Posts by hendrix.stratman

  • Kemper and NEO CLR...Liking but Struggling to Love

    Thanks for the suggestion Tritium, I do have a 2x12 speaker cabinet from Avatar that has a CL80 and V30, is this considered a decent cabinet and speakers to use with the kemper.



    I suppose your also right OhG, I can try tweaking the knobs when I raise the Master Volume levels up. However, I thought that if the Kemper sounded one way with the master down low then it should sound relatively the same with the volume turned up which would be the point of the Master Volume = same tone at various over all volume levels?

  • Kemper and NEO CLR...Liking but Struggling to Love

    So, I have a Powered Kemper Head that I use through an active speaker wedge, specifically one Atomic Active NEO Wedge.


    I play both my 63' Strat copy with SHED 62' vintage pickups and my 57' Reissue Les Paul through this rig sitting on my couch in my living room. I usually play with the master and channel volume half way up on the active wedge, and use the kempers master volume knob to control the over all volume levels to my liking. I usually keep the volume low enough to play and listen to the TV. At these low volumes, the kemper sounds pretty good....However, my problem is that every now and again I will turn the master up to a loud level, but I am not as impressed with the tones I am hearing. The tones seems cold, brittle, bright, one dimensional instead of that three dimensional sound from a real amp and cab....this seems to be the case with most profiles...Lately I have been experimenting with Michael Britts JCM800 pack, and I am not completely sold on it. I have a reissue jcm800 that I want to sell, but I am not ready to sell it because i am not completely in love with the tones I am hearing from the kemper and atomic neo wedge. I also have a VOX ac30hw2x, DR Z z28, Deluxe Reverb Reissue, and a Victoria 45410 Bassman that I want to sell, but I can't until I completely fall in love with my kemper rig.


    I have a Mogami XLR speaker cable hooked up from the Main Left of the kemper to the input 1 of the wedge if that matters.


    Its just the more I crank the volume the more sterile or harsh it sound to me....Is it the room I am in, are there some settings either obvious, or hidden, that I should be tweaking, etc...


    I want to love my Kemper (god knows I spent a fortune on this set up), but I am struggling here. Maybe I just need some reassurance. Does anyone else use the Kemper and just one NEO Wedge and feel the way I do right now, or do you feel completely happy with this same exact rig? If you are happy with it, is there anything you do that can help me?


    I feel like I wouldn't have the confidence to bring the kemper and neo wedge to a band practice...I would just bring one of my regular amps... Am I crazy?

  • RS-LG12 vs Atomic NEO CLR

    Has any one even tried the Red Sound RS-LG12, let a lone compared it to anything else?


    The RS-LG12 is supposed to be a FRFR specifically designed to be matched to the Kemper....couldnt you just say that the Atomic CLR NEO wedge was also specifically designed to be matched up to the Kemper.....Is the RS-LG12 just using marketing strategies to get people to buy there product, which does the same thing a Atomic CLR does?....OR does the RS-LG12 do it better somehow?

  • DI Box

    Quote from Mule Train

    You can still use with PA or FRFR, but you'll have to add a cab from the Kemper. Not really a problem.


    As to your question, it does take all of those variables out of the equation. Its pretty fool proof, but you can get quality profiles with "just" a 57. I slap one in the middle of the speaker, against the grill cloth and move until I get the most hiss on my monitors. That way I have all of the highs I will need and can cut them as needed.

    Mule Train- what type of environment are you making your profiles in with the sm57? Do you have a separate room for your amp? Do you have any youtube videos of you profiling?

  • DI Box

    I know nothing about DI boxes and making profiles with them...But I have a few questions


    I don't own a studio nor want to pay for studio time. I have one SM57 mic....When making studio profiles, mic placement and the room your in make a big difference - plus I don't have a sound proof room to put my amp in to record it. Nor do I have ribbon mics or condenser mics to make profiles with two mics nor do I have a mixer....


    Does creating profiles with a DI box take all that stuff I mentioned above out of the equation and give the novice user the ability to make standard profiles that would sound the same as a professional making their profiles with a DI box? Or is there technique, nuance, and skill involved in making profiles even with DI box?

  • Kemper humming

    Same as digital bliss, I hear it both when playing and not playing. The playing masks it a little bit, but its still there, and when I stop playing its very obviously there. Touching the strings or metal parts on a guitar doesn't stop the sound either, its still there.


    I could turn the noise gate up but it doesn't solve the problem. I will get rid of the sound when I am not playing, but once I start playing and I strum a chord or hit a note the initial volume of the chord or note masks the volume of the hum, but if once the chord or note starts to lose its sustain and volume, the hum becomes very audible and annoying, its louder than the chord or note.

  • Kemper humming

    My kemper get lots of hum, especially with the single coils in my house. I am guessing that I am getting a lot of electromagnetic interference.


