Posts by Locrain

Quote from Per

It completely changed the pitch of my guitar, wooeep dooooooooooow! The singer who is a conspiracy theorist was so freaked out thinking the aliens had finally found him that he lost his place and tried to curl up and hide inside the kick drum which caused the entire drum-kit to collapse on stage showing that our drummer only ever dresses the upper portion of his body, a rolling cymbal hit the back of the bass players leg causing him to become unbalanced at the same time as half the audience projectile vomited or spat their beer in disbelief making the stage a horrible slippy mess, the bass player spasmodically tried to keep his balance but ultimately slid or is that tripped up sustaining a mild concussion but not before throwing his p-bass into the lighting rig which shorted out and fried the club electronics as well as setting off the sprinkler system, in the ensuing panic of sparks, bodies, vomit and questionable beer 30 people were trampled and ended up in hospital and a small bag of peanuts was stolen from the bar area. I stood magnificent on the stage during it all pick held aloft, dreamy look on face. Overall this was a win with fewer casualties than our usual concerts. Highly effective, would use again. 4/5 stars.

To bad you're out in CA, I'd love to see a show.

I am trying to reamp using S/PDIF. I bought these cables from Monoprice, and they will not work because the connections on the Kemper are too small and recessed. I should have known, they're obviously huge.

https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=21679

So I need to order some different ones (or maybe different connectors, these seem to come off with an allen set screw), and I would like to know which cable you personally successfully use in your Kemper, so I don't make the same silly mistake twice. I was looking at these, but they still look slightly large compared to a RCA cable (which I did try, but was not happy with).

https://www.monoprice.com/Prod…&p_id=2680&seq=1&format=2

I appreciate any input, thank you.

I ordered some from monoprice, but they wouldn't fit. I used some cables I had lying around, and was able to set my interface as slave to the kemper, and get it to work a little, but still had problems. I guess I should make sure I have proper cables and try it again since there's less a/d/a conversion than reaping with an analogue output.

I'll bump this because I'm having this issue as well. C. Kemper has noted that the noise floor is something to keep an eye on while reamping. I tried spdif at first, I had to get two Toslink/RCA converters, one A/D and one D/A. since my interface is optical. I had a lot of trouble even getting this to work, it would, then wouldn't, and I could never get it right. Plus, I really didn't like the idea that I had bought the Babyface in part because of it's excellent A/D/A converters, and then I was just putting it through cheap crappy ones. So I switched to analogue, got it working very quickly, seems great, but there is a bit of noise. I don't think I hear it when the guitar is playing, but it's there, especially as the gain comes up. It's not a huge deal, I can take care of it in my DAW I'm sure, but it'd be nice to not have. That's interesting that a reamp box works well for you, I may just have to do that.

Edit...wait...are the Kemper spdif connections digital? I thought I read they were, but It seems like I had to use regular RCA cables to hook it up.

Yup. Looks like a cool little device. I used to carry around an old Randall RG100ES as a backup for my H&K Triamp MKII, so my requirements for aa backup are not terribly high.

I'm not sure if Kemper has their own definition for "rig", but my rig is everything from my board to guitar. Obviously the kemper has no built in guitar (yet, haha) but I always just assumed "rig" included the stomps. I mean, the stomps are right there in page 5 of the Rig section.

Quote from szykman

Midi Uno, Korg, M-audio

do not pick up that cheap midi usb chinese cables, they miss the support to SysEx

have a look at toast me on facebook or at this thread there are already some list of supported devices

good luck!

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I got the Midi Uno yesterday, easy setup, works just fine so far. Advertised inside the package for win 7 with a sticker saying "now supporting win 8 on the outside of the box", I had no problems at all running 64-bit win 10. Self-installing drivers, couldn't have been easier.

Now, as far as connecting it to Toast ME, just make sure and watch a setup video and pay attention if you're not used to this. I was wondering why it wasn't working, I didn't realize I had to set the Kemper to use MIDI channel 1. Just simple stuff, but you don't know what you don't know.

