Posts by jon9max

  • Layout D please

    Yes, I can't believe guys that work on large stages with lots of lights aren't Also constantly begging for this. With each new update, I hope...and...Nope, Not this one either. Layout C shows us it CAN be done. Kemper Guys Please make a Layout D with the big fonts for "Rigs" So we can see what we are doing during a show. I and I'm sure many others use the Kemper like I do, and Need this. I'll pay you, really. Let me know what you want. (I won't tell anyone. I promise)

  • Rig Manager Sliders?

    Quote from Finally

    When they were first gathering requirements for the initial RM, the topic of sliders vs knobs was raised. I wanted sliders, but knobs were the clear winner and I think they're great with a mouse set up.

    On a touchscreen I'd still prefer sliders.

    I use a MacBook with a touch pad. I need precise accuracy sometimes. It would be great if we could click and enter the exact number we want. It's tough and I don't want to use a mouse.

  • Please post your most convincing acoustic settings and technique.

    Quote from BayouTexan

    jon9max your profile sounds almost identical to mine. I'm going to try it on my LP neck in split mode instead of the strat middle. I tried some others on RE with 5 star ratings but I am still not convinced it sounds convincing. ha.

    Good luck. It's why I went back to a real acoustic for two songs. One is a fingerpicking kind of classical thing that was hard to play on an electric. I used to use a Fishman Aura Spectrum DI which was another rig that had to be set up, sound checked, different, wireless unit, input, effects...But the Kemper does it way better. One rig, Just another transmitter on the same wireless unit and it sounds better. Just have to be sure to switch the patch (if it has gain/overdrive)before you switch on the Acoustic.

  • Who uses the High Shift and Pure cabinet?

    So does it override, work with, Have a steeper curve, or does the most "Cut" win out over the global setting in the output section? There are a few rigs that I would like it adjusted. But with those filters in the output section, I can't. Would I have to lose the settings in the output section and do this per rig? Or per cabinet? Or is this just for the "monitor out" "Cab out" section, and doesn't affect the main outputs? Also, there are High and low cuts in the EQ effects. So, for one of my rigs, there then would be three layers of High and Low cut filters, on the cab, an EQ added in the effects, and the global output. How are these working together when they are stacked? Or Not working together? I don't want to assume even though I think I may know the answer.

  • Fender tone master pro and dedicated Speaker

    Yeah, I have a room full of tube amps, some vintage that I'll probably never use (on a stage) again.. That's why I have a Kemper.

  • On disabling the Cabinet

    Quote from rgustaitis

    Thanks guys. I feel a bit dumb here. I have been gigging out for 4 years and never knew about that. I used a 2 x 12 and tended to alter my profiles to sound best through that cabinet. Thanks, we never stop learning, but dang I was late to this one.

    When I get a new product. I try to hit ALL the buttons and twist All the knobs to see what they do. I feel like kicking myself when I find out something was there all along.

  • Fender tone master pro and dedicated Speaker

    Quote from BayouTexan

    He forgot to say "above the Kemper and not as good". Liquid Profiling blows them away by miles. I think Fender should stick to guitars and amps. I've never heard anyone consider their effects department as "high end" or above mediocre except for maybe their spring reverb. Prove me wrong.

    I'll never understand how companies operate. I know it's just capitalism and how that works. But Fender or any company Doesn’t have to do everything and keep expanding, and expanding. When they're huge, the people who run and invest in the company have Nothing to do with or care about the "product" It's just a means to an end. As far as music companies, Sure, people want new shiny products, great. Let new companies exist that do different things well. But as far as specific brands, Fender, Gibson, Marshall, etc. All Anyone ever talks about, and what a majority of their marketing is geared toward is those few products that were the best ever made, way back when. It isn't nostalgia (which they are marketing) It's that they were really, really better. I own examples of those products. The company was focused on a very few products (even though some of these audio miracles were really just a fluke.) But a product takes off, the company then needs actual business people and then it's cutting corner, and greed time because it’s only about money. Then the original founders, and workers leave and get bought out and it's a "BRAND" that they sell us. Greed is the ruination of everything. Make your awesome product, treat your employees well, stick to what you’re good at make your million, make 2, 3,4,5. You deserve it. Stop trying to make it a billion. These "Brands" care more about their t-shirts and merch department than what got them there. The people who run it, and they have to at this point, just look at the charts, and graphs, their employee's "productivity" and pay them the minimal required for their position while demanding they always do more, faster, with less, so the big important guys at the top can justify paying themselves more. A company doesn’t have to be huge, and they can still meet demand if they only focus on what they do great. Nothing sounds better than my '54 tele straight through my blackface bassman. it's heaven.

  • Looper not working again.

