Has anyone managed to make the KPA and the Audient iD14 interface work for reamping? I am struggling big time with it. 
Either I get a hideous feedback, or the reamped sound does not quite get all the gain from the KPA, let alone other number of issues. 
Here is how the KPA and the Audient iD14 interface are hooked up.
Thanks
drag and drop in Rig Manager from Local Library to MyProfiler
Hi, any idea on how to keep the folders organised like in our computer of origin?
From what I see, I cannot drag and drop folders. Only profiles. That would mean dropping them in an ocean of profiles and not being able to keep them organised in the destination computer as I have them in the computer of origin.
Thanks.
I've used the SPDIF connection ever since I have the KPA to avoid another DA/AD conversion and to have more inputs available. Also the SPDIF cable is more convenient and less hefty than the jacks.
However not many interfaces provide an SPDIF connection.
As a matter of fact I am in the process of acquiring a new interface and most come with no SPDIF. I am already experiencing, as I am using my new potential interface these days, how much more cumbersome it is to deal with the bloody jacks than with the handy SDIF cable.
Thanks BayouTexan for the clarity and the insight.
hose are RCA speaker type connections on the SSL for your Line Outs. Not SPDIF.
I supposed so.
I guess the logical question then is whether the SPDIF makes that much of a difference compared to Analog (TRS or XLR) to be worth the hassle.
I don't need that many outputs or inputs as in the Motu you linked.
I had thought of the Motu M4, UA Volt 276 or the SSL 2+, none of which has SPDIF. I would need to go for another Focusrite 
if I wanna keep hooking up my KPA to my interface through SPDIF.
Although Focusrite say it won’t work with Big Sur onwards I found that mine did
That must be because you're using an Intel-based Mac, according to the text in the snapshot I pasted in my last comment.
I just bought an M1 Mac.
if you go into the settings you can override this.
Woah! Would you mind detailing to me how that's done?
I just don't see the way. If it's not detected, there is little I can do to make it detectable afaik.
Focusrite themselves admit to this in their website:
https://support.focusrite.com/hc/en-gb/articles/360017407320
No spdif on that interface. Why do think you need another one?
The Focusrite Saffire PRO 24 DSP that I use currently does not run with the operating system of my recently purchased Macbook (I think it's Mojave, not sure). My Mac will simply not detect the interface. The Saffire series were discontinued some time ago and they are only compatible up to a certain Mac OS.
I'd like to keep using the S/PDIF to hook up my KPA to the interface, and I'm in search of a new interface.
I wonder if anyone owns the SSL 2+ and can let me know if any of the the 4 S/PDIF connections that come with this interface can be used as input. Or if that's unworkable and there's no other way to connect my KPA to this interface than through TRS 1/4 or XLR.
Otherwise I am happy to listen to recommendations of interfaces with which I can keep using the S/PDIF connection, as I do currently with my Focusrite Saffire PRO 24 DSP. Or else feel free to tell me it's not that crucial to get an S/PDIF connection, if that's going to limit my choice of an interface so much. My budget is 500€ tops-
Many thanks
Be well
Tone Junkie has a good video on the Kemper comp.
Indeed!
Watching it now. This is what I needed. Let's see if it clarifies.
What are the equivalences of the KPA’s compressor settings? It uses a terminology that is foreign to me.
I function with the following terms as far as compression is concerned: threshold, ratio, attack, release, knee, make up gain...
So in KPA's:
Intensity: ?
Attack: Attack
Squash: Ratio?
Mix: Mix (i.e. % of the signal we want to compress)
Volume: Make up gain?
Thanks guys if you could enlighten me.
G’day
Hi all
This is how I record guitars:
Simple question. Is the pre-amp in my Focusrite interface being bypassed so I am using only the KPA pre-amp?
What if I used a jack cable from my KPA to the interface, would my interface's pre-amp still be bypassed?
How do I get to use the pre in my interface then? Not that I wanna, but I am curious.
What does the ADAT sync status of my interface do? I believe it's used to bypass its pre-amp, but what's the difference to SPDIF then. I guess that the ADAT will work better if I hook the whole thing up with jack cables, rather than SPDIF.
