Your monitors and the volume you listen have a big impact on the listening pleasure. I was using some budget monitors and they made the Kemper sound budget. Not a killer if you're recording, since the full glory gets captured, but not inspiring.
Have you got some good headphones? Plug those into the Steinberg and if you still aren't getting a great sound at decent volume then there may be some input configuration needed.
Hi there! What type of cables are you using to connect the Kemper outputs to the Steinberg? If XLR mic cables the Steinberg might be treating the signal as a mic and adding preamp (maybe even phantom power?).
Make sure to try it with regular guitar cables if you haven't.
Otherwise I suspect a setting in the Steinberg to get it to know what it's getting.
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If in doubt, record a sample of one of the default rigs on your phone and send it to Kemper. They should hopefully be able to tell if there's a flaw.
If you like the Kab you can always get another if stereo will be useful for you.
I'd leave your existing cab the way it is and get a powered Kab. That gives you a grab and go option that DOESN'T sound like FRFR. When I'm playing a profile of a Bogner Shiva with V30 speakers it sounds like the amp. In the room.
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Nice tune,sensitive playin.Like it.
Recorded the same a few years ago and i asked me where are the other ~ 4:00 min.
I struggled improvising to just 3 minutes. I need more RAM if I'm going to attempt 7. 😀
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Thank you! I've been compared to worse. I just hit record and try not to get ahead of myself or sound too much like my influences. 😎
It's an unusual combination in some respects. A Fender amp, Strat scale and construction, neck humbucker, 9 gauge strings... confused???
Here's my Anderson neck humbucker through a Bogner Lyndhurst compressor and the M Britt 67 Proverb 2 2 rig. Reverb, delay, and a bit of channel strip in the mix. Just a single take mess around.
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Display MoreThe Monitor out on a non-powered unit is a line level signal (something like 3V peak to peak would be the max amplitude). The powered signal from the power head is going to have much higher output voltages - that is what amplification is - it is an increase in the amplitude of the signal, so the powered output would have much higher voltages and be able to deliver high current as well.
A back of the envelope calculation - 600 watts is the stated limit for the Power Head and
Power = Volts x current and
at 8 ohms load: Ohms law gives
Voltage = I x R = current in Amps x 8
=> 600/8 = current squared
So solving for voltage too - maybe looking at peak output that is something under 10 amps max current and 80 volts max signal amplitude at full power (accurate RMS power calculations involve more complex math - integral calculus etc)
I think you misinterpreted my comment. I said the same, but powered. I understand Ohms Law and how power relates to current and voltage. Both have the same sonic characteristics apart from volume and Fletcher M effect.
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I thought the speaker output on the powered Kemper delivers the exact same signal as the Monitor, but powered.
Two quick comments:
1) I know a guy with a Boss GT8. And he swears by a Nobles OD in front of it. Amazing tone always.2) A speakers output may change a lot at loud volumes. The speaker will go into mechanical compression (ie have trouble moving back and forth linearly for the volume). So you get some compression and a mid boost, I think, when the speaker is driven. May sound thicker, more present, and be more responsive to touch. Or you can have it too loud and it sounds like crap, but will ascend you to Valhalla
I think if he's a great guitarist he'll make anything sound great.
I bet he could make a Kemper with the Nobles in front sound better than his GT8. 🙂
I think you're in the "guitar volume knob" camp with a budget of zero. I do understand financial constraints and wish there was a way.
I was at the bleeding edge of digital amps. I ordered a Line 6 Axys 212 as soon as they came out. That was a really good amp and sounded excellent. 50W stereo. But... it was always missing something. Part of that was my misunderstanding of volume. I initially thought it sounded "digital" because I was expecting the huge Marshall lead patch to sound realistic at home levels. Then I got it into the band and it really sounded like an amp.
I used to use a Boss GT-8 with my Bogner in 4 cable mode and it sounded great. The amp sims not so much.
Kemper has raised the bar so far that when I go back to some of my old stuff it sounds really low-fi and "digital".
To be fair my wife has always been really supportive of my music habit. 😎
I have seen tube preamps and solid state power amps but have not seen a digital preamp with a tube power amp. Interesting...
Sorry - I was wrong.
