Kemper PROFILER Remote Owner's manual

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KEMPER PROFILER
Main Manual 7.5

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This manual, as well as the software and hardware described in it, is furnished under license and may be used or
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KEMPER™, PROFILER™, PROFILE™, PROFILING™, PROFILER PowerHead™, PROFILER PowerRack™,
PROFILER Stage™, PROFILER Remote™, KEMPER Kabinet™, KEMPER Kone™, KEMPER Rig Exchange™,
KEMPER Rig Manager™, PURE CABINET™, and CabDriver™ are trademarks of Kemper GmbH. All features and
specifications are subject to change without notice.
(Rev. June 2020)
© Copyright 2020 Kemper GmbH. All rights reserved.
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Table of Contents
Effect Modules 21
Effect Presets 22
Effect Select Screen 22
Clear Effect 23
Autoload 23
Load Defaults 24
Load Type 24
Auto Type 24
Stack Section 25
Chicken Head Knob (1) 27
INPUT Button (2) 27
INPUT LED (2) 29
Module and Section Buttons (3) 29
OUTPUT/MASTER Button (4) 29
OUTPUT LED (4) 30
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About this Main Manual 19
Rigs and Signal Chain 20
Front Panel Controls Head, PowerHead, Rack, and PowerRack 26

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NOISE GATE Knob (5) 30
Direct Control Knobs (6) 31
MASTER VOLUME Knob (7) 31
TAP Button (8) 32
SYSTEM Button (9) 32
RIG Button (10) 32
QUICK Button (11) 33
TYPE Knob (12) 33
BROWSE Knob (13) 33
Soft Buttons and Soft Knobs (14) 34
ON/OFF Button (15) 34
LOCK Button (16) 34
COPY and PASTE Buttons (17) 35
STORE Button (18) 35
UNDO and REDO Buttons (19) 36
EXIT Button (20) 36
<PAGE> Buttons (21) 36
RIG Navigation Cross (22) 37
HEADPHONE Output (23) 37
GAIN Knob (24) 37
RIG VOLUME Knob (25) 37
Front INPUT (26) 38
USB (27) 38

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MAIN OUTPUT (1) 40
MONITOR OUTPUT (2) 40
DIRECT OUTPUT/SEND (3) 41
RETURN and ALTERNATIVE INPUT (4) 41
POWER (5) 42
USB (6) 42
NETWORK (7) 42
SWITCH/PEDAL (8) 42
MIDI (9) 43
S/PDIF INPUT and OUTPUT (10) 43
SPEAKER OUTPUT (11) 43
Kensington® Lock Connector (12) 43
On/Off Button (1) 45
Mode Select Buttons (2) 45
INPUT Button (3) 45
INPUT LED (3) 47
Module and Section Buttons (4) 48
OUTPUT/MASTER Button (5) 48
OUTPUT LED (5) 49
MASTER VOLUME Knob (6) 49
Back Panel Overview Head, PowerHead, Rack, and PowerRack 39
Front Panel Controls Stage 44

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SYSTEM Button (7) 50
PEDALS Button (8) 50
RIG Button (9) 50
TYPE Knob (10) 50
BROWSE Knob (11) 51
Soft Buttons and Soft Knobs (12) 51
MORPH Button (13) 51
LOCK Button (14) 52
EDIT Button (15) 52
COPY and PASTE Buttons (N/A) 53
STORE Button (16) 53
Button (17) 54
<PAGE> Buttons (18) 54
GAIN Knob (19) 54
Up/Down Buttons (20) 55
Rig Buttons 1-5 (21) 55
TAP Button (22) 55
TUNER Button (23) 56
Effect Buttons I-IIII (24) 56
Looper (25) 56
INPUT (1) 58
Back Panel Overview Stage 58

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RETURN 1-4 (2) 58
SEND 1+2 (3) 59
MAIN OUTPUT (4) 59
MONITOR OUTPUT (5) 60
HEADPHONE Output (6) 60
S/PDIF INPUT and OUTPUT (7) 61
SWITCH/PEDAL (8) 61
MIDI (9) 61
USB (10) 62
Kensington® Lock Connector (11) 62
POWER (12) 62
Tagging 67
Favorites 69
Rig Spillover Off 69
Snapshots 69
Panorama 70
Transpose 70
DLY+REV Routing 70
Rig Volume 70
Basic Setups 63
Using the Tuner 65
Rig Settings 67

