Greetings! This will be my first Kemper purchase and my first time dipping my feet Into the digital world.
I’m very torn on which toaster to get. Powered or unpowered? Monitors or FRFR?
A lot of folks on the gear page seem to recommend the powered head and running it through your existing cabinet and I get that but the down side of that to me seems like everything will sound like whatever speakers are in the cab? In my case the only speakers I have are Creamback M75’s or JBL D120’s. If that is the case then that kind of defeats the purpose in a way? Who would want to play a Tweed Profile through a Creamback or JBL?
I’m a 90% stay at home player and just jam to backing tracks or songs via my iPhone or iPod.
My current setup consists of a Metropoulus metroplex with matching 2x12 cabinet, vintage Marshall 1960 4x12 loaded with JBL’s, ‘65 twin and Boss Waza TAE. I only use a compressor and phaser for pedals and occasionally an old EP3.
The Boss TAE is a phenomenal. It’s definitely the best attenuator I’ve used or owned and the added Ir stuff is icing on the cake especially the ability to use third party Ir speakers, cabs and mics.
I live in the country so volume isn’t a problem for me when I’m home alone but becomes an issue in the evening or night when the fam is home.
Here is what has me interested in a Kemper:
My buddy bought over a Katana 100 MKI combo the other evening and it sounded really good on the .5 watt setting with some custom patches of amps that he purchased from Juca Nery. I was actually shocked of how good it sounded and it didn’t really have an overly processed sound. I would assume the profiles from Britt or Tone Junkie would sound even better via the Kemper?
I’m 90% a Marshall 1959 or 1987 player but like many of us, I like trying different amps like tweeds, various Marshall’s, old Mesa’s, Hi-Watts etc and that gets expensive quick and I’d hate to see the money I’ve spent and in some cases lost buying, selling, trading and modding amps over the years. The Kemper seems like a good solution to this problem?
Thoughts?