Posts by Hudiluma

  • Profiles for live use with a regular guitar cab

    Hey DutchGuitarDude1,

    I use guitar cabs in the rehearsal room only and use FR (Active Kone or any other monitor of the venue) in every other situation, because I am lazy and I like both solutions. In my experiance the range/angle of a guitar cab is not made for the small stages I gig. I would have to be 3-5 meters away and in direct line to the cab to hear myself good and do not annoy anybody else with a compensating loud volumen. So FR is for me the choice for gigs.

    With cab sim off in my rehearsal room my 4x12 Marshall 1960 gives the celesion colour to my sounds and I love the sound of it and the moving air of a guitar cab. My bandmades and me found the right spot for the cab and the best volumen. I use the same pofiles for both solutions,

    Best regards

    Hudi

  • Performance slot order?>

    Hey good topic!

    I use a setup which I use since entering midi in ..... oooops 1992:

    Each song in the set has an individual performance, even if the song needs less than 5 sounds/tones.


    1. Slot is a clean Twin (some with compressor) -> easy to find position in stage trouble

    2. Slot is a Deluxe in light crunch setting

    3. Slot is LEAD

    4. Slot is a tone with certain effects if need

    5. Slot is the main rhythm tone -> easy to find position in stage trouble

    I dimmed my tab LED down so position!


    Slots 3-5 are in most cases the most song related tones. Slots 1-2 are defaults.


    Best regards

    Hudi

  • 4 Ohm (2 x 12") speaker to my Kemper Power Head

    Yes and yes and yes! My experiance with a marshall tube poweramp was a complete desaster. I change to a solid state marshall wich can be switched to linear -> no tube simulation. BUT I still use guitar cabs and switched off the speaker simulation when not using the kone. I love it even in mind that i don't use the profile completely. But in gear there is IMO no wrong. If it works for you, it just f****g works. End of story!

    BTW love the Tube-KPA, looks awesome!!!

  • Is it my ears or can YOU hear it too?

    Dear AdamMassacre1981!

    I know exactely what you are going through, but I agree with V8guitar. It is a bug that is planted and you have to get lost of it. How? Well I have a certain favorite Mars profile for a moderate gain sound, that is depending on my daily mood sometimes a bit too harsh. Everytime that happens I noodle a while with an even more harsh JSX profile, which I like too, and than switch back to the Mars. This is maybe foolish, but for me it works most of the times.

    Anyhow it is not the worst decision to have a propper setup of your axe's


    All the best to everybody out there!

  • Bankwechsel geht sehr langsam

    Hallo zusammen,


    vielleicht hilft mein seit Jahren praktiziertes Vorgehen:

    Wir haben ca. 50 Songs im Portfolio der abrufbaren Songs in der Band. Std. habe ich alle Performances nach Namen in alphabetischer Reihenfolge im Profiler.


    Vor jedem Gig sortiere ich die Performances mit dem RigManager auf dem Profiler in der Reihenfolge des/der Sets und bin dann beim Gig mit einem Step beim nächsten Song. Schnell, praktisch und bei guter Vorarbeit/Kontrolle sicher. Nach dem Gig sortiere ich wieder zurück oder spiele ein Backup ein.


    Anmerkung: Bisher kann mam leider diese Arbeit nicht im RigManager in einem Ordner vorbereiten, um diesen dann per Drap and Drop auf den Profiler zu legen. Aber vielleicht kommt das ja noch.

    Grüße

    Hudi

  • Help with kemper stage and external pre/power amps

    Quote from V8guitar

    Almost without exception, every engineer I meet goes " oh great, a Kemper".

    That's my experiance too! And to repeat the others: just find your way for your monitoring on stage! I tried successfully the following ways:


    Option 1: an exclusive FR floor monitor for KPA only, works fine. You can adjust your level any time.

    Option 2: just the FR floor monitor with everything else on it, works fine if the sound man is reacting and dailing in as needed.

    Option 3: active kone, works fine. You can adjust your level any time.


    I prefer Option 2, cause it works, and there is another item you do not have to deal with!

  • Powered Kab

    My main pro argument is: when using a tube amp, it usually has a sweet spot in volume to tone. Most of the stages I play on are small. In the past I was not able to turn the amp up to his sweet spot, cause it was too loud and the full volumen was 3-5 meters away, I was about 1 meter away. So my stage sound was in most cases shit. Now I have my sound in ANY volumen and can place my KAB or FR monitor to the best angle of my ears and I sounds killer!

