Kemper Amps Forum

Personally I 'cheat'. I profile the amp (and its power amp) using a power soak.. That way I eliminate the speaker and mic etc. and can decide how much power amp effect I need by how loud the master volume is.
When I play that profile through my external power amp and guitar cab, it sounds just like the original amp through the same cab..
Having said that I've found some cab and mic profiles on the KPA which I am impressed with to the extent that I've actually gigged with them FRFR and that's a first for me..sounded great and I'm usually not a fan of playing live FRfR.

Yes the the hot plate is a power soak.
Set it at 'load' so you don't need your guitar cab connected to the amp.
Signal chain goes
KPA>amp input
Speaker out of amp>thd hot plate speaker input (set hot plate at load)
Direct out of hot plate>KPA
You can if you wish monitor the profiling process via the main outputs of the KPA>carvin amp>guitar cab
By doing this you can monitor exactly how it's going to sound during playback through that power amp and cab, and set the amp controls up accordingly.
When profiling is over you don't need the power soak any more.
Just KPA>carvin>guitar cab

If you intend to use KPA live, thru a Power amp (especially tube) + cab, the most natural way to do it, is to send

only the preamp of a profiled amp. This means that you have to profile only the preamp section of an amp. , no

power amp, no cab. ( KPA out ---- Amp in, Amp send-----KPA return)

The problem here is that, if you want from KPA"s monitor out only the preamp signal,but a full signal to the

main out, you can't get it due the lack of the Power amp profile.( you can use cab from another profile)

This is what I requested a few days before, to the "feature request" section

http://kemper-amps.com/forum/index.php?p…d&threadID=3134

Yes the the hot plate is a power soak.
Set it at 'load' so you don't need your guitar cab connected to the amp.This is very important.when set at load you can run the amp with no speaker connected. Without this, doing so will damage the amp.
Signal chain goes
KPA>amp input
Speaker out of amp>thd hot plate speaker input (set hot plate at load)
Direct out of hot plate>KPA
You can if you wish monitor the profiling process via the main outputs of the KPA>carvin amp>guitar cab
By doing this you can monitor exactly how it's going to sound during playback through that power amp and cab, and set the amp controls up accordingly.
When profiling is over you don't need the power soak any more.
Just KPA>carvin>guitar cab

Please read the new article on our FAQ: The sound of the Kemper Profiling Amplifier.

I want to play with a 2x12 at home so i was looking a good way to combine the kemper with a transistor power amp ! I have sawn this threat but i need a transistor power amp with less power than the matrix...Which do you think it would be a great deal for playing metal at home? or do you think a pair of 8" is enough?

Quoted from "chopeth85"

I want to play with a 2x12 at home so i was looking a good way to combine the kemper with a transistor power amp ! I have sawn this threat but i need a transistor power amp with less power than the matrix...Which do you think it would be a great deal for playing metal at home? or do you think a pair of 8" is enough?

depends which Matrix you are talking about.....