Posts by IronWord

Hey, i own a bunch of les pauls, i have encountered this problem a bunch of times and finally figured out how to fix it.

Get some 1000 and 2000 grit sandpaper. the next time you change your strings gently run the 1k then 2k paper through the slot until it feels smoth, make sure you get the top and bottom edge... from a string perspective its just where the string lays on the nut itself.. I bought a jewelers loop and use it to check out the slots on guitars i buy, the slots are sometimes sloppy. Get a magnifying glass or something and check it out, dont spend money on string managers or any of that nonsense. That less paul nut is fine it just needs a bit of love and attention. 99.9999% of tuning problems on les ppauls is just the nut. I usually get a bone nut installed right away except on the 58's i have, i leave those as is.

Hey these guys charged me tax and i live in the States. Is that normal? They also charged me an extra $10 for a bundle package, is that normal as well?

Also the profiles seem to be high quality but they are on the trebly side kinda get that ice picky sound.. What are others thoughts on these? I usually have to slightly tweek most of my profiles so i know it's not uncommon to have to tweak a bit. Is anyone else having good luck with these?

thank you

I have more control with the jazz III and petruci pick, i tried that delrin but it was just too thick.I have dozens and dozens of picks lying around i tried when i was trying to decide on what sounded and played the best.

He jams and talks a bit about it, he mentions the whole band uses them. I have no idea how to insert the video so i will do the best at getting the link to work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YbO2j_Rrxo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YbO2j_Rrxo

Imo one of the most bad ass and underrated metal guitarist around. I started playing becasue of souls of black, i transcribed it from tape.

The Kemper works and works well, it's about 95% there for me, it's still missing a bit of something. FOr me i like to plug into an amp and in 10 minutes i can have a great sound, the constant tweaking and messing with things gets to me. I just got the ownhammer GnR cab set and it's pretty incredible. So here i go again....

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@IronWord thanks for the additional info and thanks for the feedback. I put up a full list of what they are later but you might be surprised by what each one is

Dude you are splitting some fine hairs here, with the exception of 2 because it cuts through the mix and thats one of the things i was listening for and maybe another one that just has a different compression. It's easy to tell they are different to each other. BUt to really pick out a best is not easy. In my headphones the guitar is coming through all right side, if it was stereo i could get a better idea.

I am listening through SHURE SRH1840 headphones IF i had to put in order what sounded best to worse to me it would be difficult without getting it in true stereo
10,6,7,5,9,8,1and the difference between those is about 1% if that. 2,3,4 are at the bottom with 2 being the worse but cutting through the mix better.

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Interesting.
Thanks for posting. Is that you choices in order of preference or Amp, Kemper, Loadbox etc?
In no particular order you went for:

The MBritt Tweed Fender profile
Mesa Cabclone (which I thought was like sticking needles in my ears Just goes to show how subjective taste really is)
The real amp
The real amp into a loadbox with the commercial Two Notes IR of a different cabiner)

I just keep coming back to the conclusion that there isn’t necessarily a best or even better sounding way to get a sound - just subtle differences that are as much about personal taste as any objective quality.

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They were in no order, but to me 10 sounded the best, then 2 then 7...6 was a guess, it sounded better than the others i think.

2,6,7,10

10 is the real amp

Howdy!

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I record a few tracks in my DAW of the dry guitar signal. I record some clean arpeggiated chords, for clean profiles, some rock rhythm tracks, and a couple of lead tracks.

I then set the loop points in the DAW, and open Rig Manager. I set the Kemper input to reamping. Hit play in the DAW, and can check a ton of profiles on the computer in no time. If any profiles hit me, I put them into a "check again" folder in RM. Depending on the type of profile, I solo the track in the DAW.

Using this method, I can go through a large amount of profiles in no time.

What are you using for your interface for the pc? When you say you set the KPA to reamp, are you running an out from the pc interface to the KPA to be able to do this? Hey i was checking out your website, very cool man! Do you still have that '84 Baretta? I have an '84 Pacer with an JBJ pickup in it, amazing tone. I'm about to strip it and redo everything on it. It had a rough life but the neck is straight as an arrow.

