Posts by CelticGibson

You are probably right Monkey_Man. I was basing my assertion on a first gen Variax I owned years ago. If they are better than the simulation in the video then they have really improved a lot.

This is pretty convincing. This is an improvement over Variax I think.

Welcome to Club Kemper, Marc.

"I generally use humbuckers"

You are falling at the very beginning. You would need single coils to maintain the jangly sparkling cleans that are found on Fender amps. The Kemper is only giving you what you put into it based on the amp profiled.

I'd say a lot of the analog thickness of the CE-1 comes not from the chorus itself but the input pre-amp. Maybe it is this pre-amp that helps to fatten up the chorus?
Have a listen here...

The Professional setting is for AES/EBU equipment. It has a higher voltage for this reason. S/PDIF is the consumer version of AES/EBU and has a lower voltage. I would use the lower setting.

https://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia/term/37583/aes-ebu

I would imagine an AC15 would give up the ghost on the cleans pretty quickly at any significant volume level. I wonder if you tried a AC30 or even higher in order to raise the clean ceiling so that it won't colour the sound too much then might that work better? Imagine how the Kemper would sound through, say, a Roland JC120. Now that's a clean amp that might not add any colour but would be super loud at any setting.

Have you tried putting the kaos.bin in the root directory?

"Expand the downloaded .zip archive and search for the update file called “kaos.bin” inside. Copy the file into the root directory on the pre-formatted USB stick using your Mac or PC. The root directory is the first, or top-most, directory in the hierarchy."

I was forced to log back in once I deleted my cache and history.

I was using Google Chrome and then cleared out my cache and history and no joy. I tried Pale Moon browser and I got the same result. Very strange.

Quote from hjscheffler

it is in the Utilities category where it always was.

https://www.kemper-amps.com/downloads/11/Utilities

This is what I get when I open your link...



No Cab Maker.

Speaking of Celestion IRs. Where has Cabinet Maker gone from the downloads page of the website? Has it been taken down?

I think what you may be requesting is way beyond even the Kemper. Trying to capture eq settings on a continuous basis for each knob position in order to capture an eq behaviour may be equivalent to trying to capture a time based effect. ie not possible because in order to do so would require the Kemper to profile an almost infinite number of positions on each eq knob resulting in possibly thousands of profiles and then somehow morphing between each profile in real time depending on the position of the eq knob on the front of the Kemper. For that you would need a super computer and the ability to dial in each eq knob in micro movements. ?

It's best to treat the Kemper eq as a studio eq strip on a console after the micing of the amp. You won't effect any of the behaviour of the amp itself but you will affect the global eq of the mic recording the amp.

That's pretty damn close.

I have used tonnes of software amps and I even had a Line 6 at one point and through them all, I never spent as much time actually playing as I do with the KPA. Once you settle on a profile you like, it's hard to put the damn thing down. I forget I even have a Kemper when I'm playing, the touch sensitivity and sound is so good. I would love a FRFR cab to really stretch her sound legs and someday when the need arises I will get one. Until then this thing will keep me coming back for more playing and that's a good thing. Enjoy your Christmas Pressie. ?

I too believe the reverbs are done and that the liberalisation of the effects chain is what is holding up the show. This is the first time they have decided to redo the signal path effect structure so I suspect it's a heavy undertaking and one that goes way beyond adding reverbs.

I gave this profile a go and I have also listened to Ruben's video and these are my observations.

The sound on the video seems to be embellished with a room mic picking up Ruben's string hits in the room. Listen to the video with headphones. You can hear it. If you take this sound of the mic in the room out of the equation, the profile straight from the pack is, in my humble opinion, is identical. I played it with a ES335 with the Classic 59 pickup in the bridge and it was damn close but for it sounding a little less abrasive considering it's a semi-acoustic and not a Tele and I'm not Ruben. His playing style is also a major factor too. He's attacking that guitar with gusto.

I disagree. I think this place will be a ghost town. People will be too busy playing them. ?

Oh I highly doubt you are. I salivate every day for the formant presets in the Evolution Reverb. Man, they can't come quick enough. ?

The unpowered Kemper is basically a pre-amp. It has not means to drive a cabinet on its own. You need a power amp to go between the Kemper and the cabinet.