Posts by V8guitar

There are 2 fundamentals here:

1) You cannot E.Q. for live through a guitar cab. The sound is so vastly different to what you send FOH that you have to build your sounds using some kind of FRFR speaker first IMO.

2) Every PA sounds different. Unless you E.Q. yourself at every gig, then you have to accept variation.

Personally I don;t use HPF/LPF at all, nor do I E.Q. at any gig, I treat it like a regular amp and let the sound engineer make any changes to their PA. If the PA is crap, then everything will sound crap, not just your guitar and the sound engineer will know their PA the best.

The only change I made is at the last gig, the sound engineer said my rhythm sound was a bit fizzy and wished it sounded like my lead sound. Turns out that when copying a sound across I'd missed some settings, so now resolved.

Quote from slateboy

Who has relocated their remote connection terminal, maybe onto a front panel or other location to lesson the use on the KPA terminal?

Anyone put one of these inline with their remote cable?

Obviously, a short ethernet-cable is then used to connect this to the actual KPA.

I'm wondering has anyone experience issues by using this "heavy duty" connector + cable as a result of a this additional inline hardware?

Do you get away without a PoE for the extra few inches?

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Ive done this, but unfortunately the connector into my KPa is a bit flakey so had to go back to connecting direct

Quote from Nikos

Me likes that Saraswati thang...a lot..

I like the Dave WeckL one.....irritatingly brilliant!

Quote from Nordan

Okay, that's good. Now several people told me ha here is no problem. So neither my guitars, nor the kemper is to blame.
Then it must be me: After relistening to my samples, and paying close attention to my playing.... I think my main problems are not the general sound, but rather the palm mutes: If I play open chords, everything sounds indeed pretty normal, but the palm mutes have this overbearing low end boom..

If I move my palm slightly away from the bridge, then the boominess dissappears. I wrote that I couldn't play for a long time, because of an injury:So I guess, I just have to re-learn palm mutes again? At least his would explain why two completely different gutars do have he same problem:...it's most probably the player.

DonPetersen and

GearJocke

thanks to all of you for your answers

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Just glad you sorted it.

I also thought its sounded good BTW.

Quote from spotter

There are cases that are not that "deep": https://guitarcaseguide.com/best-rack-cases-kemper-amp/

I think "shallow" is the right term here.

But on the other hand, you can't stack other racks on it, because if it and some hardware will not fit (like my poweramp for example...)

Even with a shallow case, it will struggle to balance on a Kabinet. I put mine on the Bass cab..

and to add its about balance. My rack is very front heavy but the Toaster is designed to be free standing...

The model is not only possible but the right way to use the KPA.

FOH should be your main sound at a gig, and your vox purely for back line, regardless of gig size ( in my opinion).

To do this, you take you main out to the FOH, make sure you attenuate your output to around -12 to -18 db and make sure your volumes are unlinked and off you go.

It sounds like you have just switched off the cab section not used the monitor cab soft button in the output section.

Quote from iainduncan

Hi all,
Having a problem here. None of my inputs are picking up a signal. The front and alternative input both don't budge. Reinstalled firmware and updated all I could.

The light doesn't light up, checked all settings are correct. Switched cables, rebooted multiple times.
Please help.

How do you know? You not getting any input light or no sound which you assume is input? Does the tuner respond?

The form factors give 2 slight but different problems:

Rack - best for protection, but where do you put it. If you use a 4 x12 no issue, but it won;t balance on a kabinet

toaster - Great for location but difficult to get a rack or protection for it.

I use the rack and our other guitarist uses the toaster. I prefer the rack because I also mount my wireless and power conditioner but honestly you can;t go wrong!

Quote from FlyingSnowman

Thank you!

I bought 2 of these, bit expensive but well made!

+1.

I think its included in feature requests already, plus I'd love the remote replicated on RM so I could set it up without having to connect to it

To further qualify why I don;t appreciate Dylan, its because I don't lock onto lyrics.

As a consequence, this is probably the antithesis of Dylan, as Liz Frazer famously made up words/sounds - and this is one of a my Fav examples...atmospheric, minimalist and the other end of my musical appreciation...and it came up on TV yesterday!

Quote from Wheresthedug

Dylan also thought so as he started doing it like the Hendrix version too ?

To be fair, any cover version of a Dylan song is going to be better than the original. Great writer. Voice like a Lobster being steamed ?

I agree but didn't say it in case any big Dylan fans jumped me

A good example in my opinion of where the cover version is now the definitive version - takes the original and adds to it..

Quote from jlars

Thx for your insight guys as gonna experiment further. And yes, I should of said from the beginning, clean elec guitar sound from one cab and dirty elec guitar sound from the other cab.
Cheers

As mentioned, you can only emulate it....so for example using a clean profile and add distortion/drive pedal to one channel..you cannot run 2 profiles ( as I'm sure you already realised).

I think the point made here is that the Kemper tends to look at the end to end as a rig with added effects. Its not a modeller so people tend to swap out the whole rig rather than interchange amps and cabs BUT doesn;t mean you can;t do it and I've made a very sweeping statement .

Therefore I think you are better using lock as suggested about rather than worry about amp presets as Don suggested as option 2.

Quote from marzzz

I am finding that the Mission pedal, which you guys know resembles a wah pedal, does not seem to be optimal for volume- or at least I am not used to it yet. For keyboards I use a couple Yamaha FC-7, which had a wider "travel," as it were. I may start trying the Yamaha pedal for volume, and the Mission for wah/pitch/morph. Heck, I am still working my way into better understanding the Remote in general...

The mission pedals are just so expensive as well.

I use a converted crybaby for wah and 2 Moog EP-3's for volume and pitch.... all sprayed Kemper green!

Quote from Kahuna59

Nice investment. I'd never turn down a G -LP at a cheap price. Especially that one.

Thanks dude.

Apparently its a 70's guitar...paid £1650 for it..the "chainsaw" case isn;t marked Gibson and looks like a 3rd gen as it has metal hinges....either that or a tarted up 4th Gen...

What is the amp? Any noise gate in the Amp?

Quote from paults

If anyone mentions any specific rigs or Commercial Rig Sellers in this thread, it will get moved to the third-party rigs forum. The subject Of this thread really isn’t about that.

I suggest doing a Google search for EVH Kemper Riggs or looking in the Third party Rigs sub forum. There are several conversations there that discussed these packs when they became available.

Just to add, I'm sure I saw a thread where someone had worked hard on the EVH sound and got it pretty close..

I have been using my Kabinet live now for about 6 months.

It thumps it out and controlled ( and uncontrolled) feedback is there.

Ditched my 4 x12 as just not needed. As for replicating the EVH sound, 90% is in his hands and his amp set up was difficult to replicate with real amps. However some pretty good EVH profiles out there that get you close.