Posts by JoshuaL1

Quote from Steve5478

I've understood what you are talking about.

I suppose your behaviour won't be applied to all rigs (i hope so if you want "flexibility").

So, it means that you can have Rigs with Toggles on/off and rigs with "recall effects". It's gonna be diffficult for every one to remember how they configured each rigs...

If i buy/take/share Rigs, how it's gonna work ? I have to investigate what happens on switches behaviour for every rigs i download....

Or my profiler will force this behaviour and i will have the opposite the rig's maker had set ? Or the download will lost every switches programmation and i will have to do it again although it has already done before ?

IMHO, the current structure is pretty good (and corresponds to many competitors) :

Performance = Presets

Slots = Snaphots = Scenes

Switches = Stomp mode

Morph = 1/2 Snapshot or Learning control

Multiply the possibilities can become boring and unproductive....

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A simple « S » on the screen can help you notice that the switches are programmed in « scenes » mode.

Mine stand still too.

I’m not talking about mixing those « logics » but having the choice between them not mixing them as I think you’re talking about.

Having a « scene effect » option in the rig menu that could switch to this logic.

Of course In my request there’s no way to select 2 effects scenes at once. It’s not multiple on/off at the same time. So telling a switch to engage A-B-mod and the other one A-C-delay does not seem to be a problem.

It more a matter of « we don’t want to do it » than « it’s not how the system can work »

Quote from Steve5478

It could be implemented but "THIS" would always stay a problem :

I'm not convinced that this solution would really be practical and use by many of us just for this reason.

And i understand @Burkhard when he was talking about "debugging".

Even for 2 morphs pedals, i'm not really convinced, even if it seems to be a cool thing.

Our profiler are done to share profiles with the community too.

I don't know how it is already works with a Kone Rig setup (mean kone tick, imprint tick, etc...).

Do you share all the parameters ? Do you obligate the receiver to "have" a kone or to look at those settings to erase them today ?

I imagine a morph pedal "1" ; increase volume, decrease gain and morph pedal "2" ; increase delay time, delay mix and scream mix.

I receive this rig, i have to check all the stuff to understand what has been done by the writer.... How do i check what is where ?

Today, when i take a rig i can quickly see what has been done. Switch 1-4, i see colour lights , i press see what is engaged/disengaged per switch , no more question, There's a morph, it's ok, it takes a little time on the hardware, i can eventually check that with Rig manager...

But i don't want to control all the rigs i take....

I understand that it could be cool to have more possibilities but it doesn't have to become a nightmare or a drawback.

The possibilities are limited but it's easier to understand quicly what has been done.

I remember when i had my Helix, i've taken some presets on L6 exchange community.

I had some awful stuff i've never understood why ?! There was no FX loop, so the configuration seemed to be like mine --> FRFR, never understand how it could sound good....

One more time, i had no sound, a lot of blocks. There was a dB at 0 in the input block....No comment, just wasted time to find where it was (and the sound wasn't wonderful at the end), and so on....

At the end, i made my own presets (simple and basic ones). It sounded good !

Sometimes what is better is the enemy of what is good.

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you are talking about something else.

Right now you can also download or browse rigs in Rm that makes no sense.

I don’t talk about multiple effects presets per rig, but just a switching system.

If you download a rig or go to RM you can just switch on/off the modules exactly like you do now. It has nothing to do with how the effects in the modules are programmed.

I’m just talkin about a switching system dedicated to the I II III IV switches here. Just to have more options.

Hi there.

I try to stay away to RM every time I have to make performances.

BUT, I just wanted to try some free TJ performances today.

So I drag and drop one TJ performance in my LOCAL LIBRARY. I tested it by just switching from 1 to 5, no tweaking, nothing. didn’t save anything.

I closed rig manager and it was IMPOSSIBLE to get back to my 1st performance. It always loaded the TJ performances.
i switched off the kemper stage 3 times. Nothing worked.

I had to reopened RM go to my profiler performance library and click on my own 1st performances to load it again…

why the local library overwrite the unit performances???

Could you do something ?

And I still have some random bugs when I test some rigs. Sometimes If I just come back to my rig profiler library it just duplicate and erase a random rig.

Thanks.

Quote from Steve5478

This !

I suppose that you need this state active for each cases (every effects are engaged by pressing the choosen switch).

But today it means ;

switch 1 : delay + chorus (from switch 2 or 4 you disengage the delay, from SW3 the chorus)

Switch 2 : delay + noise gate + green scream (from SW 1 or 4 delay disengaged, SW 3 ; scream disengaged)

Switch 3 : chorus + octaver + green scream (from Sw 1 ; chorus disengaged ; from Sw 2 ; scream disengaged)

Switch 4 : tremolo + delay (from 1 or 2 ; delay disengaged)

If they bring us this possibility it would be more complicated to programm the device. You should exactly know the songs' steps, where you are starting from and which switches you gonna press and in which order....

