Excellent Paul. Useful as always. Thank you.

Thanks for sharing Paul. I just purchased myself a Kemper. Would love to buy your Matchless profile. Great tone.

Sometimes I haven’t liked the tones from Kemper but this demo/vid was refreshing as that is the best dynamics I have heard from Kemper in a long time.

Big fan- love your content! 🎸

Another great video from the rats....love it. I agree with Bill Lima's comments re: putting FX before the Kemper but either way sounded great to me. I also agree with the other comment, in the mix, I doubt these nuances will ever be heard but the Studio Rats are anal about tone like I am and I'm sure a lot of us will appreciate this video nonetheless!

Great vid Paul, thanks. I use a Kemper stage with headphones for home practice. I'm lucky 'cos I'm just an amateur doing this for fun. I don't try to make my Kemper sound like anything else, I just try to get good sounds out of it. Best tip I can give to any Kemper user is to go into the amplifier section & push the sag right up.

Great demo as always! Do you think the pedals in the Boss GT-1000 match the hardware better then the pedals in the kemper?

Great video! Thank you! Just wondering if you have experimented with Modulation, Reverbs and Delays? Also how do I get that wonderful Matchless profile? Beautiful!

Wow. Kemper have almost same tones, impressive!

Excellent comparisons. That is without doubt the most beautiful gold top I've seen 😉😎👍

Thanks for the video. I am not 100% sold on the dirt type pedals on the Kemper yet. They will do in a pinch and in a band setting sound wise but the feel is not there yet for me at least.

you will notice even more of a difference if the pedals are before the Kemper. While it is true that you can change the order of the effects loop in the Kemper, the pedals are still placed after a whole A/D/A conversion, which makes them react differently than if they were seeing the signal straight from your guitar or even through true bypass pedals. When I had the Kemper, I had a small board with my wah and boosts out front and used the Kemper for Amps/Cabs and post effects( mod/delay/reverb). I think that's the best of the both worlds. Yes the Kemper boosts will do it in a pinch but having an analog chain with your boosts in front of it is still the best way to go.

Hello Paul, what strings are you using. You always have a great sound, no matter what guitar or amp/modeller you play. And yes, I know the sound comes mainly out of the fingers.

So I just learned today about something that was referred to as the "headroom trick", taking a higher gain amp profile and turning the gain knob down to a clean level can result in a better sounding amp with the external pedals than using a simple clean amp with the same pedals

Hi great video it is possible to do a preset without amps just pedals on the Kemper Stage please let me know thanks 🙏

In a band with a speaker cab and with drummer etc these tonal nuances are lost. And they are nuances. We are sitting here with headphones trying to discern tiny differences. Believe me in a band there is no difference. It boils down to what you want. Modellers are much cheaper and flexible than amps effects pedal boards etc. they are also faster to set up and so forth. Much more convenient. However you need to spend time with them up front to model the sound. They are not plug n play. Good Amps are heavier and much more expensive. Repairs and service are expensive. But they are more plug n play. Less faffing about up front. However the future is modelling. Make no mistake. Hardly any companies making tubes any longer. It’s considered a dirty industry. So many pros have switched already to modelling because they are cheaper more convenient faster and more reliable. It’s about efficiency. Like I said tonal nuances will not be apparent at your local club gig.

May I ask how old your Tube Screamer is? It sounds wonderful and you always do a tremendous job with your videos. Cheers!

With YT compression through crappy speakers in this screen i hear no difference! Yet to try a Kemper, but i did just buy one so tonight i will find out. Lovely tone (and playing) from that goldtop LP! Not a huge Gibson fan but i do fancy a p90 Goldtop one day.

I really appreciate your videos on the Kemper content! I need to find your Matchless profile(s) if you pushed them to Rig Exchange.

Great video. So for me, if you are going with a Kemper at a gig, you have to go 100 percent. In other words, find the tones that you like and work for you for your show and be committed. If the actual pedals sound better, then might as well just bring the Matchless and use the real thing since you will need your pedalboard. Thanks for all you do.

That Klon sounds great with the gain dialed back. May I ask what brand it is?

Nice guitar! 👌

When you turned on that tube screamer (built in kemper effect) was it at the default settings? it sounds alot better than the TS I've heard built into my kemper. Sounds great!

I kinda like the Kemper effects better for me since the have more options like mixing in a clean signal, definition etc on the dirts and ducking on delays and reverbs. It’s odd you’re ignoring those knobs on the Kemper. I’ve heard and this could be totally wrong but actual tube screamers have about 25% of the clean signal going through.

What is the white guitar next to the matchless give it a whirl I’d like to know your thoughts on it I have almost every guitar you own also love the videos

I'm a Kemper owner. My only issue is with the Kemper drives. I can tweak the settings to make it sound like any pedal - no problems there. My issue is that if I decide I want more or less gain on a certain song, the 'knobs' won't necessarily react the same way as certain pedals (like for instance the gain knob on a Nobels ODR-1). It just 'blooms' differently. Some people like to just set it and forget it and for that it's great. Unfortunately, I'm a tweaker! ;-)

Pedals win hands down, thanks for the video

I’d like to see an analog effects board that looks like the stage but contains several actual units combined into one interior but with the same independent controls. Even better, design a modular form of the effect unit that can be plugged into an open port.

