Classic Rock fan

I'm playing in a Classic Rock cover band called NeverB4 (www.neverb4.be). We play stuff like Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath... I'm a big Deep Purple (Ritchie Blackmore) fan, but also like stuff like Jeff Beck, Van Halen, Michael Lee Firkins, ... I'm playing since I was 15, so that makes 39 years today.

Own a Les Paul, Strat, 67 Tele, 94 Explorer, Music Man EVH Axis, Michael Schenker Dean, a few acoustic guitars and a fretless bass. The EVH 5150 III is my all favorite amp, also own a Marshall Vintage Modern 2266 combo, a Marshall Major stack and of course the Kemper, besides some vintage pedals. Profiled all my amps because my aim is to play live only with the Kemper; still have some finetuning job to do on those profiles... Am using the Kemper together with the Strymon Mobius, which has amazing effects and very close to the originals. The chorus and phaser of the Kemper are OK, but I'm not too happy with the flanger and univibe effects. The Mobius has also more possibilites. That said, I love the flexibility of the Kemper, the fact that it's lightweight and last but not least: the vision of the company that produces it...

Thank you Admin.

The EVH (100W) doesn't have a DI. I tried profiling it with both a power attenuator and a speaker DI box, but was never happy with the results. Also bought several profiles and tried those. Still missing the power, the attack and the dynamics of the real EVH until. Somebody reacted and told me I have to spend more time on adjusting the Kemper, and doing A/B switches. I'll have to do that in the rehearsal room, because the volume needs to be quite high in order to be able to compare both sounds. On one hand I think that it should be easy and straightforward to get the same characteristics, and on a quiet volume, it does. It's only when you turn up things that you hear the difference.

I use the built-in power amp of the Kemper, and connect it to a cabinet with 2x12" Vintage 30 speakers (sometimes a Marshall 1960A too with 4x12" speakers). I turned off the cabinet in the system menu. I will go to the rehearsal room next Saturday and try to adjust the profiles more, and do A/B comparisons. If you have any other suggestions, they will be greatly appreciated.

I love the vision of the Kemper company, I love the concept of the Kemper amp, and I really would like to replace my (heavy-weight) gear with this...

Thanks again.

Quote from DonPetersen

a power attenuator won't do.
what you need is a DI box that can handle speaker level signals.
then make direct amp profiles of your amp.
(see the profiling manual for details and setup)
between a direct amp profile and the amp itself - both over the same cabinet, there is no difference IF the profiling was done correctly.
- good, neutral DI box
- no power soak or dummy load
- the same cabinet is connected for the profiling as it is for playing

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Hi. That's what I did. I tried a few times with a power attenuator, it didn't work.
Then I tried with the speaker DI box (Samson), connected the way you describe it. But the sound doesn't satisfy me...

Quote from Steinberger1967

Hoi flyingsnowman,
Net even de website bekeken en de demo's beluisterd.
Prachtig!

Welkom tot de Belgische KPA club ;-).

Thanks !