  • Powered Kab

    I own the powered cab. My experience is good. It is solid, is loud and sounds good. I would like to lift it to a bigger angle but the radius of sound is better/wider than a regular guitar speaker.... nothing to complain! well as BayouTexan wrote, it's working as it should. Feel free to ask if you have specific topics!

  • Not new but not introduced myself here

    Quote from V8guitar

    Theres a lot of myths around power conditioners and also I believe ( I could be wrong ) that dodgy electricty is less impactful of digital signals than analogue - obviously depends where in the chain.


    I run a cheap power conditioner and I suspect it makes no difference.


    In my personal view, I've experienced way less electrical noise with digital amps than vavle amps, but even then unless you play in many different countries and at festivals with generators, its not that common...

    I could not agree more

  • Not new but not introduced myself here

    Quote from V8guitar

    ..interesting regrading bad electricity. I also think there is an amount of psychology that sometimes it doesn't sound as good from one day to the next.

    That might be sometimes the case, but if you know about power conditioners, what they do and would use them, you can ensure that it is your personal condition of the day. In those days I not knew about those and I am not sure that they were available. Honestly I think I learned about them recently in a rig rundown from Brian Mays tech. Which is worth to watch anyhow. I dig the part at the end, when the tech explains what the rig sounded when another player used Brians Red Special with Brians Rig/Amps. Recommended to watch on Youtube.

  • Not new but not introduced myself here

    Well here a short story from zero to KPA. I started my real band journey with a self build solid state, cause no money and the first Squier Strat in 1982. I was able to create a good tone with my fingers and a super tube screamer and was respected for that in my community. But I wanted to have a great clean tone, a good gain tone and a blasting lead tone. With my first big salary and busting the bank I bought a Mesa Boogie Mark III combo in 1988, which was top of everything at the time and very expensive..... very! This amp on one day sounded like heaven and the other day like shit. Today we know about bad electricty and I learnd that there would have been much better choices, but honestly...in my major music store we were treated like unwanted kids and the employees acted like goods. How could you check out any options that need shop support for setup in such environment...... after years between love and hate I sold the combo with hugh loss and bought a Roland GP100 in 1994, added a Marshall tube power amp and the Marshall 4x12 cab, which I still use. This setup had three good tones and sounded the same every time. When the KPA came out I thought this could not work, but after I read the test from Peter Weihe I gave it a shot in a music store in Munich. I was very impressed and after buying it in 2013 it took me some months to find the profiles that fitted my needs and the right setup for amp and speakers. My choice became/is a solid state Marshall power amp, which is set to linear output and the mentioned Marshall 4x12 cab. Since then... what can I say. I am a happy KPA-user. I barely add new profiles to my setup of usage but if there is a sale from MBRITT I like to buy sometimes and browse through his really great profiles. Anyhow, I bought a s/h rack version, which is in our rehearsal room with the mentioned setup. My old toaster is my giging and home unit and I add sometimes my active kone, which is my last Kemper purchase, if needed. But most of the time I use house monitoring. Oh and I do not have specific profiles for my guitars. I like to have the individual response of the profile to the guitar/PUs.

  • Kemper nutzen mit Amp und 4x12er

    Hi Tiaswin,

    ich nutze das Setup mit Endstufe und 4x12 seit Jahren:


    1. Outputsektion: MonitorOut auf Stereo schalten. (Wenn Deine 4x12 Stereo kann)

    2. Outputsektion: CabSim deaktivieren (geht auch nur im MonitorOut)

    3. Die Endstufe auf Linear schalten (Bei meiner Transisitor-Marshall gibt es dieses Option) Meine vorherige Marshall-RöhrenEndstufe hatte für mich zuviel am Sound colouriert.


    achja .... verkabeln nicht vergessen... MonitorOut an Endstufe an Box und Spaß haben!


    Viele Grüße

    Hudi

  • Remote latency

    as far as I remember the latency issue (time to load) was adressed and solved within the 8.7 updates.


    worked in my case!



    Quote of changelogg:

    Code
    PROFILER Operating System 8.7.6.38112

User Interface

improved: front panel responsiveness at Head and Rack models
improved: time to load Slot within Performance 

  • Guitar wireless system for Kemper Stage

    On stage and to use the batteries completely in rehearsals I use an old Line6 G30. Never had any isues with it. It is fragile due to several reports on broken batterie lid. But mine is still solid! The Xvive U2 i use at home, everyday drop outs, but for noodling on the couch fine for me!