Posts by waraba

Thx for posting, I dig the vocals too and the crunch guitars tones. did you record the backgrounds (organ ? trems ?) on the KPA ?

Thx a lot for this profiles, I've been testing the clean and leads on the only guitar I got ATM ( Ibanez artist hollowbody) , I love the clean , superb job on this profiling session. This clean one is perfect for vintage , blues , funk & dirty tones, with a lil bit of gain.

Please upload them on the rig exchange or do a zip pack, they are really worth it.

I had a quick test after upgrading and I did follow the rules :

If you are more into crunchy, blues sounds, you might prefer higher values of Pure Cabinet, creating a more open sound and bringing the character even more towards an amp in the room. If you are into hard rock or metal, you might prefer lower values, to emphasize the "microphone character", while still dampening the "phaseyness" of the sound.

I really appreciate the feature on high gain rigs since it will round up and tighten the power chords with a cool punch.

However on my reference clean & cruch rig ( AC30 from Pete) , I miss some of the high overtones that makes this rig so magical, even with the Pure Cab set @0.0

Setting the Pure Cabinet for each rig would be awesome ! The most useful place to set up this value per rig basis would be in the CAB menu for me.

It's a great addition to our tweaking arsenal , removing the mike from the profiling equation is a fantastic idea.

Cool , I'm glad this mode came back, serious issue now solved for all of us !!! Thanks you so much CK for listening to the end users.

It sucks, sorry for you Dje, I hope you got this fixed soon, so we can enjoy new MarkIIC+ profiles.

Yeah , great effort from the Kemper team, I hope we can try it soon I understand why the team was so silent while we were on summer vacation

Thx a lot for getting the direct edit mode, It's cool to be heard and bye bye to Vetta/line6 editing mode lots of us hated.

Thx also for the new FXs.

Yeah you're right Ingolf, I'm on vacation ATM and far away from my monitoring system, this was an headphone mix mostly, sounds great on helmet but a bit low in the bass & drums on an Hifi system... Never under-estimate the need for real monitors

the theme is not mine but the one from Larry (room 335, simplified to the extreme, without the breaks and solo parts).

the drums are some internal funk samples from my great outdated Riffworks (same kind of samples used in drum core & discrete drums from sonoma ).

Thx for the kind comments

Here is a quick jamtrack arranged in the style of the great Larry Carlton. Intended as a backing track to jam on There are some leads on the middle & end part.

http://www.riffworld.com/Members/waraba/miss335

I hope you dig it, I'm pretty happy with the mix, except maybe the sloppy drums.

Guitarwise I used my old 80's Ibanez Artist semi hollow and some great JCM 800 rigs from Andy, tailored for the context with warm cleans and tight leads.

Yeah now the thread is definitely going south, we have the lyrics, now let's write the song

@tntent : I've no real solution except storing 3 or 4 rigs on the same bank with 3 or 4 different fixed gain settings. you can also adjust the relative gain with your guitar volume pot , most great profile allow this.

Regarding the pedal course, there is no real trouble adjusting the gain in real time while you play since you can react very quickly on your right hand attack, let's say you start a solo it's a matter of seconds before you nail the right amount of gain and leave the pedal here. It's also easy to 'memorize' some pedal height settings (up, middle and floor for instance), even it's not really precise you'll get some great gain differences.

Here is another trick with the wah booster : you can handle some gain swells just like a volume pedal and it's specially useful to get some long sustaining notes or great controlled feedback effects : just compensate the end of your notes by pushing the gain harder (pedal down).

hi, I've no real solution except storing 3 or 4 rigs on the same bank with 3 or 4 different fixed gain settings. you can also adjust the relative gain with your guitar volume pot , most great profile allow this.

Regarding the pedal course, there is no real trouble adjusting the gain in real time while you play since you can react very quickly on your right hand attack, let's stay you start a solo it's a matter of seconds before you nail the right amount of gain and leave the pedal here. It's also easy to 'memorize' some pedal height settings (up, middle and floor for instance), even it's not really precise you'll get some great gain differences.

Ok, the tutorial and clips about Wah pedal booster are ready

just check this thread

Hi !

the purpose of this trick is being able to adjust the gain of your rig by foot, with the help of an expression pedal.

Since some user encounter problems in setting this great FX, I will go for a tutorial about it:

pre requisites :

• I don't use any other midi / remote / FCB or another exp. pedal other than the one used , I'll tell you how I set it up.
• choose a rig with a good usable gain range and disable all FXs . Morgan AC20 is a good candidate.
• go to SYSTEM menu (SYSTEM button)
• go to Page 6 and set the following settings :

Pedal Type 1 Wah Wah
Pédal 2 unplugged and OFF
Pedal 1 set as Expression(Type1)
Value (the center one) changes while I push down or up

• go to Page 9 and set the following settings :

wahPedal to vol unticked
WahPedam to pitch unticked
MIDI global Channel set as Omni
CCO1 moves while I heel down or up, the other CC don't change

• Then go to RIG menu Page 3 and verify the following settings for

Lock VOL pedal unticked
Wah pedal to vol unticked

• Now set the FX up and live :

adjust the gain to 5 (this will be the max gain available with the wah down to the floor for this example)
select and focus on slot B
turn type knob to Wah Pedal booster
set Pedal range do MINUS 100
set vol to 0

You're ready to rock Notice that you'll have some volume changes due to the gain dynamics. The sound will also mute while the wah is fully UP.

Here is a collection of clips with the results you should achieve , notice how the gain and compression rise while I push my exp pedal down.

clip 1 is single coil , clip 2 is HB, clip 3 is some random riff with changes on the gain. Rig is an AC30 from Pete.

Quote from Zapman

is the amount of gain boost applied with the pedal reflected on the Gain contol knob LED's

Nope, there is no visual feedback or gain value adjustment, too bad : that would make a very nice feature.

I'll start another topic on the wah booster , we polluted Armin's initial post too much, sorry Armin !

I will go for tutorial on this great feature, too many people seem to face problems, and it works so great for me.

Quote from okstrat

I'll have to see what I can do with the mighty AC30

you'd be a cool cat I love the lead tones I got so far plugin ext. pedal on the AC30

Yes while the volume is affected by the gain boost but it remains a Gain effect, just like you turn the gain knob.

I'll post a clip later with the expected result : from clean to drive by pushing the pedal down to the floor, without any other attack or volume trick.

Pedal 3 ?? this sounds unusual, you should unplug other pedal & controllers or FCB / remote then re-calibrate your exp. pedal

if you still got nothing , plug the exp. to the other port and recalibrate again in the system menu.

Hello Guido is there any chance that you supply a free test rig ? Clips sound great, but I'm a low gain guitar man

Killer cover Pete, I dig the interpretation and the tones are perfect, while a bit in the background compared to the keys. I really appreciate the vocals also, they are very close to the original, what a singer you got

I also wish to thank you again about the 65' AC30 profiling session, I keep going back to this mighty beast and most other profiles seems a bit pale compared to this monster of tone (except the wizard and the vintage pack). Cherry one the cake : each time I grab another guitar that I did not test on the vox, it will sound incredible without tweaks with a carefully chosen profile.

I'd love an update of this AC30 with pedals if you got the time.

thanks Sirius, I've tested them, and I prefer the clean ones so far, atypical nasty and dirty cleans , great for single coils.

Please go on profiling unusual gear that comes to your studio, it's always nice to test this kind of units.