Kemper Gang?

I’m still loving mine although I only use it at home and once in the studio.

I tried one of the Mission Engineering powered cabs several months back. It cost a fortune and weighed like 60 pounds and sounded like shit. It was also really noisy so I returned it.

Just ordered an EHX Magnum 44 which I’m looking forward to trying out with a 2x12 cab. I must be bored.
 
BlockInlay said:
I tried one of the Mission Engineering powered cabs several months back. It cost a fortune and weighed like 60 pounds and sounded like shit. It was also really noisy so I returned it.
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Really? A friend of mine has the 1x12 powered cab, it weighs about 40lbs and sounds awesome with his Amplifire, no noise at all. It was really expensive though. He has a setting on the Amplifire for bass and we rean a bass through it and it sounded pretty good with the bass too.
 
Maybe I got a bad unit. But that thing could sound like heaven itself and I wouldn’t be lugging it around.
 
BlockInlay said:
Maybe I got a bad unit. But that thing could sound like heaven itself and I wouldn’t be lugging it around.
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did you have the 2x12?

BTW, that is why I got rid of my Mesa Mark I years ago. Still the best sounding amp I have ever played through, but weighed a ton.
 
It just dawned on me a few days ago I haven't even used my pedalboard since I got the Kemper (about 3 months and quite a few gigs ago).
Going to have to try out a few pedals with it in not too long.

For gigs I run the monitor out into a regular wedge or the Katana - works great. I always gig with in-ears so perfect stage sound is a non-issue.
Loving the soundchecks lately btw. Plug in 1 or 2 xlrs, check levels, DONE.
Controlling mine with the Behringer MIDI board I've had for ages.

For recording, running it into a 1073 is heavenly. Glorious.

The really good profiles sound pretty much perfect already, just a few minor tweaks needed on most of them.
 
BlockInlay said:
Are you running to front of house? How are your in-ears connected?
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Yep, straight to front of house. Wireless in-ear, usually get individual feeds back from FOH, on some bigger gigs there maybe a designated monitor guy.
Brilliant monitor mix and you can cut stage volume down drastically. Some gigs the only thing you can hear on the stage is drums. I do like to have some sound on the stage though, in case my in-ears fail or something like that.

Every FOH guy I've worked with lately love this setup, as it makes their job a whole lot easier. Soundchecks take a little longer, but once that's done you don't really have to touch anything. Great for the few times we have to run our own sound. Digital mixers are awesome for that.
 
Very interesting stuff. Would there be a way to run in-ear monitors directly off the Kemper? I realize that's not as useful as getting a mix of the whole band off the board, but I'm curious about it.
 
I'd imagine it could be possible, considering all the various inputs on it. Not sure how, but could in theory be doable.
It does have a headphone output.

Another way could be using a small mini-mixer or 2 channel headphone amp, having the rest of the band on one channel and the Kemper on the other and mix to taste.
A great feature of the Kemper is all of those outputs, flexible enough to deal with most routing scenarios.
 
Btw, just published another vid where I recorded some more guitars on an old song I'm reworking with the Kemper - this time some higher gain stuff.
NOT modern metal high gain fwiw.
Might be of interest to a few GASing for one. :wink:

 
I've been obsessing with Kemper videos lately.....


... I liked the idea of the AX8 floorboard size and shape.... but it's really more of a bazillion effects unit and tweak tweak tweak etc.

I'm much more of a "great sounding amp with just a couple effects" kind of person, and the Kemper seems like it can really scratch that itch for me. I'll be able to use my Boomerang III loopers but instead of a big ass pedal board and tube amp fed into the looper, instead I'll be able to layer completely different guitar sounds on top of each other.

I'm very interested in the formant adjustment in the pitch shifter... I want to know if I'll be able to make a patch that will emulate a nice deep bass from my guitar. Also, I love the morphing option where two different groups of parameters can be on the same patch and blended back and forth with the foot controller. Great for leaning into a lead with extra boost and delay, or between a crisper clean to a more ambient one.

Aggghh.... Saving my pennies.
 
@Dexter Inferno Thank you, not very many videos concentrate on that aspect of the pitch transpose built into the Kemper. I can already see how nice it would be to have the bass sound and a rhythm guitar sound on opposite ends of a morph and be able to seamlessly glide between the sounds with the expression pedal. Might be a total game changer on my Live Looping!
 
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