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Sunday, April 8th 2012, 2:05am

ah common ass fx is funny no matter what. I have done many tracks with the axe fx, laugh at ass fx, there are many more names floating around about the axe Fx, all of them are funny. Whether you own it or not. If funny names float around about the kemper, then I will chuckle too. why so serious? :-)

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Sunday, April 8th 2012, 2:30am

Quoted from "audioholic"

If funny names float around about the kemper, then I will chuckle too. why so serious? :-)
Right on :thumbsup:

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Sunday, April 8th 2012, 2:32am

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Quoted from "audioholic"

If funny names float around about the kemper, then I will chuckle too. why so serious? :-)
Right on :thumbsup:
Actually, I do like the name "Cosmic Toaster" for the KPA :D

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Sunday, April 8th 2012, 2:57am

.....exactly!!!!!

To quote Sgt. Hulka, "Lighten up Francis!!!!" Geeeeeeezzzzeeee. What a sensitive and frail ASS (I mean AXE) community out there! It's just gear guys.

I actually embrace my COSMIC TOASTER!!!! I often just say now....I'm bringin' the Toaster to the gig!!!!

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Sunday, April 8th 2012, 3:06am

'Ass FX' is an ironic choice since the Fractal effects are considered among the best quality available. I too feel this is a better place without such coarse condescension to any of Kemper's 'competition'.... I would think Mr. Kemper is happy that users of other products/other boards are visiting this place to see what the KPA is all about....so why say things that could run them off?

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Sunday, April 8th 2012, 3:44am

As a musical tool, each certainly is usable and has its own benefits. However, strictly speaking as a modeler, there is just no question that the KPA far exceeds the AxeFX at sounding like what it is intended to emulate. I have fooled myself as well as others almost exactly 50 percent of the time when posting A/B clips of the KPA vs the amp it is emulating. That number is MUUUCH lower when doing blind tests with the AxeFX. And for what it's worth, "AssFX" is pretty damn funny in my opinion.

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Sunday, April 8th 2012, 3:53am

I was speaking of proper form on a user board such as this - no need for 'Ass FX' or 'Kemper Fizz Factory' - such names seem to be more antagonistic than descriptive...

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Sunday, April 8th 2012, 3:57am

If the KPA is fizzy, then the amp profiled was fizzy. The problem is that the KPA is only as good as the profile it is playing back. The Axe just always has a sameness to it, regardless of what name is assigned to the amp it is supposed to emulate. That was the issue I had with it - not that it wasn't usable, but that it almost never sounded very close to what it was said to be modeled after.

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Sunday, April 8th 2012, 4:15am

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I was speaking of proper form on a user board such as this - no need for 'Ass FX' or 'Kemper Fizz Factory' - such names seem to be more antagonistic than descriptive...
Agreed, that there's no point in being antagonistic.

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Sunday, April 8th 2012, 4:22am

For the record: I am more interested in creating great (maybe new) sounds than strictly duplicating existing amps, because the basic amp is usually only one part of a great sound 'nowadays' - it is the final impact and expressiveness of the sound that wins the day for me. Another way to say it....'I don't need it to sound like a particular '62 Marshall, I just need it to sound/feel & play like a dream'.

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