Why I bought my Kemper

I'll add a +1 to all your reasons

My reasons for buying a Kemper

Small Footprint
Great Tone
Friendly user interface
Reliable
Firmwares getting better all the time
Value for Money
Does the job of many amps and effects in one small unit
Great support

I've had my Powered Rack version a month now and I've spent at least an hour every evening having fun and learning how to get the best out of it. I've a long way to go yet but enjoying every minute.

Decided to take it to my local jam night and set it up as "house amp" for anyone to play through last night. Everyone was impressed with the sound and those experienced players who tried it commented that it reacted just like a valve amp to pick action and the sound was killer It was played through a 2x12 closed back semi ported cab with a GT12/75 and Vintage 30 installed.

Profile everybody liked best of the half dozen I have in my favourites was Amp Factory's LazyJ40 clean tweaked with a touch of gain. Super blues tone via an old Epi Les Paul

My primary reason for moving to the Kemper was size, weight, and setup time. For anyone that gigs much, you quickly learn how important these things are (or as you get a little older, your back starts letting you know how important they are ).

I was replacing a VHT tube head, 4x12 cab and 2x12 cab to give you some idea of where I was at before the Kemper.

What really sold me on the Kemper was the thousands of posts about it on the web .... and more specifically, who was writing them.

What do I mean?

If you simply read reviews of digital processors/digital amps, etc, you will find that the people that own them like them for the most part. The big difference with the Kemper is what they owned BEFORE the Kemper.

Anyone that says they think a Line 6 amp sounds great on stage has never played a great sounding tube amp. The reviewers are using the experience they have to rate the amp compared to what they know.

Most of the owners of the Kemper are tube purist and actively gigging musicians in respectably large venue bands. This was what did it for me. It is one thing for a guy used to a Carvin solid state amp to say the Kemper is good ..... but quite a different thing altogether for a guy who use to play a Bogner, Soldano, Mesa, VHT, Matchless, etc to harp on the virtues of the Kemper.

I tell you guys what. I practice a damn site more now that I own a Kemper. Smiles on my face every time I pick up my guitar these days

Quote from endoverend

Hey,
This post is for people on the fence while shopping. I decided to get the Kemper Power Rack to replace my JVM410H and my huge foot pedal collection with GLab looper controller.
The sounds are as good as any amp I have played and the volume knob rolloff is legit.
The Profiles sound good with zero tweaking and the focus is on the amp tone not special fx.
It is lightweight and consolidated. I can record with the same tones that I jam with. No tubes to pamper.

what are your favorite reasons ?

You own a JVM410H? have you tried profiles based on that unit? i'm looking for one but if you have any input on which is the most accurate i'd apreciate it.

To answer the question, i mainly got the KPA because i was tired of tweaking lesser mfx units (i mostly play in my bedroom with headphones) and wanted something that sounded like a real amp but without the huge space problem. Some might say it's overkill but it's perfect for that purpose (since it's compact and you can use different profiles). The quality you get when recording is another plus. Just one amp of this quality would have cost about the same, so i figured it was my best choice.

In all honesty I bought the KPA in anticipation of Andy's Z-Wreck profiles, it was cheaper than buying the actual amp, and almost as if by fate they were launched as my profiler arrived

Although I'm still 100% happy with my live setup (Mark V, 112 and a Timeline) I'm now putting together a Kemper rig, this 70-day lead on the remote is killing me haha!

I am certainly a big fan of a great tube amp sound. With the Kemper for the first time in digital life this is not anymore a compromise. When applying the right profiles and settings it sounds as good as the real deal with much higher flexibility and convenience. On top I support the reasons above already mentioned. For me a milestone invention in e-guitar history ...

While the reasons in the first post are the same as mine i have one more: Cost reduction.

Rent a real expensive studio, create a great sound, take it home and record for weeks in that studio without beeing there, that's what i plan to do. Also great for amateurs with daytime jobs who can't spent three weeks in a row in a studio.

Always nice to revamp old threads...

All the reasons to own and use a Profiler

To get the tone of my Real MarkIIC+ in my headphones, and avoiding a divorce !!

The Kemper is great at both low volumes and high volumes and is a revelation in the studio. You can route more than guitars through it as well, which is a huge plus point. And it's constantly being developed, which is a great thing for any product.

Why I bought it? I sold 11r. I was looking around. Then I saw this weirdo And knew it's gonna come to my desk and serve. I am bedroom player and tube amp was not an option. Since my playing abilities didn't impriove as much as my gear I know this thing is gonna stay. I never had tube amp, but when I play gooood profile with good guitar I know what good sound is

Quote from endoverend

Dear MF,
Your question:
You own a JVM410H? have you tried profiles based on that unit? i'm looking for one but if you have any input on which is the most accurate i'd apreciate it.

Well,
The 410h has 12 gain stages so it's matter of what you think rocks your boat.
The channels are very different so you're talking about one of the four CH , not the head itself
I would like to know what 410h profiles you like..

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Yeah, i figured that much (about the different gain stages and modes). I haven't tried many of them (mostly the ones that are on rig exchange) since i've been playing more than tweaking, but the ones that stuck with me so far are Deadlight Studio's OD1REDSM57, and one of Chris O profiles (renamed it so i don't remember which one). Both are high gain, but are the only ones i liked at first bat (with almost 0 tweaking). I'd rather be using clean ones with od (so the transposer doesn't distort so much, love that thing and have used it a lot) so most likely i'll look for some later.

And honestly, i just love my profiling toaster a bit more everyday

Obviously for me the greatest thing is to be able to play through and record through, some of the greatest amps ever made. And have an amp collection I could have only ever dreamed of.