Posts by TieDyedDevil

I believe that best-tronics.com can accommodate your request. I've ordered several stock cables from them and have been pleased with their work.

Agreed.

I hate to say this, but "kinda boomy" is the Thump. That's one of my least favorite powered speakers.

I'd attempt some corrective EQ. Start with the EQ on the back panel of the Thump. Listen to some recorded music through the Thump and try to tune out the boominess. If you can borrow some decent studio monitors for comparison, so much the better.

As far as the level goes:

Turn down the level control on the Thump; this'll let you raise the master on the KPA. In no case should the Thump's volume be more than half-way up; this gives it a sensitivity of +4 dBU for full output (which is going to be quite loud).

I'm sure this one has been mentioned elsewhere:

Significantly faster startup.

Something on the order of 10 seconds would be great.

Quote from mDan

What about USB keyboard support to do the profile naming

Excellent idea!

Quote from Bluesman

For my opinion a real lifely guitar tone needs a portion of feedback. Something unpredictable. Not necessarily a long howling feedback. Just an interaction between the speaker cab and the strings and pickups.

I don't understand this. Do you want to simulate feedback without actual feedback between the guitar and speaker?

How far down do you tune your guitar?

Quote from Delinquent

Wouldn't they keep that to themselves until at least the launch of the KFC.

Would they want 3rd parties to beat them to the punch?

The information about bidirectional communication has already been shared with FAMC. FAMC has implemented the protocol in their LF+.

Yes, please!

Cool. I made a similar box a few weeks ago. I run a 7-wire cable from my rack to my LF+ controller. IIRC, my wiring is the same as yours.

You'd think that this is a common enough task that someone would offer these boxes commercially. I spent about twenty dollars on materials. I would have gladly paid seventy or eighty dollars to buy one ready-made.

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After getting the KPA I sold all other modeling gear - and some tube amps - but still own a few amps - and love them.

How about you?

Quote from AxeMan2U

I plan to keep my favorite tube amps because they are quite different from Kemper profiles when it comes to tweaking them. While the Kemper is great at capturing an amp at a given setting, it doesn't provide the same experience when tweaking gain & EQ. It's not bad, just different. So I like to keep my favorite tube amps around for those times I am recording and looking to dial in a sound for a certain song. Once I've found it, I profile it into the Kemper for safe (and portable) keeping.

This pretty much sums up my response.

I'm not willing to bet my amps (I only have a couple, but I like them for what they are) on having captured enough different settings with enough different mics and mic positions.

For me, the Kemper is just another tool. I still have other modelers (none of which can profile, although they do have some attributes that the Kemper can't match), some amps and some pedalboards.

One reason to hang onto a "traditional" rig is for the ability to get in and change settings on-the-fly without diving through menus and modes. One knob : one function. I don't mind presets, but sometimes I want to be more spontaneous.

Think of the buttons as a cursor, not a scroller.

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I have the 32gb usb stick, do I just back it up on that or put on my conputer too? sorry for any stupid questions, thanks for all the time on this.

Unless I missed a recent change, the Kemper formats only a 3GB volume regardless of the larger size of your flash drive. Save that nice 32GB stick for something that can use the space, and get a smaller stick for your Kemper.

It certainly wont hurt to copy the contents of your Kemper backup stick to your computer once in a while, just in case...

Thanks, Will. I'll give that a try.

That's what I thought, too. At least that's the impression I got from the instructions.

It seems, at least from my own limited experience, that setting the return level by watching the output LED is all that's really necessary.

I'm fine, thanks...

If you you don't know, you don't know...

Thank you.

Well, yah... but...

If I recall a snapshot, it seems to take the place of an existing rig having the same name.

But if I change rigs and come back to the rig that shared the name with the snapshot, then the original (latest) rig seems to be active again...

So again: what's supposed to happen?

Does any part of the starting profile survive the profiling process?

Or, to ask in a different way: how does the starting stack profile affect the outcome of profiling a new amp?

That sounds to me like the way the snapshot is saved.

I'm trying to understand what happens when I load a saved snapshot...