First gig with KPA

So, first gig yesterday with the KPA powerhead - I used it with my Framus 2 x 12 (which I had them mic) and an FCB/Uno4Kemper. It behaved great. I used the global eq as adding a little bass and cutting a little treble suited the venue. Soundcheck was interesting....we had to do it without our keyboard player as the guy's partner had a fall in the venue (no lights on and a big step) so had to rush her to A&E! I am also accruing soundman classics. Me "can I have a little more guitar in my monitor, I can't hear myself", soundman "just turn yourself up a bit".....riiiight so you don't know / care about front of house vs stage mix?........!!!

Anyhow, I've only heard a tiny mobile phone recorded clip of a duo with the singer with me using an acoustic guitar profile, but it sounds great.

I had given myself maximum range on the guitar pedal so I could leave it half way, and therefore have the ability to both decrease and increase my volume on the fly. I found the change in volume a bit too unpredictable though....to be fair, in exactly the same way I have found with my old amp and a Morley power volume - I find messing too much with volume etc while I'm playing can easily distract me to the point of hitting bum notes - not good. So what I think I'll do next time is just set a stomp (top row of FCB) as a pure boost. Out of interest, can you have more than one pure boost programmed for a rig? And can you use them incrementally? So one would give me a small lift in volume, and if I wanted more, I could engage the other one as well?

Also, I currently have a green scream stomp set up for a just a little gain and treble boost. When you change slots within a performance, it stays on. I completely understand why, but in the way I set my slots, I'd rather it turned off when changing slots. Is there any way to control that behaviour?

At the moment I have 4 performances programmed. Although I go from clean to increasing drive on the first 4 slots of all performances and have the last for lead, I did have a few moments where I had to study the KPA display to remember which slot I wanted for which song section. I'm not sure if I'll just rely on becoming more familiar with slots vs song/section of whether I should be less particular and try and have a more standard 5 slot selection that I use for the majority of the set. What do you guys do?

Last thing, the tuner, particularly with the FCB display the Uno4Kemper gives, is just brilliant. So much more easy to use and stable than the Korg Pitchblack that I had been using.

Cheers,
Andy

Quote from Quitty

^ this.

Also, the stomps should not stay on when you switch rigs in a performance via the footswitch. Last i checked (two days ago) they didn't.
When you switch rigs in a performance the performance resets to how it was saved - make sure you didn't save it with stomps on.

I'm sure I didn't but now I'm doubting myself so I'll check again....

Thanks,
Andy

Quote from Kempermaniac

If you want, you can set up to 6 Pure Boosters (Stomp slots A-D, X- and Mod-Slot). Please note that a booster set up in the stomp slots is pre-amp and provides not so much more volume, but also gain. For "real" different volumes it's better to set the Pure Booster post-amp. You can also set up a flat EQ with increased volume for a volume boost.

Not in front of the KPA right now. How do you set a pure booster or flat eq with increase volume post amp as opposed to pre-amp?

Thanks,
Andy

Ah, is it because the stomp effects are locked that they stay on between slots even when each slot is programmed with the effects stomp off? I set up locked just to avoid having to configure the same effects multiple times but looks like it changes how they behave?

Quote from viabcroce

Yes, locking an fx implies stays in the state you locked it

Slots: A-D are pre-amp, the others are post-amp.

Hmm, I wish I didn't have to work now - this is from memory.....but I locked it in the off state.....so there are no slots pre-selected for anything but my slot 5 which is my lead patch with delay.

So, I go to slot 1, I then later turn on stomp A, I go to slot 2 and stomp A stays on. Same if I go back and forth between slots 1, 2, 3, and 4. Stomp A is programmed as off for slots 1, 2, 3, 4.

Is that expected behaviour?

Thanks,
Andy

Quote from Guitartone

Put a Pure Boost in the X slot.

Interesting, you mic'd your cabinet...so you didn't use 'Main Out's' to the PA?

Quote from Guitartone

Put a Pure Boost in the X slot.

Interesting, you mic'd your cabinet...so you didn't use 'Main Out's' to the PA?

No. My brief experiments so far I didn't like the sound. At some point in the future, when I have a wireless guitar set up, and I have the luxury of time preparing for a gig with a known decent soundman and PA, I might try again. But for the moment I trust my ears for the sound from my cab and tell them to mic that....

Cheers,
Andy