Posts by mollydyer

Chris Duncan

Hey- I'm doing this today. I don't use PCs at all - it's all control changes. CC#47+value of performance for the selection, and then 50-54 for the slot selection. It's much 'cleaner' -I don't need to remember what PC+Bank is for what. Much easier.

Also- don't freak out if it *looks* like the Kemper is slow to switch. It seems to prioritize the audio over the UI changes. The switch is fast enough that I'd call it dead-perfect.

Also, I'm doing the CC-control-the-wah thing as well. I have a couple of tracks that will also get volume swells in the same way, when I get to it.

I would also find this useful to trigger the looper via midi backing tracks...

Agree. It's not a magic device, even if it's close. It could even be more than 50% the guitar.

Case in point - a couple of rehearsals ago, I found my sound was weak - it just sounded... bad. I played around with the kemper when I got home, and was trying to dial in presets and rigs that I knew once sounded great. I even reset the thing and reloaded from a backup and tried it again. No good.

I walked away from it for the evening and came back the next day. I just happened to pick up my OTHER mockingbird to test it out and... hot damn, it sounded good again. So it looks like my black bird has either a pot, wiring or pickup issue. The gold top doesn't. The pickups are not identical, but they're close enough that it shouldn't have made a huge difference between them.

theplayer

What controller are you using? Is it capable of sending out CC messages (as opposed to program change messages)? If so, then it's just a matter of ordering your performances and slots smartly.

Quote from DennisJ

I just received this message. What a good way to start a day .... The guy is really furious. :

''Hey birdbrain! don't expect me to give you a lift for your equipment any more!!!.

I blocked you on facebook, on instagram, on messenger where you go directly to the garbage (the place you belong to)

Don't dare to call me and don't try to talk to me if we meet by accident caveman !!. I dont wanna see your ugly dickface again!!!! Take your ''precious'' Kemper rigs and put it deeply in your ***!!! ''

Adios

Brad

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Did you know that a person's maturity and intelligence inversely correlates to the number of examination points they use in a single sentence?

Dude- nobody like this would be considered a friend by me. I don't have time for this kind of drama. If you're up this way, shoot me a line. I'll be your friend.

Oh, and also bring your Kemper rigs for me, k?

Will be checking the freebies out tonight.

brianjames Your site is really nicely laid out- may I suggest having samples of your profiles (ie, audio clips) as well?

Kemper 2? Pfft. Old news. I know for a fact there's a Kemper 3 in the works. It not only profiles your amp, it also profiles your groupies.

Unless you're a bass player - there's still not enough processing power or storage. Storage mostly.

Which shures did you get?

TL;DR - Yeah. You want to send everything you want to the IEM. Otherwise it's dangerous to your hearing.

You *normally* want MORE isolation- and then take a monitor mix from the board with the whole band. Doing it the way you're doing it - you gain none of the protection benefits of using IEMs. You could damage your hearing, in fact.

Why?

In a loud room, you'll turn your IEMs up to dangerous levels so that you can hear yourself. You're still competing with the rest of the room for volume.

Isolating the room, you want CONTROL. Can you take a feed from the mixer into the aux in of the transmitter?

Otherwise, depending on which shures you got, you can get smaller foamies- that don't fit as well. But I do not recommend it.

Source: I have tinnitus. It sucks.

I was SURE OP was a troll. It's such a trolly question.

Why would they ship a usb cable with a non-usb accessory?

Troy_e did it show up yet?

Powered or unpowered?

40 watts for what exactly?

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A guy posts that he's unhappy with the product.

On every Internet forum I've seen (regardless of topic), he would be treated to a barrage of snarky comments telling him why he's wrong for feeling that way.

On the Kemper forum, he's greeted by a host of friendly people offering helpful ideas and trying to make things better for him. And this is a normal, everyday occurrence here.

You guys do realize that you're an oddity in the animal kingdom, right?

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Same thing happens over in the "I heard a rumor" thread. Not that long ago, several - specific- members of the Atomic forum were quite hostile. A few even got banned from the forum - because it had been a while since a firmware update. Folks here are awesome. Civil and encouraging.

I'm hoping OP ends up loving his Kemper.

Quote from Chris Duncan

When I bought the powered toaster, my first thought was, "$2400? Are you kidding me? " Then I started looking around and realized that in many cases, 100 watt heads were going for $2000 - $4000. And that's before you get anywhere near something crazy like a Dumble.

Okay, so the price of the head is comparable to others. Fair enough. But wait, there are commercial profile packs, and I have to pay money for them?

