Kemper Amps Forum

Quoted from "Armin"

It was also fun to read that one of the sounds was:

"compressed, less life, more fizz and more dull"
"almost sounds like an early sampler"
"worse than a POD"
"pretty cr*p in comparison"
...

what they not know by now is - that was the AxeFx II

Quoted from "Armin"

It was also fun to read that one of the sounds was:

"compressed, less life, more fizz and more dull"
"almost sounds like an early sampler"
"worse than a POD"
"pretty cr*p in comparison"
...

what they not know by now is - that was the AxeFx II

Quoted from "guitarnet70"

Daniel: did you tell them afterwards?

Quoted from "sheguitarplayer"

One of the things that Mr Kemper has made quite clear is that the KPA has problems profiling some modellers. It may be that the axefx is one of these.
The other thing is that in profiling a modeller you are in effect copying a copy (2nd generation copy).
There was always gonna be a furore over on the axefx forum.
One of the reasons I was quietly satisfied when I finally sold my 1st generation axefxs and went back to tube amps was my embarrassment at the forum behaviour over there. (guilt by association) .
Anything new that came out would be met with a mixture mass panic and/or utter derision. It was almost as if the thought process was like 'OMG something new has come out. Maybe my axefx isn't the best anymore. What will I do? OMG OMG OMG!!.
Used to embarrass me and also to take a lot of the glowing comments about the axefx with a pinch of salt. Nowadays this is another of the things they are now bashing reviews about any other product about. Don't get me wrong I liked the axefx, at the time it probably was the best modeller around, but after the eleven rack and the pod HD came out the gap was closing fast, hence axefx2.
If you believe the hype over there (and this is one of the things they use to whip ppl with nowadays) the axefx was at 95% of a tube amp at firmware 7 of the 1st gen units.Yet every time a new firmware update comes out Cliff is a genius, has raised the ballgame etc.
Surely by now the real tube amps sound about 75% as good as an axefx 2!

Quoted from "mDan"

Quoted from "Guitartone"

they conveniently failed to read that over at the Fractal Forum.

It's the fractal forum, what do you expect :-) It would be the other way round here
If I post "BMW is better" in a mercedes forum ... of course - there will be bashing

Quoted from "sheguitarplayer"

Surely by now the real tube amps sound about 75% as good as an axefx 2!

So if the KPA captures 99% of the tube amps tone is it 74,25% as good as the Axe II.

q.e.d.

But what if you profile the AxeII and make it better sounding after refining with EQ tweaks etc.... is it then 120% better then an axe2 and tube amps are only 62,5% as good?

Quoted from "guitarnet70"

...neee, more like this one: