Posts by Wheresthedug

Not really.

With the Cabinet OFF in the rig you have FRFR mode (intended for acoustic guitar or Bass). However, I seem to recall Burkhard saying something about there being an artifact from the cabmaker algorithm that stops the bypass working completely so there is always a slight touch of overlap between them. In this case the cabinet block can still colour the sound slightly but it is a marginal effect and the overall sound is still closer to FRFR than a speaker.

You can test it by setting the looper to Input (system menu) and recording a phrase. With this playing you can turn the Cabinet Section On/Off and change Imprints in each state.

You will hear that the imprints work as expected when the Cabinet Block is active and the Cabinet Off is engaged in the Kone menu.

When the Cabinet Block is active and Cabinet Off is Disabled in Kone menu you get FRFR full studio profile including the Cabinet Block.

When Cabinet Block is inactive and Cabinet Off is Enabled you get FRFR with no Imprint but there is still a little bit of the profile cabinet due to the way the Cabinet Block estimates where the amp ends and speaker begins. Changing Imprint here has little or no effect depending on the rig.

In all cases they basically sound like an amp/pedal straight into a desk with no speaker but some are less offensive than others.

I have never understood why some vendors boost the amp volume in their rigs. One well known Dutch vendor who makes awesome profiles sometimes boosts his by massive amounts. The first thing I have to do with his packs is reset all the amp volumes to 0 to make them sit right with other rigs.

I can only assume it is because of the way our ears perceive louder sounds as “better” sounds. Therefore, when browsing a batch of rigs, when we land on a louder rig we think it sounds better. However, then you get into a rig volume war which eventually end up with all rigs boosted to the max value.

According to ckemper and Burkhard the Amp volume has no effect on amp sound and is no different than boosting the Rig Volume.

My own experiments confirm this EXCEPT when there is an effect after the Amp which is volume sensitive (boost, OD, compressor). In this case boosting the amp volume has an effect on the sound of the effect downstream. Try it with a compressor to test yourself. Then remove the compressor and try it with a modulation/delay/reverb effect, you should hear a difference with the Compressor but not the Modulation/Delay/etc

Turning Off the Cabinet Section of the rig puts the Kone into FRFR mode but without a speaker in the rig so like plugging a preamp or OD pedal directly into the desk. Not generally a great sound to most people’s ears, but if it works for you enjoy it and ?

Quote from timberhunter3

How do you get the dimensions to show up in Fusion 360? I try the inspect tool, but its giving me some crazy dimensions that don't sound right. I ask because I'm interested in making this out of birch and the dimensions in inches would help alot. Thanks

Hit “D” to bring up the Dimensions tool. It should already have the dimensions of the lone in the box waiting fo you to enter a new one. Alternatively, use the measure tool and click on any two points.

To change between Metric and those crazy US measurements (?) right click on the first lone of the tree on the left side and it should allow you to select units

Quote from Calaban

The modulation effects need updating.

I would be surprised if we don’t see the Modulation FX updated on the current KPA soon.

Yes, the Kone can’t be close miced because of phase issues between the main driver and the whizzer cone in the centre.

Quote from 1Towneley

Teenie tiny venues & would be cab miked if any bigger.

Bear in mind you can’t mic the Kones so if you really insist on micing a cab for bigger gigs (I wouldn’t dream of doing that as the Studio profile already includes the miced cab) then you need to go with a traditional cabinet.

to answer your other question about playing backing tracks through a regular guitar cab; it will sound very dull and muffled as the speaker isn’t capable of producing the high frequencies.

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Other guitarists JVM is a combo...unhelpfully!

You should still be able to use the speakers from the JVM combo as they aren’t hard wired as far as I can see. Unplug the speaker Jack from the JVM and plug it into the Speaker out on the powered KPA. Remember to make sure the Marshall amp section is turned off at the time as it needs the speaker load to stop the amp frying.

Short answer = yes.

longer answer it changing the amp isn’t the most common workflow. What are you trying to achieve?

My on workflow would be to think of a Rig like an analog amp. Start from the amp and add any FX etc to this. Therefore, I would load a Rig based on an Amp that I want as the first step. I would then change any FX ad the. Rather than the other way round.

If you have an FX chain that you know you want to use but don’t know about the amp yet I would load a rig with those FX then Lock All But Amp or Lock all But Amp and Lock the cabinet manually. Ow you can select any Rig you want from the local library and on the Amp/Cabinet will change. One you are happy store the new rig and unlock the FX.

