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Post by drew571 on Oct 22, 2017 21:55:55 GMT -6
So I'm having a buddy of mine build a nice quality board. He does great work and I want to make sure I get this thing right. I have a kemper and want to be able to have the kemper a decent distance away from the board if i'm going to be using it live. Right now I'm just in the studio but I want to plan ahead if possible. If I do the routing like I think I need to it's going to require several signal runs back and forth from the board to the kemper. What I'd like to do is hit my compressor, overdrive, etc. in mono, send it to the kemper, get the amp sound and delays etc.... and then send it back to the board in stereo as an external stereo pedal on the kemper to hit my strymon big sky etc... then stereo back to the kemper. by my count i'll need 1 1/4" input for signal from guitar. 1 1/4" output to the kemper. 2 back in from stereo FX loop, 2 back out. total of 6. I'm also thinking about just adding a cat5e connector because i'll likely get the kemper remote at some point. am i missing anything here? i'm new to pedalboards and want to make sure i'm not making this more complicated than it needs to be. i just want to have the option of sending stereo delay from the kemper into a stereo reverb and can't think of a better way to do this. I'm thinking about just getting a mini snake with 8 channels on it so i have some extras just in case. any other suggestions for connections? Here's my buddy's website for pedalboards if anyone is in the market. www.beardedboards.com/
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Post by matt on Oct 23, 2017 11:49:11 GMT -6
It will make for a nice fat cable but I think you have it covered. Funny, I'm thinking about doing the same thing, and am about to buy a Kemper, hopefully gently used. I have a massive pedalboard that I want to pare down to those few boxes that are unique for me: Vox Big Bad Wah, Ventilator II, Super Pulsar, and Mega Vibe.
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Post by NoFilterChuck on Oct 23, 2017 15:52:30 GMT -6
isn't the point of the kemper so you don't need those pedals anymore? Just profile all of your songs with the pedals set accordingly, and use the Kemper Remote to handle all of the switching between profiles live. I've heard of guys who profile each section of a tune, so they can just toggle the right sound for each section immediately on the gig. And they go thru the P.A. so they only have to carry their guitar, the kemper, and the remote! www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/ProfAmpBKwRMT
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Post by johneppstein on Oct 23, 2017 16:17:57 GMT -6
isn't the point of the kemper so you don't need those pedals anymore? Just profile all of your songs with the pedals set accordingly, and use the Kemper Remote to handle all of the switching between profiles live. I've heard of guys who profile each section of a tune, so they can just toggle the right sound for each section immediately on the gig. And they go thru the P.A. so they only have to carry their guitar, the kemper, and the remote! www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/ProfAmpBKwRMTTherre are certain classes of devices that the Kemper won't do. I believe they include devices with time based function (reverbs and delays) and devices with dynamically changing behavior, like wahs. Maybe some others,. not sure.
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Post by NoFilterChuck on Oct 23, 2017 17:41:41 GMT -6
Sooooo, use the Kemper's on-board reverbs, delays, and wahs?
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Post by drew571 on Oct 23, 2017 21:14:49 GMT -6
yeah, i feel like the kemper is a great replacement for the amp itself, and while i really like the idea of profiling each song, i don't want to HAVE to do it that way. if I want to make a chance i want to have the controls in front of me. and i don't know how well a kemper would profile the effects pedals. it has built in effects, but the reverbs are not quite there yet as well as the character you get from a cool modulation pedal.
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Post by donr on Oct 23, 2017 21:22:58 GMT -6
You might want to house the Strymon and any other post-amp pedal effects near the Kemper and use a remote switching loop insert to turn it on and off, rather than run all that cable. Unless you need to change settings during the show on that stuff.
I've got a three channel setup, one dry and stereo effects. My drive pedals and compressor are before the amp, and my delays and chorus are after the amp, speaker and mic IR. I use an Alessis Quadraverb for delay and mod effects and I use up to 7 different patches during a show, sent by midi from the pedal board.
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