Thanks in advance
If the headphones are pretty loud, and they get very close to the pickups, you can actually get leakage via magnetic induction. Test this out
I'm definitely going to test this out and report here on my findings. I wouldn't say my headphones are ever "pretty loud", but it's still a great idea you came up with.
You guys are great. 
Well they couldn’t pick up the sound from headphones surely? You must have open backs incredibly loud:)
I have closed backs and open backs.
Although unlikely, it could've happened that I used the open backs when I recorded the bass months ago. I don't recall.
But the "incredibly loud" part doesn't quite fit into the story. I tend to treat my ears with care.
Very strange.
Thanks for your input.
this
Yeap.
It's a pain though how they could pick up the sound from the headphones, as I track with headphones mostly.
I'm pretty sure there were no send/routing oversights on my part, though I will triple check next time around.
the pickup in the bass may be a bit microphonic and it picked those things up when you were tracking either live or from your monitors
This sounds to me more like it. However I usually track with headphones. I don't recall how I did it this time around. I will carefully, obsessively check that no noise leaks in next time after tracking the bass. Hopefully I will get to the source of the issue.
Thanks a bunch.
Hi all,
I get leakage (i.e. bleed, background noise...) from other tracks into the bass track, particularly when reamping. That is, I can hear the drums in a mild background of my reamped bass track. No idea why this happens, and whether it has to do with the KPA to begin with, but it's really annoying. Things I've noticed related to this are:
- The leak is already in the DI track (almost imperceptible), which I later reamp.
- The leak is noticeable with specific profiles. Imperceptible with others. I would assume those with a specific frequency or impulse response let the noise through.
- The more gain, the more noticeable the leak is
- The leak is imperceptible with guitar profiles, as far as I can remember.
- The leak is mostly cymbals and hihats. That's the noise that leaks through mostly into my reamped bass track.
If anybody has any idea on how I could get rid of this for good, I would be eternally grateful.
Stay well y'all
Hi Kempers,
enclose you find a new Bass Rig of the Acoustic 220 with 402 Cabinet (2 x 15"). The zip-file contains a
Studio Profile a DI Profile and a Merged Profile.
Have fun...
Thanks a bunch for this. Very appreciated.
May I ask what is the difference between the studio profile and the merged profile?
Is the merged profile the merger of DI and Studio?
sending the DAW playback via the aux in on the kemper so you can monitor via kemper rather than the interface's headphone out (addressing your point 3) above). Don't know if the aux in is suitable for line level, though.
Just tried this, many thanks. They're suitable for line level indeed. Not sure that the sound quality has improved, though.
most other Vendors use cheap amps for HP out thats why they sound bad.
In my Opinion the Analog outs on there KPA carry the same Sound Quality
as the HP out, for me they sound better than SPDIF out
Strangely enough when I play the song back through the KPA HP output, the sound quality does not seem to improve.
Interesting what you mention about analog outs beating the SPDIF's. My ears are not too sharp to hear any difference between the two.
I would like to raise a topic that has been discussed thoroughly in previous posts but I found to remain inconclusive.
Headphones output is awesome
Phones output vs. audiointerface output
Headphone output better than SPDIF output when recording
Sounds different between kpa headphone and interface headphone
Spdif sound quality
So if I understood well:
The KPA Headphone Output sounds outstandingly better than almost any Audio Interface Headphone Output (cautious reservation is kept for top of the range Audio Interfaces)
Therefore, this subpar sound quality coming out of the interface headphone output hinders an optimal monitoring and tracking of our song projects when this is done through headphones. This is quite a big deal, I find 
1. What causes the interface headphone output to be so significantly worse than the KPA headphone output? Is it the interface headphone amp? the headphones impedance?...
2. Is the utmost sound quality (the one I hear from my KPA headphone output) indeed reaching my DAW? or is the sound signal somewhat degraded on its way from the KPA to the DAW (look how it sounds through the interface headphone output )? - It would be appalling if the former is not true.
3. Any workaround of any sort ?
Hesitate not to point out whether any or all of my conclusions on this topic are wrong.
Thanks a lot everyone
