Posts by vtgearhead

Sweetwater cheerfully accepted my pre-order today. Sales person says it will be a "couple of weeks" before they see stock.

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vtgearhead could you please contact support with your suggestion and also your DHCP-related findings?

Done. FWIW, you need to add Android to the ticket screen OS pulldown. And, to be clear, the DHCP issue is an Android rather than a Kemper problem. The only way you can mitigate against it would be to have the Profiler itself become a DHCP server in the case where it gets no answer from DHCP discovery.

I have a useability related suggestion for both iOS and Android implementations. It's very difficult to know whether 'Save Performance' button has been properly pressed! After losing edits a few times I've learned to wait and watch the Profiler screen to be sure I hit it cleanly. Please consider providing a pop-up on the RM UI to confirm the save?

So far so good. Running RM on a Samsung Galaxy Tab A connected over OTG Ethernet to POE switch that serves a rack profiler and remote.

If anyone else with a Tab A tries this there's a 'gotcha': The ethernet device defaults to DHCP on my version of Android (8.1.0), but since there is no DHCP server the profiler assigns itself an APIPA (aka link-local) IP address in the 169.254.x.x range. That would be fine if the Android network stack behaved correctly by dropping back to link-local - but unfortunately it does not and you get no connectivity. The workaround is to use static addressing. Give the tablet something in the correct range (e.g. 169.254.50.1 / 255.255.0.0), make up a DNS server address (I used 0.0.0.0 / 255.255.0.0) and repeat the IP address as the default gateway. Save the configuration and all should be well. Since I have only the one Android device I do not know if this is common to all Android implementations.

There are no such problems with iOS devices since Apple apparently knows how to read specifications.

I use a small Wifi access point and POE injector to provide connectivity between my iPad and rack profiler. For venues where problems occur I keep a Lightning-to-ethernet adapter on hand. After updating to the current release version of 10.x the iOS Rig Manager can no longer connect to the profiler when running either wired or wireless. It appears to see the unit and pops up a box with its correct name and a "Connect" button. BUT, the connect button is grayed out and does nothing. This was working just fine before the update so it seems something has broken.

Apple App store does not show any updates available, so I have to assume I'm running the latest manager software.

UPDATE: Just after posting this I tried removing and reinstalling Rig Manager. That brought it right back to life. Hopefully someone else can benefit from my experience.

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The filters in the cab module will affect the sound of the monitor output signal even if Kone mode is activated and "monitor cab off" is active.

Thanks! Since the preexisting hi/low pass filters on the output tab already did exactly that is it safe to assume that the rig-specific filters on the cab page and the legacy filters are cumulative in their effect?

I run with monitor cab off and use imprints on the Kone. My take-away is that the new filters are then specific to my main outputs and will have no affect on the Kone. This leaves the question of what is affected by the pre-existing filters on the output tab. I believe they affected both the monitor and main. Is that still the case?

Titlle says it. What is the scope of these new parameters? I could really use preset-specific filters for both main (DI to FOH) and monitor (Kone on stage).

Graphs have been posted previously in this thread.

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does Mbritt provide the exat settings used when profiling? that seems to be needed in order to convert to a liquid profile.

Not that I'm able to find. I sent a message to him (via his web site) on the subject but he never responded.

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I apologize if I misinterpreted your post.

I did re-read it. Just now and more than once before my original post. You may not have intended to sound accusatory, but that's what it (still) reads like to me. Regardless, no worries. Thanks for replying to clarify.

I went back and updated the post to make it clear I wasn't upset with Michael in the slightest.

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For 13 years, keeping a record of profile amp settings served absolutely no purpose. Suddenly liquid profiles exist and after a few weeks the makers are now becoming suspect? With Michael Britt, one of, if not the the most respected profile makers the one called out first?

Please re-read my original post. I'm not "calling out" anyone and was simply wondering why I never received any response. The comment about proprietary was a WAG that in general there may be concerns about working artists detailing their control settings. It's because I have so much respect for Michael Britt that the lack of response puzzled me.

I put in a question to this effect on Michael Britt's website but never received a response. I'm growing concerned that knob settings might be considered proprietary by working players. I have to believe he has a record of control settings. BTW, I am indeed a paying customer.

UPDATE: In NO way am I complaining about Michael, for who's work I have great respect. Was more musing in general whether there might be vendors who consider the exact settings proprietary.

I predict we'll see tone stack profiling in a future software release. It's not rocket science. If you assume the tone stack to be linear in response (a safe bet for 99.9% of cases) then it's a matter of prompting the user through setting changes as frequency response is measured repeatedly. Kemper has already solved the tough problem by being able to capture non-linear behavior.

Even with speaker imprints I roll the low-pass back to around 6k.

A quick Google search popped up a half-dozen hits on G12T-75 IRs and the Oxford speakers. I didn't pursue the others. Are you not interested in using imported IRs (vs. cab section of existing rigs)?

Thanks! I was over-thinking. Seems obvious in retrospect

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I use the Kemper cabinet with the Kone Imprints. For the Main Outs, I always try to find a cabinet that is close to the imprint I'm using, so that the FOH sound is less or more the same as what I'm hearing on my Kemper cabinet. Unfortunately, they're not always easy to find and Kemper doesn't provide them standard. How do you guys deal with this?

That is precisely the way I work. Sound engineers are generally quite happy with a DI from the main outs, so I have to believe it's similar to the imprint.

By now I'd think that every speaker known to civilization was available as an IR. What have you had difficulty finding? Just curious.

Thanks for the response, but my actual question was relative to the (non-imprint) cab model in the rig. You are correct about rig-specific vs. global imprint behavior, but I already knew that bit of the puzzle. In the lack of any other information I'm going to assume the rig main out retains whatever cabinet model it started with before being placed in the performance slot.

I'm quite puzzled. I thought I had a performance slot where the cab model was an imported IR, while monitor was an imprint specific to that slot. However, I cannot verify this since absolutely nothing on the cabinet page in Rig Manager tells me what (if anything) the cab model is! If I use the pull-down to select the cab I want on main outs, the imprint indication always goes back to global - which I do not want. Is there any way to have a specific cab model selected for main out while also specifying a slot-specific imprint for monitor? Something tells me I'm missing something, but what?