Remote today and all is not going well........ When trying to load a rig into one of the 5 slots I'm having to go through the process several times before it will display the correct name in the slot. However, once I've got the name displaying correctly it's then a lottery as to whether the name pertains to the actual rig or not. I've just set up a performance where all slots are displaying what they should, but slots 1-3 are displaying "Crunch" in the main display (same on the KPA), and are also activating "Crunch" when pressed. Only slots 4+5 are actually playing, and displaying correctly in the main header. Any ideas anyone?