Dear All
I recently tried Kemper, and ordered one after two days' playing. I can't say how grateful I am to meet this miracle device.
I play mostly clean to little breakup. Days before Kemper arrived, I didn't have much options since clean tone depends mainly on the amp itself, another taste of clean tone means another amp, a lotta options mean a lotta amps. Kemper really saved my days. Now I can overlap different clean tones from Roland JC to different kinds of fenders' in a live looper gig with no hassle AND with confidence too. There are just too many great crispy,glassy yet warm clean tones for me to explore; an endless happiness.
Another bonus is that with a quality clean tone profile, low gain overdrive pedal before Kemper are exceptionally well handled to my ear (comparable with my old Roland JC-40), all the characters from different dirt pedals are represented decently. However not all the profiles & not all the range of pedal gain knob ate equally rendered I have to admit, but what I had experienced was perfect enough for me. Now I mainly use clean tone or breakup edge as usual, with two dirt pedals before Kemper for little gain stacking. Results are heart melting.
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The only issue of placing pedal before Kemper is that my Xotic SP compressor didn't response like I would expect, but I'd like to keep the option (not always) of using compressor before dirt pedals. Since my dirt pedals are physical, placed before Kemper; the compressor must be a physical one too. If folks here have any positive experience with compressor pedals please share to me, million thanks : )
All in all, here is my story and I really really appreciate the efforts that Kemper team had made to come this far. I just love this product.
It's my pleasure to join this forum, thank you
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Below is my setup, It's just arrived two days ago, so I am still doing experiment with my existing pedals
Telecaster >
> Xotics SP compressor (mostly bypassed now)
> Xotics EP booster (Unity Gain - for a clean preamp and buffered signal for the road)
> Xotics AC booster comp (ver little gain)
> Vemuram Galea Overdrive (little gain for stacking)
> Kemper (clean or breakup)
after Kemper I use stereo effect loop for analog phaser, analog delay, timeline delay and nuenaber reverb.