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Tempo 72
Tap Tempo 73
Beat Scanner 74
MIDI Clock 74
Volume Pedal 74
Parallel Path 75
Morph 77
Separating Amps and Cabinets: CabDriver 78
Browsing Amps or Cabinets 79
Direct PROFILEs 80
Direct Amp PROFILEs 82
Cabinet Impulse Responses 83
Merging Studio PROFILEs and Direct Amp PROFILEs 83
Running a Guitar Speaker Cabinet from a Power Amplifier, “Monitor Cab Off” 86
The Built-in Power Amplifier 89
The Sound of Guitar Cabinets versus Mic'ed Speakers 92
PURE CABINET 94
Using KEMPER Kone with PROFILER PowerHead or PowerRack 99
KEMPER Kone Wiring 101
Working with Amplifier PROFILEs, Cabinet PROFILEs, Power Amps and
Guitar Cabinets 78
KEMPER Kone / KEMPER Kabinet 95

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Output Volumes and Output Volume Link 102
Output Sources 104
MAIN OUTPUT 113
MONITOR OUTPUT 113
Output Equalizers 114
Output Filters 114
Space 114
Auxiliary Input 115
Constant Latency 118
Input Source Select 119
Reamping 121
Alternative Procedure for Input Leveling 125
Pedal Controllers 126
Expression Pedal Recommendation 128
Connecting Pedals to PROFILER Remote or PROFILER Stage 129
Four Pedals: Luxury 130
Three Pedals: Comfortable 131
Two Pedals: Mainstream 132
One Pedal: Purist 133
Output Section 102
Instrument Input and Reamping 119
Expression Pedals and Foot Switches 126

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Additional Switches Required? 134
Connecting a PROFILER Switch 135
Single and Dual Switches of Other Brands 135
Connecting Pedals and Switches to PROFILER Head, PowerHead, Rack or
PowerRack 136
Volume Pedal Function 138
Morphing 139
Monitor Volume Pedal (MIDI Control Change #73) 143
Amplifier 144
EQ 148
Cabinet 149
Wah Parameters 156
Bit Shaper 163
Recti Shaper 163
Graphic Equalizer 164
Stack Section 144
Effects 151
Wah Effects (Orange) 154
Distortion (Red) 159
Booster (Red) 161
Shaper (Red) 162
Equalizer (Yellow) 164

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Studio Equalizer 164
Metal Equalizer 165
Acoustic Simulator 165
Stereo Widener 167
Phase Widener 167
Delay Widener 167
Auto Swell 170
Noise Gate 2:1 171
Noise Gate 4:1 171
Vintage Chorus 172
Hyper Chorus 173
Air Chorus 174
Micro Pitch 175
Vibrato 176
Rotary Speaker 176
Tremolo / Auto Panner 179
Phaser 180
Compressor (Cyan) 169
Noise Gate (Cyan) 171
Chorus (Blue) 172
Phaser and Flanger (Purple) 180

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Vibe Phaser 182
Flanger 182
Phaser Oneway & Flanger Oneway 182
Transpose 184
Pedal Pitch 185
Pedal Vinyl Stop 186
Chromatic Pitch 186
Harmonic Pitch 188
Analog Octaver 192
Single Delay 202
Two Tap Delay 203
Serial Two Tap Delay 204
Dual Delay 205
Rhythm Delay 206
Quad Delay 208
Legacy Delay 209
Chromatic Type 210
Harmonic Type 210
Loop Pitch Type 210
Pitch Shifter (White) 183
Delay (Green) 194
Pitch Shifter Delay (Light Green) 210

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Crystal Type 211
Crystal Delay 211
Loop Pitch Delay 212
Frequency Shifter Delay 213
Dual Chromatic Delay & Dual Harmonic Delay 214
Dual Crystal Delay 215
Dual Loop Pitch Delay 216
Melody Delay 217
Quad Chromatic Delay & Quad Harmonic Delay 218
Spring Reverb 219
Natural Reverb 221
Easy Reverb 226
Echo Reverb 226
Cirrus Reverb 227
Formant Reverb 228
Ionosphere Reverb 229
DLY and REV Modules 230
Space 234
Legacy Reverb 234
Reverb (Green) 219
Effect Loop (Pink) 235
System Settings 239