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Hi,

So you've downloaded your new pack with gazillions of profiles and now you've got to go through the process of auditioning to select those that are going to be your keepers.

If you're a Kemper Remote user then the looper is your friend!

Set the looper position to pre and record some stuff, go to browse mode and then select away remembering to mark rigs as 'favourite' for any rigs you want to come back to later!

Hope this helps.

Si

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Is it possiible to record with the looper if you don't have the remote foot switch?

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Delay like this?

Legacy delay, 450 ms, mix 45%, feedback 38%, I setted it in combination with a reverb. Something missing in that tone?

Cheers
Frank

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Hey is that you playing? IF so, wow you're a bad ass guitar player that sounds perfect. I appreciate Vai's technical playing, but i do not like that tone he uses, sounds too much like a synth.

Welcome and good luck, if you're into cisco you won't have a problem learning the kemper, you made a great start by jumping in here!

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Good video, HW. Thanks.

My experience with real tube amps is that the "sweet spot" for maximum gain is where notes are still clear enough to be intelligible, but going any further into over-saturation becomes destructive to crunch and note distinction. Obviously different amp designs have different responses to saturation. A multi-staged amp can have incredible distortion crunch without "mushing out".

So my (admittedly limited) experience with the Kemper is that I audition profiles looking for how my pickups saturate the profiled amp for maximum breakup with the best tone and dynamic response. And because I find better tone out of my pickups when they are lower than I see most pickups set, I usually have to select a profile with a higher gain setting used during the profiling process. Yes, I adjusted the input section's "Distortion Sense" to what I "think" is enough compensation, but I have no way to verify that it is set where it would be "equal" to any pickup output done by the profiler. That is one "level meter" I wish the Kemper had available...a target input gain meter.

The bottom line is I pick the best sounding gain breakup profile I can get and work DOWN the gain from there. Dialing back my guitar sounds great like that. Just like the video shows, it sounds better that way. When you push the gain up, that is when the pick attack gets weird sounding, and something doesn't sound natural about the breakup. So I agree with HW about that. I hear exactly what he is illustrating. What Don is saying about "tone" is also true, but the attack and dynamic response is what I hear falling apart when you push it further up beyond the optimal saturation point. Real amps do not respond the same when pushed up more. That's my experience. It is what it is, and I can live with that. Nothing comes closer to real amps IMO.

If I were doing the profile, the perfect point of real amp saturation with my pickups would be achieved. But since I have to work with what is provided, I can only select a profile that is closest to what sounds like "max without mush". I will try to push up gain and find the proper dynamic response point, but sometimes you just don't hit it right. And of course this is all subjective stuff. What I like might not be what the profiler likes, so that could be a deal-breaker right there. The ones that work well are beautiful though. Pure sonic enjoyment!

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This is a great point, and to add to that. I have found that i used to stay away from high gain profiles. So depending on which guitar i was using one or both of them may sound bad with certain high gain profiles, but now i look for them becuase i turn the gain down until it cleans out that metallic sound and then make up for it with a boost, or even a boost and distortion pedal and an extra eq. Change the cab and it's golden. also to add, i know this contradicts what i posed 2 weeks ago, but it's amazing what you can learn in 2 weeks.

Welcome, !
the profiles are just the beginning. Wait until you discover changing the cabs....

Welcome!

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Had a drummer named Taylor in my living room and we live cut Bass and Drums improv.
I used Bommel's EBS 350 KORM NOON CHAR.with a Warwick Masterman.5
Added Michael Britt's 3P BF TIM ED KING with a Strat middle pickup.
Demo Soundtrack for Covert activities. Thank you my Brothers of the Profile.

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This would make an excellent backing track. Great job

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The stereo wet is a nice one for sure.

That's an expensive workflow add! DO you use it to control presets on the kemper?

I don’t have trouble dialing in reverb. Sure you can add it in the mix but some things aren’t captured that way, it just depends on what you want to accomplish There are some great reverbs out there I got the big sky due to some features it has and the remarkable sound quality. It’s not your typical stomp not even close. The neunaber reverb is also one we use.