Hi my name is Matt
I've just pulled the trigger this week on a KPA (unpowered) lunchbox/white. At first I was a massive sceptic but I must admit so far am really loving the amp profiles!
I sold my Dr Z Maz 18 jr a few weeks ago and saw this on an musicians buying/selling page on facebook - included a kemper bag and behringer 1010 controller with kemper chip installed.
I have a few questions i'd like to ask.
1.) How many of you use the KPA alone - no stand alone pedals, just the KPA and built in effects?
2.) How many of you run a normal pedalboard into the KPA? I love my normal pedalboard, but perhaps it's more effective to replace with the KPA built in effects. Will these be updated anytime soon?
3.) Do you run drives straight into the KPA and other effects in the loop?
I have a couple really nice pedals (strymon timeline, bigsky) that are far more extensive than whats currently available on the KPA. Then i've got a couple nice drive pedals (greer amps lightspeed, bondi sick as) a cali76 compact deluxe compression pedal and a tapestry audio bloomery. I love all of these pedals. The KPA can easily replace the drives, and the compression. But it doesn't do what the strymons can do (that I know of?)
4.) Lastly, the behringer remote has the kemper chip so in theory it does all that the kemper remote can do. But I still find myself wanting a proper kemper remote. Is it worth while me selling my drive pedals and the behringer 1010, and keeping my two strymons and buying a kemper remote to place on one board?