Posts by Themightyjay

I have pack two and previously I was finding the overdriven tones too muddy with a Les Paul. I've found putting the One DS in front worked wonders for me as it tightens it up just enough and seems to add a bit more clarity and sustain. I set it Drive 0, Tone -1, Volume +2. I tried the green scream too but found it cuts a bit too much bass.

This may have been mentioned before, but I get the full signal coming through my cab and desk (I run powered to cab and main to FOH at the same time) when powering down.

Might not seem much, but it can pretty embarrassing when, after finishing a show I'll put it into tuner to mute it, only to have my guitar squealing at me (and through the PA if the channel isn't muted) as soon as I turn it off.

There re must be a way to mute the signal altogether on power down? So far it's just made me look a bit of a tit, but I'm sure this could potentially damage something if it's unexpected, especially through the PA.

I use my Vintage 30 loaded cab rated at 240 Watts and I have the power amp boost on full.

Obviously I don't turn the Kemper up full or my insides would turn to liquid, but I do have it loud.

Havent to blown anything yet, I'll be the first to post here if I do!

Brilliant, that's the sort of thing I'm looking for! As I said, I know the profiles themselves sound great, for me it's more specifically can the built in power amp hang with a valve amp at loud volumes.

With various average power amps I've used its sounded fine low volume but a lot thinner than a valve amp once it's up to full band volume.

I'm wondering if anybody had directly AB'd one of the powered Kempers against a high power valve amp?

Now to be clear I'm not looking for a debate on the realism etc, I've got an unpowered Kemper and love it for use at home. However, when using a power amp with it live I've always felt it doesn't have the depth or pure low end presence or thump of my valve amp, a Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier.

I often play in bands with two guitars, so what I'm asking is, if I went specifically for the powered Kemper, will it have the power and depth to compare to either my Rectifier or a similar 100W valve amp, assuming both are not mic'd?

Especially interested in people's opinions that have been in a similar scenarios before.

Thanks!

Carvin Tube 100 power amp and Thomann 5u rack.

Great valve amp running on 4 x 6L6 valves, 50 Watts per side or can be bridged to 100 Watts mono. Sounds great, clear and loud as hell!

Been using it with my Kemper and it sounds great, I just either go FOH straight or through my Mesa now so this is surplus to requirements.

Value around £250 or I'll trade for something interesting, ideally some pedals but open to offers on most quality gear.

And no, the Kemper's not included, sorry!

Based in Kettering, Northants.

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+ a million, I have other Amp Factory and M Britt profiles on my Kemper and now have no clue which the merged ones are.

I used to have the EVH 50W head that I used to use as a power amp for my Kemper. I thought it sounded great, especially with Marshall style profiles.

I actually sold it to fund a Triple Rectifier coincidentally. In my opinion you'd struggle to get a decent Rectifier tone with the EVH head, as a lot of the tone comes from the power section of the Mesa. You could possibly get close preamp wise but you'd struggle to get that "wide open" Rectifier sound.

Now, if you're recording / going FRFR it's a different matter of course!

Anybody have any experience with these?

http://www.thomann.de/gb/harle…d016e789570b79093f4676e86

Thinking of getting one as a lightweight solution to use with an unpowered Kemper Rack. Doesn't have to be amazing as I'll be going direct and using this to power a cab on stage for feel only, it own't be mic'd up. May also be useful in any smaller gig situations.

Just wondering if anyone has tried one or if there's any other alternatives at this price/weight.

As has been pointed out already, obviously there will be sway towards Kemper here. However, having owned an Ultra, a 2 and the Kemper, if you're looking for the most realistic amp tones then the Kemper just pips it.

Saying that, if you did go for the Axe I don't think you'd be at all dissapointed, and certainly there's not such a huge gap in a mix between the two.

Also, don't let it be said that the FX in the Kemper are inferior, they're definitely not, they're just not as varied as in the Axe and don't have quite the same routing flexibility.

Either DrB is severely delusional or he is the ultimate troll. I haven't quite worked out which one yet.

Also, have you upgraded to firmware 2.6?

Listening to the clips I'm going to go out on a limb and say that there's nothing wrong with the Kemper. Okay so maybe the tones aren't ideal for what you're looking for (nor me for that matter) but they do sound like they're in the realms of normal.

I would certainly experiment with the EQ section and try some other profiles, maybe back the gain/low end off a bit as well.

As the Kemper doesn't have a signature sound as such, the overall profile is determined by the taste of whoever profiles it. I've certainly found lots of profiles that sound either muddy or way to bright for my personal taste. It all depends on the flavour they were going for, guitar used, monitoring situation etc.

There's no guarantee that a profile made by someone else will suit your personal taste, but there's almost certainly some out there aor you toy find.

Ha, I wouldn't say you suck, it sounds pretty good, it's just knowing what areas you can improve on, I've still got tons of room for improvement for sure!

For bass I find you can get some useable tones using your guitar and the pitch shift/formant shift function in the Kemper. Using this along with a bass rig profile can work wonders if you're lacking a bass guitar.

Definitely have a look at the bass guitar issue, I think that's what's missing personally.

As an example here's my band, self produced as well but I think it sounds pretty good. Guitars and bass are 100% Kemper.

http://soundcloud.com/thedeath…syourfault/murder-suicide

I think it sounds pretty decent to be fair! If you are not satisfied with the tone I'd say it's more of a production issue. I've had an Axe Fx myself, both an Ultra and a 2, and they're incredible units, but as far as raw, heavy amp tones go, I don't think they can offer a improvement over the Kemper tones you already have, they may be on par with some tweaking, but you could also improve the Kemper tones with some tweaking/EQ/different profiles.

Listening to,your demo, do,you have bass guitar on there? If so it's really low in the mix! That's where most of the low end reinforcement needs to come from, not the guitars really.

As the title says, I have a mint black Kemper toaster that I'd like to swap for a rack version.

Absolutely no problems with the toaster, but due to imminent touring commitments I'd feel a lot safer using a racked version.

Pleas contact me here if you'd like to trade.

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I have owned an old Decimator and currently have an MXR Smart Gate. The Kemper gate is far superior to both in my opinion, it's a lot more 'set and forget' than the other two, which is what you want, nothing worse than faffing about with a gate. Just leave it on and play!

That's what I needed to know, cheers!

How exactly do you capture the profiles? Do you use a load box or are they from the FX Send? The reason I ask is I would use them into the FX return of my Mesa Rectifier.