Posts by vjau75

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ckemper i think you made a marketing mistake there.
You have sold to the users the promise that they could profile an infinity of amps and then get an infinity of different sounds (actually i don't think you ever said that, but it's what the users wanted to believe). I'm in the camp that speculate that the Profiler actually use a few well designed generic models whose parameters are set by the profiling process, then seasoned by some impulse response to account for the cab/mic part.
This is fine by me since the result is so close from the real deal and this is still one of the best modelers on the market.
But when doing OD, since pedal profiling seems not doable ATM, you gave users a (probably well designed) generic model and said to them, who believe there are an infinity of sounds you can get from infinitely differents ODs "they are basically all flavors of the same thing". While amp profiling was a clever way to "join them" with their belief that amps were made with fairy dust that you could somehow capture using a magical process, you are suddenly bringing everyone back on earth saying a diode is a diode is a diode than can be simplified with generic algos. They will never accept that.
IMHO

For the OD nerds, try to recreate that with the Kemper drives:

Quote from DonPetersen

this pedal is a good way to hear how little different clipping diodes etc. actually matter

If so, what is the difference between an overdrive and a distortion ?
I know the frontier is fuzzy (!) between the two, but between a Rat and a Tube screamer, i can't swallow that the difference is on gain alone.

Quote from paults

When you Save it on the Profiler, it will appear in RM in the All Rigs/My Profiler folder.

Yes, but i would like to be able to save it through RM.

Quote from timo

The Profiler keeps the currently loaded Rig over a power cycle. It is not saved, it is just still loaded.

Sure, but then there is no way to save it on RM

Let's say i modify settings on a rig, then shut down Rig Manager and the Kemper without saving my rig.

The next day when i launch again the kemper and RM, the same rig is still loaded. But i don't have any mean to save it with rig manager. I have to get to my Kemper, save it on the unit, then load it back in rig manager.
I understand that when lauching RM, the Kemper is the "master" and RM is adapting.

But there is no way that i know of to get back the hand on this rig with RM.

Thank you.

Quote from tnipe

We have been heard! ?Thanks, Kemper.

Yes, and when i saw the list of ods the new drive was modelized on, this was approximately what i had in mind when i started this thread.
I only miss the Boss Blues driver, but i suppose it can be done (?) with the settings.

Quote from yeky83

Soft clipper circuits are called ODs. Hard clippers are distortions. There's more variety in fuzzes, but they're most popularly asymmetric soft-hard clippers.

There are exceptions to this : the klon which is called an Overdrive actually uses hard clipping (=diodes).

Let them some time to breath. There has been three days since the last big update and you are already asking for more ?

Quote from andersk08

At full right, the low and high frequencies will be emphasized by 6 dB, while the overall volume stays

roughly the same”

It seems it does the same thing as the "loudness" switch on 80-90's hifi amps.

Quote from Monkey_Man

Kemper introduced Profiling.

The rest relied on DSP algorithms to "synthesise" the result,

What make you think the Kemper is not using DSP algorithms to "synthetise" (actually modyfying, sounds doesn't come from nowhere but from a guitar unlinke in a synthesizer) the sounds which are coming from the unit ?

Quote from Monkey_Man

The stomps can only be modelled via conventional-DSP methods such as component modelling, so nothing Kemper could do would sound as good as Profiling it... in-theory, and so far, in-practice.

What difference do you make between "profiling" and "conventionnal-DSP methods" ?

Quote from ckemper

Not so much. We sold a quite number of Kones and Kabinets already and only had a handful of requests.

Because there are poor souls like myself answering this question every other day on Facebook (not kidding). I'm gonna stop, btw.

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My question on the other hand is, since you are obviously not planning to use the Main Output for a mixing desk, but only the Kone/Kabinet.

Are you doing gigs at all, or usually play at home / rehearsal room only?

Or do you plan to mic your Kabinet?

I'm a bedroom guitarist.

Quote from ckemper

This situation is solved very easily, as mentioned.

No tags needed.

If you want to play direct amp profiles solely through the Kone or Kabinet, and never want to use a virtual cabinet, then chose an arbitrary cabinet and lock it. Done.

The virtual CAB must not be switched off. But you wouldn't hear it anyway.

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This "easyness" is going to hunt your support team down for a few years, me think.

Is there any chance we could have someday a version of the Kabinet which would be convertible ?

Quote from sambrox

Prospective customers that might be persuaded to go the Kemper route because of the updates would exist whether they introduce them with a new product as a hardware update or not.

I don't agree. Providing free update and active maintenance on a 7 o 8 years old product increase the product value and convince new customers to buy it. It's one of the reason that allowed them to increase the price, imho.

Quote from benmars800

I'm still confused about the use of the kone imprints. Can you use this setup as follows : Guitar > KPA > direct profile (DI) > Celestion imprints > Monitor out (Cab off) > Power AMP > Kabinet ? The reason i'm asking , when i tied this setup with Yamanha HS8 using DI profile, it sounded still like a DI and did not influence the Impulse response, However when i try a merged profile, i could hear the Celestion imprints on my Yamaha HS8

Ckemper said that you have to add a cab to the DI profile (and so make it merged), so the cab part can be ignored (!) by the profiler when using an imprint. I find that strange, but it is how it's supposed to be done. I'm pretty sure it will add a LOT of confusion to an already confusing studio/DI/merged distinction.

Quote from skoczy

it's expensive, bur would love to try it - it is not available at the moment in Europe (should be at the end of April) don't look fir cheaper, look for better

But Kempes is advising to use a SS amp, not a tube amp.

Quote from ckemper

In the case that you want to run Direct Amp Profiles straight into the Kone without using any other output, we would call this an exceptional way of using the Profiler. However, you can solve this situation by simply establishing an arbitrary cabinet (which wouldn't be heard in the end).

I don't think this is that exceptional.
It's probably the way most people that use a guitar cab at home or without a PA use their Direct Amp Profiles. Unless i'm missing something here.
Most of the profile sellers distribute "direct amp" profiles, rarely merged.