Posts by jaybird666

Question I have on this parameter. Would it in theory have the same effect as turning up the volume if you left it flat EQ'd? It seems like I hear something different in the tone of my amp if I leave the Eq flat, but just raise the EQ volume. I've raised the regular volume by the same amount to match volumes, but raising the EQ volume seemed to make the tone a tad thicker sounding. Or maybe I'm just hearing things

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Welcome Jaybird666!
Is this for real, NH is Fractal territory? Haha!

It certainly is!! Fractal HQ is in NH! Actually they are only about a half hour from my house. So I'm the red headed step child with the Kemper around these parts

Quote from Dean_R

Hey Jay:To be honest based on the clip that you posted, I don't think that's your problem. I honestly think you're fine, it's just the choice of profiles is a better venue for your situation and spending a few minutes with few parameters to make the profile suite your guitar and pickups better.

Here's my advice for your situation: based on the clip I heard

1- try pure cab and that will definitely take off some of the sizzle, Click on CAB button and from there you'll see it.
2-From Cab button also try to nudge the :"High Shift" and you'd be surprised how much improvement you can get from that alone.
3-Press the Amplifier button
and -reduce the definition slightly, and try to add just a little Sag, If you lose some of the tightness, move to the next page by pressing <page> button.then increase the clarity to bring tightness back.
4-Try to see what adding a little tube bias will do. I usually put it on 1

Now press the EQ button and see if you still need to roll the presence or the high down.
That clip that you posted, if you follow what I just wrote, will clean up very nicely to suit your guitar.

just to reiterate, I don't think your KPA has my problem so i wouldn't bother downgrade based on what I heard., you just need to quickly experiment with the few parameters I eluded to above to make any profile to suit your pickup or guitar better. Some profiles don't need any tweaking but most need a little.

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Hey Dean,

Thanks for the advice! I have had the pure cab set globally to 4.1 for all profiles. But I haven't messed with the "high shift" before. Great tip!!

I think you are correct - I have been getting pleasing sounds all along from Guido's XTC pack, but not many others. Now I am getting some tones I'm liking from Mbritt's 70 Marshall, Top Jimi's Caswell 's, Guido's 800 pack and a couple others.

I guess I just wasn't prepared for the initial learning curve and the high % of profiles that don't work for me. I also downloaded the latest 5.03 patch last night, so not sure if that helped. But glad to say that I am starting to get happier with the Kemper

Thanks CJGOMEZ.

I wonder if the downgrade is necessary , or just deleting and reloading the profiles would correct the problem? I'll probably just do the downgrade anyways to be safe at this point.

Quote from Dean_R

To know whether it's ear fatigue or a real problem, I, in the last two days, played the amps from MY POD HD500 that I'm using as a controller and compared. If you still have an old modeler I suggest you do the same.There was definitely a problem in my firmware because the Kemper sounded terrible, no string separation no weight, harsh and muddy!!

It was depressing that the POD sounded better in comparison, so I confirmed beyond any doubt, that I had an issue. The only unusual thing I did that might have caused this was in Rig Manager I copied over 100 profiles at one time and moved them to "my profiler" folder to send them to the KPA.

I

Thanks for posting this, I downgraded to 4 (the release version) and tested, the problem was still there so I deleted all profiles (I have them all backed up) and proceeded to upgrade to 5.03. and KPA was back to normal.
Next time this happens, I will contact support and hopefully they can isolate the problem, because it's a serious problem if My POD sounds better than the Kemper, not disrespecting the POD HD, but to illustrate that there's no way this was ear fatigue. I chose the KPA for amp modeling comparing it with other very expensive devices and I could hear substantial weight, clarity and muscles that aren't in any other modeler.

My favorite thing about the Kemper is how it interprets high frequencies in a very musical way, so what some people call fiz or undesirable hair, can be actually part of tube amp sound (Power amp saturation) and others call it desirable sizzle. Some players don't like that and in the Kemper there's a parameter that will help. If you lower tube shape from 3.3 to 3.0, some of that sizzle will be reduced.

I'm quite relieved that the problem was solved.
Thanks again.
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Ok so I think I am going to try this then.

So what is the proper way to save my profiles and get them back into the Kemper after wiping everything? Do I need to copy them 1 by 1 or something, as doing a restore may bring back the problem? Being a noob, I don't want to reck anything , especially the paid profiles that came w/ the unit.

Man, this is a sh!tty way to start off my adventure , especially considering the price I paid for this unit

Quote from ElDoca

Well, I solved my high frequency issues after seeing this thread

https://www.kemper-amps.com/fo…igs-after-upgrading-to-r5

Basically, downgrade then wipe the flash memory then upgrade back to v5. Any other combination of upgrade/downgrade, flash, etc didn't work for me and I tried them all.

So being a noob here, what risk do I take doing this?

Will this procedure work?

• Take a backup (have to figure that out)
• Downgrade to 4.x
• Wipe Flash
• Upgrade
• Restore my backup
• Don't import any new delay presets??? Do I need to find those and delete them before I do my backup?

Is this when you have your DAW software up? Make sure its not outputting / monitoring what you are playing live or it will sound real laggy for sure as its doubling what you are playing. You should be able to unplug the Focusrite from the PC and play straight through stand alone, try that and if you have a USB powered one use a wall wart adaptor to power it. My 6i6 is self powered so I can play it w/o a computer to eliminate PC related issues. I get almost zero latency playing live.

