Kemper Amps Forum

Hey guys,

I really hope that post didn't come across as some sort of Kemper Hate mail.
Because that was most definitely NOT the intention!!

I was just trying to clear up any thoughts that Fractal may have "bought" my support.
I would hate to think anybody thought less of that company based on some unrelated choices I had made.

Another point to make is that I also DIDN'T sell the Kemper to buy an AXE FX.
There was a good 3 or 4 months between the sale of the Kemper and the buying of the AXE FX II and I had actually intended to purchase a Rocktron Prophesy II with the sale money. In reality though, most of that went to the purchase of about 20x Distortion pedals for a new series of video.

You have to understand that I don't even usually have the intention of keeping any of these units.
I literally - buy them, demo them, make some free presets and then sell the unit and move onto the next one.

Silent Underground isn't popular enough at this point to be sent anything for free to demo so I have to dip into the pocket and buy the stuff myself usually taking a fat loss on sale in an effort to provide my viewers with some sort of free content to download and use.

In a perfect world I would keep everything I demo - but running a studio ain't the cheapest endeavor nor the most secure occupation on the the planet, so the money has to get reinvested.



On a side note...

The reason I used the Hardware 31 band eqs for my tone match profiles instead of Ozone is that I found the small latency delay of using Ozone (which I've used for years) completely destroyed the attack of the profiles.

Also, because all of the "tone" is kept in the cabinet model the intention was for the user to save my tone match cabinets off from the actual profiles and combine them with their choice of amp profile to achieve the tone matched sound with the best amp profile to suit the individual players needs.

An example would be to download or create a HiGained MESA MK IV profile and add one of the cabinets from my Lamb Of God profiles for the perfect "LOG" amp experience.

I still get ALOT of people contacting me to say (for example) " Umm, this profile doesn't feel like a Mark IV - and thats what Lamb Of God use" ... Well obviously !!! - I used a flubby feeling, fuzzy sounding Orange Rockerveb to make the damn profile!??!

Daniel...

One things for sure, you're one hell of a guitar player, that's the most impressive part of your videos, brilliant guitar playing skill.

But, it wasn't very tactful or smart to say, on the Kemper forum, "But if I had to pick 1 unit at the end of the day... It would be the AXE FX II hands down and without a second thought."
It would have been 'smarter' to leave out the words, "hands down and without a second thought".

Something else that puzzles me.
You said the Aussie Fractal distributor didn't have Axe-FX units in stock so you bought direct from Fractal.
How come Fractal couldn't send the Aussie distributor the same unit they were able to sell you direct?
What's the point of having a distributor in a foreign country if you sell direct to the customer?...Kemper would never do that.

Quoted from "Guitartone"

Daniel...

One things for sure, you're one hell of a guitar player, that's the most impressive part of your videos, brilliant guitar playing skill.

But, it wasn't very tactful or smart to say, on the Kemper forum, "But if I had to pick 1 unit at the end of the day... It would be the AXE FX II hands down and without a second thought."
It would have been 'smarter' to leave out the words, "hands down and without a second thought".

Something else that puzzles me.
You said the Aussie Fractal distributor didn't have Axe-FX units in stock so you bought direct from Fractal.
How come Fractal couldn't send the Aussie distributor the same unit they were able to sell you direct?
What's the point of having a distributor in a foreign country if you sell direct to the customer?...Kemper would never do that.

Well thank you for the compliment regarding my playing - I do alright for a drummer.

Fractal wouldn't sell me one direct. I had to use a 2nd party freight forwarding company with a US address to actually purchase one from the States. As far as Fractal knew they were sending my unit to a warehouse in California.
They require anybody to purchase the unit from their own countries suppliers and unfortunately Australia just isn't allocated a lot of stock.

When I got the Kemper I got one from the first 10 brought into the country and every one of that first lot was sold even before the shipment had landed. After that it took almost 2 months before I started seeing them advertised around here again and even then that was from those shonky unauthorized warehouse sellers, that buy direct from overseas and resell lowballing costs that any australian authorized dealer could afford or is allowed to match.

And as far as my comment in regards of my choice of unit... It may not have read nice, and it certainly didn't make a good first impression, but its the truth man. The Kemper just didnt have that inspiring "MOJO" for me...

Quoted from "SilentUndergroundStudio"

The Kemper just didnt have that inspiring "MOJO" for me...

That's like a PRS owner saying that a Strat, Tele, Les Paul, 335 and SG don't have any MOJO.

One product works better for some people, the other product works better for some people, both products work equally well for some people, and there are people who want nothing to do with either one of them.

Its all good.

Quoted from "paults"

One product works better for some people, the other product works better for some people, both products work equally well for some people, and there are people who want nothing to do with either one of them.

Its all good.

Well said man \m/ \m/

Quoted from "Guitartone"

Quoted from "SilentUndergroundStudio"

The Kemper just didnt have that inspiring "MOJO" for me...

That's like a PRS owner saying that a Strat, Tele, Les Paul, 335 and SG don't have any MOJO.

I wouldn't go that far - It'd be more like an iPhone user saying a Galaxy doesnt work so well for them ( or vise-verser )
Or MAYBE a Les Paul guy saying a Strat doesnt have MOJO for him. ( or vise-verser )