We can already put many effects per switch to engage/disengage FX.

I join Wherethedug that performances' Rig slots are easier and correspond to "scenes" or "snaphots"....

They could eventually change the switch behaviour to move toward this solution. But i think we would be Much more annoyed/angry, cause in your exemple ;

OK, i'm switch 1 and want to disengage the delay ; How do i do that ? --> Switch 3, do i need chorus + Octaver + green scream ? This is the only solution to get rid of delay......

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it’s just need to be programmed as an option per performances.

Quote from lbieber

And pick technique. How much edge is used, type of pick slant and how the pick escapes is critical. In fact, it is a huge part of why we guitarists sound different from each other. Every amp responds to picking differently. Some drastically so. No surprise that Kemper profiles would too.

yes i totally agree.

But I didn’t start playing last year and i never had that pick attack thing with any of the gear I played through all my life.

Quote from musicmad

Yeah. Strings are dead for sure.

The squeak could simply be the pick material.

Red jazz III XL on my part. Élixir 10-46 for the recording

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Here is my take. I don't think it sounds any better than yours. You can hear that my strings are bit dead at this point (don't play it much these days).

thanks for your take. Nice playing.

It’s strange that 3 takes does so much differences on the exact same profile. I know, pickups, blabla but they react really differently.

Just like if the components between the units were not the same.

This profile is known to be one of the best Marshall available, so why does it sound like That?

Quote from Wheresthedug

Joshua, I totally agree that there are many things which could be tweaked and improved. The Kemper isn’t perfect.

I often see the “scenes” example mentioned but just don’t get it to be honest. I see the 5 Performance Slots as 5 scenes already.

less programming, less time spent on creating performances, less time tweaking, more time playing.

Example :

switch 1 : delay + chorus

Switch 2 : delay + noise gate + green scream

Switch 3 : chorus + octaver + green scream

Switch 4 : tremolo + delay

in one rig you can have a lot of multiples choices without having to create 4 dedicated rigs just because you can’t assign one module to différents switches.

Exactly like an analog pedal switcher works.

Quote from Wheresthedug

As usual, I agree with a lot of what you are saying. The Kemper isn’t perfect and certain things annoy me,for example the lack of a 2nd morph group, but there is another side to it. I believe the lack of customisation is a design philosophy decision rather than an oversight or shortcoming.

I too came from systems with obscene levels of customisation but I literally never used them. For many of us it can be overwhelming and lead to analysis paralysis where nothing actually gets done because of confusion or the worry that there might be a better way to do something which we are missing out on.

The existence of different philosophies and workflows is a good thing and actually gives consumers choice.

In general, I like the Kemper way. Of course there are things that bug me; things I would like to see changed or improved. However, overall their user experience works for me better than anything else to date. All the top level digital platforms now sound really good so we are entering the phase of choosing platform based on features rather than simply A sounds much better than B or C. With that in mind, if I wanted a flexible, customisable system I would buy an AxeFX or maybe Helix. If I want a simpler less intimidating workflow I would buy the Kemper and accept the limitations as part of the deal (which is basically where I am at the moment).

No successful product has eve managed to be all things to all people and design by committees always fail. Therefore, designers have to make choices which will please some people and out off others. They just need hope that there are enough people who identify with their vision to provide a viable market.

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without going as deep as fractal, it could be great to have more flexibility in the kemper.

Many effects, not so much slots, and switching is very very limited for that kind of « high end » unit.

Maybe they are working on it but on the Stage why are we limited to one effect assignable per switch?
you can’t have the same module affected to 2 différents switches… nonsense.

why can’t we just have 4 effects scenes where you can recall different configurations with every effects programmed on the rig?

that’s not overthinking or that’s not that complicated to understand.

There is a lot of little improvements here and there possible that just could make our life easier.

Also « replace all » in performances could be great.
really a lot of things can be improved.

I’m really tired of spending 4 hours on the unit just because I want to tweak or improve some of my main tones and copy/paste/select in every performances.

And sometimes the answers by techs/admin or whatever are a bit harsh

I don’t believe in The « Kemper philosophy ». Don’t tell me theywant to make things simple and have some really unatural and complicated behavior like « clean sense » that is often debated here with multiple behaviors possible. And why they just refuse to just implement an input gain like every other unit had for decades.

The kemper products are indeed great but sometimes I’m really bored at programming it. And I don’t even talk about the buggy RM.

And I can understand why people are shouting here. When you spend 2k€ on a unit that finally Don’t have the simple options that a some really cheaper brand gives. It can be frustrating.

Honestly, my Stage does not give me a lot more options and sometimes is not as easy than my old podx3 live was.

