Kemper should make a floor unit that stores and plays profiles and IR's for Live and recording.

  • Kemper should make a floor unit that stores and plays profiles and IR's for Live and recording. No ability to profile. Maybe accessed by four or six preset switches. Very basic, not compete with the regular units.


    Thoughts ???
    :)

  • I think two possible floor models.


    The easiest would be an all-in-one floor KPA. All Kemper would have to design is a metal floor-shaped container that essentially holds the innard's, knobs, buttons, and switches of the unpowered rack and remote. From a software/support standpoint it could essentially be identical to what they've already developed as you'd literally be cramming everything into a single floor shaped metal box. Making a floor version with trimmed down features from the head and remote would actually require more work to develop and cost as much to manufacturer, and likely not be profitable.


    The second logical product would be a KPA pedal, that does nothing but profile, and no effects except say the noise gate and perhaps the space effect for headphone use. Include an effects loop and it essentially functions like one of those DI boxes that replaces a guitarist's amp and cab that allow a guitarist to have his entire rig on his pedal board.

  • Except for a few chassis-sockets there isn't all that much hardware inside the KPA that is dedicated to profiling. Engineering-costs alone are thus probably going to defeat potential costs-savings for simplified versions unless the production volume is gigantic. Looking at the space inside it may be possible to design a much more compact unit, but don't expect it to be significantly cheaper.