Posts by Delinquent

Yeah it got me too, you have to hit it before the profile loads to the whole screen

Why? I'm at work and it's slow.

The year is chugging along and the longer it takes i can't see anything really happening until Musikmesse.

Welcome labrat, i was exposed to early Yes and Genesis in the 70's through my older brother and they are the ones I would say opened the floodgates of what music could be

Well the sounds produced there wouldn't get me rushing out to buy one. Sound likes a really early zoom I had a long long time ago, the one that use to attatch to your guitar strap!

I like me some groove, got some Sco thing happen nice!

+1, you need to do these things quickly, I have very limited time and do not want to waste it maintaining the KPA when I could be playing.

Quote from JeffTD

I'm going to say that your issue is with your pickups. Carvin pickups aren't known for being particularly great; you'd do well to install a good aftermarket set of Duncans, DiMarzios, EMGs, Bareknuckles, etc.

I don't know about carvin pickups, but i find it difficult to believe that anybody can market a bad pickup in there guitars post 2000. I have a yammy pacififca, the really cheap one as my beater that i keep at work. It sounds just as good as my american standard (1996) if not better through the KPA. I have wound my own pickups to great success as well, its really not that hard to get right. Just my thoughts

I bought a piece of german engineering, and the white one fits that look

+ 1,

I don't write off any profile until experimenting with cabs.

I also find cycling through some of you faves is the most satisfying tweak you will get.

There are not enough smileys on the net to do this justice

Just in case you have not come across these from OKstrat, scroll down to the 3rd one http://petesprofiles.weebly.com/

I have only owned the KPA for a month and i'm sure one day i will venture to try some commercial profiles.

But when people talked about swapping around cabinets and i picked up a whole bunch from someones dropbox (thanks and apologies for not remembering who) the realisation dawned that just about every second profile could be satisfying to the ears and fingers. Then you add the dynamic adjustments for the amp and cab sections and the rabbit hole goes even deeper.

Bottom line is it could be another six months or longer before i would consider commercial profiles, i just don't feel the need.

And I would always buy the whole packs because its always the one's you don't expect that blow you away, just like women

There's a clean s.mehle profile and london colour profile (65 amps london i think) that i just can't get pass. Be sure tweek to your taste, guitars and playing style before dissmissing any profile for the best experience.

too funny

Quote from guitz

The amp sounds are just like the gift that keeps on giving

The best the best analogy i've heard for the KPA and describes my feelings as well.

My problem is i'm so greedy i can't stop taking

Hi Will,

I think i read on TGP (i only lurk there, its just to much for me)that you are monitoring with HD280's.

Please be aware this is not a great match IMO.

Having said that i have always enjoyed your contrabutions there (TGP)

Im on a mission to find the best match with headphones, keep a look out for a post soon.

Very cool, please keep us informed

nice playin, and i just might have to get that profile too

AKG 501's come from the same design as the current 701/2 series and require ample power to work properly, the KPA is not quite up to it.

Plugging your main outs into this http://www.matrixelectronics.n…mp-black-color-p-190.html i beleive may change your mind, i'll find out for sure soon when mine arrives.

And agreed you must use reverb, lock in a setting that appeals while trying different amps.

Hi there,

I have put quite a bit of time into researching headphones for the KPA as it will be my primary reference.

My first set used with the KPA was a pair of sennheiser hd280 that I bought to track acoustic guitar. This set of phones is very similar to the set you have in Ohms, sensitivity, drivers and also they are circumaural closed back in design. They were also dissapointing. They are primarily designed not to leak to much sound wich is neccesary sometimes but is usually a compromise.

I have since bought a pair of AKG Q701. They cost more but the improvement is significant.

They are a full open back design so they do leak quite a bit, but the soudstage is very satisfying. They are very comfortable with a self adjusting headstrap, quite light on the head and not fatiguing at all.

Most importantly they also look super cool

BUT - they are quite difficult to drive and require quite a bit of oomph ( technical term ) from the the headphone out. The KPA can drive them at a suitable volume but you have to crank the headphone output ( accessed in a sub-menu somewhere) and the volume and the master. This is a sure sign the headphones are not been driven to their full potential, so we cant have that can we.

So on its way to me hopefully I have a class A headphone amp to see if we can improve matters more. I will report back in about a week on my findings. You wiil see if you do a search on this forum that some have found better performance using the headphone out on mixers been fed bt the Kpa master outs as well, I assume for the same reason.

Having said this of course it all costs money, but even if you don't want to spend $600 + for phones and amp, I'm sure with a little research you could find a good set of open back design cans that don't require an amplifier. I almost went the way of the Shure srh1440 that got really goog reviews from audiophile sites and they apparently can be driven by an ipod.