Posts by PandaKO

Well I'm in a dorm room so the only other option is putting it on the floor... Oh well

I have very limited space on my desk and the only way I can easily access the Kemper rack is if I stack my ~12lb PC monitor on top of it. The metal casing on the unit appears to be pretty sturdy but I just wanted to check to see if this is a common practice or if anyone has done the same thing. My suspicion is that this isn't a big deal at all but given how expensive the unit is I don't want to take any chances at the moment.

Hey guys, I am strictly a bedroom guitarist at the moment and I have been trying to decide between the Kemper and the Axe FX II. I play guitar daily for extended periods of time and the tone matters to me a lot (it puts me in a really bad mood if my guitar doesn't sound good for whatever reason that day ) so I am fine with shelling out a good bit of money for an amp. I have a set of M-Audio studio monitors that I play through that sound pretty good. It seems to me that all professional musicians I have seen using the Kemper Profiler use it exclusively in a live setting, as opposed to in a home audio setup. Conversely, I have seen many prominent guitarists such as Misha Mansoor and Sithu Aye using Axe FX rigs in their home audio setups (and I believe Sithu uses it to record the guitars for all his albums).

I actually bought a Kemper a while back from August Burns Red's guitarist Brent Rambler so I had access to really good rigs and tones that I did enjoy at the time, but I started to regret the financial hit from the purchase and I sold the Kemper shortly after buying it. Point being that I still have access to all of those tones via backup if I wanted to go the Kemper route. Then again, I saw ABR live a few weeks ago at Warped Tour and I noted that their lead guitar (played by JB Brubaker through an Axe FX) actually sounded way better than Brent's which is going through a Kemper! Brent would be playing breakdown rhythms and JB would be doing leads and then as soon as JB came into play the breakdown and the guitars synced the mix sounded so much better, which made me reconsider buying a Kemper again even if I have Brent's tones. This experience also made me think about why the rhythm guitarist would be using the Kemper and the lead guitarist would use the Axe FX... rhythm guitar is LAME... jkjk.

I am now in a more comfortable financial situation and I am trying to decide between these systems, or to go with something much less expensive like the JST Toneforge Misha Mansoor audio plugin.

If anyone can shed some light on the distinction between the purposes of each respective device and which route I should take given my personal situation it would be much appreciated!!!

Thanks

RESOLVED


It turns out that the 9V battery for my guitar's active pickups was very low, resulting in the distorted signal. I replaced the battery and everything is working properly now.


Thanks for the help everyone!!!

RESOLVED:

I replaced the 9V battery for my active pickups and it fixed the problem. Thanks for your help guys!!!

Quote from mdeeRocks

Could be sample rate mismatch

How do you correct this

Latest release. I cannot make a backup because I do not have a the original USB for the Kemper. I have however backed up all of my rigs and performances through a USB wire to my computer and was considering doing a flash memory reset

Also I don't have the USB that comes with a new Kemper

Also I have installed the latest update for OS

Quote from hjscheffler

Which OS version is installed on your PROFILER? Have you tried to initialise the global settings using the INIT GLOBALS function on page one in the system menu?

I just tried the INIT GLOBALS function and it made my tones sound even worse

Can you point me in the direction of how to backup all Kemper data (rigs, performances, presets, etc)? I've seen conflicting things on the forum and in the manual (which people apparently don't trust).

Literally overnight something happened to my setup or my kemper that is making all of my tones sound horrendous (I bought my device used a few weeks ago). I have made a youtube video demonstrating the discrepancy between tones from just one day to the next. I have tried different guitars, different methods of connecting to my Tascam mixer, listened through headphones, checked connections throughout my entire setup, and the same problem persists. For a brief window yesterday it started working again but went back to having the problem -- and then became even more messed up shortly after. All of my rigs and performances are similarly affected, which leads me to believe there is some sort of interference affecting the entire device.

I just ordered new cables and a new mixer but I'm not sure if that will fix the problem.

Let me know if you guys have any ideas for fixes or if any threads exist that address this problem.

Thanks!

youtu.be/Oh49c2A3fWY

Literally overnight something happened to my setup or my kemper that is making all of my tones sound horrendous (I bought my device used a few weeks ago). I have made a youtube video demonstrating the discrepancy between tones from just one day to the next. I have tried different guitars, different methods of connecting to my Tascam mixer, listened through headphones, checked connections throughout my entire setup, and the same problem persists. For a brief window yesterday it started working again but went back to having the problem -- and then became even more messed up shortly after. All of my rigs and performances are similarly affected, which leads me to believe there is some sort of interference affecting the entire device.

I just ordered new cables and a new mixer but I'm not sure if that will fix the problem.

Let me know if you guys have any ideas for fixes or if any threads exist that address this problem.

Thanks!

https://youtu.be/Oh49c2A3fWY