Posts by mapleleaf14

Here are a couple "samples" of what you can find at the Bandcamp page linked above...

"SEE HOW THEY FLY"...

"DIME THAT PIG"...

So, long story short...a couple years back my Chocolate Lab died, then my Mom passed, then I got a month-long bout of Bell's Palsy (luckily it cleared up!), and then my house flooded due to a water main break about 8 houses up the street...ON MY BIRTHDAY no less. This all happened in about a 6-month span!

My driveway was the only driveway that sloped down so the water traveled down the street and then turned into my driveway and into the first floor of my house!

Anyway, after not playing guitar for several years, I needed something to focus my mind on after all of this turmoil, so I started playing again and then got into recording, so I started recording myself. I decided I wanted to "release" something so I started a Bandcamp page. I didn't want to charge anybody, but since there is a "pay whatever you want if you want" feature, my girlfriend said "Why don't you do that and donate anything you get to a good charity?"

So I decided to set it for FREE, but give the option for people to pay if they want and I'd donate 100% of the money to a charity. I started with the Little Kids Rock organization for a bit, and now I am doing the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

If anyone is interested, all of my EP's are available at MY BANDCAMP PAGE (49 so far...my 50th is coming in Sept. for my 50th birthday...excellent timing on my part that was total coincidence!)

There are a few tracks with vocals spread out here and there, but the VAST majority of it is guitar influenced instrumental tracks...most on the rock/hard rock side of things...I'm an '80s kid that grew up on that era's music!

I write it all, and all instruments & programming are me as well. All the guitar & bass sounds are Kemper! HW (Jonathan) gave me the "TJ Everything Pack" so a TON of those profiles are used, as well as some of the profiles from Big Hairy Guitars, and a couple of my own.

I'd love any feedback...and if there's anything you like, would love for you to download it! Don't feel obligated to pay anything, but just know that if you do, it's 100% donated to Make-A-Wish.

Thanks!

-Eric

Also thinking of getting two Kones to put in my EVH III 212 cab...I use a non-powered head in the studio, but I have a powered head and that 212 in my "man cave" room for just playing/practicing at home, as well as a powered rack version and another 212 cab that I leave where our band practices which is also the rig I use when we gig (if we ever get back to being allowed to gig!!). I know it's a little crazy to have 3 Kempers for this, but it's just the way I decided to go!

Anyway, I plan on trying out the Kones in the "man cave" cabinet first before messing with the "gig rig" set up...if all goes great with the first cab, I'll do the other when money allowed.

So I would just replace both the stock Celestions and keep the wiring the exact same as it is now (which would give me 8 ohms?) right?!? (The stock EVH cab is 16 ohms)

Seems too simple but I guess it is.

I'm thinking it's a no-brainer given how many people seem to love the Kones, but I do have my powered Kemper profiles tweaked to sound great with the stock EVH cab...I'd imagine I'll need to tweak to taste once I replaced the speakers but to be honest I haven't dove into the manuals or anything concerning the Kone/Imprints thing yet.

Quote from Slyman

I opened up a new thread yesterday, but realized that maybe I should've posted this here.

Here are some observations, hopefully someone can confirm by replicating this on their system:

1) When opening a 2nd RM window, if I turn items (stomps, amp effect, etc.) on/off on the Kemper itself, it does not reflect on the editor.

It still works if done from the editor, but not the other way around.

2) Dragging presets from a 2nd RM window to editor does now allow to save it after modifications, as the "store" button is greyed out.

3) Dragging IR's (.wav) to a RM folder converts them automatically, but you need to exit that folder and go back in order to use them.

Easy to work around these issues, but I just though I would point this out as I'm sure the Kemper teams wants our feedback.

This is on a Win 10 system. Can anyone else confirm this?

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Yes, and I find that when I open a second RM window, RM stops reflecting any changes...like when I select a different profile, the knobs and settings shown in RM still reflect whatever profile I was on when I opened the second window. I have to close the second window and unplug the USB and replug it in to get it to go back to normal.

