New Kemper User - UNpowered for shows?

if you use in-ear monitoring you do not need a power amp. You can connect the Profiler to the FOH desk with the XLR main outputs.

I serve on my church’s worship team, which uses a quiet stage (no amps/speakers). Just IEMs.

I send a main out signal to FOH and use the in-ears to monitor. My Profiler is unpowered.

That’s pretty much the ‘normal’ way to handle the situation.

There are a couple of different monitoring methods with inears. Both my bands send mixes back from the desk and have iPad/iPhone mixes for monitoring

Welcome to the Party!

YMMV but i tested a powered Kemper in the shop and found that it ran warm. I don't like electronics that go warm if not hot. My unpowered Kemper runs nice and cool. There are lots of possibilities, do a search here, FRFR amps etc.

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YMMV but i tested a powered Kemper in the shop and found that it ran warm. I don't like electronics that go warm if not hot. My unpowered Kemper runs nice and cool. There are lots of possibilities, do a search here, FRFR amps etc.

Having run a powered Kemper for 8 years with no issues not quite sure what your point is....

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Hello everyone,

I had a good deal on a used Kemper a few months ago. I only play the Kemper at home (for recording) with headphones, my Marshall tower is a bit to loud for the neighbours🫣

But this little piece of rocket science makes me feel pretty old… Sonetimes I have no clue what I am doing… or what the Kemper does.

So here is my stupid question: Is it possible to play with my UNpowered Rack Kemper live? I use IEM with no boxes.

Do I need a Powerunit like the Palmer Macht 402?

Thanks for your help🤗

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An unpowered unit will not drive a passive guitar cab, so you have multiple options:

1) Just use IEM's - but other band members need to hear you as well, so they also need them

2) Use the in house monitors - this is the most common solution but assumes a venue has a foldback system. Virtually all do

3) Buy a powered Kabinet

4) Buy a separate power amp and use a cab - either FRFR or Guitar cab or Kabinet

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YMMV but i tested a powered Kemper in the shop and found that it ran warm. I don't like electronics that go warm if not hot. My unpowered Kemper runs nice and cool. There are lots of possibilities, do a search here, FRFR amps etc.

So…..no valve amps, then…..

You can replace valves/tubes. I have a NAD hifi stereo amp that ran hot. It had to be sent to the importer for an expensive repair.

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You can replace valves/tubes. I have a NAD hifi stereo amp that ran hot. It had to be sent to the importer for an expensive repair.

To discount any amp that generates heat - which is to say all of them - based on one experience seems overkill. NAD makes good stuff, so I can only surmise something was faulty and caused a problem.

Sometimes stuff breaks.

Heat in and of itself isn’t bad. Proper design allows for it and reliability becomes a complete non-issue.

I’ve got a Denon receiver I bought new in the 80’s. To this day, it gets nice and toasty when used…yet....never an issue no matter how hard the amp is pushed.