Posts by Karl_Houseknecht

Maybe not a terribly exciting amp all by itself, because it's pure clean. But if you have pedals you like, this amp was built to be a platform for them. I was messing around with a Wampler Plexi Drive Deluxe yesterday with some commercially available clean profiles and they made it sound like garbage. Plugged into my DeVille ML and it sounded fantastic. So I profiled the amp and lo and behold, the pedal sounds great into the profile. All of my drive pedals do. Maybe yours will too, so give it a shot.

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Quote from 10w73

What are your problems with downgrading? Are there any error messages?

No error messages. It just won't.

Quote from C-4

I tried going to 3.3 but the unit would not update, so I thought it best to leave it alone for now.

I'm in the same boat. I upgraded to the 4.0 beta thinking I could always roll back if needed. Oops. Now I have a pretty buggy unit that is going to have to sit on my desk until a non-buggy release version comes along.

A little annoyed here. I would have thought after almost (4?) years that the firmware would be a little more mature. Love the sounds, but the KPA is staying on my desk for practice and the Axe-Fx is staying in the live gigs.

Another Gear 1, OD1 profile of my Splawn Street Rod combo, but this time with a Creamback 65. A little less modern sounding than the V-Type.

Rig Exchange:
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Clip:
https://drive.google.com/file/…GTUprVlE/view?usp=sharing

Enjoy!

Quote from kempmel

Boss FV-500 and Roland EP (Seemed to suck tone, linear)

How does an expression pedal suck tone? I'm actually surprised you didn't mention the biggest weakness of the FV-500 which are the dead spots at the heel and toe.

Best expression pedals I've owned to date are the Fractal EV-1. But it's sounding like you prefer a different sweep. I never did care for the Mission stuff. Too short of a travel, didn't like the pot, and a couple of other reasons.

What's the difference between a jazz guitarist and a rock guitarist?

A rock guitarist plays 3 chords to 1,000 people...

Quick profile of my 2015 Street Rod with a Celestion V-Type speaker. Pretty happy with the way this one turned out. It definitely has the Splawn vibe to it. Gear 1, OD-1.

I'll probably make a bunch more with this speaker on various gears and then switch to a Creamback 65.

http://www.kemper-amps.com/api…9KZlDYojZ6gXlJ4P6Vk?.kipr
And here's a clip against a backing track:

https://drive.google.com/file/…BNkI4YXc/view?usp=sharing

Quote from digbob

Yes,but then it will be cmpl new algorithms for them, till then you can
set up to 7 diff delays in the slots, and built whatever you need with them
should be enough fun till 5.0

Guess I won't be getting rid of my Strymon Timeline any day soon. How long until 5.0?

Quote from sambrox

No idea what you just wrote, but Christoph Kemper has stated that the delay modulation is actually a vibrato effect with one side microshifting in one direction whilst the other side is shifting in the other, if I recall correctly. This is what generates the perceived movement in the stereo field. Summed to mono, they would sound like a chorus/flanger/phaser (ie modulation) effect, no...?

Support answered my ticket and said that the effect I'm hearing is normal behavior and it's been that way from the beginning. I beg to differ that it's normal.

It should sound like a mono chorus. Not a phasey-flangey mess. In the Axe-Fx, Helix, POD HD, M13, Strymon Timeline, El Capistan, GT-100....whatever, when you sum a modulated delay into mono, the modulation portion sounds like a mono chorus type effect.

I'm going to have to record a short clip and post for example because this is definitely not what it's supposed to sound like.

What he said.

I've opened a support ticket. This is clearly not intended behavior. Neither my Axe-Fx or Helix do this when summing to mono.

I know what it is now. I had set my output for the Main output to Mono. When I do that, I hear the problem. I am running the left main output into the return of a tube amp.

Does the same thing if I run the monitor output into the return because the monitor output is mono by design.

Now why would it do that? Is there some kind of incorrect summing of the left and right channels when setting to mono?

Fixed this with a system reset, but I'd love to know what caused it in the first place. It was doing this on every patch.

Title says it all. Modulation was behaving as normal for the analog delay, all of the sudden it's now a ridiculous phaser/flanger type of sound that's overpowering. Can't seem to make it go back to what it was. Any ideas?

Quote from Frodebro

I have the Marshall mini-pack, and I really like quite a few of the profiles in there.

The trick for me on that pack is using some EQ. I tend to like the greenbacks.

Anyway, not to derail this wonderful thread. Back to speculating about when 4.0 is showing up. My vote is "soon".

LOL...just keeping it real.

There certainly are a few gems on there but they are few and far between.

Also...being completely honest here...I find the commercial profiles that everyone here seems to be absolutely gaga over to be...meh. But I'm more of a classic rock Marshall oriented guy and that doesn't seem to be the wheelhouse of that particular profile author.

Quote from Frodebro

Spend some time surfing through the Rig Exchange and you might just come to the conclusion that not all ears are created equal...

Amen to that. About 99% of the profiles there are pure garbage.

Quote from Ingolf

For the Remote trails on/off is not yet configurable, for a midi board it is, like @Kempermaniac said.

Does that mean the remote is always with trails on or off?

Not sure what that other post has to do with mine, but no worries at all, and apology accepted. I just don't like being taken out of context.

FWIW, even with the sameness that I still hear, that doesn't at all mean I don't like the character of the profiler. In fact, it's back on my desk now and I'm enjoying the latest firmware. I think the last time I used it, it was still 1.x firmware. Can't wait to hear the delays and such in 4.0. And the thing just loves my gain pedals in a way that even the Axe-Fx doesn't. It definitely has a spot in my bag of tricks.

The one thing about it that's kind of refreshing is that you can definitely tell it was designed from the perspective of synths rather than traditional guitar gear. It's about shaping the sound in a different way...maybe even an easier way. But the downside of that is you can't just throw together a tone by starting with the exact models of gear that another artist used. It's a totally different workflow, and it requires you have a bunch of profiles on hand to help you get there. Still very cool, though.

Cool, and thanks for the answers. I wouldn't be bypassing it live that way. I'd be using a controller of some kind. I am just used to the Axe or Helix way of doing it where you have to configure the unit or block in some way to have trails on bypass.