Paulo Remigio
Member
Hello All,
I've been using the Kemper Profiler for a little over a year, I also own a few tube amps and cabs so it made sense to go the Kemper route as I could be able to profile my own amps and record/gig with "them" at a much lower weight penalty.
Over the period I've owned the Kemper, I've tried profiling my amps a couple times, but I'm mostly home based and have serious limitations in volume usage and gear (mikes and mike-pres, separate rooms, etc) availability when compared to any average recording studio, so I never did get higher than average results and my profiles always felt like pale similar copies (at best) of the real deal.
I resorted to buying "pro quality" profiles online, mostly from the big names (Mbritt, Big Hairy Profiles, Choptones, etc) .. I spent quite a bit of money but ended up with a decent collection of amp snapshots, very usable in the studio and live, the sound quality is undisputable, it does sound awesome in the right conditions.
However, it didn't quite sound exactly as I wanted it to .. it never does!
One does need to tweak sounds to your liking, right?
Well, this is where the Kemper philosophy fails, imho: the Kemper takes a snapshot of an amp, under certain conditions, and that's pretty much it! You can then tweak it to a limited extent by adding eq and flavoring certain dynamics but if you change it too much it degrades the signal quality and it won't sound "real" anymore.
I struggled with this for a long time, and ended up playing my real amps way more than my Kemper.
A few months back I stumbled upon Leon Todd's youtube channel and it made me curious because, this guy also had a lot of real amps and was obviously so excited with the Fractal Stuff.
It felt like a contradiction to me because as I was actually an owner of the original first Line6 POD ... and hated the darn thing into oblivion .. I was put off modeling for decades. So I pretty much ignored everything since, until now.
I started following on Leon's videos and got increasingly interested in testing the Axe FX, so I eventually took the plunge and ordered one.
It's here! It's been a few days! I frieking LOVE it!!! Finally I can tweak into infinity and it always sounds awesome!
Thank YOU to whoever worked hard to develop this thing, you did an amazing job!
I've been using the Kemper Profiler for a little over a year, I also own a few tube amps and cabs so it made sense to go the Kemper route as I could be able to profile my own amps and record/gig with "them" at a much lower weight penalty.
Over the period I've owned the Kemper, I've tried profiling my amps a couple times, but I'm mostly home based and have serious limitations in volume usage and gear (mikes and mike-pres, separate rooms, etc) availability when compared to any average recording studio, so I never did get higher than average results and my profiles always felt like pale similar copies (at best) of the real deal.
I resorted to buying "pro quality" profiles online, mostly from the big names (Mbritt, Big Hairy Profiles, Choptones, etc) .. I spent quite a bit of money but ended up with a decent collection of amp snapshots, very usable in the studio and live, the sound quality is undisputable, it does sound awesome in the right conditions.
However, it didn't quite sound exactly as I wanted it to .. it never does!
One does need to tweak sounds to your liking, right?
Well, this is where the Kemper philosophy fails, imho: the Kemper takes a snapshot of an amp, under certain conditions, and that's pretty much it! You can then tweak it to a limited extent by adding eq and flavoring certain dynamics but if you change it too much it degrades the signal quality and it won't sound "real" anymore.
I struggled with this for a long time, and ended up playing my real amps way more than my Kemper.
A few months back I stumbled upon Leon Todd's youtube channel and it made me curious because, this guy also had a lot of real amps and was obviously so excited with the Fractal Stuff.
It felt like a contradiction to me because as I was actually an owner of the original first Line6 POD ... and hated the darn thing into oblivion .. I was put off modeling for decades. So I pretty much ignored everything since, until now.
I started following on Leon's videos and got increasingly interested in testing the Axe FX, so I eventually took the plunge and ordered one.
It's here! It's been a few days! I frieking LOVE it!!! Finally I can tweak into infinity and it always sounds awesome!
Thank YOU to whoever worked hard to develop this thing, you did an amazing job!