Kemper made me buy a strat! :-O Now with sound clip!

I've always played guitar in metal bands, so although I love all kinds of music (and played the piano in a lovely pop band for a while), when it came to buying guitars my priority was always in that niche:

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I guess the cost of gear, and amps especially, kind of locks you into a certain genre. I used to play through a Peavey 5150II so entering the world of Fender sounds would have entailed getting a suitable amp for that as well, and that was just too big a financial step in a direction I didn't have any direct (i.e. band-related) use for.

Since I got my Kemper, though (which of course performs excellently in my doom death metal band), I just heard so many rigs that would sound amazing with a strat that I started experiencing Fender GAS, completely out of the blue. So I finally gave in and found a lovely second hand (completely as new) Mexican model online for 300€. I picked it up last night and released my inner Knopfler, and I love it! And I love how the Kemper just does it all, from sparkly clean to brutal high gain...

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Yeah cool story , you're no more a teenager now

Cool collection of blacl ladies you got !

Well at 35, I think the proper phrase is "I'm getting old". But I'm glad I'm not the only one!

I'll try and record some clips soon. And of course take pictures of the prim new cousin with the sinful sisters.

Kemper made me learn Mark Knopfler's Tunnel of Love solo!

I've always been a huge Dire Straits fan. But instead of playing Sultans of Swing again (warning: non-Kemper content), I thought I'd learn and record another one of my favorite Knopfler solos. Quick and dirty clip: here.

Only the lead guitar is me; the backing track came from this site. I used a rig I found in the RigExchange: Two Rock Clas Rev St by LukeII, with a just compressor stomp (intensity about 5, attack 0,9 or so) in front of the amp and the amp compression dialed to 3.

Thanks folks! I was bored tonight so I just made a video of me playing the same piece on the new Strat.

I used the same rig as before but with a tad more gain.