Kemper Amps Forum

So the AxeFx II will be a 'Kemper' soon?
FA announcement:
"FWIW, our own profiling will be available soon for the Axe-Fx II."

Some thought:

I wonder if the KPA guys not only forget to do professional beta testing but also forget to patent the profiling

I could write a lot about marketing and that a 'crapy technology' changed into something that's now the main point of the features wish list - but don't like it here.

The funny point is - by the AxeFx announcement the FA people say:
1) Sorry, we have found out that the KPA works fine
2) We are trying to do all we can to implement something similar as soon as possible into the AxeFx - before you all are leaving the ship


Yes, the KPA works VERY FINE - the pure amp/cab sounds are night and day compared to the AxeFx II.
One the other side the effects are this much more versatile in the AxeFx II.

So will the AxeFx II ever be a KPA?

I think no - here are my points:

01 ) The AxeFx II has no mic input - so a preamp is needed each time a profiling session will be done.
02 ) The KPA is much better to be carried around to profile something compared to a racksystem and a mic preamp
03 ) The AxeFx has 50 slots for User IR's - the KPA has 1000 slots for profiles - I wonder how many profiles will fit into the AxeFx
04 ) I love the KPA UI much more than the AxeFx. Real knobs, LED-rings to show the stored values ...
05 ) The LCD in the KPA is much larger and SO MUCH better visible (from any angle)
06 ) There is no noisy fan in the KPA (no fan at all) - even the 'silent fan' in my AxeFx is a pain compared to the absolute silence from the KPA
07 ) The separately switchable ground lifts (in the KPA) are a must to get hum free connection to tube amps and other stuff
08 ) The KPA is this much easier to tweak and the "missing" deep tweaking options are VERY GOOD - since we play the thing much more instead of tweaking
09 ) The profiling in the AxeFx is more a 'me too' option while the KPA is totally build for that
10 ) The KPA profiling sounds great NOW - lets see how the AxeFx II profiling works in the future


So the next big thing will be an AxeFx II Ultra / AxeFx III or an additional 2 rack spaces block with all the needed knobs and connections ...

Anyway competition is a good thing - and the KPA people have to work fast to fix the bugs and implement the main missing features ....

Yes, and now I understand the (according to ckemper wrong) statement that the KPA uses only 256 point IR's.

The AxeFx II has only space for 50 cab slots (each 2048 points).

To add the profiling feature they must share this IR space with the 'profiles' - and 400 slots sounds much better.

Maybe we have another announcement that 256 or 512 points are enough for guitar profiling soon

On the other hand two points from Cliffs list are true:

-Profiles work only for ONE amp gain setting (for some amps)
-The AxeFx has much more tweaking features

What we need in the KPA is this:

-Option to combine profiles into a 'master profile' (e.g. profile an amp at volume setting 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10) and then create ONE profile from this

-Tonestack before the amp block - and additional tonestacks beside the generic one

but I think both points are on the Kemper list already