My name is Jake Gillette and I am recording a debut album for my project AfterThought. I like many others spent tens of hours scouring the forums on the internet machine in my home. I was looking for a solution that would allow me to direct record with pro quality in my home studio. I decided I finally was going to sell everything but the kitchen sink to buy one of the new go to pieces of studio gear. But which would I choose, the Kemper or the Axe Fx? I became trapped in the Axe Fx vs Kemper conundrum. After many late nights and suffering red eye from reading forum after forum about which was better, it struck me. The Kemper was not a modeler, it was a profiler. It could take any signal that was thrown at it and duplicate it. In some cases even better, could duplicate while adding more tweak ability then even the original amps could! This was a dream come true!
In short order I purchased one via online retailer. When it showed up, I wasn't sure what to expect. Would it be as good as the demos and clips I had heard online? Not only was it as good, it was light years better!! I loaded up the newest firmware and installed Rig Manager and went to town spending about the next 8 hours scrolling through the rig manager loading up and demoing some of the best sounding and most sought after amp set ups that exist today. It was amps and rigs I most likely would have never had the chance to demo and most certainly never owned. I was simply floored at how good all of these profiles sounded, and astounded at the insane amounts of beautiful and detailed effects I had at my disposal. I quickly loaded up like 800 rigs, which at even a modest $500 per amp would have put me into half a million dollars worth of amplifiers. INSANE!
I remember all of the forums where people were saying Axe Fx blah blah blah, has better effects more routing etc.... I don't doubt the Axe is a great piece of gear, I have heard it and I know it sounds fantastic. But there are a massive amount of effects and options on the Kemper. Many more then I would ever need. With tons of parameters and tweak ability. I can't praise this unit enough. It has made my dreams come true and will allow me to complete my debut album with guitar tone I had only hoped to achieve. Now it is a reality! Thanks Kemper!
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........Enjoy!!!