Posts by AdamMassacre1981

Quote from goldensheaf

Others have been profiling years now. What about meorr? Tone x now too. And i read kempers patent is over. What I do know is its wiping the floor with capturing a amp. Kemper needs to update the profiling process because its last on the list for many. I got neural an it sounds way more realistic. Dynamics are fantastic an its just more open. The software allows for looooong profiling. You even get a chart showing how close you got. Downside is its glitchy and finicky. Its developer mode stuff but guys are working on updated versions already

Theres certainly a buzz around it. im not totaly tech with how it works but i heard its an open source vst so i think that means anyone can go into it and update its code.

Scary how technology is evolving.

So hey guys! Anybody heard of this vst calling itself Neural Amp Modeler.

Its description is...

Neural Amp Modeler is a freeware amp profiler developed by Steve Atkinson and has been making quite a splash. Users can profile their own amps, stomp boxes, and any other gear they might see fit. You can also download a plethora of these profiles and models for your own productions.

Is this even legal? Surely there is some kind of naughty going on here.

It has been doing the rounds on youtube So i thought i would let you guys have a look into its strange-ness.

I always thought profiling was a patented technology owned by kemper.

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Email sent to look into going forward with sending my Kemper off to be looked at. 🤟😉

Quote from Ruefus

You're not bumming anyone out. Most of the time when someone announces they're ditching their Kemper, they want people to either commiserate or argue. Neither of which is true here.

BTW - Where are you located?

One point that may or may not have been made - if your unit is in fact faulty, it's not worth as much as a perfectly functional one. So.....you end up paying for it one way or the other. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I wish you the best in getting it sorted, even if that means selling the KPA.

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Im in the UK sadly not many if at all anyone in my local area has a kemper that i could try out. I went to a very well known guitar store and they didnt have one either which i found a little odd.

Fingers crossed i get a result from kemper 🤞🤞

Quote from jperttu

You're not bumming anyone out and even if you would, that's not your fault but their shame. Most of us are trying to help you, please let us.

Listening to your latest samples I think there is definitely something itchy going on in your Kemper, perhaps in cabinet section. I guess you have already done all different kinds of resets, factory default settings et cetera thus far. If I were you, I would do as V8guitar suggested and send it to Kemper for factory inspection. As you have noticed, the reason for this kind of behaviour is really, really difficult to track remotely.

-Jari

Yeah done so many resets and restores. Yeah im looking into the process of sending it over to Kemper to see whats up. #fingerscrossed

Quote from AdamMassacre1981

So yesterday i recorded a little tester and kinda liked the tone it was cool i was digging it i didnt hear any really trouble frequencies in the signal and got rather excited. I saved the profile and all was going sweet. So it was late i had to be up for work etc etc so the the kemper was switched off and i thought nothing of it.

Woke up in the morning for a quick little tinkle before going to work and Uh-oh! the saved profile that was sounding great the night before had competely changed again. (Sample 2) I was using the same guitar the same unchanged profile everything exactly the same from the night before but the profile was completely different.

Again i had to skip the profile to the next one and back again and sample THREE is the result...totaly different and right back to the fizz situation.

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now TELL me something aint seriously wrong here.

Apologies i was cleaning up my soundcloud and accidentally deleted my recent soundcloud upload hence why the previous link states a problem. I re-uploaded it and this is the new link.

Quote from Michael_dk

No need to remove the thread, I think. Any forum members being bummed out should just refrain from clicking it And I personally think you come across as patient, reasonable and willing to troubleshoot with support and forum members alike.

Thanks Michael although i think you guys have been way more patient and reasonable towards me and i cant thank you all enough for that.

Quote from V8guitar

AdamMassacre1981 - Given the last recording example, sending it to Kemper seems logical. At least they can bench test it as the 3 changes you had really do point to an intermittent fault. It seems like a really good offer and might give you some peace of mind with limited risk.

Yeah its certainly the best next move. Looking into the process now and gonna get things moving

Quote from Kemper Support #1

removing the thread would eliminate the chance of other forum members reamping your files to help you. If you still want to send the unit in for inspection afterward we can offer you the following: You only have to cover the shipping cost and customs fees-the inspection will be free and if the service center finds a fault we will repair it under fair dealing since you originally reported the issue while the unit was still covered by warranty. To initiate that process please open a ticket in the support section of the Kemper website.

Certainly seems like the most logical best move at this point. I will look into the process and get things moving

Can i request to remove this entire post? i dont want to bum anyone out any longer and i dont want to get anymore bummed out. I dont want to bring any negative emotions to the forum or be that p*ssy whingy forum user.

Appreciated. x

So yesterday i recorded a little tester and kinda liked the tone it was cool i was digging it i didnt hear any really trouble frequencies in the signal and got rather excited. I saved the profile and all was going sweet. So it was late i had to be up for work etc etc so the the kemper was switched off and i thought nothing of it.

Woke up in the morning for a quick little tinkle before going to work and Uh-oh! the saved profile that was sounding great the night before had competely changed again. (Sample 2) I was using the same guitar the same unchanged profile everything exactly the same from the night before but the profile was completely different.

Again i had to skip the profile to the next one and back again and sample THREE is the result...totaly different and right back to the fizz situation.

now TELL me something aint seriously wrong here.

Quote from skoczy

I'm not defending anyone, nor I'm attacking anyone, but not everyone of us is active musician, knows other folks that have Kempers to compare our gear, lives in bigger ciy that we can go to music store an compare. I think there are many guitar enthusiast here, that work full time job, and arranging with another Kemper side by side thing is a challenge.

