One point of clarification - when I say you can copy a rig in point #9 I am referring to the "stack" section which includes the amp, EQ, and cabinet from one profile to another.

kemper owner of a few years, what I've learnt recently is any tweaks you make to a rig within the "performance" mode does not effect the rig in "Browser " mode, all performances are duplicates of Browser Rigs and when edited leave the original as it is. Also never add drive pedals to the front of the kemper, It has a Analogue to digital convertor like a sound card so the drive pedal or anything will clip the signal, add an insert after the input and put your pedal board in there on an insert loop send/return, makes all the difference.

Two winks in one video? Best video ever. But seriously super cool to learn more about the kemper. Looks like a big toaster to me- it’s insane how much it does and how customizable it is!

This is awesome! I love my Kemper and buying some commercial profiles and performances really helped lock in that "dream" tone.

Kemper user since 2017. Still learning stuff. Best Money iv'e ever spent.

Many great points, will try a couple that I hadn’t gotten into yet. Couple things learned after 4 years with Kemper. 1 - Stereo Widener makes the Kemper main outputs sound huge if your FOH is running stereo (or recording). I use in the X slot after the stack. 2 - Agree with the Gain comment in terms of increasing gain. Increasing over the profiled gain makes it sound very brittle and digital. However, decreasing the gain a bit seems to provide a bit more headroom in the profile. I don’t do it a lot but if a really good sounding profile is too hot, decreasing gain preserves the tone. 3 - I often copy entire performances to maintain consistency of stomps, effects and morph settings and just paste a new stack section in for the amp/cab. 4 - in addition to backing up, copy all of your profiles and performances to tour local libraries when using the rig editor. If you booger something up (a performance for example), you can pull it back from the local library without doing a global restore from the backups. 5 - manage the number of profiles in the browse pool. Like many, I’ve purchased a lot of profiles and grabbed many from the rig exchange. At least for how I’m using mine, it runs better and faster if I keep the number of profiles in the browse pool to 400 or below. You can always get them back from the local library if you copy there first but the premise is you’re not going to use a lot of what comes stock with the Kemper. I dumped around 200 of the originals.

#12 Gain Knob- the good people @ KEMPER HQ told me, it is sometimes easier to profile a High Gain Amp with lower Gain settings and than add the desired gain afterwards in the KEMPER.

I have been a Kemper owner for about seven years now, and have hardly scratched the surface, even though I have bought a lot of top profiles. But find myself using my HX Stomp more, due to its simplicity. Great advice. I have subscribed and look forward to more tips. Thank you.

I think one thing most people don’t know is, you can morph between note values within the delay. For example, go between dotted .8ths and quarter note value on the repeats.

Sounds like this is what I need. Because I’ve been kind of regretting spending all this money when I could’ve purchased the amp I want for a few more hundred bucks more. Thx!

Your videos are fantastic. You are on the road to being a successful KZfaqr :) great job

I use the front panel Gain control only for reducing the gain and that seems to work fine for me. Increasing the gain beyond the original profile doesn't really do what you want, like what you've said. Reducing it is fine as it's a little like dialing back the input which is something the profiler knows how to do, as it's part of the profile - if you know what I mean. I'm terrible at explaining what I'm trying to say here :)

Gain knob: yes, you CAN use it but only to LOWER gain, not to increase it. Basically this is like lowering the volume on your guitar. It is only when you try to INCREASE the gain on the Kemper that the Kemper dies not know how the according amp would react naturally because that gain states above a certain point had not been profiled in the profiling process. But yes, the prifiler knows all the below gain stages up to that specific gain stage the profile was created. I hope this makes sense...

You can use the gain knob but you don’t want to use it to get from a clean sound to a distorted sound. But it works well if you go from a rock crunch sound to a more distorted version of it, or a slightly cleaner version

Fantastic. Keep ‘em coming. Thanks

Hey Zach, just bought myself a kemper stage, eagerly awaiting it's arrival, im sure these tips will come in handy! :)

The most important tip is: disable the global pure cabinet - after doing that Kemper gets so much better!

I’m gonna shadow ya. Keep up the tips and info. Blessings to you. I’ll subscribe if you keep up the Kemper content.

Great channel! I love your videos. I'm taking my first steps in the digital world - just bought a Kemper player. It would be great if you made a movie about that 😊 Greetings from Poland

Hey Zach--a two week newbie here, thanks for this vid. I have a rack version so it's a bit different (no modulation rate and intensity knobs) but I liked your tips. I thought I had done due diligence in seeing if there was any difference between the rack and toaster but I've read that it's not too big an issue. I got a great deal on my Kemper but was dismayed to see the guy shipped it without a power cord! Or bothered to tell me about it-who does that? Wow...Oh well, not that big a deal. The other thing that WAS a big deal was I don't really know what kinds of stuff this guy was playing, but he had only about 80 profiles on it and only about 4 of them had any effects on them! Okay, loud and proud, dry as a bone! (ha ha). Thanks for the advice on the front panel gain knob, good to know about that. I knew from research before I even got it that I was going to have to buy the good profiles, why mess around? (as you mentioned as well) I already knew about the fantastic Top Jimi EVH Brown Sound pack (absolutely floored me and started the process of wanting to get the Kemper). The M. Britt and tone junkie ones seem to be excellent, haven't gotten any paid ones from them yet. So I just happened to see the Bert Meulendijk video and thought his samples sounded great. (From the European perspective). Have you used any of his stuff or know anybody who has? Sorry about the novel, definitely excited about finally having the Kemper! Haven't even tried it out with every guitar I have, it- sounds superb with my Strat and Charvel. Subscribed and glad to see you're already over the 1000 subs-appreciate the newbie help!