And this stuff is just going to get cheaper and cheaper, and better and better and better. Pretty crazy!

Quote from wwittman

FWIW I am using the Transpose stomp on bass guitar in our set in a few songs and it’s working great.

Either down 1/2 step or a whole step, I can’t complain about the tracking or latency at all.

I did find that it sounds best with the Transpose in the first slot, before any other effects if any.
That way I’m chorusing or distorting the new pitch, as though I’ve returned, rather than pitch shifting the chorus etc.

Yeah, it really shines going down, that's for sure. But I was just tracking a song with the transpose up +2, and I didn't notice any issues at all. I'm sure there's a tiny bit of latency, but I think the @Eltzejupp is right, that what throws people off is hearing their strings, which causes a feeling of...discomfort. I didn't have my monitors turned up that loud, and the strings were very disconcerting, like my playing was off because part of my brain "knew" I was playing the wrong chords, and I think my playing suffered as a result. Later I decided to try messing around with Transpose with closed-back headphones, and it sounded really good.

So, when you put in in a stomp, it goes first, do you happen to know where it is placed when you modify it under the "Rig" section?

Quote from Zappledan

So, not really a backup for the Kemper ...

It has overdrive, what else ya want?

●Squeeze all the tonal mojo of blues, jazz, and country music into one compact bar-sized unit, with 4 essential types of guitar effect: a mellow compression, a creamy overdrive, a vintage slap-back delay and a natural reverb.
●Also a great tool for all the outlaw root rockers, with a powerful overdrive section that can push your amp over the edge of breaking-up, to the sonic territory of all the classic rock sound.
●Combining the compression and overdrive section, you get yourself a Dumble-like tone machine, with a natural sustain that goes on for days, and a pronounced mids that can easily cut through the mix.
●A built-in cab simulator for getting a real guitar cabinet sound straight from the PA system; Max delay time: 500ms

Sounds an awful lot like a cheap Kemper backup to me...

His 2nd link:

• Packing almost the entire tonal essence of 80's arena rock n' roll into one bar-shaped unit, with a glassy and transparent, BBD-style chorus, a crushing hot rod Marshall-stack crunch distortion, a natural-sounding delay, and a spacious reverb.
• Turn on every module on the bar, with a little tweaking, you've got yourself THE EPIC lead tone, which is dynamic, responsive to your hands, with long sustain, and cuts through the mix like a knife through butter.
• A built-in cab simulator for getting a real guitar cabinet sound straight from the PA system; Max delay time: 500ms

Sounds an awful lot like a cheap hi-gain Kemper backup to me...

Well, I redid the intro with some drums I programmed and bass also. Programming drums is still very new to me, as is using an actual DAW (for probably over ten years I've just used this cheap easy Rifftracker DAW-like program Line 6 makes), but I was pretty happy with this. Some compression/limiting/etc as well. I remembered to turn both boosts on this time!

Trick here: One file was as DoM played it, tuned to Drop B, the main riffing at position one. The other file is a guitar tuned down to Drop Bb playing at position 0 with the Transpose parameter at +2. So they're in the same key, but two very different ways of getting about it. I was mostly just curious, I haven't used the transpose much...It is very distracting to track at lower levels, you can really hear the strings, and it gets in your head, haha.

I'm afraid levels aren't *exactly* the same between the two, I had several power outages during the recording of this that really got annoying, and messed me up a little. I gotta get a backup battery surge protector thing.

https://soundcloud.com/user218712932/silent-dumsy

https://soundcloud.com/user218712932/silent-drumsx

Quote from deadpan

Seriously though @Locrain , I see no flaw in your playing.

How do the P90's compare to standard humbuckers for you?

Thanks man. We're all our own worst critics. I should practice more and whine less.

