Posts by roesi0071

Quote from Per

You might want to link directly to the tracks here as I think not everyone would know how to navigate to them from the link.

I enjoyed Sun Warms your Face and Happy Returns, both cool tracks with some great sounds

Hi, thank you so much for kind words! I wrote both tracks while being involved in some really heavy topics in life that included loss of beloved people. Happy Returns says it all … at some point life goes on and you have to deal with what had happened in a positive way. Thanks for listening! Take care, stenson.

Quote from Finally

Ah - I didn't realise the cable was still plugged in with the pedal disconnected.

Hi! No that was not the case. I had the remote on the floor and no expression pedal and no cable was connected. I absolutely understand your thoughts, but there was no cable connected besides the connection between remote and Kemper.

Quote from Finally

That must have been a terrifying experience! Nothing worse than all that planning, set up, practice, etc, then a spooky issue right when the curtain goes up.

Yepp, I got the first sound bites from the recording today and it sounds awful. I fu**** it up. Will never happen again.

Quote from lbieber

The 'soundcheck' wasn't really a soundcheck since it was not done in the final configuration of the room. There might be other functional issues related to the Kemper config and expression pedal, but the timing of the soundcheck should be the big lesson learned.

My guess is EMI interferance as well.

Yes, you are absolutely right. I learned a ton. THX

Quote from Morph

Just a thought, the expression pedal can be put at the start of the chain by default, if you dip your volume using that, it would produce all the effects that you describe. Mine is always at the end of the chain so I can lower my gain sounds without changing the character. I hope it sorts itself out man.

Thank you Morph for that angle! You’re right. I forgot to mention it or to consider it at a possible reason for my problems. Typically I have a Expression Pedal (Boss FV-500H) connected to the Kemper Floorboard. I never used it because I use the guitar volume for those moments and the morph function for all other situations I need to master. But the expression pedal is the one component I did change. It was not connected. Maybe, by accident I have an expression pedal configured in all my Rigs and without that pedal … the Kemper possibly plays by min. values on Gain, Reverb, Delay, … etc.

The only fact that contradicts here is the growing hum noise I got by moving my guitar …

Thanks a lot, I will do further testing and let all of you know about my findings.

Take care

- stenson

Quote from Ingolf

Is the guitar/the pickups/the cable fully functional?

Having to play the guitar in a certain position suggests there's something wrong with the guitar electronics.

Quote from Wheresthedug

Are you still having problems with the setup since the gig? This would help determine whether the issue is something in your set up or something in the environment on the night.

What guitar were you playing? Does it have active pickups? On possibly is a failing battery on the guitar. Easy to test.

If it still happening then we can probably rule out the host or film crew. If it is no longer happening it could be related to them but could still be coincidence so need to trouble shoot methodically.

Thanks guys for your support to sort this out. As I have said, no issues during soundcheck. I played an Ibanez AT100 CL-SB (HSS Guitar) & a Music Man Axis Hollow-Body (HH) for songs in drop-d during the whole show. I rebuild the same setup a day later in the rehearsal room and it worked like a charm… No broken cables - Í did turn and twist any cable in that setup. The problem existed exactly the 120 Min. of the show. May I have to work on my Karma …

Take care,

-stenson

https://www.stenson.de

Good Morning Community,

I played a "living room gig", last Saturday. The idea was to record/ film the session to produce promo material. Soundcheck went great with my Kemper PowerHead (latest firmware). Then we had an hour free time before the performance.

We started playing and with the first note I realized something isn´t working as expected. All of my clean sounds were much to quiet, all distorted sound had less distortion and all effects were not as prominent as intended - that was the case with all performances I used throughout the gig. Plus, I had to play my guitar turned to the right side, whenever I played the guitar in front of my body, or turned it to the left, there was a crackle sneaking into the sounds. I had no choice but to play the entire show (120 Min.) in the best possible position.

I identified 3 to 4 sounds that were still the best among the bad and used them as good as possible, even if they were spreaded over several performances. Step-Dance Nightmare. But please remember: we got filmed live and it just had to work in some way. I managed to restart the Kemper during an extended intro section but it didn´t help me. I´m pretty sure the Kemper was the reliable workhorse in that scenario - as always.

Setup:
Guitar > Cable > Kemper > Main Out (Stereo) via Jack Plugs > PA
(We´re/ I´m running that setup for years and never had any issue.)

Ok, long story short. I took notes afterwards about all the differences I could identify. I could spot two changes between soundcheck and show.

1) The film crew had set up their equipment in the meantime: Four cameras, room mics, power supply and cables criss-crossing everywhere.

2) The host had set up small lamps everywhere in the room for indirect lighting. One lamp drew its power from the same sub-distribution as my Kemper Powerhead.
(This lamp was standing on the left - in front of me (10 o´clock))

I would be very happy if you could support me with your knowledge so that something like this does not happen again.
I will not be satisfied with the recordings we made and besides that the band spent a lot of money for nothing ...

Thank you so much!

-stenson

https://www.stenson.de

Hallo & guten Morgen,
ich habe soeben diese Rubrik im Kemper Forum entdeckt und bin bereits an zahlreichen tollen Artists & Songs kleben geblieben.
Hier geht es zu meinem Beitrag:

https://www.stenson.de/

cu,
-stenson