you like your kemper tones more than qc?

@@ariraphiel39 The Kemper has something "special".

@@ariraphiel39yes :3

I have a powered rack and it's damn near perfect with a real cab. I still really like it with my EV monitors plus get stereo fx that way.

​@@PackinForSuperbowlI've got the powered head and it's absolutely fantastic. Sounds amazing through my 2x12 cab. I'll never buy another amp again.

It has XLR for output only. But it doesn't have input XLR to profiling, so you have to use other device to convert from XLR mic to kemper for profiling purpose

@@kariskgtr yeah, sorry, I meant “I’m surprised it doesn’t have xlr in”.

I swear companies don't put xlr ins on devices to not "scare" people away.

Not disagreeing with you just sharing my experience with the Kemper ; Got it (used great price), overwhelmed at first for a few days, and even though I was happy with it I was still missing something… …then I randomly found a killer profile that was exactly what I wanted. It made me laugh because it was better than I expected. Since finding that profile, I learned a bit more and programmed a few things the way I want, but now for the most part… I just play. It’s that good for me. I change sounds sometimes but generally I just fire it up and jam away. I was worried it would be just something to constantly fiddle with but after setting it up with a couple good sounds, I am happy with it as is and can just play. I set some fantastic bass guitar tones on it too. Love this thing.

@@PartyChicken407 100% agree. Exactly the same experience for me,

@@sb6232 - a big bonus for me too was the fact they added the double tracker and it’s actually well designed. My real guitar rig is a stereo setup that I use a TC Mimiq on sometimes for that wide amazing recorded album sound, and when the Kemper added it it was a huge bonus for me. Now I take profiles I love, and even though they are good as is, I add the double tracker into an FX slot and it completely changes the tone (usually in a good way to my ears). An example would be : jamming on a classic fender deluxe profile sounds great… but having that subtle double tracking so it sounds like a record is next level to my ears. I honestly have a lot of thanks for Kemper - it is a blessing for guitarists and bassists.

@@PartyChicken407 Can you send me your settings for the doubler? I tried it, and it was a bit weird (..super high gain..), but I'm sure it's my lack of know whaat to adjust..

I spent the first year exploring every nook and cranny. Downloaded thousands of rigs, spent a couple hundred bucks over that year too. As much as it pains me to admit it, but most of the ones you pay for are levels above all the free shit (although there's some bitchin free profiles for free) I have 9 different guitars. I made a performance for each guitar and every genre that I'd ever want to play with that guitar. I utilize all 5 channels and morphs on each performance, I have every pedal in the exact place that sounds best with each guitar, and BOOM! I get the hankering to play some funk on my strat, open the performace. If I wanna play some blues/rock on my tele, metal on my les paul, jazz on my 335, etc...I have performances that take 5 seconds to find and load up. I haven't fiddled with it in the past year because I've mastered the fucking thing :)

Agreed 100%. My quest for the perfect high gain tone ended when I got Tue Madsen's profile pack.

Howdy Brother!! Loving the vids...still blasting these videos in cancer treatment...your gaining more fans... They asked me the other day if they can find CDs...I gave em all the info I knew of your work...

Never tried home recording...what would you recommend as a budget set up to record guitar and vocals...with a PC laptop..I'm a newbie to the world of home recording...so bare with me..just looking to get better and help keep my mind off of the negativity and dark rabbit holes one can go down fighting this big C Monster...

No beans for me! Thanks! 🤣🤘

@@Big_Uncle_Randy I wish I was into recording at home. At would've helped tremendously the other day when I swapped out the output jack for a Pure Tone jack and I swear my guitar sounded different afterwards. It wasn't as mid-heavy for some reason. Had more highs, it seemed like. I wasn't expecting anything like that. I was just trying to swap out jacks. So I figured the only option at this point was to put the old jack back in and see if it went back to sounding like it did prior to the swap. It did. Had I been one that records at home, all I would've had to do was pull up an old file and compare it to a new recording and see if they were different. B/c it's quite possible that nothing at all changed and it was all in my head.

I did the opposite, I realized how much money I spend on VST3 and audio interface with studio headphones and then got myself a 100w halfstack with pedalboard and I am happy (all used and old, but real. But yeah, I have the space for that stuff so)

Play the kemper thru a tube powerstage!!!

that's amazing for the kemper considering axe I , II , XL ,III has passed . even the new Quad cortex. this thing have 10 years of live and counting

I have been Fractal since the Ultra. I went Ultra (several years) - Axe 2 (several years) - Kemper (1 year) - FM3 (18 months) - and back to Kemper this past week. I find with the right profiles I tweak less, play more, and it just sounds a bit more amp like to me. I fancy getting a power Kab next.

