Happy New Year all!
Brand new Kemper owner here. I'm a recreational guitar abuser who has reached a point in my life where I can buy nice toys.
I have been playing through a rack-mounted system I compiled in the early 90s consisting of a GSP-21 Legend, a BBE 422A Sonic Maximizer, Digitech stereo EQ all through a Tube Works MosValve MV-962 with a 4x12 cabinet full of Peavy Scorpions. I've started noodling with Garageband and have been finally recording some of the musical ideas that have been bouncing through my head. The old setup wasn't cutting it for DI recording so I used it as a perfect excuse to get a Kemper.
What the hell have I gotten myself into? Somebody convince me that I shouldn't box it back up and return it.
The "Basics" instruction book that comes with the Kemper is crap. I thought the Youtube videos were good until I actually needed to figure something out. The "Deeper View and Reference Manual" is better but woefully lacking. I knew there would be a learning curve, but this is far more difficult than I thought it would be.
How the hell do you learn to use this thing? Can anyone offer a reference to get up and running?
Here's what I've figured out to do:
-Setup. It's plugged in, hooked into the Presonus iTwo, out through the powered studio monitor speakers.
-Rig manager. Installed, hooked up to the Kemper. Can browse everything, preview from Mac onto Kemper. I've figured out how to make rigs favorites.
-Browser. I've figured out how to turn the chicken head to "Browser" and then use the "BROWSE" knob to go through different rigs
-Remote. It is plugged in, I figured out how to use the looper pedal (thanks to the Youtube video), I can use the tuner, and sometimes move up and down between rigs
What I can't do:
-Make my own rig. Is it possible to take an amp profile, add some stomps in my desired arrangement with my desired settings and then save that as a preset? If so how!?
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. I'm willing to Skype, Facetime, phone, text, email, fly to Antarctica, anything it takes. The sounds of the Kemper are AMAZING--I just can't figure out how to manipulate the infernal thing.
Thanks in advance.
-Bryan