    If I had an electrician come to house (I think I could have a distant friend who is an electrician come to the house) would he know what is causing the problems and be able to solve it..is it worth having a guy come out and fix sockets that have reverse polarity or not grounded, etc...I just want to enjoy my kemper amp without all the extra hum...

  • Environment and Equipment to Make Profile

    if I make a profile of my amps in my basement, with no ISO cab or soundroom or mixer, with a SM57 mic can I make some quality profiles or will mine inevitably be sucky. I mean I may look at them and think they are great because I made them, but the rest of the kemper community would think they are just hotdogs compared to the steaks commercial profilers make like Michael Britt....


    If I used a SM57 and got a ribbon mic, and profiled in my basement, what's to stop my profiles from sounding as good as theirs? And I am not asking this to be a prick, I really would like to know the answer because if you guys tell me that their profiles will inevitably crush mine, then I won't even waste my time aside from just tinkering around for the hell of it, but then I would just go buy some of Britts profiles.


    I have a Victoria 45410 and a Dr Z z28 I think would be cool to profile, and I don't see a ton of their profiles out there. But if mine are gunna be mediocre then I'll just wait for a pro to make them and offer them for sale

  • I'm a Newbie, am I doing this right?

    Update:


    I think everything is working fine to a point, even if I don't understand everything perfectly. Please read below and correct me or clarify to me where ever you see my mistakes or misunderstandings. Thanks for your patience and advice!


    First:
    I do have my CLR plugged in using an XLR cable from one input of the CLR to the Main Left (NOT the Monitor jack....should I be using the monitor jack? and if so, can you explain why so that I understand the differences) on the Kemper. Just for an experiment, I switched the XLR cable for a instrument cable and there was a remarkable difference between the two cables. The XLR cable provided a crystal clear and loud sound, while the instrument cable sounded thin and lower volume. So, I am assuming the XLR is the way to go, unless you recommend a TRS cable instead of a TS instrument cable to connect from the Main output jack to the XLR.


    Second:
    I turned off my XLR (and unplugged it from the kemper just to be sure), and I began the process to profile my Z-28 amp. I kept the volume setting on the Z-28 low intentionally to see if I could profile it. When I hit the button to begin profiling, the error message came up stating that no amp was connected or that the volume was to low. So, I went back to page 1 of 3 of the profiling menu and turned the Return Level knob up a few notches and tried to profile it again, and this time it worked and the profile went through. Sometimes if I strummed hard though the input and output lights would very subtly flicker and it appeared like a little hint of orange or red would appear, but it was subtle (maybe I was just seeing things though).


    Third:
    After I the profile went through and was created without any error messages, I turned the CLR back on and tested the profile out through the CLR while I was still within the Profile Menu (this is before I saved the profile)....I noticed that the loud hiss or air being pushed through the CLR speaker was still there, but I believe it was because I had turned up the Return Level knob from page 1 of 3 on the profiling menu. Once I saved the profile and named it, I went back to the Browser menu and played the profile through the CLR and the hiss or noise was gone, and the profile sounded perfect.



    Fourth:
    It seems like when I went to save the new profile I just made, the title of the last profile that I selected under the Browser mode would pop up. I had to clear/delete this name and then rename my Z-28 profile. Question: By doing this, did I just delete or overwrite the other profile I was using in the Browser mode?

  • I'm a Newbie, am I doing this right?

    Quote from Dean_R

    It looks right based on reading your setup. SM57 should work fine without any extra mixers etc. any dyhamic mic for that matter would work fine without a mixer.


    The only pointer that I would suggest is make sure that the Kemper is getting enough signal from the SM57. In the profiling page in the Kemper, you can add the volume to get proper level. You'll know when the input indicators shows a good green signal. Either that or increase the volume of the amp. IF the input indicator is flickering green , you might not be feeding enough signal and this can be the reason your getting noise in the resulting profile. Some prefer to use a mixer because the Mic Pre can add level, but the KPA should work fine with any dynamic mic without the need for a mixer.


    Another thing to think about is when you profile, you also would want to mute the CLR because you don't want it to bleed in the profile no matter how title the SM57 will capture from it.


    So when I profiled my drz Z-28 combo amp and switched back and forth between my reference amp and kemper using the soft white buttons, the sound of both the reference amp and kemper was coming z-28 speakers (and it obviously sounded remarkably similar, if not exactly the same, which i am guessing that's a testament to how awesome the kemper is). However, that's when it dawned on me that I would never be running the kemper Z-28 profile that I made through the actual z-28 amp (because if that was the case, I might as well use the actual z-28 amp itself) so that's when I figured I should try and hook up my CLR to the kemper so that I could compare how the actual Z-28 sounds with the Kemper profile of the Z-28 through my CLR...and That's where I started encountering problems