There are 13,000 free profiles on the Rig Manager, but I figured the best way to see what this galaxy class starship can do would be to buy some stuff from professionals who were really good at profiling. So, I tried a pack of high gain sounds from a well regarded profiler. It was $40. The quality was excellent. But still, it's a digital product, and I had to pay the guy 40 bucks for it. On top of what I paid for the Kemper!

I decided to do the math on it. Here's a list of the amps that were profiled, and what it would cost me to buy each one today. Not counting the speaker cabinets, or the mics, or the hourly rate from a guy who clearly knows his way around a recording studio and guitar amps. Just the heads.

Friedman BE-50 Deluxe - $5,000

Soldano SLO 100 - $5,000

Mesa Stiletto - $800

Marshall DSL 40C - $500

EVH 5150 III 50 - $1000

EVH 5150 III 100 - $1,800

’78 Marshall JMP 100 Super Lead - $1,700

Bogner Shiva - $2,500

Carvin Legacy V3 - $600

That comes out to $18,900. I paid $40.

And of course, this is just an example from one profiler. The math is going to look very similar with any of these guys.

Now in fairness, I don't get every position of every knob on every amp in the profiles I paid for. However, if I wanted to get the sounds I paid for, that's what I'd have to pay for the amps. And frankly, part of what I was paying for was the expertise to get the most out of these amps, so I don't want every knob position anyway.

Because I'd just purchased the Kemper and wanted to get it loaded up with a good selection, and it was the Black Friday weekend, I splurged and ended up spending several hundred dollars on profile packs from a number of vendors. Based on the simple analysis above, it wouldn't surprise me if it came out to a quarter million dollars worth of amplifier inventory. At any rate, it would easily exceed $100,000. I spent $500.

Expensive? This is the best bang for the buck I think I've ever seen.

There's also a very practical reason for wanting to pay these guys rather than try to find a way to pirate them. I want them to stay in business so that the next time I want to get the sounds from the latest Hot New Amp, they'll still be around and offering this kind of insane value. If I don't pay them, or enough people rip them off, they'll quit doing it. Then I'd have to buy the amps and figure out how to get the sounds myself. Screw that.

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Gonna have to add to your post Chris- 100% agree.

I needed a specific amp for one of our songs - and it's no longer in production. In fact, it hasn't been in production in 30 years. It was rare to begin with- getting one now, getting it working, setting it up... my time is also valuable. So this profile saved me more than just the cost of the amp.

I'm sure thousands of us are in the same boat.

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IBut i have more of a copyleft, creative commons, linux, etc..mindset. I think commercial profiles should not be permitted, i think most of them are way too overpriced. And i think its an abuse when they don't have a demo profile, or the chance to return it if you are not satisfied.

I get what you're saying... but the solution here isn't anything more than voting wth your wallet, right? There are 13,461 profiles in RM at the moment.

Quote from ToneDeaf

I totally thought you were going to go for the 3 arm thing there. Now that I think about it, having a 3rd arm would definitely improve my playing so a 3rd arm would be a great Kemper2 feature

Great for those 11 finger tapping riffs. I mean it's possible today, but it's not dignified.

MikeSybrid Open a ticket up for that... if you can reproduce it, don't wait.

I did have the Kemper lock up twice on me when I first got her, but only one was similar- and it was a shoddy usb cable. (the other time was a midi-feedback loop)

Quote from GearJocke

Ah, those millennials they're so easy to spot on any forum. Read the manual? I don't think so. Too boring and takes time. I just expect others know the answer and I can relax and wait for the answer to arrive. In the meantime I watch something else on youtube or pornhub.

Also- I'm going to title my post "Please Help Urgent!" and fail to use any punctuation while I provide entirely too little information to solve the problem.

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Of course, if I had a 100K+ LP, I wouldn't be worried about a G-string problem. I'd be looking for the escape hatch since I clearly would have woken up in an alternate reality.

If that happens, bring me with you. The reality I'm in now has a very different kind of g-string problem.

Ok- so - my last show, my BC Rich Mockingbirds both kept going out of tune. Horribly. It got to the point where I was ready to toss it across the room. I took a day and set up both guitars again. Truss rod, fresh strings, lubed the nut a bit (graphite stuff) and it's a lot better. I also removed the 'drop-d' hipshots from it- while it's not the culprit, it doesn't help.

The 3x3 g string problem actually effects all of my 3x3 guitars. My les paul, my Ibanez, both BC Riches...

Sigh. But I love these guitars! Maybe I should take up the Tuba. Anyone have any good Tuba profiles?