Ola Demoing the Kemper...

[Audioholic]

DOOOD, Sounds very good. I may be sold.

 

[Shask]

I have been reading about this thing a lot, and I am happy to see Ola got ahold of one More importantly, I am glad to see the blog have positive remarks.

I think this thing is technically not as strong as the Axe-F II, but whatever it does just seems to work. It has been very impressive in every video, and I think I have yet to see a negative review on realism or feel.

I wonder how it separates the cab also. Seems impossible. I still want to hear a video of it with the cab sims off through a Solid State poweramp into a guitar cab. I wonder how close it would be to playing an amp in the room...

Good stuff as always Ola...

 

[VESmedic]

This thing blows the axe fx away in my opinion....With so many people profiling amps, Free downloading of profiles, and being able to do things with the kemper that the original amp couldn't even do!? Seriously, HOW do you beat this thing? Rackmount coming out? Kemper with a built in power amp? I am freakin sold......

 

[rottingcorpse]

when the axefx came out, it had my attention. great product, great price, great abilities.

but the kemper is really what i would be wanting in the long run. i dont need a million effects, just every great amp sim i can get my hands on...and within a year or two the number of profiles that will be available for download will be epic.

nice job, ola. p.s, thanks for getting me that rejects cd so fast. it crushes, and makes the long miles i drive much easier. though i have to say, i have to pull over often to figure out the riffs. keep the videos coming, mang.

 

[PBGas]

With something like this....you could literally have the newest thing...all the time.
Pretty neat concept. I remember seeing it last year and was interested.
Now seeing it working from a credible source makes it all the more fascinating.

Have to seriously think about something like this. Again, it all comes down to how you power it as well.
would you run this through a cab or an FR setup?

 

[mindseye]

Hearing that there is a rack version coming out has my attention, to be honest Ola's demo is the first I've heard of it that impressed me......ultimate rig may be the AxeII and a kemper in a 4 space rack.......I've got to start selling stuff!!

 

[jcj]

This thing blows the axe fx away in my opinion....With so many people profiling amps, Free downloading of profiles, and being able to do things with the kemper that the original amp couldn't even do!? Seriously, HOW do you beat this thing? Rackmount coming out? Kemper with a built in power amp? I am freakin sold......

Ummmmm...not trying to be an ass here, but isn't that exactly what the Axe does?

I haven't been following the Kemper development; are the profiles essentially the same as an amp block in the Axe? Does it offer a similar level of tweakability?

If so, that's fairly amazing

 

[Ventura]

Very intriguing, albeit it looks like a piece of medical office equipment or the like.

Ola, the beard man... Everything alright over there?? You just going pure Viking on our asses??

Glad to see DADA joined this thread...it was only a matter of time.

Very cool, let's see where this all goes.

Mo

 

[Shark Diver]

I wonder how much of a player's technic comes through in the profiling? It would seem to be a big factor in what the Kempler is "hearing".

 

[Shask]

This thing blows the axe fx away in my opinion....With so many people profiling amps, Free downloading of profiles, and being able to do things with the kemper that the original amp couldn't even do!? Seriously, HOW do you beat this thing? Rackmount coming out? Kemper with a built in power amp? I am freakin sold......

Ummmmm...not trying to be an ass here, but isn't that exactly what the Axe does?

I haven't been following the Kemper development; are the profiles essentially the same as an amp block in the Axe? Does it offer a similar level of tweakability?

If so, that's fairly amazing

I think what he is saying is you have infinite control over your amps. The Axe (And all modelers) are kind of a frozen in time, specific interpretation of an amp. With this thing you could profile the amp hundreds of times with every EQ setting, every channel, every option, etc... Not to mention profile amps that are not in the system. Randall RG100? Marshall 8100? Mesa .50+? Modelers don't model these amps, but you could profile them with the Kemper.

If you are into synths, I compare them as samplers vs. synthesis. This thing is more of a sampler where it plays back where it hears, where the Axe is more like a synthesis engine creating sounds.

 

[Audioholic]

I wonder how much of a player's technic comes through in the profiling? It would seem to be a big factor in what the Kempler is "hearing".

I may be wrong, but It runs Tones through the amp, white noise and such to pick up all the frequencies and what not, and I am sure that is by far the biggest contributor to the sound, without even playing through it. Great idea, much like IR reverbs are to mimicking real spaces. awesome idea. I love the Axe, and have yet to play a II, I am on the waiting list, but lately I have been less about efx and more about the amps tone, which is why I have been micing up my amps instead of going direct lately. If the kemper can give me that core sound better, as well as offer some desirable real amps, I am pretty sold... The Axe will continue to improve and cliff will be banging out code that will be amazing no less. But one thing I did not like about the Axe updates was that everytime there was an update, it changed your patches sound, and there was constant tweaking involved...

 

[Ventura]

This thing blows the axe fx away in my opinion....With so many people profiling amps, Free downloading of profiles, and being able to do things with the kemper that the original amp couldn't even do!? Seriously, HOW do you beat this thing? Rackmount coming out? Kemper with a built in power amp? I am freakin sold......

Ummmmm...not trying to be an ass here, but isn't that exactly what the Axe does?

I haven't been following the Kemper development; are the profiles essentially the same as an amp block in the Axe? Does it offer a similar level of tweakability?

If so, that's fairly amazing

I think what he is saying is you have infinite control over your amps. The Axe (And all modelers) are kind of a frozen in time, specific interpretation of an amp. With this thing you could profile the amp hundreds of times with every EQ setting, every channel, every option, etc... Not to mention profile amps that are not in the system. Randall RG100? Marshall 8100? Mesa .50+? Modelers don't model these amps, but you could profile them with the Kemper.

If you are into synths, I compare them as samplers vs. synthesis. This thing is more of a sampler where it plays back where it hears, where the Axe is more like a synthesis engine creating sounds.

I do have to say, as much as I wanna hate-on the Axe-II, the thing runs incredibly deep. This Kemper unit looks very cool, but I'd be more impressed with its 2nd and 3rd gen releases than its inception release. The Axe-II isn't to me a replacement, it's an additive, and it's allowed me to record WAY more and play WAY more than before. But it doesn't match a 20thA XTC at 1 o'clock by any stretch of the imagination

 

[Ola Englund]

New video!

 

[kasperjensen]

I am loving this!

 

[DADA]

Ola,

Let me be the first (edit: second) to thank you!

Awesome easy plug&plaaaaaaaaayyyyy and a grand Euros cheaper



The future looks very nice

 

[Audioholic]

Thanks for posting! really appreciate the videos!

 

[ejecta]

Cool demo. Not the tones or music I go for but nice to at least hear a before and after and the tweaking abilities.

Thanks!

 

[rottingcorpse]

ME WANTEE!!

 

[DADA]

Here another future customer

 

[ejecta]

Here another future customer

at Fractal still.