I have always been a humbucker guy. Thought single coils were just for country//jazz/classic rock maybe, but I've always been after a more modern tone (Shawn's VHT tone on that DoM album is about as good as it gets for me), so I never considered single coils. Oh yeah, and I had a McCarty Soapbar for a while, and I really really hated those pickups, so I didn't think much of P90s until about a year or so ago, whenever the used SE277s started hitting the market.

A PRS baritone semi-hollow with the f-hole has always been my dream guitar, I used to be a huge Breaking Benjamin fan, he has a really cool one. But The Private Stock program was the only way to do that, and even if I could swing it, I could never justify dropping $10k-$15k on a guitar. So it was never going to happen. The PRS actually released one, I would have loved a US model, but cash has been tight lately (saved for a long time for the Kemper), so it's probably just as well that it's the SE line.

Which, by the way, if you've never played the SE line, I just have to say: I thought they were going to be crap. What Epiphone is to Gisbon, what Squire is to Fender, but nothing could be further from the truth, I think they are the best value on the market, full stop. I've recommended Rondo/Agile for 10 years for people who are looking for that real bang-for-the-buck, but now I just say "PRS SE line". I think they're even made in the same factory? Not sure about that, but fit/finish/playability on the SEs that I've had are far better than anything I've ever gotten from Rondo.

Anyway, PRS had finally made my dream gutar, right color, birds, f-hole, everything, but they forgot to ask what kind of pickups I wanted.

So they put soapbars on the semi-hollow, and 'buckers in the solid-body. I was sad. So I started looking up "P90-sized humbuckers" "P90 for rock", etc, and found that my best bet was something by Bare Knuckle, who I was already a huge fan of. They had two that caught my eye, if you don't know, they tend to name pickups after songs or bands that they sort of sound like. They had two named after Muse songs, who I really love. A Supermassive" in the Vintage Hot section, and a Stockholm in the Contemporary section. I am a really really strong believer in getting pickups that are not too hot/squashed, and let the amp do the grunt work, ESPECIALLY on a baritone, with the extra output from the larger strings/longer scale.

So I got the Supermassives. When I put them in, I was kind of blown away. They are AMAZING. They are huge, massive sounding, maybe more than any humbucker I've had. Thick creamy single lead notes, blooming articulate chords, brutal chuggachugga and single note riffs, absolutely as hot as I would ever want or need, phenomenal cleans, and...no noise. Not to speak of. I really can't say enough good things about the pickups. They have totally changed my outlook on single coils, I'm about to wire up a '72 Custom Reissue Tele with a BPK custom WHRB rewind humbucker in the bridge, and their Flat 50 single coil in the bridge. Looking forward to that.

But the guitar is amazing. I actually think it's the best sounding and maybe, the playing guitar I've ever owned. And I have had PRS MEs, nice Les Pauls, etc. I dunno if I just got lucky or what, but I highly highly recommend this guitar/pickup combo for anyone remotely interested in a baritone.

And no, I don't work for PRS or BPK.

Quote from deadpan

I think we will have to ban you from saying your playing is sloppy haha, really, if we were all prefect we would sound like sample. No thanks.

Quite an interesting guitar. Thanks for posting the clip, did you activate any of the boosts?

Haha, fair enough. The boosts are great...but I think I forgot to turn them on for the clip. They do work very well through.

Quote from MOCMunkeh

In my experience (I use transpose a lot) going up always sounds a lot worse than going down, going up you get a very electronic sound to it rather than it being natural sounding.

However going down a few semi-tones I don't feel like I have the same issue, the profile you are using will make a huge difference on how much of that computerized effect you will hear. I mostly use this on high gain profiles and don't have a problem with the way it sounds because i only drop down.

With regards to the individual string tuning, i think it would be possible but the problem faced is you only have one signal going in to the unit so it would have to identify each string and the change them individually that way, this would take a substantial amount of processing power and would just lead to a delay in your playing like you hear with transpose.

All in all, i find transpose to be useful as i only really drop down a tone!

