Posts by Mr_Marty

Quote from chrislisting

I don’t know if you guys remember how much I love my kemper...tonally, until today, it was unrivaled. It took axe 3 four years to catch up to kemper but they finally did. The tone is actually just as if not more accurate than all the mesa and plexi I’ve tried. Kemper is nearly identical to mesa, and this is like a blind test where I think it is mesa. I think its going to be the kemper killer, the FM3

FM3 is a $1000 lite version with built in stomp and foot control! I cant believe they were able to give an axe 3 mini but they did for 1k.

Anyway, I want to buy the FM3 so bad now that I heard axe 3. I was trying to reaquire my kemper but everyone here and online is unrealistic still thinking a kemper is worth 1400 or more...lol, its not! Not anymore. Especially with the axe 3 out, the kemper is now “old”, still amazing and good and the best/most True Tone matching you can get on the fly, but for $500 less than what most people ask for used (I’ve seen some people even ask near full price used) you can get axe

Anyway, I didn’t believe in fractal before. I didn’t like or want axe fix 1, 2, ax8 or anything .....this however is so amazing that I have to get the FM3 when its finally out in a few months.

Any thoughts

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My Kemper now collects dust. Fractal has not only caught up, they have surpassed.

Quote from Guitartone

Going back all the way to 2008...funny story.

In 2007/8 on TGP the Fractal trolls trolled the Axe-FX Standard every day Ad nauseam as the greatest piece of gear ever that sounded "exactly" like a tube amp.

I had been in a friends studio and we had mic'd up his Marshall TSL602 with a Drivemaster pedal in front of it and recorded a clip.

So I posted the clip on the TGP and asked the Fractal 'wolf pack' to record the same riff on my clip using the Axe-FX Standard...after all it sounds exactly like a tube amp.

So a few of the Axe-FX boys attempted to play the riff, not one of them could nail it, and their tones were nowhere near not even close...all kinds of excuses like my wife and kids are waiting outside in the car so I just recorded a quick attempt.

In 2011, rumors were spreading on TGP that some guy named Christophe Kemper had invented a machine that could Profile tube amps.

The Fractal wolves went berserk, including Cliff himself, impossible, Vaporware, it's never going to happen, Profiling is just EQ matching, it's never going to release, it will never sound like the Axe even if it does release, blah blah, non stop for the entire 2011.

When the Kemper released in December 2011 guess who had one of the first Kempers in his laboratory/workshop?...Cliff. ...and all the updates and new models since then have attempted to equal the Kemper feel and tone.

Moving on, 11 years later in 2019 my friend who recorded the original Marshall TSL602 plus Drivemaster clip (in 2008) decides if the Kemper can Profile his live rig, the same TSL602/Drivemaster and replicate that particular tone he'll be convinced and buy a Kemper...which he did!

This is the original TSL602/Drivemaster clip/riff I posted in 2008 on TGP now recorded in 2019 using the Kemper Profile of that same rig.

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I own both and feel that the Axe-Fx is superior. They are both good though. The difference is that I'm not a distributor for either product and don't have a financial interest in promoting one over the other.

Maybe I'm old-fashioned but it just seems wrong to be promoting one product and bashing another if your a distributor for the former.

Mine has 16

Some I liked the Kemper better, other the AxeFX better. Stupid test though. Apples vs bananas.

Congrats. Similar story here but actually find the Axe-Fx feels and sounds most like a real amp. For rehearsals I use my KPA because its convenient grab and go. In the studio I use the Axe-Fx the most. Tried a Helix and sent it back.

Quote from sinmix

First of all, I'm not a Kemper fanboy who is blind and closed for other solutions. Kemper is a great tool but again despite the fact that his main task is to copy the sound of a particular set, it still sounds like "Kemper" with own character in gain structure, I'm not saying whether it is good or bad - just not the same. I often hear a specific Kemper sound in many recordings, even those well-known.

Yes, after awhile if you have discriminating ears you start to notice a sameness in all profiles. That sameness does not sound like real amps either. Its especially noticeable when rolling off volume knob. Sound becomes more boxy and thin where real amps stay full. Still like my Kemper but those who claim its indistinguishable from a real amp are are kidding themselves. Its a good tool but its not a replacement for real amps.

Another thing is that the real amps sound different when monitored through the Kemper. When profiling amps they sound close using the A/B function on the Kemper but if you use an outboard A/B box and compare the differences are greater. The Kemper does something to the signal from the real amp making it sound more like the Kemper than it really is. Sounds like it rolls off the highs and the lows.

Quote from firepile

All I care about is how it sounds. And to me Axe-FX II sounds better than the Kemper.

Agreed. Before Quantum they were close but now the Axe-Fx sounds better. But they both sound great. All this bickering is rediculous. If you can't get good sounds with either you need to practice more. So I'm going to go practice. Maybe even use the Kemper. Or my AmpliFire (nah, doesn't sound that good).

Tested the new firmware. Sounds good. Very good. KPA sounds good too. Rather disappointing that a Kemper beta tester would behave like Gianfranco has been lately with his constant attacks on Fractal. Both products are very good and I own and use both. Right now I would say the Fractal gets more of my playing time. The new firmware has really improved the sound and feel and the effects are better than the Kemper so I use the Fractal more. Maybe next month that will change.

Fractal's version is per preset but I think I see why Kemper version is global. Fractal version slows down preset change a bit and control is laggy. Must be lots of math behind the scenes so making it per preset would probably slow Kemper way down because it has slower DSP.

Yeah, okay. Troll.

Option 3: This is a fix for all the dead LEDs issue. Im on my third KPA and every one has developed dead LEDs and I don't have them very bright. This new one now has five dead LEDs. All the dead LEDs are on the knob rings.

I own both so I have no dog in this fight and I'll just say this. They are both excellent. With Axe firmware 15 I would say the raw amp tones were equal in both units. With firmware 16 I would say that the Axe is now actually slightly better. More natural lows and clearer highs. However I use the Kemper more because I enjoy the ease of use. The difference is small though and anyone claiming that one unit is vastly superior to the other is delusional and should spend more time practicing and less time worrying about their gear purchases.

This artifact bothers me as well. My real amps do not do this.

I don't think it's the converters. I notice it but I think it's the core sound. The ticky tacky thing bothers me the most. Other modelers don't do that.

A couple months. It sounds good but to me the Axe just sounds richer and less digital.

Same here.