Hi guys,
Long story short, I had the KPA for a few weeks just when it was released a few years back. It was great, but as I have a good set of amps, I couldn't make myself replace them at the point. Fast forward. I've gotten rid of a couple of amps, and I'm in the market for an amp, which will be solely used for clean jazz sounds, pretty much. I have other amps taking care of other sounds, so for the sake of discussion, stick to the KPA cleans for now.
Buying an Evan RE200, or similar, is about the same amount of EUR as a KPA (non-powered unfortunately). If you just look at the KPA as a clean head, with a zillion nice2have options, and using it as any other head, with a cab, what would your thoughts be on that?
The point for me is, that I really don't care for the FRFR, or studio monitors. When playing in small venues, I want to move air with 10", or 2x12 etc. Getting a few different cabs to go with the KPA, should really give me a wide array of amp sounds, which should be able to compete with the likes of Evans, Henriksen, Polytone etc. Now, it should be said that these mentioned amps, are very flat sounding, and the choice of cab to go along with the KPA, will greatly affect the sound. Still, the question remains, is this completely overkill?
ps. If the above would work as a blessing, I probably would get rid of a few high gain amps, and then it'd be a really good thing, but for now, I'm only concerned with the jazz cleans.