It’s about how it feels when you play , imho they all sound the same , but Kemper’s feel most amp like , nothing close to a triamp mkiii or vh4 or jcm800 in feel

I’ve been the same. Tried qc fm9 and kemper stage. Spent a lot of money but I had it up front and the plan was to only keep one so I’d sell the others and get most of money back. I’ve been leaning towards the kemper stage. I like the size and foot switch numbers. It’s not perfect. It has a horrible ui and clunky editor. But I’m leaning that way still. How about you?

You should get a small power amp and a 2x12. That's getting the vibe of a real 4x12 but half the size. Going from 1x12 to 2x12 is a great upgrade.

All those amps and cabs you own and you're playing through PC?!?! Lol. Try 8-inch monitors combined with a sub-woofer maybe? Or even a large, powered FR speaker? I use little 5'' monitors for my PC, and understand the craving for more bass.

@@jamesryder9158 Do I need a 4x12 or are there speakers with enough wattage to safely handle the 600w from the Kemper’s built-in power amp in a 2x12?

It's already profiling a mic'd rig, you're not supposed to re-mic it. Miking the cone is not the way to get a usable sound.

@@mattgoodwin953 Truth.

yea I don't get it as well

An IR has the sound of the mic baked in. If kemper did this speaker imprint technology right it shouldn't have any mic imprint on it. If it were only a regular IR through a cab, micing it again would make no sense, you would be micing an already miced signal.

@@martinmorales3195 but Ola said he made the profile based on a sm57... I'm lost here

celestion did the imprints as well as Jensen. it is the same as an IR. kemper don't run IRs in a traditional way.having that said you can convert your IRs through the Kemper Cab maker app then load them onto the kemper unit. The whole imprint thing is to give the Kemper user that amp in the room sound and feel, that's why they made it. problem is they should have done at least a 2X12 cab for that imo, with the option to go to a 4X12 Cab. They may in the future, who knows? Personally I run my Kemper into Mesa Dual Rectifier roadster. KEMPER Monitor Out---->Effects Return on the Mesa Dual Rectifier---->(and turn off the cab block on the Kemper) Then into your 4X12 or 2X12 cab of choice, in my case my Mesa 4X12 loaded with V30s. Just like ola mentioned at the end how he runs his axefx etc....

@@robjoyner1167 he did, but then with the Kemper you can 'turn off' the speaker. It uses their algorithm to remove it from the profile

It's a full range (or "hifi") speaker so an IR is needed for it to sound like a proper rig.

@@reallyeffingcooltechnodude Reason I'm wondering is you'd have cab sim on top of cab sim when you change how the speaker responds, unless I'm misunderstanding how this cab works.

I use the asm12 with my kemper stage, you do need an ir for it sound good because technically the asm isn’t a cab, it’s just a speaker

When using the Kemper Kab it turns off the IR and uses its own imprints, which I guess are like IRs less the Mic. It's meant to sound like you are playing through an amp in the room, rather than a Mic'd cab through a PA like a typical FRFR setup.

There’s a demo of a guy that installed the f12-x200,s in a 412 on KZfaq .

you got this perfectly right ;-) and that's why these kinds of "tests" don't make a lot of sense. It all comes back to a basic misunderstanding of what profiling systems do (avoiding calling them "amps" on purpose). They don't mimic amps but the whole signal chain, including the speaker and the mic (and its position) and the console or interface the mic is plugged into. To keep the speaker out of the equation you'd have to capture a so called direct profile, which grabs the signal from a load box directly after the amp

You can turn off the base one as well as switch it, it's not set to just that sound from the speaker as it counts them as separate things on the profile. Will it be a 1:1, usually no, but there are many variables to this. People forget there's also DI profiles of just Heads, same as profiles of plug-ins, it's simple if you have a Kemper on hand.

I don’t see why you can’t and also Now that the foot pedal version is out you can put it on a chain with distortion going first

Sounds good at any volume. No need to crank it.

I think it's a better idea to use an $1800 dollar piece of equipment more than once a decade. That's literally paying $2 dollars a day to let it sit in your closet.

Pillars of creation

it can

@@Epochstudios even with that app? If so I'd really want a vertical 2x12 version

He made a few you can find on rig manager

Still using My Axe-FX II XL+ at home and live. Fucking love it

@@demonslayervirgil600 same here but I have the III

Still prefer a real Amp.

Still convinced you guys were going to say that no matter what you heard lol

sounds like you don't know how to use eq

Kemper isn't a modeler. It's a profiler. There are WICKED good profiles available for purchase and mediocre profiles available for free, and I don't even touch the ones it came with.

Not only is the forum toxic, the employees treat their customers like they are bothered by them being there. People try to claim its because they are German, but as someone who lived there the average German wasn't a prick like the majority of Kemper Employees on the forum are to their userbase.

I love how many options we get. I'm more an amp sim through a tube power amp and cab guy