Can you upload your amp profile to rig manager it would be nice to hear them, thanks : )

Is your profile on the rig exchange?

You mention you are doing more "silent" gigs. Do you mean taking a line out from the Kemper as opposed to having an amp on stage? Would be great to see and hear you using the Kemper in a Live situation. I'm London based so please do let me know where, when, and if you are playing Live using the Kemper. I'd love to check it out. Thanks for the post.

Yes

Need? Probably not. But, I prefer them because I sometimes play into an amp and sometimes into the kemper. The same pedalboard works for both. It's simpler to use the same board. I like simpler.

I absolutely hated the kemper because of rig manager and having 4 different procedures you had to know to load effects rigs performances and presets sucks big ones , but the iOS app made it much easier for me I never do rig manager tho or load new stuff. Hate computers!

Whats the p90 pickups model?

Could you do a video explaining how to plug in the pedals into the effects loop and how many you can run? Thanks!

make sure you are adjusting the tone and definition to EAR! not just to eye. every potentiometer is different. I would say increase the definition control on the Klon in the Kemper. Keep in mind you can "BAKE" in those pedals and profile them into different patches and get the best of both worlds.

I can't understand guitarists that only use the Klon as a boost. I'm happy that Paul uses his with some gain on too! The Kemper sounds good, but still there is no beating real pedals, at least in a direct comparison.

Yeah, I too think the Kemper Drives are not good as real pedals. Wished Kemper was better and updating their software to fix the Kemper Drives.

I have the Kemper Stage, but also with a big pedalboard. I sorta feel like the drives in the Kemper are really good, and i don't *_need_* all the drive pedals i have, but i just prefer clicking on a real hardware device and adjusting real knobs vs cursoring and mousing in Rig Manager. It's the other pedals, though, that shine vs the Kemper. Kemper doesn't do a decent Univibe, so i had to shell out for the JAM. Fuzzes just aren't the same, so i have five fuzz pedals. Delays and reverbs are good, but they never amaze me. So, i have an Eventide H9, Boss DD-200, and now the Keeley HALO, plus a UA Golden Reverberator. And for chorus, even the H9 doesn't do the magic of the Boss Dimension-C waza. It might seem like idiocy, to buy a Kemper, that has all the effects inside, and then add a pedalboard that now probably costs twice what i paid for that Kemper. But, when i bought into the Kemper, it was with the mindset that i'd treat it only like an amp and cab, and if i used pedals outside of it, it would help me to feel more like i was playing an 'old school' rig-and not a computer.

"It's not the gear; It's the player!" - Rooster :)

Why didn't you profil your full chain... Your matchless + your réal pedal ?

Ive had 2 kempers and a Helix. Played them for years and was pretty happy. Now I got a 2 tube amp setup, and a pedalboard with fanzy pedals. Wow the tones I got now. Maybe the Audience dont hear it, but I satisfi myself in a degree that is allmost disgusting :-) Played a festival a few weeks back and heard 4 other bands with modellers, and my sound blew them of the stage. Not finished with modellers but im damn happy where I am now

I’m a helix user with real drive pedals before it. I feel like all of the modellers/profilers out now are getting exceptional with amp and post drive effects but there’s still a little way to go before they really mail drive pedals. I doubt it’ll be too long to be fair though 😊

Pedals for that more tangible attack and feel.

That was really interesting. I was thinking their built in fx would be better. Now I don’t need to buy a Kemper, Cheers Paul.

Nobody but you will hear it. Normal people cant hear the tiny subtle details. I had a hard time with the TS myself and Ive got a pretty good ear, you could dial them in so close, close your eyes blind sound test. I wouldn’t be able to tell. AND if Im spending almost 2k on a 12yr + old tech, I am not buying any other pedals. Thats the rig, for that much money just deal with subtle differences. The TS was really close man. The Klon clone, was noticeable, but two different clones of a pedal, which klon clone did they clone? It was seriously good enough, better than good enough. It just didnt sound like yours. Thats all I heard. Nice gold top BTW I have the same, its a tone machine. Cheers!

The pedal better🏆

It will be no difference between having a hit record or not!

That Kemper Interface on the front of the unit gives me anxiety. Endless menu diving...And that GUI in the Computer....All this faff for inferior tone. Just give me a pedal an amp and a few real knobs....Dont get the Kemper one bit....(shudder)

It’s got nothing to do with the sounds to me, I don’t like complicated programming and just prefer using pedals!

The pedals sound best. The Kemper sounds very synthetic.

There is absolutely no reason, and I repeat that again, absolutely no reason to be still playing heavy ass tube amps in 2022 besides nostalgia. I dare you to blindly distinguish between a tube amp, the Kemper, the Helix or the Quad Cortex. Don‘t get me wrong, tube amps are cool and everything but they‘re unpractical, heavy and outdated for most live use/recording situations. Be a purist all the way you want but the future can‘t and won‘t be stopped.

Honestly I think that the profile in general seemed to be very compressed and yeah, the Kemper never went on top with modeling.

They sound the same.