YT: Kemper Profiling Amplifier KPA Review!!

[loktide]

in my experience with profiling with the kemper, the low-end is indeed really tricky to get profiled accurately. at least on many high gain amps i've tried. does it sound/feel great, though? absolutely.

if you're looking to recreate the tone of a mic'ed amp, the kemper works VERY well. even though it's not an exact copy of the original amp, i'd like to see those differences in dynamics and low-end stand out in a full mix.

the last whitechapel is all kemper (5150iii through recto cab) and sounds way better than any axefx metal tone i've heard before. at least for that kind of music. i've heard some very good axefx tones, too.

 

[Mutant]

This thread made me search for Kemper movies on YT again.

Some very accurate profiles and some not so much:



Warning ! Very long.


Yeah i still want to buy the box.

 

[drew_drummer]

Strikes me that the Kemper is harder to get a good tone out of than the Axe-FX II. More real world variables to have to compensate for - microphone position, less than stellar recording chain, etc...

I would be happy to use an Axe-FX II to be honest, although I'd like them to do a cut down version, which is much simpler to use - that is the main reason I never went with it. I didn't want to have to go through menus in order to change the EQ from venue to venue, and I didn't want to add an EQ into a rack to compensate - defeats the purpose for me.

Ultimately: I think it sounds great. But just isn't quite designed right for a gigging guitarist, imho.

 

[MatrixClaw]

Strikes me that the Kemper is harder to get a good tone out of than the Axe-FX II. More real world variables to have to compensate for - microphone position, less than stellar recording chain, etc...

I would be happy to use an Axe-FX II to be honest, although I'd like them to do a cut down version, which is much simpler to use - that is the main reason I never went with it. I didn't want to have to go through menus in order to change the EQ from venue to venue, and I didn't want to add an EQ into a rack to compensate - defeats the purpose for me.

Ultimately: I think it sounds great. But just isn't quite designed right for a gigging guitarist, imho.

That's the sole purpose I got rid of my Axe-FX II. It took WAY too long to get anything I liked out of it. I'd had it for 6 months, and I was still tweaking tones to find something I really liked. The tone was decent, but if I played guitar for 3 hours, 2 1/2 of it was spent moving through menus and playing with EQs to make it sound passable, which was just ridiculous

First day I got the Kemper, I loaded up the factory presets, tweaked a tiny bit and had a tone I was satisfied with in 5 minutes.

 

[Clark Kent]

I've heard better results of profiling than what we were able to get. Just feels like the whole profiling process isn't as "plug-n-play" as it seems.

 

[ArthurD]

The best thing about kemper (for me) is to profile you reamp section and make a double reamp. That means you can get a quad track reamp the same time you would do a double track reamp (two guitars at the time).

 

[Nimvi]

The best thing about kemper (for me) is to profile you reamp section and make a double reamp. That means you can get a quad track reamp the same time you would do a double track reamp (two guitars at the time).

This would cut my coffee-break in half though. Nothing like sipping coffee while the walls are shaking.