Your videos are really helpful to get the most out of my Kemper. I know it may seem basic, but could you do a video on the best method to use connecting the Kemper to a basic Audio Interface? I have done it but would like to see if you have any best method tips.
Hello HW, I know you did this 5 years ago, but If you do see this or someone else does. Hopefully I can get an answer. I am fairly new to the kemper and I love it! especially live. I bought two more for back up and I want to try this set up. This is probably a dumb question to you, but what and where are you running you XLR(s) out to to? Are you running out of both kempers? I've never played in stereo and always go mono and left out to front of house. I watch Your you Videos and have learned alot, thank you and keep up the fantastic work! John
Can you answer the question that a couple of us have asked below in terms of the lag/latency when switching between rigs. Using the method you've outlined here, when I switch between rigs on one Kemper, there is about a .4 to .5 second delay between when the first Kemper switches and the second Kemper switches. It's basically a deal breaker for live use because it's really noticeable when switching between a clean rig and distorted rig or vice versa. How do you get around this? It's not something you showed in your video. Also, I've tried this setup multiple times now and no matter what I do, the effects on my 2nd Kemper will not change when I change them on my first Kemper using the footswitch.
Hi, thx a lot for the Video. I have an powered rack and the Stage. Im trying to use the stage as the "brain" with UI to Midi Function but it's not working. I've tried the same process with the Rack being the "brain" and Stage "slave" and worked. Why? Midi out of Kemper Stage doesn't work?
When you play with a single Kemper live, but you only plug it into a single channel in the mixer, do you switch your output to mono or stereo? I know conventional wisdom says mono but just curious.
Ryock I set it to mono so that I’m getting any stereo effects in mono. If you leave it on stereo the Kemper would still send something like a stereo delay to the side that isn’t plugged so you would hear it. I vote set it to master mono
That is the least desirable way to achieve this ... First because if you lose the first Kemper, you do not have sound anymore. Plus your sound is converted AD, then DA and then AD again ... adding latency. Secondly because UI to MIDI is sending the entire UI to the second, so if for any reasons there is a modification on the first Kemper it will be sent to the second. Add to that that the UI sending is somewhat a little bit longer than a regular Program Change send. You'd better be splitting your signal upfront with something like a Lehle P-Split. Then you go into every used slot -edit, slot setting- and activate MIDI Transmit, while setting the corresponding Program Change. Now you have a proper split signal chain with no latency and no gap between slot changes. Additionnal tips : 1- To find the correct Program Change number, look at the Kemper that is not wired to the remote. Each slot will display its Program Change (oddly it disappears when the remote is connected...) 2- if you need to switch the remote to the other you can do a hotswap, the remote will connect and synchronize much quicker than at startup. 3- the Kemper can use its ''thru'' port as a secondary ''out'' with its own Program Change mapping, meaning you can control the second Kemper AND another unit with different Program Changes per slot ; very handy. 4- if possible, do not connect your expression pedals to the remote. Use dual expression pedals (like Mission Engineering) and connect each out directly to each Kemper. That way, if one fails, the other has still the pedal connected to it and you don't lose control during the remote hotswap. To my experience it's the best way to achieve a ''redundant'' setup as well as a dual setup than can act as redundancy in case of one of the Kemper freezes. As far as I know, while it is possible to have 2 remotes for 1 Kemper, you can't have 1 remote to control 2 Kempers. It will always be 1 remote controlling 1 Kemper that will then control the second. That's where having a second RJ45 cable connected to the second Kemper running along the main one is useful. If you have any trouble, cut the volume pedal, hotswap the remote and you are good to go again.
This was super helpful. But I have one question. I did everything exactly as you mentioned, and my footswitch DOES change my rigs on both Kempers, but if I hit one of the effect stomps on Kemper #1 (the master Kemper) it doesn’t turn on the same effect in Kemper #2. I’m using the exact same rigs and effects on each. I’ve also noticed that there is about 1/4 second latency between when the time that I step on my Kemper Footswitch to change a rig and when the 2nd Kemper makes the same change. Very noticeable when listening in stereo with headphones. You can hear the Kemper on the left change rigs and then 1/4 second later, the Kemper on the right changes.
@@bobby_kingstar Have the option ''tuner on when volume is 0'' engaged on both Kempers and use a dual expression pedal with both out directly wired to each Kemper.
This is something I asked @ToneJunkie TV to address months ago. No response at all. Seems like ToneJunkie is one of the stations that posts videos but has absolutely zero intentions of responding to his followers. My 2nd Kemper experiences the same thing. First one changes perfectly; the 2nd one has a noticable lag (about 1/4 to 1/2 second) which renders this application completely useless for me in a live setting since I'm changing between clean and distorted tones a lot, and it's very noticable.
@@toddwest8598 The lag is in the video, too. I'm watching right now for the first time, and it's very, very obvious. The camera pans out when this is most apparant.
prettdboy it’s RU-vid, but also, these profiles are intentionally thinner (a little) to fit in a live mix better, the kemper isn’t trying to emulate an amp in the room, but instead an ideal live mix guitar tone. When you listen to guitar solo’d from famous records, the guitar is often a lot thinner than you might think it sounds like.
HW, if I pressed "Bank Up" on the remote after locking the amp section on the slave Kemper, would the amp be the same on every bank? So only the effects would change? And another question: Can I save changes on the slave Kemper? So every time I plug the midi cables in, it knows what to do right away?
