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Had a studio gig last weekend, used the 69 Marshall pack profiles exclusively. That pack is simply great. The profiles are great in the studio as well!

My two cents… cheers guys!

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But then I contacted LRS and he offered to make custom profiles for me and they ended up to be just what I was missing so my choice is LRS's pack

How cool is that? Tim is an absolute class act.

Awesome Guido! Great, serious, meticulous work. ?

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While we saw the interactive profiling and the amp parameters as a chance for achieving the best profiling results, it now seems to be a burden for those that have a different dedication.

Maybe it's time to rethink our approach.

Thanks for your input ckemper. As always, very informative and valuable.

So if you ever do rethink your approach, please do it in an incremental manner? Maybe keep the actual profiling process as is, and then add a "key in the hand" option for those who would like a non-interactive profiling process?

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Fuzz on the way is just awesome. Couldn't throw a retro-vibe in with it???

Desperately seeking that Hendrix live sound!

please ckemper ? ?

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Maybe it wasn't a good idea to give these options to the user?

ckemper it was a great idea to give these options to the user. Thank you!

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We will release a Kemper Fuzz with a similar approach soon.

How cool is that? Thanks ckemper

Tim,

Your SLO100 pack absolutely kills!! I love the tones I am getting. Here is a short demo I put together to showcase some of the profiles in the Slow 100 MKII pack. All profiles were recorded with no tweaking per se. I just disabled all stomps/effects for recording, then used a tad of EQing on the rhythm guitar bus.

Another great pack from LRS

Great tones in your demos! Will have to check these out!

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First, based on your user name and comments I've read, my assumption is that you're a metal guy and are looking for modern distortion tones. If that's incorrect, the rest of this may be of limited value to you.

I have all of Michael's profiles, and that's 99% of what I use. Crank 'n Go is among my favorites. However - and this is important - I'm a classic rock guy, and that's a genre that he's fluent in. He's not a metal player. If that's the kind of sounds you're looking for, you need to look at profilers who do metal.

Also, apologies if I'm pointing out the obvious, but a fundamental concept that's crucial to being happy with the Kemper is the fact that when you're buying a profile of, say, a Victory V50, you are absolutely, positively, not buying a Victory V50. You're buying a single tone that someone has dialed in using a Victory. One tone, and one tone alone, out of all the things a Victory is capable of doing (which is true of any amp).

When I first bought the Kemper I started out downloading Marshalls from Rig Exchange. All of them were five star and well regarded. And I was absolutely shocked by how horrible they sounded. I almost returned the Kemper. Eventually I realized that they were all tones dialed in for modern metal, and I was looking for something to play classic rock with. A Marshall dialed in for a Bad Company song will sound lame in the extreme for metal. A Marshall dialed in for metal will get you booed off the stage of a Bad Company tribute gig.

The problem I had is that I saw "Marshall" and made assumptions of what it should sound like based on how I would personally dial in a Marshall. And that's the problem with profiles, free or otherwise. It would be much more helpful if they were described as "Here's a Marshall Plexi dialed in for Bad Company." I'd buy it, you'd avoid it, but we'd both be happy because we understood what it was. Unfortunately, that's just not the way it works. Profiles are listed by amp brand / name, and sometimes you get what speakers were used. Not terribly helpful.

You'll have a much better experience if you consider genre first and foremost when looking for profiles. Find guys who play the kind of stuff you enjoy playing, then try their profiles. If you're a metal guy trying to use Michael or any other non-metal guy's profiles, you're most likely going to be unhappy with what you get. That said, once you find the right kind of profiles for your style, I think you'll love this thing.

Because I'm not a metal guy I can't offer recommendations, but there are tons of guys here who go for modern rock sounds. Rather than a thread like this that's essentially "I can't get metal out of a classic rock profile," I would instead start a new thread seeking advice and recommendations from guys who like the same kinds of bands that you do (always a good reference point). I think that'll help get you where you want to go.

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Killer post Chris Duncan !

To me live use vs studio use is a big differentiator - the Marshall Plexi profile dialed in for Bad Company which sounds great for a recording situation may not always work for a live situation, and vice versa. I don't mean to deviate from the original topic, but making your own profiles may come in as an option. Dialing/profiling in your amp the way you like it, for your situation (live/studio) is a killer option we have with the profiler!

Thanks timo!

Hello all!

I just noticed a small “SE” blinking on my toaster’s display, both in browser and performance modes. I can’t find a reference to this in the Screen Symbols section of the manual.

See the attached picture.

Any idea what this would mean?

tryhardhack, this rig sounds pretty darn good to me - thanks for sharing!

Indeed, some great profiles to be had from Choptones! On the other hand, I can’t say their tagging system is top notch - referring to an accompanying pdf file is kind of a bummer, especially considering the great tagging system the KPA offers.

Still, great work on the profiles, nice variety of amp and speakers!

Some AC30 goodness. These need to be levelled, but once that's done, you get great AC30 tones!

Vox Bruno 1 by chadrides
AC30TB Brilliant/Normal Jump by Brian Carl

I think this link contains what you are looking for : http://foobazaar.com/kemper/HAWP/

Courtesy of meambobbo

I have recently been programming my KPA for a live show which is all synced to a click track - the Kemper manual was of good source of info, as it is pretty clear on which features can be addressed via midi. Look in the MIDI section of the manual.

The only thing which is still not perfectly clear to me is the morphing via slots buttons (base state/morphed state/return to base state).

In your specific case, Data is the CC numbers you are targeting, 47 and 50 in this instance. The column to the right is the value your are sending for the given CC number.

So in your image, CC47 with a value of 0 would mean you are loading performance number 1 in your KPA. And if I am not mistaking, sending CC50 with a non zero value means your are loading slot 1 in your target performance. Slots 1-5 are loaded with CCs 50, 51, 52, 53 and 54 respectively.

I am guessing you are programming for performance mode?

Hi Marakor, I do it all the time!! Very easy: Output menu, page 1, SPDIF Output. I choose Git/Master mono, or Git/Stack, but there are other options as well. This will send a DI signal on the left and the chosen option on the right.

HTH,

Ben

Edit: DonPetersen, you beat me to it!