... because mine had problems at volumes lower than 10. They either sounded too cold..
...or too hollow ...
...or sometimes thin...
This was back in the late 70s and 80s. There was no digital amp at that time. As long as we had a regular rehearsal room, the tough volume level was not a problem, more fun. But later without a band and room, I tried to keep good relations to my neighbours and was searching for something softer. My journey began with Tom Scholz's Rockman distortion generator. Well, well. Funny thing, but it only had ONE sound, somehow tubeish. Finally the original bean pod arrived and I loved it! Actually I still own it and once in a while I play it at home. When the POD HD500 showed up I found this to be another step into the right direction. It reacted quite nicely to the volume pot of the guitar. Overall it was possible to achieve quite nice sounds, but I found it took a long time and fine tuning to bring it there.
Now the other day I checked YT for the new helix. And could not find one single example being better than my tweaked HD. Being sad I finally stumbled about this strange Kemper profiler thingie... and found not one single video with a truely bad guitar tone, but many I loved! The signature tones from old heroes like Eddie and Nile and David (thanx Gundy!) made me press the order button.
For one week now I am the proud owner of the toaster + remote in wehrmachts-green (which they seem to call black). I firstly tried to receive troop radio signals from the years 1944/45 - but no success. So I continued to adjust these input levels to fit my guitar, browsed for the Nashville AC30 and loved it. Using only that profile I had fantastic cleans, crunchies like Petty and with some delay + clarity / pick / definition changes I came close The Edge.This amp is true fun!
Summary: while its tough to make "the other products" sound good, I find it tough to make the Kemper sound BAD (some succeeded with pitch FX, though ). I mean, most of the presets are not for me, but they still sound like some real tube amp.
This might well be my last amp.
Cheers to all, glad to be here.