Wow, the Kemper is badass

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Just ran across this video, LP into Kemper through a Mesa cab and PA. Sounds pretty good to me.

 
Sounds pretty good to me...I REALLY wanna try one out...
Any North Carolinians out there that have a Kemper that I can try?? :thumbsup:

Jordan :rock:
 
This video was around before the Kemper was even available to the public actually...
 
Through a cab and PA? So just like any rig on the planet pretty much? I get it maybe more versatile than a regular old tube preamp, but at the point you run it through a tube amp/ cab it has just become a digital preamp - and those have been around forever. I get the PA non-mic thing, use a Two-Notes myself for that, and the easier recording thing - but again, at the point you add all the other outboard gear for live playing I'd rather just have an amp. ;)
 
Shark Diver":3cpxkyjy said:
Through a cab and PA? So just like any rig on the planet pretty much? I get it maybe more versatile than a regular old tube preamp, but at the point you run it through a tube amp/ cab it has just become a digital preamp - and those have been around forever. I get the PA non-mic thing, use a Two-Notes myself for that, and the easier recording thing - but again, at the point you add all the other outboard gear for live playing I'd rather just have an amp. ;)
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Hooking the Kemper up through a tube amp is just one of the many ways that you can use the thing. The person in this video did not have to hook up the backline at all. He should have had no problem hearing what he was playing using just the monitors but that's the beauty of the Kemper, you have options.


I think where the Kemper excels is if you have a fly out gig it will allow you to bring your sounds with you without having to rely on backline rigs. It also will eliminate the need to have a cab Miked up which can totally screw your sound up if someone doesn't know what they are doing. You can tell the sound guy to set the EQ flat, go direct out of the kemper and you will have your sound.

I've done enough backlined gigs to know that you never know what you are getting and even when I used pedals through a clean amp, I still had to dick around with them in order to get something I was comfortable playing a show and not all the backline amps sound good IMHO (YMMV.)

So far in owning a Kemper and about 10 other amps I can tell you the positives are

1) Once you take the time to properly Mic you amp, You have your soundor sounds in a compact Package
2) Makes Recording ideas on the fly easy
3) Makes really amazing home recordings without having to MIC up your amp
4) Makes gigs where you don't want to lug ton of shit out to easy
5) Makes Fly out gigs REAL easy and a pleasure
6) can core an apple and get you hookers and blow :lol: :LOL:


I can add about 10 more to this list but I think you get my drift

As with any piece of gear it depends on what you want to do and what your needs are and your frame of mind that you are about said gear.

Here is a Kemper home recording clip that sounds just as good as any Miked up amp clip Ive heard. I'm a fan of using what works. I could care of the method ;)


https://soundcloud.com/six6trings/dead-r ... inside-w-o
 
Friend came over with a Cameron and Friedman amp, we profiled them and checked out his axe II setup. He also had a Matrix power amp.

Just for grins we hooked up my les paul into an A/B box, then one side went to my '72 Marshall head and straight '72 cab, other went to the Kemper into the Matrix with the cab emulations off, and from the Matrix into a slant '72 Marshall cab. Of course I was using one of the profiles I pulled of the '72.

We tweaked the EQ slightly (I believe we added 1db of mids and something like -.4 of presence on the output EQ) but as for in room sounds - it was THERE. Sounded like two '72 Marshalls.

Buying the Kemper was the best gear purchase I can remember. They just came out with a new update that allows W/D/W setups easily - the output routing now is pretty insane.

Pete
 
I agree with Pete, the Kemper is the best piece of gear I've bought since I got my first Juggernaut. Love it, never ceases to impress.
 
the only real negative i have right now is the search engine and editing

it needs a editor program like the axe fx
 
Can you run the Kemper 4CM?

I am gonna have to try one of these damn things soon!
 
Gainfreak":f60o4sll said:
I think where the Kemper excels is if you have a fly out gig it will allow you to bring your sounds with you without having to rely on backline rigs. It also will eliminate the need to have a cab Miked up which can totally screw your sound up if someone doesn't know what they are doing. You can tell the sound guy to set the EQ flat, go direct out of the kemper and you will have your sound.

I've done enough backlined gigs to know that you never know what you are getting and even when I used pedals through a clean amp, I still had to dick around with them in order to get something I was comfortable playing a show and not all the backline amps sound good IMHO (YMMV.)

6) can core an apple and get you hookers and blow :lol: :LOL:


As with any piece of gear it depends on what you want to do and what your needs are and your frame of mind that you are about said gear.

Here is a Kemper home recording clip that sounds just as good as any Miked up amp clip Ive heard. I'm a fan of using what works. I could care of the method ;)


https://soundcloud.com/six6trings/dead-r ... inside-w-o
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If I had know about #6 I would have gotten one long ago ;)

I hear ya. I am not against the digital stuff, I do use the Two Notes for direct to board speaker/cab emulation. Makes life much nicer. But even so, just like with mics, different PAs sound different enough that it's not plug and play necessarily. I do see why guys like the versatility and compact design. But again, if I was going to use a Kempler into a tube power amp and a cab, I'd just my X88 or CAE 3+ which are amazing.

Great clip by the way. :rock:
 
Pretty rad.

Feels like I pulled a muscle in my neck just watching him.
 
mindseye":1ytli2so said:
Can you run the Kemper 4CM?

I am gonna have to try one of these damn things soon!
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dont know personally, not using it that way myself, I can't recommend this thing enough, just wish I'd have had the VH4 to profile before you got it, so I could have the profile with MY settings. ;) although there are some good VH4 profiles out there though :D
 
Are people selling amp profiles, yet?

Seems like where it will go. Maybe not.
 
Yup Amp Factory in London is selling some downright incredible sounding profiles for about $5 each amp model. You get about 10 profiles each amp. Seems like a good deal to me.

And FWIW I was in a proper studio over the weekend with my Kemper and it absolutley killed. I dialed in one of my best tones ever in about 5 mins. I don't regret selling my Dual Rectifier for a second.
 
If these things ever catch on more mainstream, Guitar Center and Sam Ash is going to wonder why the return rate on tube amps is so high! :lol: :LOL:
 
Oh man, just ran into Sam's clips of the Kemper. Sounds damn good!!!

 
Tweed, those sound great. Man, if it comes loaded with stuff like that :rock: :rock: :rock:

So, when's the rack unit coming out :lol: :LOL: :lol: :LOL: :lol: :LOL:

I'd rather have one that just plays 'em back, I don't really need the profiling. Any "future development" rumors?
 
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