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After two weeks with my Kemper Profiling Amp, these are my observations:

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Radley

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Monday, March 12th 2012, 9:49am

After two weeks with my Kemper Profiling Amp, these are my observations:

After two weeks with my Kemper Profiling Amp, these are my observations:

* Excellent Potential in this new way of achieving guitar sounds!

* KPA profiling isn’t perfect, but very close - don't stop now CK!

* Something is missing in the extended low end when profiling.

* KPA profiled distortion never sounds as smooth or analog as the original amp’s.

* Stomp drive effects and boosters need improvement in noise levels and digital aliasing (gainy overdrives).

* I have been somewhat disappointed with the factory profiles, but maybe that’s why we should do our own? :o)

* The Strength of the Kemper Amp distortion is the high end punch & clarity - the Weakness would have to be the lousy feel on the strings when you are playing smooth, sensitive, connected lines (not much warmth or ‘give’). I also miss a full, complete low end response.

* The stomp EQs are very effective and reasonably quiet.

* The overall KPA playing feel is a bit stiff, but the sounds can be very realistic (rather like the POD HD-500).

* Many of the profiles posted are unusable to my ears.

* Most of the effects could benefit from more parameter control, as well as EQ.

The future would seem to be very bright for the KPA *IF* Kemper dedicates adequate resources to this unique product - It seems like they may need more programmers to speed up the OS development so all ‘advertised’ features are finally functional, and to take the product to the next level to stay ahead of the inevitable competition.

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Monday, March 12th 2012, 10:47am

After two weeks? It took me month to get out satisfying sound out of the other thing not to be named and I guess you haven't been faster, have you? So give it the same months to find 'your' sounds. Less controls doesn't mean that there are less tricks to get a certain sound. The number of profiles that can be taken or imported is high! As said in the other forum: It's in there, you just got to tweak more to find a way for your needs!

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Monday, March 12th 2012, 11:04am

I disagree with Froschn. If the KPA didn't work tonewise without minor tweaking for you then it isn't the right tool for you. Everything else is denial of reality. ;)

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Monday, March 12th 2012, 11:30am

I guess exspectations and claims may vary and some need a top notch quality, they have been through many good sounds and achieved best results with conventional gear. Why step back then? I guess Radley had good sounds with other gear, so he comes with high exspectations and if so he'd need some more time and some more new tricks to get these results.

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Monday, March 12th 2012, 11:35am

What tricks? This is no Axe Fx.

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Monday, March 12th 2012, 11:49am

Quoted from "JoeBlob"

I disagree with Froschn. If the KPA didn't work tonewise without minor tweaking for you then it isn't the right tool for you. Everything else is denial of reality. ;)
I'm a bit confused by the double negation...What do you mean? It must work as is without tweaking?....that's what happen when you learn a language without taking any lessons.... :(
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Monday, March 12th 2012, 11:54am

What I like to express: If you need more than one hour to find your tone with the KPA, you won't find it in one year. There are not so many parameters.

No offense.

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Monday, March 12th 2012, 11:59am

Tricks? Hm...Are there some pickups, pots, cables, wireless, boosters and so on, that lead to a more realistic feel? What happens when you profile with a wrong setting with purpose to get different results when you compensate it with the internal controls, like saying you profile with too much gain and bass, to get it right, when you reduce gain afterwards with the kpa's gainknob? Can you lower gain and increase sensitivity or is it better the other way round? How do a compressor and the special controls of the ampblock interact? And so on....You don't need an AFX to have questions that you can not answer at once and it'll take some time to try everything.

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Monday, March 12th 2012, 12:13pm

Quoted from "JoeBlob"

What I like to express: If you need more than one hour to find your tone with the KPA, you won't find it in one year. There are not so many parameters.


No offense.
From my POV that is definitely not true, if you only need one hours, congrats!
I needed months to find the best settings on one of my favorite tube amps the Valvetech Vac25. Especially to find good smooth overdrive tones needs time and e.g. the right pedals. The KPA has hundreds of amps, mostly require some finetune in settings, EQ & cab depending on guitar and speaker used.

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Monday, March 12th 2012, 12:21pm

Quoted from "JoeBlob"

What I like to express: If you need more than one hour to find your tone with the KPA, you won't find it in one year. There are not so many parameters.

No offense.
I disagree with that, firstly it all depend what you're looking for and from what sort of profile you're starting. The amp and cab parameters (and cab choice) are essential and it takes a bit more than 1 hour to understand exactly how they interact. I use digital guitar gear since the very first products from Line6 (rack systems before that) and it has taken to me 2 months to get exactly where I wanted to be...and I was lucky that some other user posted profiles that where near enough to what I had in my head to be able to tweak them spot on.
In 1 hour you can find a set of pleasant, usable tones, this yes, but not "your" tone. IMHO
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