Yes , just a reminder that music is about practice , skill & soul and not look & gear to me , I get tired of all these productions based only on visual aesthetics.
......Plus I hate anyone that young that can play me off the planet!
also makes me wish I started younger and developed more of the basics and I bet he knows theory too...
I know some players are more sensitive to latency than others, and I fall into that camp myself so I never looked in this direction. I'm sure they're making improvements every day but ultimately the physical realities of putting audio down a wire over a long distance make it unlikely that it'll ever be latency free.
Just to flag Chris, my initial experience was the latency was in the order of 1.5 second, so beyond irritating, into unusable. From my perspective, it was that it takes so long to get it even usable.
The market still seems immature for "simple" users like me 
Display MoreThe past year I've been using software like Jamkazam and Jamulus to jam online. It's great fun and works really well provided you have your hardware and software setup correctly and the people in your room have so as well.
While there certainly were quite some new users due to the Covid lockdown, it still is relatively empty. Anywhere from 2 to 10 rooms on busy evenings. Of which most are labeled "pop and country". Rarely any rock and metal unfortunately. But of course you can start your own at any time.
I guess I'm on a mission to get more people online.
Jamulus is free and the more sophisticated Jamkazam is free to try out for a few hours. But I'm happily paying 10 dollars a month for unlimted access. The devs are really working hard to improve the software all the time.
So I'm wondering if people have heard of it at all. What's holding you back from trying it?
Let me know if you have any questions.
Early on in lock down my band tried a couple of options but we couldn't get it to work...from memory it was Jamkazam and I kept getting digital distortion ( like the CPU was tripping out). Also latency was crazy...
I have no doubt its a set up thing, but to answer your question as to why people don;t use it, its because even with 3 people in my band that are IT guys and we couldn't easily sort it and we gave up, so I suspect Joe public will struggle...
I have literally hardly touched a guitar in nearly a month due to tendonitis and neck/shoulder/elbow/wrist pain (I’m actually one finger typing this with an ice pack on my arm). It has been a pretty depressing month but I stumbled across this yesterday and found it massively inspirational.
Dude, so sorry to hear this. Take care, rest it ( resist the temptation to push it until healed) and get better soon!
Just to add on the does it sound any good? Its comparable to any other transpose pedal e.g Digitech Whammy. So its good but as mentioned you will get some artefacts e.g latency as the most obvious.
If used occasionally its perfectly good/acceptable.
However, I play semi tone down and 3 songs a tone down. I still take 2 guitars because it still worth it for for 3 songs. If it was 1 or 2 I'd use transpose but its personaly taste.
Have a play!
My comments:
1) I think there are a few SRV profiles out there with fender and TS included so I would not spend too long trying to modify endlessly 1 profile. If its not working, look elsewhere
2) FRFR will always sound different to cabs. How you monitor is night and day..I use a Kab as I play 99% time live and love it.
3) Volume makes a massive difference for tubes more so than solid state as you are not overdriving the power stage. Trying to emulate the power stage overdrive with boosters I can;t see will work. Volume for solid sate will be more impacted by speakers and Fletcher-munson effect
4) Profile your mates amp but remember that you will be capturing his recorded sound not the amp in the room sound
5) Much of that sound is in the attack i.e the fingers
Good luck dude, sure you'll get there.
It is global when input is locked. See post #12.
Missed that, sorry!
I'm pretty sure I don't and never have locked my input. Silly question why would you lock clean sense ( TBH never touch it) ? I might be missing something
. I would imagine some of you have broken a string at a gig and needed to switch guitars mid-song, only to find the guitar you grab you need to tweak your tone knobs a bit [p90s, hb's, single pups, etc] -
Yeah although that's a "emergency" situation so I'd expect some compromise.
You only have a few options as already expressed:
1) performances focused around a particular guitar. I run a Les Paul and Gretsch White Falcon. Very different sounds, so I have a performance based around that and the songs I use with that guitar. You could just copy a performance 3 times and tweak in case you switch guitar ??
2) Use EQ (either pedal or manual twiddle)
3) Have morph changes preset ( gain, tone etc.) but this would require some real advanced set up. Not sure this is much advantage over a pedal except you could change gain and other parameters as well.
if you want feedback, get rid of any noise gate(s), play at high volumes and stand close to the speaker. Angling the guitar/pickups the right way/distance let's you 'ride' the feedback and even produce different overtones, mostly octaves and fifths.
DonPetersen can you answer the question on the noise gate - is it global? I thought It wasn't but Kempermaniac believes it is?
So the "Noise Gate Knob" is global? Wow, never realized that...
If you have your input locked....most people don;t...otherwsie I don't think its global ( made me question it now
Is there any advantage to using the noise gate knob vs one in a stomp position?
I think there maybe a technical reason but I always find the stomp more effective ( less intrusive etc.)
My kids love this....first solo by Bumblefoot....
Okay after another rehearsal I will have to agree that the Headrush is loud enough. We are a loud band, but I was somewhat reluctant to push it too hard my first time using it. But I gave it more volume this time and it does indeed get plenty loud. Sorry for the fire drill,
Thats ok dude, but I also play in loud bands ( at times its been painful) but you should have plenty of headroom. Just check the level you are sending to the headrush as well
...and check eq....there is a difference between volume and "cut"....don't just try to power through with a very thick sound.
A guitar sound that sounds great on its own can easily get lost in the mix...
I think this is all around the noise gate. Have you tried with the noise gate off just to identify that is where the issue is
I'm amazed that a Headrush 112 is "barely" loud enough!
I have a DXR10 and it gets so bloody loud my bandmates would kill me.
Totally agree...either he plays VERY loud or I suspect something to do with the output levels not set correctly. I suspect the latter.....
I'm not what I'd call a gear-whore, but I've certainly bought and sold my share of gear over the years.
The longer I've had my Kemper, the more satisfied I've become. Pretty sure that's the first time that's ever happened.
Me too!
Try larger buffer in Ableton (is it set to 32 samples?).
I will check. I wasn't going to mess with buffers etc because it seemed its drag on resources was significantly higher..I could get it to work, but as its only a trial version, may not bother...
Given all the conversations on the QC, I decided to try a Neural plug-in ( Nolly)....
So after a bit of hassle with ilok etc ( which nearly pushed me to give up ), installed...great. Loaded up Ableton....
Played a few amps, sounded ok...not amazing but equiv to Amplitube....had a quick play with reverb and then.....yuk...digital clipping in the extreme. I then realised my CPU was maxing out....switch off the reverb and still there....then caused Ableton to crash.
Reloaded, same outcome. With just the amp sim, was using 90% CPU, Amplitube uses about 5%....
Anyone else get this? My PC isn;t a low spec PC although I'll go and check the minimum spec...
Any comments and advice?
I play almost exclusively live as a hobbyist ( i.e. I have another job to pay the bills).
I also do a bit of home recording for fun but don;t use my KPA purely because of the hassle of getting it out,. I just use Amplitube ( which isn't great but good enough)...
I would also keep trying different profiles. Tweak a bit but if you are not feeling it, move on.
Also be aware, the sound in the room is very different to miked sound. However, if you get a good miked sound from your Vox, the Kemper sound get a very close profile. Don't forget to refine
