Dixiethedog
Experienced
I recently fell back in love with my AX8 and thought I'd treat my gee-tar to some new strings. Old and rusty dont help the tone even with my Fractal unit.
I visited a local guitar shop to buy the strings and was blown away by the demo I heard of a Kemper being played.
The young lad playing the kemper unit was there to buy an amp and happily ran thru some of his patches as I had mentioned I was an AX8 owner.
He played some Hendrix, which if I had closed my eyes would have fooled me into thinking it was Hendrix, he played some Dire straits, some Pink floyd and then some newer twiddly stuff which sounded amazing even though I cant remember the bands names he was covering. The sounds or tones sounded like the records (Im old...).
I left the shop with new strings feeling slightly deflated mentally, his Kemper was doing everything I thought my Fractal should do. I've been saying it for ages now, but I really do need to invest in some studio monitors to see if I can get the sounds I really want to be hearing.
I still feel excited about my humble AX8 when I plug in, but that Kemper toaster thing really caught my attention sound wise. It was amazing.
Mind you, my request fell onto deaf ears when I asked the young chap playing if he could do toast, one slice with butter and one with marmalade. He was a great player but he was very very serious not seeing the funny side about toast or his "toaster". Unlike me...
I'm still a Fractal convert but if the Kemper had been the first modeler/profiler thing that I had ever seen theres a chance I would have bought one.
I'll get my coat on the way out.....
I visited a local guitar shop to buy the strings and was blown away by the demo I heard of a Kemper being played.
The young lad playing the kemper unit was there to buy an amp and happily ran thru some of his patches as I had mentioned I was an AX8 owner.
He played some Hendrix, which if I had closed my eyes would have fooled me into thinking it was Hendrix, he played some Dire straits, some Pink floyd and then some newer twiddly stuff which sounded amazing even though I cant remember the bands names he was covering. The sounds or tones sounded like the records (Im old...).
I left the shop with new strings feeling slightly deflated mentally, his Kemper was doing everything I thought my Fractal should do. I've been saying it for ages now, but I really do need to invest in some studio monitors to see if I can get the sounds I really want to be hearing.
I still feel excited about my humble AX8 when I plug in, but that Kemper toaster thing really caught my attention sound wise. It was amazing.
Mind you, my request fell onto deaf ears when I asked the young chap playing if he could do toast, one slice with butter and one with marmalade. He was a great player but he was very very serious not seeing the funny side about toast or his "toaster". Unlike me...
I'm still a Fractal convert but if the Kemper had been the first modeler/profiler thing that I had ever seen theres a chance I would have bought one.
I'll get my coat on the way out.....