Posts by Dieselfeet

Great session tonight and the Kemper sounded fantastic through the PA in the studio - and that was pretty much 'untweaked'!

Can't wait for the next session!

Cheers guys

Hi folks firmware updated and it certainly sounds a LOT better. The Rig Menu option for Transpose is far more intuitive.

I now have the facility to record, so I'll put something up tomorrow night - rehearsals tonight, the first with the Kemper! '

Many thanks to all.

Quote from lacantina

Good morning Dieselfeet,
did you make sure, that you really downloaded the latest Public Beta Version?

If so, you find the transpose function in the rig menue- as @Atlantic described. So, you do not have to use a stomp.
I often use transpose on -2. I play with InEars. The transposed signal sounds normal and so how I expected it.

My InEars are damping the environment with 28dB, so I only hear the Kempersound and not the strings itself. Maybe this can cause this detune effects...?

Hi there,

I have the latest official release, not the Beta, but will give it a try tonight.

Fair point on the string noise. However, to get an authentic sound, I'm setting the Kemper up in an environment that will mirror the band's live setup, so I'm testing at a decent volume.

Quote from Atlantic

Is it possible that you are getting some of your dry signal in the mix??

The Kemper has an option of mixing your direct sound, with no amp, stomps, eq... and always have it present.

Did you buy the Kemper new or was it used. If it was used, maybe it would be a good idea to reset to factory config.

Hi there,

I'll check out the dry signal thing.

I bought the Kemper brand new.

Good morning folks,

Really starting to lose heart with this and am on the verge of regret at buying this ... this .... this ... THING

Before I go any further, I do NOT have a recording to share - don't have the facility yet, but am working on it, I tried using my phone, but it was inaudible.

As previously posted, I drop the tuning by 1 step (-2 on the display), and result just sounds like yer average pitch shift effect - i.e. awful.

On chords, the guitar sounds out of tune, on single notes the pitch effect is more prominent, in fact I don't hear much difference between 'Transpose' and 'Chromatic Pitch'.

Here's what I'm doing ...

1. Browse for one of the default rigs
2. Select rig - Steave Clean - nice and simple.
3. Press 'Rig' button
4. Press 'Store; to Auto Assign as per display prompt
5. Press Stomp 'A'
6. Use 'Type' knob to scroll to Transpose
7. Use 2nd from left knob on bottom to dial -2
8. Strum a few open chords, play A-minor pentatonic
9. Pull out hair and scream at non-existing deity (the downside of Atheism - no-one to blame but self)

At this stage I'm happy for folks to point and laugh at what is clearly the user stupidity of a 30-year software engineering veteran.

HELP!

Thanks, I shall give that a go tonight.

Hi, I intend doing that, first chance I get.

In short though, I have been doing either the following ...

1. Select rig (I'm quite partial to King Vintage)
2. Select Stomp 'A' and scroll through to TRPWholestep
3. Set to -2 (the default, which I guess is 2 half steps)
4. Strum a chord or play a few notes

... or ...

1. Select rig
2. Press 'Rig' button
2. Select Stomp 'A' and scroll through to TRPWholestep
3. Set to -2
4. Strum a chord or play a few notes

The result is that the tone drops a whole step, but sounds as if it's pitch-shifted rather than a complete tone down.

In lieu of an actual recording, t sound like a bit like this ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNmRMJZU240

Sadly it still isn't working for me. I believe I do have the latest firmware. I'm sure it's user error, but I'm starting to lose my patience with it

Quote from V8guitar

Firstly, all transpose effects carry some level of latency and artifacts ( in my experience) so it never beats taking another guitar in the right tuning.

However, I've also used the transpose on the KPA for a number of things and it sounds think comparable to a digitech drop tuner.

You can confuse the transpose not hitting a note cleanly ( partial harmonic) but otherwise that does sound odd. Can you record and post it? Is it all the time or only on some notes?

Hi thanks for replying. I'm familiar with the Digitech Drop - I've used one live on many occasions and just sold mine last week - and you're right, there are artefacts left over, but it's generally close enough for rock'n'roll, certainly for the drunks I play to!

You can hear it more significantly on single notes and it's all over the fretboard and across the strings.

I'll put a recording up on Monday when I get back home.

UPDATE:

By way of a bit of background ...

I play in covers band and we generally do 2 x 90 minute sets on any given night, covering 40 to 50 Classic Rock songs, some clean, some crunchy and a few gain-y ones.

We've recently changed singers and the new guy (he's very good), is struggling with some of the original keys. I'm not really a natural musician and have learned by rote and practise, practise, practise. I work full-time in a demanding job as well and don't have the time to re-learn songs in different keys and we don't have a lot of time between songs for me to re-tune my guitar.

What I intend to do with the Kemper, is set up several performances (acoustic, clean, crunch, lead, lead w/delay) in alternate tuning that will allow me to keep my guitar in EADGBE and select whatever tuning I require for that song.

I thought I'd cracked it last night when I set up a performance with King Clean, King Vintage and Powerfall. I used 'Transpose' to drop each rig a whole step via the 'Rig' settings. It seemed to work very well, so I stored the performance and went about doing other stuff. When I went back later, I was getting the same 'extra tone' issue that I reported at the start of this thread.

I'm utterly perplexed!!!

Hi, I'm only changing one whole step.

Thanks guys.

I'm using it through the band's PA rather than headphones, so it's fairly loud. I'm trying to set up performances as they would sound in a live situation, as recommended by the guy at Guitar Guitar who sold it to me.

I'll check the Rig settings as recommended by Kempermaniac.

It's an amazing piece of kit and perfect for me as my band play a wide range of Classic Rock songs.

Hopefully, I'll be answering rather than asking questions before too long!

Help!

I've just recently acquired a Kemper Profiler and whilst I'm delighted with the tones and all the possibilities for live application, I'm struggling a bit with the interface (30+ veteran software engineer!).

The biggest issue for me though, is the Transpose function. I assumed that it would work like my Digitech Drop and detune the signal. It detunes, but also adds another tone, giving it a nasty and irritating 'Metal Mickey' sound.

Can anyone help?

Thanks in advance