Quote from Wheresthedug

I wish I could answer that one for you. All I know is it can sound awesome so something isn’t right but I don’t know what it is 😟

yeah, thanxs anyway.

but honestly if I don’t find a way to make it work I gonna do my summer gigs (about 55) with the kemper and sell it.

Before I’m gonna make check my guitars by a technician and see if the problem is not coming from my instruments.

Quote from Wheresthedug

Hi Joshua, I went back and listened again to the clips you uploaded at the start of the thread. They sound OK to me although there is maybe a little squawking pick noise at the beginning of notes if that makes sense. Not really sure how to describe it but it might be the thing your are talking about. I tried to learn the part you uploaded on the MB - 69 Marshall 9 3 example and played it back myself with the same rig for as close a comparison as I could manage. Unfortunately I don't have a Strat so I used a PRS 513 in the Bridge Classic Humbucker mode for something that might be in the rough ball park of the JB Jnr in your Strat. Excuse the phrasing but it should be a decent basic comparison for side by side A/B listening. Do you still hear the same issues in my recording?

JoshuaL MB - 69 Mars 50 9 3

When I made the recording I also took a DI and tried it with Guitar Rig and Amplitube. They had much less gain and more bite but not as much depth to my ears.

ho thanks!

Yes it’s exactly what you described there’s a kind of strange icy frequency that comes with the attack.

I hear less in your recording. And it seems to be really more bodied and full compared to mine.
even if the guitar is not the same, mine is thin compared to yours (talking about tone here lol). A lot of differences, more in your face, less distant, more 3D.

I really don’t get what is the problem with my stage.

Hi!

What looking to attenuate some high frequencies that were bothering me and did a sweep with the studio eq in X slot.

I was wondering why If I set a high cut at 7.5k on the output and if I put a eq in x and raise frequencies above 7.5k it affect the highs ?

thanks !

Hello there,

today i tried to profile my tubeman mkII with the torpedo live.

I tweaked my tones on this gear to what I liked, sounded really great.

Then I attempted to profile it.

Guitar>kemper stage input>send 1 to tubeman input>tubeman output to torpedo>torpedo out to kemper return 1

Impossible to profile, the send was too hot and completely messed the tone.

How could it be and how can I fix it?

Thanks

Coming in this topic again

today i wanted to try to profile my tubeman mkII preamp with a torpedo live (big fail but another subject).

So I just plugged everything guitar>tubeman>torpedo live>Soundcard.

It sounded simply awesome.

I had NOT that weird attack response like the kemper. I almost forgot how easy it was to just play…

Sustain, didn’t have to pick and pay attention to EVERY notes of my legato lines, feels like an amp and how I’m used to play for my entire pro career.

So after my failed attempt at profiling this rig, I just came back to play the kemper stage with mbritt 69 tones.
and… attacks problem back again…

so I tweaked:

compression to 5 : helped a little but compression bring more noise

clean sense to 5 : helped a little too but now with my hss configuration (jb bridge, fender custom Texas special) I hit red on bridge on low notes pick attacks.

Even with those parameters I couldn’t get the normal feel and normal amp response of a 200$ tubeman.

Same guitar, same wireless, same Soundcard, same speaker.

I’m a little bit disappointed, I felt this since I own the kemper and no matter what profiles I use.

So Some question for my future test :

- Putting more compression and sacrifice a slot with a noise gate but it may be counterproductive. 5 is already really high and it start to messe the original profiles. How far is it recommanded to go?

- increasing clean sense : how far can I safely clip the input?

- also gonna try tube bias as I understand that it could help.

Like the others I never had this problem with any of my previous gear, is it because the kemper has too much headroom on input or something like that?

i repeat I was so relieved to play on the tubeman and torpedo, everything was clear and Easy to play as it always was with tube amps.

Is my input defective?

Quote from Wheresthedug

Double click and type would be a great addition. However, in the meantime you can get accurate control of fine tuning by holding SHIFT while using the mouse.

yes we can do it that way…but come on… 2022 and not possible to type values in a software?

One year into the kemper rabbit hole here.

There’s 3 ways to use the kemper :

1 - Having all the great gear and make your own profiles

2- find a profiler that have you ear, the amp you want, the same use.

3 - take a profile you like and tweak it to death. And that’s a deep hole. Every little tweak of any parameters is important. Move one, need to adjust another.

The kemper can be really user friendly and plug and play unit but also a bug tweaking machine.

Quote from cmbrowns

I see on your AMP settings screen shot that you r have Direct Mix set to 2.4. Could that be where you are adding the clean signal back in? Maybe try setting that back to 0?

direct mix at 2.4 will certainly explain the « Di » tone.

I also want that!

Quote from rastry

Nobody wants to support me? I believe this can be a great benefit to the setup.

i already talk about it a lot of time lol.

I too want to have a studio eq available in the cab block.

I also want to have an eq and an input gain in the input block.

Tons of great effects and stomps in the kemper but not enough block to use them sometimes.