If you really want to use Amp Presets you need to creat a preset first. Find a rig with an amp you like then drag the Amp block to the Presets window in RM.

I’m not near my KPA just now to test this but I would expect it to work the same way as any other Block. For example if you want to make a Preset of say the Chorus in The Mod Block or the EQ in the X Block etc. You would highlight that block for editing then hit Store. The KPA will ask if you want to store the whole Rig or only the Block. You select Block (might be called Module on the screen) and hit Store again. Try doing this with the Amp Block (or Stack if you want the cabinet too) highlighted and I think you will be fine. No need to copy and paste etc.

Another option is to not bother with copying or making presets at all. Just use the lock function. Lock the Amp (or Stack) now select the rig you want to add that too. This will load everything from the new rig except the Amp which is locked as the one from the previous rig. Now store the new rig. Job done. Don’t forget to unlock afterwards though.

if you are doing it in RM it is even easier. Just open the rig you want to copy from and drag the Amp section to the preset window.

glad you got it working but confused about what was actually causing the problem.

Both Kemper and Fractal are excellent products and both will do what you need. The choice really comes down to which you prefer the sound of and which workflow suits you best. Unfortunately only you can answer these questions I'm afraid.

The SHIFT key for fine tuning feature makes it possible to enter exact values but I strongly agree with you that the ability to just type a value straight in would be a MASSIVE advantage.

If you go to the Rig Manager menu and click About Rig Manager a pop up will appear which should show if it is a beta or not.

You need to linke Monitor Out volume NOT Master Volume.

As for the Recto-Verb each channel Master is actually the send level into the FX Return not the master After the return sognal so it won’t affect the volume in your scenario.

The noise may be a grounf loop. Try toggling the ground lift switches on the Kemper.

Looks like you have update Beta versions ticked in RM. The version you are referring to ion the website will be the last official version. Beta versions are shown in a drop down menu on the website.

If you don’t want to risk using beta versions untick the beta box in RM preferences.

I organise mine in 3 folders

1 - studio profiles from others

2 - direct amp profiles from others (stops you accidentally landing on a rog with no cabinet and getting that chainsaw to the ears experience)

3 - my own profiles or edits to other profiles.

I no longer use folders and subfolders as Rig Manager can search in sub folders so they were more of an inconvenience than a help to me.

in order to make the search function more useful I went through all the rigs in RM and updated all the tags to meaningful info. For example (even from the same vendor) the same amp type can have a different pseudonym like Mars/Marshmallow/British Stack type thing instead of Marshall. So I use the sort column to put all rigs that use Mars as Amp Manufacturer for example next to each other. I then highlight them all and type Marshall into the amp name of one of the rigs. This updates them all as a bulk batch. I then move to Amp Model and sort by that. Say there are several similar but not identical names for a JMP SL1959, I highlight them all and update the tag in one of them - boom now they all say JMP SL1959 and The search function is now more useful than a folder.

Is it a powerhead or unpowered?

When I got the unpowered Kabinet I didn’t fully connect the speaker cable (it was in the socket but nit pushed fully in) the result was that when I played hard the poweramp safety feature came on and killed sound to stop the amp frying. I thought I had a faulty speaker until I realised the cable wasn’t in. Once I made sure the cable was in the amp could see a suitable load and the safety feature was no longer required to protect the amp.

Quote from alerich

I primarily play along with songs on my stereo at home. I use the transpose function when I play all the time to play along with songs that are tuned down a half step and I love it.

Instead of transposing the guitar I transpose or fine tune the track I am playing along to using Transcribe! From seventhstring.com It is a fantastic little software app that makes learning and playing along to track super easy.

Why not just use transpose on the Kemper? Because I can still hear the guitar strings at their natural pitch along with the transposed tones from the KPA. Having everything doubled a semitone apart can be a real pain in the backside ?

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Is there any pedal out there that is significantly better than the Kemper for this type of digital capo trickery? There are a couple of songs I sing live that I need to capo up 2 to 3 half steps but I’m also doing a lot of string bending,whammy bar and horizontal lead playing (Hendrix songs) so I don’t like to capo for obvious reasons with this type of playing. The kpa transpose function works pretty well and the latency doesn’t throw me off much but if I could find a pedal that had a significantly better outcome I wouldn’t mind dropping 300 bucks or so on it.

Not that I am aware of. I have a Digitech Whammy DT but find it at best no better thean the KPA and at worst not as good. In a side by side test I find the KPA more neutral sounding. The Digitech does something to the sound which colours it compared to the original. Many people like this though so you need to try for yourself.