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Hey! I did this review of the KPA. My review, my opinions. I'm sure many people disagree with me.
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YT: Kemper Profiling Amplifier KPA Review!!
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Hey! I did this review of the KPA. My review, my opinions. I'm sure many people disagree with me.
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I need to show this pic:
I played a riff two times. First one is the real amp and the second one is the Kemper. The dynamic difference is so obvious you can see it with your eyes. THE SAME VOLUME ON BOTH CLIPS ALTHOUGH IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S NOT. That dynamic difference is mostly the "OOMPH" of the Rectifier which the Kemper was unable to capture.
I played a riff two times. First one is the real amp and the second one is the Kemper. The dynamic difference is so obvious you can see it with your eyes. THE SAME VOLUME ON BOTH CLIPS ALTHOUGH IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S NOT. That dynamic difference is mostly the "OOMPH" of the Rectifier which the Kemper was unable to capture.
drew_drummer
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Good video dude. Although I will say, your Kemper VS match EQ tones towards the end of the video - massively different from each other. A bit hard to tell without a direct feed, but they sound different to me.
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Yeah the comparison didn't really work that well since I had to turn my camera down and audio came through the camera mic so the mic position changed there.
Mutant
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I need to show this pic:
I played a riff two times. First one is the real amp and the second one is the Kemper. The dynamic difference is so obvious you can see it with your eyes. THE SAME VOLUME ON BOTH CLIPS ALTHOUGH IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S NOT. That dynamic difference is mostly the "OOMPH" of the Rectifier which the Kemper was unable to capture.
If i wanted to fix the difference in dynamics i would try using some kind of an expander somewhere in the chain.
Yes the difference is obvious, but after applying some compression (assuming you normally use a compressor on your guitar tracks) to the real amp file, it would look more like the Kemper file anyway, so you would just have to keep in mind that you should use gentler compressor settings with the Kemper to achieve a similar result.
Calippo Tecks
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I don't agree with this, I actually don't even compress guitar tracks at all most of the time.
It's one of those things that I don't like with my Kemper too, it doesn't capture a good low end and the highs quite often sound too digital/different from the original in my experience.
I think they will update the unit with new features etc, which is great but I really wonder if they will ever update the profiling itself and make it better because sometimes it works well and sometimes I create profiles and it just sounds too differently (even with multiple tries).
The match eq thingy sounds the most artificial to me. But if you you prefer it... it is ok for me.
Trevoire520
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I can't really judge as the sound of the guitar strings is about as loud as the profiler, and it's all coming through a camera mic...
ArthurD
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Kazrog
Kazrog, Inc.
If it was as simple as using an expander, the Recabinet Speaker Dynamics feature would have been much easier to develop. Convolution + expander won't get you there, and will sound pretty weird actually.
Mutant
I hate that supercow !
You are 100% right.
I meant before the Kemper or even before some kind of a TS/TS emu.
No harm in trying it, i had some good results using an expander (not available anymore freeware Gapanessor by Helium) instead of a simple gate in my ampsim chain.
It gave me better control over what the ampsim had on its input.
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The audio of my video is low quality. If you want to search for high quality audio of Kemper it's easy. This is just me sharing my experience with the unit.
Mutant
I hate that supercow !
i think all emulation boxes, be it kemper, axefx og pods need to increase their samplerate to 24 bit 192khz to help catch the subtleties of the amps they try to emulate, ive allways felt that was the approach, to get more dynamics, more information to catch the frequencies and transients etc. am i the only thinking that it may bring emus closer?
as for the kemper, thanks Clark for killing my desire for it, what a disappointment, said from somebody who cant wait to get rid of old tubey back here
as for the kemper, thanks Clark for killing my desire for it, what a disappointment, said from somebody who cant wait to get rid of old tubey back here
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I too wanted this to be a solution to get rid of tube amps but no way. Just so everyone is clear on my background. I bought an Axe-Fx a long time ago and sold it to get tube amps. I got an Axe-Fx Ultra recently for home use but I use real amps and nothing beats real amps. Not the Axe-Fx and not the Kemper. Axe-Fx is simply versatile as hell... with tone matching you can do "the Kemper thing" with ease and I feel it even does it better.
That's funny, cause the main reason I like my Kemper over the Axe-FX II I sold before I got it, is because it captures the lowend of a real amp way better.
Melb_shredder
Orpheus: Melodic Death
Cheers for that review dude. That sums up what I assumed about it. The singer in my other band just bought one himself for his other band. We are going to spend a day doing some profiling! Mesa Mark IV, '90 5150 Block Letter, '92 Rev F recto and some others. Can't wait to see how it does!
ArthurD
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Cheers for that review dude. That sums up what I assumed about it. The singer in my other band just bought one himself for his other band. We are going to spend a day doing some profiling! Mesa Mark IV, '90 5150 Block Letter, '92 Rev F recto and some others. Can't wait to see how it does!
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Blacklight_Studio
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I need to show this pic:
I played a riff two times. First one is the real amp and the second one is the Kemper. The dynamic difference is so obvious you can see it with your eyes. THE SAME VOLUME ON BOTH CLIPS ALTHOUGH IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S NOT. That dynamic difference is mostly the "OOMPH" of the Rectifier which the Kemper was unable to capture.
I am pretty shure these are some room mods or standing waves due to not realy well-treated room and they appear on a palm-muted parts of the riff. You will have to throw a C4 or something to compress them in the mix. I had similar peaks in an old room before I treated it. You will hardly get such a big booms and peaks in a well-treated room with no problems in the low freq zone. And I believe KPA doesn't have them because it takes a shorter capture of the speaker response and the room itself does not have such a great impact on it. Though I can definately hear Kemper compressing a little bit on a comparison clips I heard on the web, but I can't say that this is a big deal and will kill it in the mix. In some cases when we talk about modern production you can even benefit from it.
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