Thank you guys for this thread! I'm a Kemper player for a few years and still strugglin. Like TS I hear a lot of really great sounding sounds comming out of a Kemper in the TJ of MBritt demo's etc. Also in the more gainy stages pretty open, transparent, difinition. Downloaded a few of them (free packs and some paid packs like the (non purple) Plexi from TJ. When I hear them... mwa... not as great as de demo's. De sound in duff, mashed up, lack of difinition and it's like, I don't know, indirect or something? It sounds from far away. TS discribed is as a blanket over the speaker and that is what I'm hearing. Playing through my bands PA I always thnink, okay, at least this is better as I expected based on my home experience.
Offcourse I understand volume means a lot in how one does experience
sound. But those demo's I listen on the same volume, through the same
studio monitors. And in case of TJ profiles I often see a Suhr HSS strat
which I have almost the same. So why does this sound so diffrent...?
I bought a audio interface after 20 years of playing, just to record my Kemper and listen back. Then it sounds better, but still not as good as the demo's.
I have always been a plug and play guitar player; guitar
through a wah pedal into a tube amp, add a delay/reverb and thats it.
When I bought the Kemper I was hoping to have some more options with
presets of delay's, some chorus effects, different amp models for
cleans/crunch/lead sounds and less hassle with pedals, cables, fx loops
and stuff like that.
I recently started a new side project with a rockband and looking for that straight to the bone rocksound that's kicking you in the balls. Did not find it yet...
For couchsurfing I bought a Boss Waza Air. That Plexi leadsound is killer! Smooth, definition, right amount of gain... It's juist what I'm looking for. Try to find that in my Kemper ever since. De TJ Plexi seems to offer it in demo's, but not in my kemper