So like if I have effects in one profile that I like and want to apply to a different profile, I would open a second window so I could "build" a new profile, but when I opened the new profile, it would still have the knob settings of the first profile, as well as the Store button not being available.

I'm on a Mac by the way.

Hopefully that makes sense.

I kept getting a website not available error this morning so I got excited thinking that maybe the Kemper crew was updating something due to the release of the editor...unfortunately now that it's working again I see no reason for the error!

Quote from Nothingleft09

Yeah I'm still having issues with os7. Main issue is i keep my kemper on favorites so I don't have to scroll through forever to grab what I want and it's reverting to all profiles every startup. When I switch to favorites it takes 4-5 times of having to switch back and forth between all rigs and favorites for it to show my favorites list.

Exactly the same for me.

Quote from HifiPhil

Running latest OS for Windows. Updated last time, a few days ago. Was hoping it would fix the issue I had come up from the update prior. My favorites folder view isn't working. Either the Kemper thinks every rig is a favorite or none of them are. Seem to think it either made every preset a favorite, as if none were, going to that setting would show nothing. Anyone have a fix? If not, how do I go backwards with OS updates?

I just updated on Saturday and this is happening to me too...I cycled through to "My Rigs" (which I don't have anything in) and then when I went back to favorites it was working normal again. Also, several new rigs that I "favorited" weren't showing up but doing that helped that too. (I'm on Mac though FWIW)

On Sunday, everything seemed to be ok so maybe a power cycle helped?

Quote from MikeStoner

The most 80s shred guitar I ever saw was a pink and black zebra-striped Jackson Explorer. Awesome!

I had a pink/black zebra Hamer Scarab back in the day...it was way over the top!

Mike - if you DO profile it...it'd be a whole lot cooler if you shared it on the Rig Exchange!

Ok gang...since the studio Mac was working, I just copied the "package contents" from that RM onto a USB drive and replaced the Mac Air's RM package contents with that, and now when I open RM on the Air, it says it is Version 2.1.7...SO, in a weird, roundabout way I was able to get the 2.1.7 Beta RM on that computer and it appears to be working...whew...what a pain in the butt, but at least everything seems good now.

Now I'm just too burnt to play around with the reverbs any more tonight...gonna dive back in tomorrow and just watch my Maple Leafs for the rest of the evening!

Thanks for the advice guys...if anyone else is having Mac issues - try doing what I did if you have access to a second Mac (provided the second Mac was able to update to the beta RM!)

uninstall didn't help...still says I'm up to date with 2.1.61

does anyone have the Mac version of 2.1.7 that they could send me or post a link to by any chance?!?

So, I tried RM on my Mac in my studio and it prompted me to update to 2.1.7 as soon as I booted up the program! For whatever reason, I can't get it to do it on my Mac Air that I use in my living room with that Kemper. (I have a powered Kemper that I use for my home playing, and a non-powered Kemper in my studio, and a powered Rack Kemper I gig with.)

No idea why the Mac computer in the studio would prompt me for the update, but the Air won't...they are both using the same Mac OS, and they are both on the same wifi network.

Anyone know if there is a way to put the studio mac's version of RM on to a USB drive so I can install it on my Mac Air?!?

This is odd! LOL

Thanks for the advice gang...I have actually done all of that.

I'm going to uninstall RM again and try it again.

I tried RM first but after about an hour, it kept saying it was up to date so I went ahead and did the OS update via USB and then tried RM again.

Oddly, my Reverb button works, unlike what HW was showing in the Tone Junkie video.

Anyway, my reverbs are working fine - I just can't use Rig Manager right now.

I'm using a Mac by the way.

Quote from MuddySludge

I loaded it with a flash drive hours ago, the natural reverb is lushes.

I have the OS updated no problem, and yes the reverbs are killer. I just can't update Rig Manager...and I've done everything that everyone has said to do, including HW in the Tone Junkie video. No go.