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LCD / HW Setup / Brightness / User Interface 239
User Interface 2 241
Audio Setup 242
Pedal Links 243
Pedal 1-6 243
Remote Settings 243
MIDI Program Change Assignments and Settings 244
Date and Time 244
Device Information 245
Setting up Performances 248
Loading Performances 250
Foot Control 250
Up/Down Buttons (1) 252
Rig Buttons 1-5 (2) 252
TAP Button (3) 252
TUNER Button (4) 253
Effect Buttons I-IIII (5) 253
Assigning an Effect Module 254
Unassigning an Effect Module 254
Bass Players: Special Hints and Features 246
Performance Mode 248
PROFILER Remote 251

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Assigning a Second Effect Module 254
More Assignments 255
Toggling Effects 255
Storing Assignments 255
Assignments without Remote 255
Keeping Oversight 256
Action & Freeze 256
Latched / Momentary 256
Locking Effect Buttons 256
LOOPER Button (6) 257
Workflow 260
Advanced Looper Functions 262
Connecting Expression Pedals and External Switches 263
Remote Settings 263
Cabling 264
Continuous Controllers 268
Effect Switches 269
Rig Change in Performance Mode 271
Rig Change in Browser Mode 274
MIDI Global Channel 275
MIDI Clock 275
Transmitting MIDI Commands to Two External Devices in Performance Mode 276
MIDI 267

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Transmitting Pedal Controllers for Morphing, Wah, Volume, and Pitch to Two
External Devices 276
Transmitting User Interface to MIDI Global Channel 277
NRPN 277
Views 278
Favorite Rigs 279
Erase Non-Favorites 280
KEMPER Rig Manager 280
Operating System Updates 281
Creating Backups 283
Restoring Backups 283
Importing Rigs, Performances, and Presets 284
Export of Rigs and Presets 284
General Considerations 287
PROFILING with Effects in the Recording Chain 288
Monitoring While Taking PROFILEs 288
Considerations Regarding Noise and Hum 289
Other Considerations 289
Getting Organized 278
Updates, Backups and Sharing Sounds 281
Screen Symbols 286
PROFILING an Amp 287

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Making Connections 290
Connections for PROFILING a Guitar Amplifier 290
Connections for PROFILING a Combination of Amp and Stomp Box 293
Connections for PROFILING a Computer-Based Guitar Amp Simulation 294
Taking a PROFILE 294
Levels 295
Evaluating the PROFILE 296
Refining the PROFILE 297
The Resulting PROFILE 297
How to PROFILE an Amp without a Cabinet (Direct Amp PROFILEs) 299
How to Create Merged PROFILEs 302
PROFILING a Rotary Speaker Cabinet 304
Under the Hood 305
Customer Support 308
Trouble Shooting 306
Technical Specifications 310

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Main Manual

About this Main Manual 19
About this Main Manual
Welcome to the KEMPER PROFILERTM Main Manual. We assume that you have already read the Quick Start
manual, which came with the product. This Main Manual starts with a description of Rigs and their signal chain
followed by all front panel controls and connections on the back panel. Most of this Main Manual is dedicated to the
description of all parameters for the effects; however, we will also provide additional details about certain aspects of
the product and try to give you a deeper understanding of how things work in the PROFILER. Last, but not least, you
will find a dedicated chapter on how to create a PROFILE of an amp.

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Rigs and Signal Chain
A Rig and its signal chain
A complete signal chain comprising amplifier, guitar cabinet and potentially multiple effects is called a “Rig”.
The signal chain of any Rig begins at the Guitar Input, passes through four effects modules, the stack section, and
then followed by another four effects modules. From there, the signal is sent to the outputs. The sequence of the
modules and sections from left to right represents the signal flow inside the PROFILERTM and is reflected by the
corresponding controls on the upper row of the front panel.
Each of the buttons in the signal flow provides a unique and intuitive way to manage your sound. By pressing a
corresponding button, you activate that module or section. Hold the button a little bit longer to focus the module and
show its parameters in the display. The lower line of the display shows up to four parameters that can be controlled
by the soft knobs underneath. Tweak the soft knobs to change your sound. If the module offers more than four
parameters, you can move between pages using the PAGE buttons. To return to the home screen, press EXIT.