Posts by SpinnerDeluxe

  • Guitar setup

    Quote from schreckmusic

    The G string drives me absolutely insane with tuning. Adjusting the truss rod and the next day it's completely different.

    The G-string is a culprit on many models. Also intonation-wise.


    In my second band there was a guitar player with an all american Les Paul Gold Top (or something). The most expensive thingie I ever faced at that time. My former american Fender strat looked really cheapo compared to that one. But: he had strings breaking on each and every rehersal. And that beast never stayed in tune. Week for week he slowly became the sadest guy I knew. And he finally traded it to a collector. This guitar meant to hang on a living room wall. Sad but true. Guess what: I never owned any Gibson. Not just, I know. But true. So no more experience with that brand.


    My current range from $300 to $3000 is generally stable, though. From quite stable to extremly stable in the order of cost. For me: I got what I paid for. Take the nut-tips serious. The nut width *must* fit your particular string gauge. I fine-tuned each and every model I own. And the carbon dust lubrication trick does really work in case everything else seems to be correct.


    On the other hand: if I move a guitar from my living room downstairs into the window-less, air-conditioned rehearsal room I will get problems for the very first hour or so. Different temperature and humidity, I guess. I got one Gretsch steel body acoustic resonator with wooden neck. Thats the exception. It stays in tune over a very wide range of temp and humidity. So I assume its in fact mostly the wooden body and less the neck (which is counter-intuitive to me, but who cares).

  • Can we please get some kind of Kemper Editor Software for your computer

    Quote from Gary_W

    It'd also be really nice to have the ability to store FX chains in the same way as you can with a DAW and upload those. It'd be like 'rig exchange' except 'fx exchange'. You can see from the popularity of Frank's delay thread and Monkey Man's wah thread that there is a hunger to drive the effects to their best and, because there are soooooo many parameters, it'd be great to have entire chains

    This is very true. I would like to see stuff like that (all presets!) in the RM, though.

  • Can we please get some kind of Kemper Editor Software for your computer

    My 2 Cent:


    Most audio people sit in front of their computers, with just a mouse and a keyboard and *editors* on the screen and feel lost and handicapped, after a while. So they begin to buy MIDI-Controllers with real knobs, faders, buttons, pads, keys, what not... . and they start to feel better again. More productive and faster. This might not be true for people who never were behind a real mixing desk or other ergonomically advanced hardware. But the elder guys might get my point - its just more productive and precise.


    So my dream would be a Kemper editor for my computer and a dedicated Kemper MIDI hardware with knobs and switches hopefully with just the exact same layout as the real Kemper and labelled just the same. :D


    Yeah, I know, I am bad and arrogant. Once in a while - behind the RM on my notebook - I would also like to be able to tweak Kemper parameters without laying the mouse aside and reaching the real thing... But literally anything else in our feature wishlist seems more important to me than that.

  • Please listen... is this the way Kemper should sound?? Problem with sound

    Quote from MarkusUz

    . And in a way I feel that after that I should't be bothering people in this forum.

    How come? If part of this comes from my posts I would like to apologize. It was not meant this way at all.


    You started a very positive thread with helpful answers all around, me thinks. Thats what this forum is all about.


    I am into guitars and amps for a long, long time. And my #1 reason on this forum is to learn more, especially about the Kemper - but not alone. I asked so many dumb noob questions when I was very new to the Kemper. And I learn more every day.


    I want to clarify that I think your guitar track has an Ok Kemper sound and your playing is OK. Did I mention that my guitar skills are also *just* OK? Now, you are willing for more, for perfection, which is great. So do I. Please, lets go ahead that road. Alltogether.


    I hope the DI track will convince you that your Kemper is in good condition. And will motivate you to play and practice more than ever. Progress is all about facing the own mistakes. The master is better than the apprentice - simply because the master already made all the possible mistakes himself. But never gave up.


    All the best, good luck and do not overweigh the opinion of just one single old guy like me. ^^

  • Please listen... is this the way Kemper should sound?? Problem with sound

    Quote from MarkusUz

    Even if I doubled and hardpanned L/R, mine wouldn't sound as good as that. Yours sounds awesome! Do you have any opinion what the reason is?

    You are right. But you compared your sound to MentaL, somebodywho did the most common "trick", have 2 guitars panned hard left/right, preferrably double tracked. That just makes a tremendous difference - if done properly.


    You ask why your Kemper sound different, even after double tracking?


    I was not 100% sure if MentaL actually really double-tracked (or did a mix trick). Thats because he is a very accurate player. If your own timing is bad the double tracking might sound even worse than the original.


    To tell the truth: with that quite OK sound you picked on your Kemper any excellent guitar player would sound - well - excellent. Much, really much, if not more :D , is coming from the fingers.


    Suggestion: shouldnt Kemper provide some state-of-the-art DI signals for some major styles and provide those to the not so advanced yet players? Wouldnt this give them confidence that their amp is more than capable and that ultra-finetuning an amp is less productive than just playing it, practicing, having fun...?

  • Please listen... is this the way Kemper should sound?? Problem with sound

    Quote from MarkusUz

    Even to me, if I'm just playing alone, my guitar sounds ok/acceptable. But put in a mix, and there's so much mud and cloudiness that it just destroys the whole mix.

    So the second is yours? The first one seems to do some stereo trick, i.e. pan the close miced amp to the left and more ambient / roomish mic to the right or its just double tracking. Yours is more or less in the center. Very uncommon for that style to have a guitar sit there.


    A distorted guitar in a mix needs treatment. Start with left / right panning. Either a double track or the Haas trick (phase inverted copy panned opposite) or the ambient/room trick. So you get it out of the way of bass, vocals and drums by distance.


    Highpass the guitar, depending on what the bass / bass drum does. Then start cutting with EQ the frequencies which clash with drums, especially in the low mids. Eventually also low pass, in case your cymbals get masked or the guitar sound seem too harsh. So you get it out of the way by frequency. Avoid soloing your guitar to check if its still great! It *must* serve the mix and sound great with the other instruments, not all alone. This is *the* biggest difference to the bedroom solo players.


    Next think about reverb, which is depth. Some instruments dry, others wet gives the third dimension. Eventually reduce the reverb on the Kemper or switch it off. The wrong reverb there for a certain song might make mixing a pain.

  • Recently purchased used Kemper profiler

    Quote from Tritium

    Believe it or not, the reference guitar cabinet can contribute up to 70% of the over-all tone and dynamics of any given studio profile. Suffice it to say, the guitar cabinet plays a HUGE role, and often is more significant component of the over-all tone than the reference tube amp.

    So true. And from that 70% the actual placement in the room is 50%. The "truest" sound of that cabinet one will get on a huge open air stage (that is more or less how the frequency plot of speakers is taken anyway- aka free field = 100% non refelective room). The most room colouring you will get with the cab in the corner of small rehearsal room.