Quote from Deej09

because it’s a beta and not an actual release. The same with the latest 5.7 OS update

yeah, but the reverb update is Beta and it's available. they could just put it in the beta section.

yeah, been doing that too...no luck yet. I've restarted the computer, RM, re-installed RM, etc. - just keeps saying I'm up to date. This is the ONLY issue I've ever had with any of my 3 Kempers...luckily I've only attempted this new update on one of them.

yeah, already done everything that's been mentioned both here on the forum and also in TJ's video above.

Why can't they just put RM 2.1.7 in the downloads section...since it IS a requirement.

I did and it doesn't...just keeps saying mine is up to date.

Dudes, where the hell is Rig Manager 2.1.7?!?

Mine is on 2.1.61 and says its up to date, so I can't update thru RM, and can't find it anywhere online!

Quote from russmusic

I couldn't believe that these aren't readily available... but... less than 2 minutes on google...

Yeah - never said I couldn't find any...I found all those and more...just trying to figure out if that's they way I wanted to go, and I think it probably is! (Some of them are way too expensive for what they are though IMO). There are a ton of them that looked like they came close to doing what I wanted but fewer that will do 2 (or more) left/right IN and one left/right OUT. The Markertek one was the one I was leaning towards initially but I may go with the one I posted above just because I think the cables in the back and the switches on the front would be the best for my setup, and it's less expensive.

Trying to decide in my head if I want to go that route, or just get a better interface that also has more inputs.

Quote from russmusic

The Ernie Ball pots aren't ideal, as you get most of the movement in the last 25% as you head towards the toe position - in other words, they are not linear.
But they do feel so good

Must also say that they are not good quick heel to toe movements either... and of course, you haven't got the switch under the toe position either.

The EB Jr. pedal works fantastic as an expression pedal on the Helix...I use it a lot for wah and you get response for the entire travel of the pedal. I don't have a need for the toe switch so that doesn't matter. I'll have to try it on the KPA...it's probably not ideal for the KPA, so I may end up with another Mission.

Thanks guys!

I'm actually thinking what I really want is just a quick, easy way to switch between the two...I have zero interest in controlling the KPA with the Helix, or using the Helix's effects with the KPA. So like when I want to use the KPA, I "flip a switch" and it's signal is going to my interface, then when I want to use the Helix I "flip the switch" and it's signal is going to my interface...that's basically all I'm wanting to do, so I think something like the XLR switcher I posted a picture of above is the direction I need to go in. Other than plugging the guitar into whichever one I want to use, I want the rest of the cabling already done so to speak. Until I upgrade my interface (which other than more inputs I don't really see a need to do right now), some sort of XLR switcher is probably the way to go.

There are things that the Helix just does better than the KPA so I want to keep both of them. While I don't find the KPA hard to work with, the Helix is ridiculously easy to program/setup - and a big part of that is being able to use the editor - which we'll eventually get with the KPA (we better...blows my mind that this hasn't happened yet). I personally also prefer the Helix for bass, the way it does harmony parts / pitch effects is a lot better / easier, there's phantom power for mics, the reverbs are better, the floor controller is better, etc. Of course, this is all my opinion - there are surely people that would disagree. I initially thought that I'd either be swept away by the KPA, or find that I like the Helix way more...but I'm kinda sitting right at 50/50 now...so the KPA is paid for...the Helix is paid for...I'm planning on just keeping them both!

My KPA came with one of the green Mission expressions pedals so I'm using that currently, but have been using an Ernie Ball Volume Jr. pedal as an expression pedal with the Helix and much prefer the feel of it over the Mission pedal, but I know the Mission was built specifically for the KPA so that's nice. In my laziness, I just haven't yet tried the Jr. pedal with the KPA, but thought I saw somewhere that due to it's pot inside, it wasn't ideal (or might not work at all) with the KPA? I'm thinking of adding a second expression pedal to the KPA/Remote setup and was just going to get another Mission (maybe the black one this time to differentiate the two!) but I'll have to try the Jr. with it...if it works I may get another one of those. (they're way cheaper too!)