Maaan, that camera and lighting look amazing!

Those are great tips. I have had mine for a few years now, did not know about the space parameter for headphones. Going to check that out right now, thanks

I never use the front tone knobs to shape a tone, i use the secondary parametric eq to shape the profile. And the front tone knobs for changing guitars and having options after the fact.

One thing to be mindful of is when stepping through performances while connected to rig manager if you randomly turn effects off & on & move to next slot to tweak & then save as a performance; all your other slots in the performance with be saved in that state as well. Ie: you may have turned a delay on in slot 1 & then went on to change a whole bunch of tweaks in slot 2.

Thanks Zach, appreciate the tips!

Thanks for the tips man... awesome.

Congratulations for your channel 🎉👌

Oh man I just bought the stage profiler and am in WAY over my head. This is total Greek to me, coming from the analog world.

Thank you for the great advice. Liked & Subscribed. And I'm glad you stopped using the music bed under your dialog in your newer videos.. Incredibly annoying. 😁

Awesaome man! Great tips but I will disagree regarding the gain knob! Also no idea I could lock the gate button so thanks dude!

Hey Zach - found this awesomely helpful - great quality video and you really helped me understand my Kemper better. Played guitar for 35 + years, but had the Kemper for 6 - and it's insanely good - but this video offered some aweome types. Liked / Sub'd and please do more Kemper videos. Loved it. - Finallyh - why does your short-cut list miss #3?

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Please expand on locking the clean and distortion sense then locking it. How do you approach the same gig when using single coils and humbuckers. Personally I current have different performances to suit each guitar type

About the morph feature: If i had a expression pedal connected and assigned to morph. What would happen if i switch to another rig? Will it automatically use the morph-state that the pedal is currently at?

Love this but I have to disagree with not touching the front gain control. That's a bit of a myth that gives the Kemper a bad name. Take the popular Morgan AC20 rig on Reig Exchange, for example, and experiment with the gain at varying levels whilst tweaking the EQ to taste, with each change, and you'll see that the front gain knob is incredibly powerful and can still sound great whilst transforming your favourite Profiles. All the best.

I got one recently, these are awesome tips. Need to try some packs beyond the stock profiles!

Great information. Thanks.

Hello!! Great video!! Can I ask you a question? My band does around a 100 tunes. My question is that it seems that each rigs output volume to the board is never consistent. Our sound person has to tweak my volume on virtually every song. Any thought on how to level that out so it behaves like a miked amp? Thank you!!

Really useful tips!

thanks Zach

tried to use the new feature in rig manager renaming rigs, (right hand side button wit three dots rename in drop down), but it changes back to the original name as soon as i move to another rig. any ideas on how this occurs and is there a fix...?

OK OK I finally subscribed. Please keep up the tips and tricks. Do you use an acoustic guitar with the Kemper? If so, PLEASE give us a video on your thoughts tips and opinions on this. I am seeing more and more people use the Kemper for acoustic instruments.

Own kemper

Super video thanx

Hi there, I’m currently using a Headrush Prime for my live rig and the band uses a closed in ear system, I’ve been thinking about a Kemper for a while now, just wondered what your thoughts are on this? Cheers, Paul.

Looking to buy one. Thx man!

Great Tips! Another Tip Is The Background Music This Loud Is Annoying!

Great Video! How do you set the tap tempo for the kemper stage? It seems like it doesnt do a thing when playing live.

Thanks Zach for all the tips here, new subscriber! I got a question here: I just got an used kemper profiler head that came with a bunch of profiles. If I change ownership to register the product as my own, will I lose those previously purchased profiles?

Could show people how to calibrate the morph button. Can’t use it if it isn’t set up.

Thanks for the video bro

Number 14 - Don't load Beta versions of Rig Manager, they are almost always buggy, stay with the production version.

why not use the editor?

I would have liked to know that i had to volume match profiles after making a preformance. that's a job i don't like..

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List of where to buy pro profiles would be cool....use affiliate links you deserver it for your time.

I cannot figure out how to get to the FAVORITE screen. 3:33

there is no morph button. I know what you mean but others may not.

What? Gain knob. Not using it is a bit ridiculous. The profiles are such that they records the gain as the amp is profiled louder. People here act like "digital" has a sound. Sheesh, I'm old varnish also has a "tone."

1:17 - Surely if Kempers ‘clone’ a actual amps then these Controls would very much be like turning the knobs on an amp surely?🤷‍♂️

#14 Save your favourite Cabinets as presets in the Cabinet section. Also, adjusting the Distortion Sense is the same as using the Gain knob...so, never adjust the Distortion Sense, ignore it.

Brillient unit for it's time and I thought currently. Not a fair comparison but Got an Axe FX 3 last weekend and quickly realised just how far far behind the Kemper is. I had no idea just how much things had moved on. Theres literally nothing the Kemper shines at over what I have now. :/ Should have ditched it like 5 years ago.

Hope there was more actual guitar playing in your vids.

Kemper warning - Be prepared to dive into the downward spiral of tone chasing. You'll spend far too much time chasing tones and effects rather than practicing and writing.

no thanks. I bought a quad cortex. I know, you wish you were me...

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Why do people always tell the audience to like and subscribe BEFORE the content? What if they do, then the content sucks? As a result, ya get a thumbs down, buddy. Wont even watch your video. Tone Junkie will cover anything you have to say and then some more.