Posts by Xisale

Quote from Lpcustom

Thank you! These sound fantastic- great job on your profiles!

Quote from leo helm

Love them,also nice templates to put effects in!

Great to hear!!

Here is one that I found that is truly excellent : ZK 5150 1 High Gain by Zanderkeen Production.

There are also some other very cool profiles in this collection.

Excellent dialing of the amp here and very well balanced tone. Thank you for these great profiles!

To all: You're welcome! Don't forget to tell me what you think once you've tried them

Hi everyone,

I have made profiles of my Bogner Überschall rev blue Head.

As I like that a lot of people are sharing their profiles here, I thought it would be faire to share mine too

The cab I used is an ENGL 412 pro slanted with V30, and the mic was an SM57.

Here are the profiles : Alexis' Uber.zip

Here is how to read my code:

NB = No boost

On A = On axis

Off A = Off axis

Bomba = boosted with a Bombastorsion

TS9 = boosted with a tube screamer

BB pre = boosted with a BB preamp

The EQ settings were always the same. I only slightly changed the gain setting between the different versions.

I used my Remige Red Falcon to refine the profiles. The bridge PU is Dominger Raw, and the Neck PU is a Dominger Flaming pepper.

Here are pictures of my profiling session and of the settings I used:

Hope you will enjoy!

Cheers,

Alexis

I tried to lower that one of -30 dB, but still got the "amp too noisy" message...

Hi!

Yesterday, I tried to profile my amp using a 1073 preamp in addition to the mic, to bring the nice color of the preamp in the profile. The problem is when I tried to do so, the Kemper stopped the profiling and there was a message saying "amp too noisy". My guess is that I should lower the volume of the return input of the KPA to counter balance the gain of the preamp, but I can't find where to do that on the Kemper.

Could somebody help me with this please?

I followed Tim's advice and tried to push "init globals" on the system menu: It worked!!

I still don't know exactly what the problem was but now I don't have cracks anymore.

Thank you Tim!! And thank you all for your help. I'm sure it will still be useful in the future.

OK, it didn't exactly sound like a digital click to me either. I posted a picture in the previous page

Quote from musicmad

I think we can rule out the interface if it happens on the Kemper headphone output as well. Could you post a recording of it perhaps?

I posted a short extract in my very first post in this topic There is a very audible crack in the beginning plus multiple other little cracks after that.

Quote from JedMckenna

If you have a friend who has another interface you could borrow temporarily, you can check if the problem is your interface. I have a soundcard that seems to work differently from season to season and I can't wait to replace it. Welcome to the rabbit hole of troubleshooting recording issues. How many times I had to re-track the same thing twice or more is actually embarrassing. Good luck.

It's definitely not the interface this time (surprisingly). Thanks for your support!

Quote from hubzim

I once had clicks caused by electrostatic discharge to bad shielded pu introduced by moving the hand on the pickguard

You can try moving your hand like playing but without picking the strings to see if this leads to clicks

Cheers

I could try that, but considering that I got the cracks with 3 different guitars, this seems very unlikely. My main axe is a luthier's custom model with Dominger pickups and shielded electronics...

Hardly ever. Only if I hit the strings really hard, and it lasts for a blink (input section only, not output).

The cracks usually don't happen during these times.

Hi! Thank you all for the answers.

Today I ran some tests: I tried to play with 3 different guitars with 3 different pickups, humbuckers and splits.

You actually inspired me to test my sound chain, so I plugged my headphones directly in the headphones output of the KPA, and guess what? All 3 guitars made cracks even when I was listening directly through headphone output of the KPA.

To be sure I wasn't crazy, I launched Logic Pro and recorded the 3 guitars, and in every recording, I could hear these little crack...

I also tried to played with different profiles. Cracks again.

So what can we conclude from that? Are these cracks normal? Would I get them also if I played through a real amp? Does my profiler have an issue?

PS: I have tried to use another cable. It didn't fix the problem.

