The Kemper thread

FarleyUK

Question.... is there an editor for IRs that will allow me to apply a hi and low cut, to avoid having to take up the X mod slot with an EQ?

FarleyUK

I spent most of yesterday 'working from home' and playing with the Kemper properly.

My God, I love this thing.

Haven't dimed the volume yet, but sounds good through both headphones and my 2 DXR10's. Been playing around with snapshots, morphing and performance mode, and managed to get a pretty good Wanted Dead or Alive performance saved. Slot 1 is acoustic sim, with a thick delay and reverb using the freeze feature to keep the 'drone' going at the start of the song, slot 2 is the same acoustic rig but without the drone, slot 3 is my main Aldrich Cameron for the solo, and slot 4 is the Cameron pulled back a bit for the heavy rhythym.

This thing really is amazing, even if you don't use it for profiling! Seems easier to use and navigate than the AX8, although i wish it had a PC editor.... and hi and low cut within the cab block!

sgosden

do you need a hi/low cut if you're using a profiled amp? surely the 'digital' high associated with modellers wouldn't have been captured by the profile... as the amp doesn't put it out.

FarleyUK

sgosden said:

do you need a hi/low cut if you're using a profiled amp? surely the 'digital' high associated with modellers wouldn't have been captured by the profile... as the amp doesn't put it out.

I won't pretend to understand the science behind it all.... but I do know that when I insert an IR into the cab slot for a direct profile, and then add a graphic EQ in the X slot, the hi and low cut makes a big difference on the sound. I typically cut at around 90Hz and 7000mHz, but off the top of my head I don't know if the hi cut only affected it from a certain frequency register.

Jonathanthomas83

sgosden said:

do you need a hi/low cut if you're using a profiled amp? surely the 'digital' high associated with modellers wouldn't have been captured by the profile... as the amp doesn't put it out.

No it doesn't but it's the close micing of the cab which is usually compensated for with high/low EQ'ing.

Cabicular

sgosden said:

do you need a hi/low cut if you're using a profiled amp? surely the 'digital' high associated with modellers wouldn't have been captured by the profile... as the amp doesn't put it out.

If I mic a guitar amp I’ll typically apply some EQ so I would expect to do the same when using a profile.

firepaulmusic

FarleyUK said:

I spent most of yesterday 'working from home' and playing with the Kemper properly.

My God, I love this thing.

Haven't dimed the volume yet, but sounds good through both headphones and my 2 DXR10's. Been playing around with snapshots, morphing and performance mode, and managed to get a pretty good Wanted Dead or Alive performance saved. Slot 1 is acoustic sim, with a thick delay and reverb using the freeze feature to keep the 'drone' going at the start of the song, slot 2 is the same acoustic rig but without the drone, slot 3 is my main Aldrich Cameron for the solo, and slot 4 is the Cameron pulled back a bit for the heavy rhythym.

This thing really is amazing, even if you don't use it for profiling! Seems easier to use and navigate than the AX8, although i wish it had a PC editor.... and hi and low cut within the cab block!

Didn't know there was a freeze feature, how would you use it? Also what is a Snapshot, is it like the Helix feature?

FarleyUK

The freeze feature basically 'freezes' the ambient wet sound of the delay; so, to get the drone sound working, I selected a very wet delay with reverb, hit a d minor chord, and press the programmed button on the remote. This causes the wet delay and reverb FX to play, without any future notes or chords - while the freeze is activated - affecting it. Very cool feature.

Can't remember much about the Helix snapshots, but they're basically different 'instances' of the same rig; so one for low gain, one for high gain, one for lead etc.

chrishill901

Hi guys, I’m thinking of buying a Kemper, probably quite very soon but I was wondering if the stock profiles are any good? Once I’ve laid £1400 on the Kemper I’m not going to have much left over for commercial profiles...

Wazmeister

Chris,
Yes - some good some great some bad... but easily enough to get you going.

Jonathanthomas83

Stock profiles are surprisingly better than I expected when I got mine. Obviously the 3rd party ones have some appeal and are often favoured by many.

I've heard there's a nice Kemper going in the classifieds ;-)

Wazmeister

Also Chris,

I can point you in the direction of some free good ones

crunchman

There are some definitely some good ones on the rig exchange.  I think there are some free Michael Britt ones on there.

There is a Morgan AC20 from rmpacheco (or something like that) that is very good as well.

The paid ones don't have to cost a fortune.  You can get some of the Michael Britt packs for $39.99.  They normally have a good variety in the bigger packs.  If there is a particular amp you like, he also has some profile packs of individual amps for around $12.

Wazmeister

The free packs from Tone Junkie and Brian Carl are superb.

FarleyUK

Got my first gig with the Kemper tonight - fingers crossed all goes well!

Managed to use performance mode to set up specific song profiles - getting the right effects in things like I Want to Break Free (for the synth intro and the solo especially) was interesting...

Trying to volume level my presets and rigs - I used to do this on the AX8 with volume right up, into a Zoom U44 interface for the PC, and then a LUFS meter in Reaper. I'm assuming I can do the same for the Kemper...?

Jonathanthomas83

Good luck mate, I'm sure it'll be awesome!

FarleyUK

Cheers mate, I'll hopefully upload a couple of clips tomorrow!

Wazmeister

FarleyUK said:

Got my first gig with the Kemper tonight - fingers crossed all goes well!

Managed to use performance mode to set up specific song profiles - getting the right effects in things like I Want to Break Free (for the synth intro and the solo especially) was interesting...

Trying to volume level my presets and rigs - I used to do this on the AX8 with volume right up, into a Zoom U44 interface for the PC, and then a LUFS meter in Reaper. I'm assuming I can do the same for the Kemper...?

Adjust the volume (to match across presets) by using the Rig Volume, not the Master Volume

FarleyUK

Wazmeister said:

FarleyUK said:

Got my first gig with the Kemper tonight - fingers crossed all goes well!

Managed to use performance mode to set up specific song profiles - getting the right effects in things like I Want to Break Free (for the synth intro and the solo especially) was interesting...

Trying to volume level my presets and rigs - I used to do this on the AX8 with volume right up, into a Zoom U44 interface for the PC, and then a LUFS meter in Reaper. I'm assuming I can do the same for the Kemper...?

Adjust the volume (to match across presets) by using the Rig Volume, not the Master Volume

Yep, that's what I've been doing

FarleyUK

Just done the sound check, and the first thing I notice - it's not as loud as the AX8! I'm almost at max volume and can only just be heard over the drummer. Eeek.

Seems I need to increase the volume of each performance set over the weekend...!!