Kemper Amps Forum

On a second thought...



One might find the Axe already too overwhelming in the sense of tweaking and fine-tuning, while the Kemper is almost like a plug and play thing, but still offering you the needed amounts of tweakability, and nothing more or unnecessary. Not to mention it's considerably cheaper than the Axe in Europe. I'm still going to order the KPA as soon as I have the money... I just hope that all the bugs and reliability issues will be fixed and some sweet improvements and new features will come along sooner or later.
On a third thought...
It's funny how Fractal Audio is trying to copy profiling immediately... the Kemper really raised the bar on "modeling" equipment, hasn't it? The Axe is nowhere near as innovative in a sense than the KPA.

Things are gonna get interesting. This can only be a good thing for us guitar players, more competition surely will lead to better products on both sides. For me the Kemper format best suits my needs. I prefer having knobs instead of menus for live situations. but prefer having a computer editor to knobs for studio work. If i was Cliff i would have added a mic input to his hardware plus profiling and called it axe fx 2 ultra. I wouldnt be suprised if Line 6 does profiling at some point too.

Quoted from "ChrisBeaver"

Things are gonna get interesting. This can only be a good thing for us guitar players, more competition surely will lead to better products on both sides. For me the Kemper format best suits my needs. I prefer having knobs instead of menus for live situations. but prefer having a computer editor to knobs for studio work. If i was Cliff i would have added a mic input to his hardware plus profiling and called it axe fx 2 ultra. I wouldnt be suprised if Line 6 does profiling at some point too.

Quite sad times for tube amps, eh?

To use "Vaporware" as a marketing tactic at the exact time that your competitors product is being released in the USA borders on pathetic.

In the last year I haven't seen one Axe-FX11 user ask Fractal to add Profiling to the Axe-FX...on the contrary, they've dismissed it, they prefer full amp modelling.

What we have here is an "obsessively proud" cat chasing it's tail, not providing what his "users" want but rather providing what his pride needs.

No point getting upset about that though. All's fair in love and marketing as they say, and stealing thunder is as old a dirty tactic as it comes there I'm afraid (and it's not as if Profiling was ever going to remain the sole proprietorship of Kemper forever, unless he patented it). Now Kemper just need to up their game to match and start pushing out those updates, after all Kemper actually has that product to market as of right now, not sometime in the future anymore.

You can do all the mods you want to a guitar that has no 'soul', the guitar will be the same guitar with new parts, but still no 'soul'.

Quoted from "Per"

No point getting upset about that though.

Upset?, on the contrary, we've been vindicated.

I doubt that the A/D converters of the Axe II are as great as the ones in the kemper profiler.
We will check it soon.

Use any ir player an it will work?

Quoted from "Guitartone"

To use "Vaporware" as a marketing tactic at the exact time that your competitors product is being released in the USA borders on pathetic.

+1
Some company leaders really are acting like the bully kid on the playground.

They dissed profiling in the past as well as they dissed USB and input impedance when 11 Rack came out. Features that the Axe FX II (not Axe FX 11!) then had.