I just tried many things:

Recording in 44,1 Khz: Doesn't change a thing. Interesting fact: Even if I record in Analog, I still get some crackles, but they seem less obvious than in SPDIF.

I tried to turn the SPDIF volume knob down a little but it didn't change a thing either.

Then I thought this might be due to some clipping in the input section. I have noticed that the DI tracks sometimes clip if I hit the strings really hard. But even if I turn the clean sens to -5db, these crackles still happen.

So in conclusion, I get these crackles, whatever I do. Maybe they come from some things in my playing. I have noticed that they seem to appear more in my rythm playing, especially when I play heavy palm mutes and sudden dynamic changes. But they don't seem to appear much on my solo tracks. Maybe this comes from the profile used too.

Quote from Morph

Thanks ! I'm going to try that.

Quote from Guavadude

Honestly I could barely hear it in your clip. I wouldn't worry about it. Move on, add drums and bass and vocals or whatever, you'll never hear it.

I certainly wouldn't mess with fixing it. Retrack or move on. Check your recording next time before you get too far down the road.

Typically these kind of spikes can happen when you edit if you don't check your crossfades. You'll especially hear it on bass and kick drum.

Only you will know these are there when you're done with the track. If you listen back to classic records and solo the tracks, there's all kinds of crap on them.

I have actually done a premix with the drums and the bass and I could hear some of them. Maybe I'm just too much of a perfectionist.

The problem is definitely not the cross fades, though. There wasn't any cross fade in the clip I sent here (nor editing or whatnot)

You are absolutely right nonetheless: I will move on and be extra careful next time.

Yet I would still like to find the solution to be able to record with SPDIF in the future.

I tried to redraw the waves but the problem is that the cracks don't appear as very tiny and clear pick as shown in the video but rather than what you can see in the picture I posted above. So if I try to redraw all of this mess, the crack is replaced by some kind of white noise. That's not really better

Quote from Morph

Which version of the 6i6 are you using? The software looks different to mine which is the 2nd generation.

I have the first generation one. The software is called Scarlett MixControl.

Quote from Guavadude

To me the playing is the fun part. I'd just play it again. I spend so much time dealing with software, troubleshooting issues, doing all kinds of stuff that isn't music. When I get to the actually playing part, I play it awhile. I might do 30 takes of something if I just feel like it and am having fun.

So unless you were playing the most inspired of your entire life, I'd consider just having fun and do it all again. You'll probably like the new takes better and can try different things until you figure out what's causing your issue.

Actually, I think I did the absolute best I can do on these takes. The composition isn't going to change now and I would just feel irritated and tired if I had to put them to the thrash and play them all over again. I'm actually pretty tired already...

I tried to zoom on the track and I was actually able to see a crack were it appears. Here is a screenshot.

The problem is that many times, they happen in the middle of a note/chord, so if I'd lower the gain on this part, the there would be a weird blank instead...

Quote from Vinny Burns

Any crackles/pops in the audio can be zoomed right into. They are normally just a sample or two long. You can highlight them and just reduce the gain of that selection massively and the crackle will normally disappear on playback.

Thanks, I will try that! Maybe this would be a way to save my recordings...

Quote from Yoda Guitar

What about the buffersize DAW ?

Maybe dropout clicks because off buffer under run or cpu overload ?
Did you use a backing track with a lot of processor load while recording?

Only a Idea ..

As said before, I didn't change anything on the buffer settings on Logic Pro. I only checked the "low latency mode" to avoid having a huge latency.

I have done a lot of recordings before with other gear and never had any issues of this kind, so I really doubt the problem is my computer's CPU.

The backing track was just a single audio file so once again, I doubt it took a lot of CPU power. Thanks for helping me trying to find, anyway.

BTW, I just tried to play again with the same setup, and this time, Logic Pro wasn't even launched. As a result, I still got some cracks here and there while playing. So I think we can say that the DAW is definitely out of the problem.