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I've had the same experience, I can go up maybe a half-step before it gets all Star Trek on me, past that it's a bit much. Would actually be a cool effect, it still sounds good, but it starts to sound very different 3 or 4 semitones into it.

But tuning down is really impressive, at first I couldn't believe how accurately it captured that raunch and growl that you usually only get from putting on big string and tuning down. Pretty impressive.

However, my main guitar is a baritone, so I could actually get more use out of it the other way around. Bb is low enough already.

Quote from HELL-G

Check out the BE100 Rigs by author Dill, especially the ones with the Valve cab.

Nice! The Valve cab did sound better, I just imported one of the Marshall profiles. They sound really good though.

Quote from Torniojaws

I'm more a metal mixer, and there quad tracking reigns supreme for anything beyond demos There are a couple of approaches to quad tracking:

1. Record two times with Amp 1 and pan both tracks eg. L100 and L75 - L90, then record another two times with Amp 2 and pan both eg. R100 and R75 - R90

This will give you a very wide sound, as the two different amps will result in a different enough tone that you can really "feel" the width. It takes some effort to get the stereo balance correct though.

2. Record two times with Amp 1 and pan them L100 and R100, and then record Amp 2 two times and pan it eg. L75 and R75.

This will give you a thicker sound with better balance between left and right. However, the stereo image can be far more narrow-sounding compared to first approach.

3. Record four times with the same amp, and pan eg. L100, L80, R80, R100.

This makes the sound bigger and tighter, but needs some extra effort to get a well-rounded tone, as you cannot rely on Amp 2 to fill in the blanks, so to speak.

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This is actually exactly what I've been doing...not really happy with my results (there could be many reasons). I am going to switch to Will's method until I hear or read something credible disproving LCR...I've been reading a lot of articles/blogs last few days and I am so far convinced. But I'm a noob and don't really know much.

Not trying to bash your approach at all, I just thought it was cool that it was the same thing I came up with. When you say "t takes some effort to get the stereo balance correct though.", what seems to affect that? Does it change from amp to amp for you, or from song/song type? I always never had any indication that I was getting it "right", just seemed like I was fumbling in the dark when panning. I did use the 75-90 range though.

Quote from Phantom

Yeah. I called Kemper. For a transpose feature this is the best you can get at the moment. There is also an option under soft knob one that my change the sound for the better.
The tried to transpose individual strings, but it wasn’t possible.

@Phantom which option are you talking about? The only thing I see at soft knob 1 is the panorama feature, which appears to just be a panning knob.

Thanks.

I was looking for the "horns" emoji, but I guess we don't have it.

Quote from Eltzejupp

The biggest problem with this pack is, you get lost in tones.
It's amazing what kind of attack and sound comes out of this kemper beast with this profiles.

Sorry for sloopy playing, it's just a quick shot to demo what can happen with only one of this over 200 profiles.

Totally agree with the first two lines, but I'm going to have to ask that you not refer to your playing as "sloppy" when posting a clip in a thread I have posted a clip in. Because...if you're sloppy, than what am I?

Haha, just kidding around man, sounded great, this pack has great tones.

Quote from Eltzejupp

Hi Tim,

I’d like to say thank you for your great work. You get the hell out of it. Never expected than when I bought the profiles and I was an early bird. We are over 200 Profiles in this pack and you’re still rocking and having new ideas. More low end, ahhh you’re crazy. Really appreciate this.

Cold you do us a favor in the days? Id like to have an overview ( nothing big), about the updates as an pdf file or so. What have done on every update? Cold you place it here as a downloadfile in your first post of this thread?

I think it would be helpful also for some newbees to navigate to the profiles.

Maybe like this:
Release one:
Mics
Cabs
Channel
Special comment

Update one:
Mics
Cabs
Channel
Special comments

and so on?

Just if you have the time and the nerve to do that.

Cheers
Frank

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This would be amazing. I don't want to look a (basically) gift horse in the mouth, but I am a newcomer, and I have a very very hard time knowing what the hell is going on, it all blends together.

But it all sounds great!