Hi, from Music City

Hi,
I've had my Kemper for about a month now, and I'm enjoying it so far! I'm primarily a P&W player, but do some side projects as well. Due to some shoulder issues (torn rotator) I was looking to compact my rig a little and lighten my load in/out. I originally got a Helix about a month and a half ago, but it honestly didn't sound as good as I'd hoped, and the effects, reverb especially, were just meh. Not to mention the fact that it took a lot of tweaking to get it to sound decent through IEMs, only to be told it sounded thin and lacked punch out of FOH. It sounded great recorded.

Not being completely happy with the tone, and the fact that I had some technical issues (audio dropouts), I returned it for the Kemper.

The Kemper, as you all know, sounds great through IEMs, recorded, and through FOH. I do find that I'm tweaking more than I probably should be... "this could use a little more high-end", or "this could be smoother sounding". There are so many useful parameters to tweak in the Kemper, you can really dial in some great tones. And small changes make a big difference.

Being mainly P&W, and using my pedalboard into he Kemper (love the stereo loop return) I have been struggling to find good low-gain profiles that are pedal friendly. I've purchased a few rig packs (MBritt, Kelch, TAF, etc... mostly AC30 stuff as that's more or less the standard in the genre) but wasn't getting exactly what I was looking for. A friend on TGP said he was using the MBritt SC30 channel 2 profile, so I bought MBritt's Pack 1 with the 5 Matchless SC30 profiles (my two main amps are an HC30 and a Two Rock) and BAM! It was exactly what I was looking for.

I love that it responds like an amp, the consistency of tone and the ease of setup. When I found the "direct mix" parameter in the amp section, that changed everything. That parameter alone adds so much punch and dynamics to the profile.

Anyway, that's my story. Glad to be part of the Kemper family!
boyce89976

Thanks everyone!

Thanks guys! Funny story, I had my tones 97% dialed in, but it was bothering me that I couldn't set my drive pedal EQ's the same with the Kemper as I do with my amps, particularly my Klon clone. I had to dial the treble back to about 10 o'clock on that one.

So I'm playing around with the Kemper, fine tuning the tone. I have a Studio EQ after the amp and loop return, and was doing some stuff with it and accidentally hit the "page" button one too many times and found three more pages of EQ that I didn't know were there... most importantly a page with High/Low cuts! Haha!

Set those to 85hz and 9khz, and very slightly boosted 300hz and 5khz, and was able to set my drive pedal EQ's exactly how I do with my amps.

I'm amazed at how deep the parameters are on this thing!