Display MoreI used to own the Fractal Axe FX 2 XL+ before I bought the Kemper... I also had the Axe FX Standard before that, I used Axe FX for several years and never could get really good tones from it. Sure I heard some videos of others getting a few good tones here and there but apparenty you have to be a rocket science tweaker to get them. I bought the Kemper due to my frustration and struggle with te Axe Fx 2XL+, and I get amazing tones instantly with the Kemper.
I don't care about the AXE FX effects, no matter how good they are, they aren't Strymons and they aren't Eventides like Vai used either. If I want good effects, that's what I will do for effects.
If I want instant amazing amp tone with zero twaeking, I use a Kemper and buy good profiles. Done.
I have not heard the Axe 3 yet, but I read the specs forum and site, and from that, I highly doubt it's going to sound much better if any than the Axe FX 2XL+ did, and probably just be as much complicated to tweak.
I don't wanna build a preset or have to tweak.
I want someone to put a Marshall amp in my room, mic it up and dial it in to the sweetest spot posibble...and that's EXACTLY what the Kemper has done for me consistently, it's just like having some one dial in the tone for me on a real amp and micing it up.
Cliff Chase is constantly trying to program his junk to mimic a real amp.
Christoph didn't even realease anything new at NAMM 2018... because the job with the Kemper is done.
The Kemper already does both what the Kemper and the Fractal and any other modeler set out to achieve, it recreates the exact sound of any recoreded amp you can imagine.
Fractal is just a lot of HYPE. and Marketing nonsense.
Kemper is the real deal.
I have no desire to ever go back to Fractal, and I have ZERO interest in Axe3.
I think anyone that owns a Kemper and even wastes time thinking about looking into getting a Fractal is a deaf fool.
The axe is junk now?
Sometimes the fanboyism on this forum is worse than on the Fractal forum.