I understand yes, was just out of curiosity, i have had the kemper for quite a while but have only ever used it with my monitors, just finding out more about how it all works. Thanks.
It’s never a bad idea to book a rehearsal room for an hour and explore the options. Standard issue as stated by Wheresthedug is main to FOH and monitor for yourself. They’re completely independent and you can take FOH off the master volume so you can tweak your own level separately
You can also have cab emulation on the main outs and not on the monitor if you’re using a traditional guitar cab, or not if like me you use a flat response speaker.
This works really well. I like it a lot after only one fenderish profile 😀. I did spend a minute thinking about all the ridiculously expensive pedals I didn’t have to buy since 2015 when I got this. Really quite remarkable.
In we go then
I’ve always found the filter to be really useful as well
The videos above and on the Kemper site are great. Tone junky has great walkthroughs. I think of it like an amp with 4 pedals before and four after. If you would like a quick zoom walkthrough you can dm me.
Did it let you select inputs and outputs from the Profiler and/or your main interface in the DAW without creating an aggregate device?
Yup. Just shows up as profiler in Logic. I’d need an aggregate to use it with the Apollo I think but as I had my MacBook with me, I thought I’d give the USB a shot on its own. A piece of unlooked for advice, take the monitoring volume down a bit if you’re using in ears to listen. It’s basically my gig kit with the MacBook.
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Thank you for the replies.
It seems for an I/O perspective the Kemper will deliver. Tempted by the Stage for the extra I/O but I was always a fan of my Kemper in the rack.
I love the idea of reamp via USB. This worked so well on the Axe FX compared to the Kemper pre version 9, I can not wait to try the improvements; still have my old profiles.
Just to be clear I was obviously joking about a Kemper 2. When I first owned one I was amazed at how many times that was the first question asked by every new member. It always made me laugh
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I have read about Liquid Profiling, and the potential for a functional EQ section. To be fair, I never really struggled with finding my sound as it was always the same amp at different settings.
Morph, when you used the Kemper as an audio interface, was it with the default Mac drivers (sorry new to Mac) and what was the latency like (thinking more vocals than guitar here). To be honest if it does not provide low enough latency I will just aggregate the Kemper and another interface.
Cheers guys and thank you
Mike
It just plugged into the mac and showed up in Logic as profiler 1@2. No latency with direct monitoring. No need for aggregates.
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Welcome, you seem much less impulsive than me, I just started gigging with it straight away, but you’re definitely doing it right. On an fx note, two personal favourites are crystal church delays and natural cave reverb. Enjoy man
1. very stable and straightforward last time I tried a couple of days ago. Mute input track and monitor direct. I use a Mac and Logic
2. I understand that there are two inland outs on the head and rack and 8 on the stage, but I would stand to be corrected.
3. RM is stable but occasionally has to be re started in my mac if the mac goes to sleep. It is not an issue for me when I’m recording as the Mac stays on.
4. Don’t know.
I was staying at a friends and had my interface Kemper and Max but decided to give the USB recording a shot instead. It worked flawlessly.
In my opinion the Kemper cabinets on studio profiles have always sounded better than IRs.
But there's so much talk about using IRs to save the Helix tones and other modellers using IRs that Kemper users got caught up in the IR hype.
Just my opinion! 🙂
I use IR changes to get a better tone sometimes. It’s definitely a suck and see thing because I have no idea what speakers produce what tones so I just experiment. I’ve got closer to the tones I want doing this.
That’s nice
Great!
.. and the manual says:
"Activate “Direct Monitoring” if you prefer to monitor the PROFILER output signal without the latency of the DAW. In this case, mute the active track while recording in the DAW to avoid monitoring the signal twice."
.. but where and how to "Activate “Direct Monitoring” ? .. do you mean: "Activate “Direct Monitoring in your DAW" ? .. and if so.. how to do that in i Studio One?
Thank you in advance
In Logic, you simply mute the track that is record enabled. I did all of this yesterday and it worked really well. As stated, the Kemper direct monitoring is auto enabled and easy to find in the USB section of the output menu, page 7 on the kemper
That "cheesy" connection has worked for 8 years with no issue for me.
After 8 years, my Kemper port failed and had to be replaced.
I now have it in a PoE, via a patch panel now with Ethercon. Sounds like you have the same problem and I would suggest checking the Kemper port and you will probably find it's loose/damaged as its light alloy.
Where did you get the mods done?
The triplet settings are after all the 1/16ths, keep turning the note value knob
I still recommend Spdif, if you play into your interface plugged into your monitors it should be fine. As far as clocking goes, just make sure you se the interface to clock from Spdif. If you have a sequencer as well, the project clock should match your spdif clock. Anyhoo, good luck with it man
I run my main outputs with the -12db button engaged and an extra -6db of gain reduction on the main output level and use XLR-XLR to FOH. The main outputs are very hot into a mic preamp. If the 8i6 has SPDIF, its always worth giving that a go, the levels usually match up pretty well.
I’m just going to recommend the UA Apollo, versatile and spectacular plugins. It does however feature your capitalised deal breaker, an optical spdif. To be fair, I got a cheap adapter from Amazon which just works, I came to it from a 6i6. Haven’t tried the others but this far surpassed my expectations.
Very first gig with Kemper in 2017 with a DXR10 and a PRS P22...
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Cool, I do the balance the head thing as well but am a little uncomfortable with it 😀