In this particular case, in the recording posted at Look how awesome Kemper users are. I can hear obvious fizz/hiss, which is not anything that can be rectified by EQ.

I hope OP sorts it out. And I didn't read this post as "Help, my possibly defective guitar processor has been keeping me up at night for 5+ years...."

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Quote from V8guitar

Sorry chaps, I'm gonna defend AdamMassacre1981 here....

I'll playback the story as I see it....

He has posted this issue a number of times and has been pretty open and persistent in testing things and suggestions.

He engaged support ( can't comment if this was a positive experience by both parties) but support helped by providing the re-amps, suggesting its NOT the unit.

Conversely, a couple of re-amps without the perceivable problem suggest it IS the unit. He has also tested with multiple guitars, tried many other suggestions.

EQ is not the answer, its masking a problem, as we can all hear it, just can't diagnose the cause.

Just so everybody knows, there are NOT many local stores that stock a KPA in the UK so just going and trying one isn't always that easy. Even then,

1) If it has the same issue, what is the solution/answer - are you likely to even be able to get the same set up in a guitar store??

2) If it doesn't, does that confirm there is an issue when support don't believe there is

Yes, he should have addressed this under warranty years ago, yes, but he didn't so is trying to deal with it now.

Sending the unit back to Kemper would definitely close out the "is it a faulty unit" but because it costs money and time, I think I'd want some convincing that was worth it, especially as Support don't believe its a faulty unit.

This has been 8 pages because we have not accepted he should leave the tried to help and he has positively engaged

I hasten to add ( AdamMassacre1981 - not sure if you agree or I'm getting you confused with someone else) that in the past he may have not been as positive in responding, but this thread has been very cordial as far as I can see.

I honestly have no idea what the problem is - I think its not 1 thing TBH, but I do understand the frustration as I think we have all had something go wrong ( like a car) that has been really difficult to resolve.

Just felt the need to comment....

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This! 👊😊 Thanks brother.

Quote from jperttu

It would be a good idea to set the Clean sense values for each guitar.

For example, I've one guitar that has quite hot and dynamic (really uncompressed, with strong transient attack) pickups and I have to set Clean sense to -11 dB to prevent peak clipping on low notes and power chords. Another one of my guitars has medium output bridge pickup with quite compressed characteristic and for that one the proper Clean sense value is +2 dB. I both cases my DI tracks have quite full dynamic range but with enough headroom to prevent clipping.

One more thing: if you lower the Clean sense you may also want to increase a little bit gain in Kemper to compensate the input gain loss. Or maybe not, let your ears decide.

-Jari

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Thanks! i will certainly give this a shot.

Quote from JedMckenna

What's strange to me is how do you let this problem live for 5 years and this thread go for 8 pages long? The problem isn't your 6 guitars. I'd have swiftly done a factory reset and gone to a friend or a music store with another KPA to compare side by side the sound of a factory profile so you know whether or not the problem is your hardware.

I don't mean this personally, there just seems to be so many curious threads here on the theme "Help, my possibly defective guitar processor has been keeping me up at night for 5+ years but since I'm not sure, I need more opinions to know if I should keep putting up with my dissatisfaction or not".

Anyway, hope you sort it out!

To be short i have a very small window of opportunity to actually sit down with my kemper due to full time job and general life etc im sure alot of people can relate to that and that little window i do have i have spent reading through insane amounts of forums seeking advice and buying so many new this new that replacing that adding this removing those replacing another one a those alterinng my entire studio around "oh its just the irs buy some really good irs" Yurrp did all that and all THE testing with all these alterations takes time for that little window i mentioned. Yes its been a long journey for me and since all of these alterations became a huge financial investment i couldnt just bin off the kemper so im still here determined to get a positive resolve.

Its not like i LET this problem stretch this far or wanted it to im a pretty cool positive dude.

I cant thank the kemper community enough for sticking by me this whole time i know its annoying to be "that guy" trust me i dont want to be.

I must have done at least a thousand factory resets lol

i still believe i will get there then we can all have a forum party and virtual beers on me.

Quote from Kellerblues

? A normal guitar cabinet goes from 100hz to 5khz. How the cut I suggested can destroy the tone?

i was cutting to attempt to remove the bad frequency the cut just seemed to keep going to the point the tone was ruined and i could still hear the problem.

Quote from jperttu

There is some clipping in DI tracks (the flat amplitude peaks of low notes around 0:34) and that should never happen, under any circumstances. AdamMassacre1981: earlier you mentioned that your Clean Sense is set to 0 dB. It think it should be decreased.

-Jari

Thanks Jari i will give it a shot

Quote from Kellerblues

AdamMassacre1981 : did you tried the high-low cut I've suggested ?

Yeah the cut became so drastic the tone was destroyed and i could still hear it lol oh man this demon will forever plague me huh? im starting to think maybe its my guitars tbh i dont even know anymore. A possible break from everything for a while may clean up my head and i can come back at it more un-cluttered as its got me all scrambled.

Quote from steinweiner

Stupid question,,have you tried the left maion out 1/4 " jack? That's the one I use right into my AudioBox, right into my Mac.. Make sure I'm not clipping, and I don't even adjust EQ... Just checking..I know there shouldn't be any difference between the 2 except for the impedance..

Yupp tried it

Quote from nirm03

But I already helped with this exercise here:

AdamMassacre1981 I reamped your DI sample with the profile, and sent you the result. Identical to my ears. What's the reason there's still this thinking that your unit it faulty ?

i think at this point my brain so damn fried i dont even know what im listening to anymore and trying to keep up with what is being posted is scrambling my head. I think i just need to take a breather for a moment