Posts by Thx113eight

  • Kemper Kabinet odd noise/resonance

    I recently got a kabinet in a trade. It’s been awhile since I played through my Kemper and when I run it through the lab (unpowered toaster amplified via an ISP Stealth), I’m hearing something odd. At first I thought it was just a little high end fizz on distorted sounds and started messing with presence settings. However, I hear it on clean tones too.


    It is almost like a lower volume fizzy ghost note doubling whatever I play. I don’t hear it through headphones so I’m zeroing in on the speaker cab. I suppose it could be the stealth amp as well. It’s also a recent acquisition for use at home. When I’m able to crank the volume, I run it through a tube power amp and haven’t noticed what I’m describing.


    I haven’t opened the cab to see if anything inside is rattling. I’ve also wondered if the part of the speaker that acts as a faux tweeter is a little blown out.


    Anyone else experience anything similar with the Kab, or any suggestions on things to try? If not, I may have to go back to studio monitors because it’s very annoying now that I’ve noticed it.

  • Suddenly not hearing my amp profiles?

    I'm sure I've clicked a flag somewhere by accident, but suddenly I don't hear my amp profiles coming out of the Kemper. It's an unpowered toaster. I'm running from the main outs into a stereo power amp, and out of that into the stereo inputs of a 4X12 guitar cab. I have cab sims turned off, but it also suddenly seems like the amps are turned off as well. The "AMPLIFIER" button on the front panel is lit up, and the amps are active in Rig Manager. I just get a clean tone with delay and modulation. It changes slightly when going from one rig to the next, but not by much. That could just be whatever effects are active on each rig impacting the eq.


    Is there an amplifier "mix" control that I'm overlooking? It almost sounds like I'm just hearing the unaffected signal that you would send for the purposes of re-amping instead of the signal going through an amp profile.


    The volumes seem a lot lower than they should be as well. I'm assuming that's because the amps' gain isn't in the equation.


    Can anyone help me figure out where I'm being ignorant on this? I tried a couple of different ways of google searching and came up surprisingly empty.

  • Question about disabling cabs universally

    Thanks for the input so far guys. I'm still new with this thing and the manual is gigantic so I'm having a little trouble with finding out how to do certain things. Can one of you point me to a procedure to set up the Monitor Output and Direct Out to function as a Stereo Monitor Output per the suggestions above.


    Below is a response I found when searching for that procedure. Unfortunately, this makes it sound like I'd still be getting cab sims on the Direct output unless a subsequent software update has changed it so you can toggle cabs off on the direct output.


    I'd love to have this setup so that I can listen to the 4X12 in stereo with no cab sims while recording in stero with the cab sims going at the same time. However, I'm starting to get the impression that if I'm going to try to record in stereo while playing through a guitar cab at the same time, I'm going to have to run the cab in mono unless I'm just not understanding things correctly (which is entirely possible).



    Monitor and Direct Output are independent but they can be handled together ;)


    That's how it's done:

    • Go to Output Page 1 and set Monitor Output to Master Left and Direct Output to Master Right. (Deactivate the loop if you have set it in the stomps or effects section.)
    • Go to Output Page 2 and set Monitor Output Volume and Direct Output Volume to -∞ (minus infinity), then check only Monitor Out Link and Direct Out Link.
    • Use the Master Volume and you're done ;)

    The disadvantage is that you will still hear the cab on the Direct Output :(

    Kemper, give us a "Monitor Cab Off" button for the Direct Output, too...that would be great! ;)

  • Question about disabling cabs universally

    I’ve found info on how to lock cab sims as being disabled on the monitor output. However, I’m running from the main outs to a stereo power amp and then into a stereo guitar cab. I know how to toggle the cab sims on and off for each rig individually, but I’d like to lock them to the off position for all rigs universally. Since I’m running stereo, it has to be the main outputs and not the monitor outputs.


    Is this possible to do with a stereo setup, or am I going to keep doing it one rig at a time?