stratotone
Active member
No clips, just some observations...
when profiling an amp, you take the tube amp, put it in another room and isolate the sound as much as you can. Run a microphone to it that is plugged into the kemper, then you plug your guitar into the kemper, and it has a pass through that goes to your amp. Kemper output is plugged into your monitors.
This way when you play your guitar and listen to it, you can either hear the original or (after profiling) the Kemper, and instantly compare the tones. Well, you can instantly compare the feel, too.
It's the same.
Now before the tube guys come after me with pitchforks, it's the same feel as having your amp in another room. You do NOT get the interaction of high volume, which is where I think most of the tube amp 'feel' comes from. Kemper guys: crank your kemper monitors up and I bet you get a lot of your tube amp 'feel' back. I was getting awesome controllable feedback at my gig, and the kemper was very touch sensitive. I was also playing a 800 or so seat auditorium and had my VHT 2/90 in mono 1/2 up on high power into a marshall 4x12 - it was stoopid loud.
when profiling an amp, you take the tube amp, put it in another room and isolate the sound as much as you can. Run a microphone to it that is plugged into the kemper, then you plug your guitar into the kemper, and it has a pass through that goes to your amp. Kemper output is plugged into your monitors.
This way when you play your guitar and listen to it, you can either hear the original or (after profiling) the Kemper, and instantly compare the tones. Well, you can instantly compare the feel, too.
It's the same.
Now before the tube guys come after me with pitchforks, it's the same feel as having your amp in another room. You do NOT get the interaction of high volume, which is where I think most of the tube amp 'feel' comes from. Kemper guys: crank your kemper monitors up and I bet you get a lot of your tube amp 'feel' back. I was getting awesome controllable feedback at my gig, and the kemper was very touch sensitive. I was also playing a 800 or so seat auditorium and had my VHT 2/90 in mono 1/2 up on high power into a marshall 4x12 - it was stoopid loud.