    I've had this issue for a long time, ever since I got my Kemper (2019) and it was for one particular rig. It happened with every update, the same thing . What is was, and I've heard others talk about it too, was this rig had every effects slot filled, and one in the efx loop. Maybe it was too many, they didn't interact well, The type, used up too many resources. But a lot of the time it would do exactly as you described. it would work sometimes if I rebooted the Kemper, so I thought it was that. So when I had a show I would check it and reboot until it worked, then it seemed to work, for that show, as long as it was on. Until it didn’t, only to come back.

    What I did was to eliminate one of the effects that I didn't need and it now it works every time. I only use it on one song, So I imagine with some of my other rigs that use every available slot and effect. Try it. let me know if it works.

  • Solution to small size of Stage LCD screen?

    Quote from Yoda Guitar

    Use a Fresnel Lense and some wood to create a frame to hold the lens.
    https://www.amazon.com.au/s?k=fresnel+lens

    I have the same issue. I can't wear contacts, they make me dizzy, and I don't want to wear glasses on stage. I've done that. I actually took two of the plastic fresnel lenses and cut them out.(from the middle section) and put them back to back (taped them together with a thin strip of tape) a little larger than the screen. then I cut two small pieces of wood(painted them black) about an inch high one side a little lower, like a ramp. Put velcro on the wood, the remote, and both sides of fresnel lense, left and right. I can take it on and off.I keep the lense in a plastic bag as they get scratched easier. it works. Not great but it's better. I only use performance mode and I use each button 1,2,3,4,5 as different songs and I have been begging them to make a "Layout D" so the rig names(songs for me) are in a very large font like in "Layout C" which make the Performance names huge. It would solve the one and only one problem I have with the Kemper.

  • Is there a way to save your own Output settings?

    Quote from Wheresthedug

    I’m with musicmad. Output Presets should be a phenomenally useful feature but are currently virtually useless as they don’t save any of the information I would want to save such as Power Amp OnOff status etc.

    Exactly. I have different output settings from home to rehearsal to show. If I forget to change my settings for a show it becomes a problem that's not easily addressed. I can't/don't want to change anything after soundcheck. There are very small, but very necessary details changed in my output settings that I might not notice or may not have anything to do with what I hear. It has happened so it's another thing on my checklist. My goal is a shorter checklist.

  • Show your latest guitar

    Quote from BayouTexan

    jon9max I was the one with Trigger Finger surgery. The doctor only allows me two injections each finger. Any more than that and it can blow out the nodules and cause permanent damage, so then I'm left with surgery or locking fingers with pain as my only options.

    Fun. The other guitar player in my band had to have surgery like yours last year. it wasn't for trigger finger but for pain he couldn’t squeeze the guitar neck and had too many shots. So...

  • Show your latest guitar

    Wow. you had to have surgery for that. Fortunately a few shots got rid of mine on my ring, and pinky finger, It was getting worse weekly and my whole hand was cramping up. I imagine this in my future. The joys of aging...

  • Show your latest guitar

    I got this a couple of weeks ago at sam ash NYC used, one tiny scratch on the back and what seemed like original strings old/dull 10-50, dirty/unused frets, and the action was high, I don't think the person played it at alI. So at a 1000 less than new, unfortunately I had to get it. I can't take a good picture it sparkles so much. Had to tweak it though. They do a weird half out of phase thing in the middle position that sounds great clean but is muddy if you put a little overdrive on it. They put a cap on the HB to make it a high pass and all the bottom from the p90 gets through, could not use it. .So I put in two 500k CTS push pull pots. A better cap and wired it 50’s style. The volume splits the humbucker, and the tone does a real out of phase. So I have a HB, HB split slug side, if I pull up the tone it then splits the screw side, so 3 sounds in the bridge position. If I go to the middle, I just get a normal HB/SC. Pull up the volume SC/SC, pull up tone Out of phase SC/SC, push volume Down, HB/SC out of phase. Neck pos. Is just the SC P90. The SC and Out of phase sounds are Not thin and weak. It's much more versatile now. I love it.

  • More compressor options

    Quote from Wheresthedug

    The Kemper compressor is apparently based on the Ross/MXR pedals. I have an MXR and absolutely hate the bloody thing. I also have a Cali76 which is amazing. I would love to see the Kemper compressor getting a full overhaul similar to the Kemper Drive etc.

    I really like my Wampler Ego compressor. But The normal names for the compressor controls would be nice. I use it, I tweak to my liking, but I don't really understand it and I've seen so many contradicting explanations, and they all describe the existing controls as what they are representative of, "attack, release, ratio, threshold" So let's just use those names. No one would be confused by those, but it seems everyone is by the current names.