Quote from stratattack

A belated welcome to KPA Land from over in Vermont. New Hamster is Fractal territory, so you must be a rebel of some kind

Thanks! I know I am getting a lot of flack from my Axe-FX friends, ha!

Quote from Awesome_Elvis

Seriously! What he said^+1000

Yeah that would be awesome!!! EP booster , fulltone full drive , and my favorite ol SD-1 would be fantastic!!! There are plenty of others too, but don't want to get too greedy, but obviously these things sell outside the modeled world so there is a fair amount of market demand and application here.

How do you have the Focusrite connected to your PC, via USB? That's how I have it, and run the Kemper outs into the two inputs of my 6i6. The Focusrite outs go to my monitors. I can hear both computer and Kemper (or whatever I happen to have plugged into the input) at the same time.

I know this is an older thread, but was wondering if there was any word or thought on new stomps? I personally have used the Boss SD-1 as a boost forever. I know the TS is close, but I have never been a fan of how it affects the mids working with most amps. I do like TS-9 type pedals for Fender amps, but not Marshall type amps.

I for one would love to have the Yellow SD-1 available in the Kemper. I'll just have to use one of my real ones in front for now I guess.

Quote from ElDoca

Seems to me lately that I've been having to significantly turn down the presence of many profiles and up the treble to compensate to get rid of this high frequency fizz. I know we've been told over and over that updates don't effect the tone of profiles, but I don't remember ever having to do this before.

Interesting to hear that you're hearing a change. I wouldn't know because I started with 5.0.3 with my unit.

Quote from ColdFrixion

I definitely hear the fizz and it's excessive to my ears. You've got a lot of high-end energy going on at and above 8kHz, which can be tamed using a low pass filter. If you're getting this on most profiles, you could try adjusting the height of your guitar pickups on one side to increase the low-end or conversely lower the treble side.

Hey ColdFrixion,

It definitely seems profile related or the way that a large % of profiles react to my guitar and monitor setup anyways. Some profiles sound pretty good I've found, but many or most have some sort of issue similar to above. It's actually worse because the compression that Soundcloud does actually helped this sample as live the "ice-picky-ness" of the fizz is even more pronounced and annoying.

I am working on tweaking some of the Mbritt 70 Marshall profiles and Guidoist JCM 800 profiles to my liking and getting some decent results. Though today on the Mbritt profile when doing some bends I was hearing some weird synthetic sounding pitch modulation that I haven't been able to nail the source of yet, sigh :(. I disabled the stomps and effects and it was still there.

Getting closer to a "good spot" with this unit, but the struggle continues...

Thanks everyone!!!

Quote from SpinnerDeluxe

My option with 18 inch sub + 2 x 10 inch and horn is *slightly* louder than a 4x12 stack

Well I guess that could work!!! I do have the matching sub for my LSR 305's so bottom end isn't an issue if needed.

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Sounds like my story!
With the first L6 POD - the bean - I got instantly good sounds. Within the limits of that technology, of course. Later I upgraded to the HD-500 and based on the factory sounds it took many nights to just come close to the old POD! And endless more hours to make me feel that investment was justified.

Back to the Kemper: for me also most of the rig exchange profiles just do not work. But: from the factory profiles (3.x) I got instant sucsess. I.e. a VOX AC-30 and Gundy Kellers stuff. Good right out of the box and excellent after minor EQ adaption to my guitars. ANd only lately I baught my first commercial profile, Top Jimis BE Friedman. Awsome, middy, vintage, raw sound. And again - practically right out of the box.

So for me the "stop endless tweaking" dream finally came true. And I grew up with real tube amps. And my sound now is consistently better than in the old and real times.

Sidenote: my biggest investment has always been monitors and room treatment. Add I do own a dozend of headphones to pick from. Thats is where any good sound really starts from.

" I would assume that a FRFR speaker would sound similar to studio monitors, but maybe not?"

Flat Response and Full Range - thats the definition of good studio monitors But for PA or guitar purpose they have to be so load that some (minor) comprimises in flatness have to be taken. But practically: yes, they will sound the same.

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Thanks Spinner. Glad to hear you are / were in the same boat as me! Funny I do really like the sound of the real Friedman BE/ HBE stuff.

Question - where do I find those 3.x profiles you mention? My unit is running 5.0.3.x . Is there an easy way to search Rig Manager for those profiles you mentioned so I can check them out?

Quote from Dean_R

Hey Dean thanks for your thoughts. Yeah I have watched the Captain and Rob Chapman video before

So I am a long time tube amp user. I have had modelers as well, most recently I bought an Atomic Amplifire about a year ago. So I have both. I am looking for that amp in the room sound and feel I guess. I WANT to be fooled if you would that I am really playing the "X" amp for real. I know to really get that true feel, I would need to play through my 4x12 cab with enough volume, but I also know messing for a year with a current modeler what to expect out of studio monitors too.

Glad to hear that the profiling can be done w/ half decent knowledge and mic's as I have that and would profile my amps and some of my friends collections if I stick it out.

Maybe studio monitors aren't the way to listen / play this thing for satisfying results? Guitar cab? I would assume that a FRFR speaker would sound similar to studio monitors, but maybe not?

Quote from Michael_dk

Well... phasing-free may be a bad term... What I meant was, find a profile where you get closest to the sound you want, and lock the cab and then browse other profiles. You might find a combination that gives you what you want

Oh ok - got it thanks!

Quote from MentaL

Awwwww thanks!

Got any profiles to download and test , or samples to listen to of your work?

EDIT - Nevermind found some one Rig Exchange - will check them out!