Reached a wall with my Kemper.

May i ask what LP sound you are after? I bet i have a profile to test and match it, just give me a link brother to the sound YOU want from your LP

Ash

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Its not possible in my living situation to record my amp, which is why I got the Kemper. What I'm thinking of doing eventually, is making a cupboard into an iso booth and miking the amp.

As for profiling my own amp, is that going to sound any better than the profile of a much more expensive amp, profiled by a professional? One of the big selling factors of the Kemper, is that I can have access to amps I wouldn't have access to otherwise.

For those of you that do mike your amp or use a load box, are your results better or worse? Would love to hear side by side comparisons. I don't expect a load box or mike to sound considerably better with my skill level, however a mike is £200, a load box around £500. That's nearly a thousand pounds saved going with those options. I've read other forums where people who already mike/load box their amps are splashing out the cash on a Kemper. For those of you that did that, was it worth it?

Anyway, like I've been saying I've taken the plunge and will keep swimming for a while.

DI tracks to come shortly.

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I have a TNL & a Kemper.

They both sound fantastic! Depending on the day, I think one chain is better than the other, but the real truth is either would work well for my hi gain stuff.
I tend to use the Kemper more, but I recently used the Kemper di out into amp> TNL to record 2 simultaneously; a hi gain patch along with a lower gain patch, then phase correct it in the DAW. THAT sounded HUGE.

Oh, I'm off track...OP, try more/get better profiles

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I get the general impression that they sound similar. Massive price difference though. I would have save £1,000 by getting a loadbox. Could have got a new head and a load box, for the price I paid. I'll probably annoy many people by saying this, but I do feel I paid too much for the Kemper, considering the results I'm getting.

you may sell your kemper and get the loadbox and new head, even losing some money you earned experience that nobody could tell you how it would had been...

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. I'll probably annoy many people by saying this, but I do feel I paid too much for the Kemper, considering the results I'm getting.

Should not annoy anyone...if you spend a lot of money and don't get the results you expect then that's not surprising.

As has been mentioned a few times, the rec9ordings provided do sound off so there is almost certainly somethign wrong but shame we can't seem to nail it for you

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Should not annoy anyone...if you spend a lot of money and don't get the results you expect then that's not surprising.
As has been mentioned a few times, the rec9ordings provided do sound off so there is almost certainly somethign wrong but shame we can't seem to nail it for you

Well, we might be able to get closer with a DI track and a track with a preset profile...

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I get the general impression that they sound similar. Massive price difference though. I would have save £1,000 by getting a loadbox. Could have got a new head and a load box, for the price I paid. I'll probably annoy many people by saying this, but I do feel I paid too much for the Kemper, considering the results I'm getting.

For the last 3 weeks numerous members here have repeatedly urged you to upload a DI recording in order to help you figure out why you're getting the results you're getting, and thus far you've yet to upload one, opting instead to post about how you don't feel you've gotten your money's worth. Others have given good reasons why you should consider profiling your own amps, and that suggestion seems to have been politely brushed off. Do you really want to know why the KPA isn't producing the results you expected, or would you prefer we all end this discussion and move on to another thread?

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If I play through my Marshall, its instantly good. I may adjust the EQ but that's not because it sounds bad. If I play through my Kemper, I'm dialing just to get it to sound good. I have to go through tons of profiles to get a usable sound, not just a good sound.

T. Apparently you can play loud enough on the Marshall to know it sounds good yet you won't try a profile on it.
So buggin the neighbors excuse is bullshit
These guys sincerely want to help you but I think you're just fuckin around for the hell of it.
Post something or Quit please.
You have proven one thing though, Lots of good hearted people own Kemper's.

Mate, there's DEFINITELY something wrong. As far as I'm concerned it doesn't sound good. If CK thinks it sounds good then great, but I wouldn't be happy if my Kemper sounded like that.

Thankfully it doesn't.

Please let us help you or sell up and go the route you've been talking about as Ive a sneaky suspicion you won't be 100% happy until you do. Good luck!

Please post DIs and a sample through a public profile we all can check. I'm curious about the results.

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I did post samples and if you look back on the thread, Mr Kemper himself said that it sounds good to him, and there's nothing wrong with the Kemper.

I respect his opinion, but he's not infallible.

I still have not been told WHAT the tone is on the LP that he is after, give me a song or example , out of the 5,000 rigs i have in RM (my RM takes 3 mins to load ) I can tell you i can find this sound. Whilst my asshole points to the ground i can tell you i have it. Do the DI thing too dont get me wrong, but what is the tone or sound you want just send me a clip or pm already please.

Ash

For the record, when Ash says 5,000, he means 50,000+; it's the beer talking.

Yeah, Terence, DI track has been the next-logical step for quite some time now, mate, so go for it.

Keep a copy of it, BTW, so you can upload it reamped with the same Rigs forum members use for the exercise. This'll ensure more-accurate comparisons than if you were to play something else, even if it's a similar riff, in order to produce comparison clips from your side.

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I still have not been told WHAT the tone is on the LP that he is after, give me a song or example , out of the 5,000 rigs i have in RM (my RM takes 3 mins to load ) I can tell you i can find this sound.

He posted a Choptones clip of the Friedman Smallbox 50 in post #30.

256 posts from forum members trying to help a guy find what he's looking for with the KPA. Pretty awesome, I must say......... Good luck T cause it's in there proven again and again, hope you find your way

I'm very sorry for this guy. And not for defending KPA, but for "wasting" a ton of money in a thing that doesn't sound like he wants...
But the curious thing is that EVERYONE HERE, listen to sh*t in the audios he upload.

Everyone suggest a DI track, but he insists in complain about wasting money. We are your last resort in a ocean of uncertainty.

Take the lifesaver or sell it.