I've been pondering purchasing a Kemper as I seem to get bored of amps (and all gear) very quickly. It's getting expensive and a pain to keep buying and selling amps, so I'm thinking maybe a Kemper could be a good option to enable me to go from Marshall to Two Rock to Vox in the press of a button. For context, I'm thinking more for home use as I have my standard setup for gigs sorted that I'm pretty happy with - and when you put in the ear defenders then it's all muffled anyway. Ideally, thinking a powered Kemper so I can plug into a 1x 12. I don't have monitors and want the least amount of connecting to a laptop as possible. Ideally, just to scroll through different amp profiles quickly.
Has anyone been down this path before?
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If the latter, the Kemper is unlikely to help.
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I have a Helix and don't have any guitar amps any more. It's been the single best purchase I've ever made. I've used it every single day I've owned it over the last 5 years.
I'm sure I would have been equally pleased with a Kemper or Fractal. Maybe not a Neural yet as it's not a mature platform - but I've no doubt it will get there.
So I would suggest you try them a bit to decide which you might like best. They all sound a little different - just like every Marshall plexi sounds a bit different.
After that - it's all about not always bringing up your favourite blocks when designing a patch.
I’m so bored I might as well be listening to Pink Floyd
Will a Kemper cure my amp GAS?
Miss amps a bit, more for nostalgia.
I don't gig though, just a home/bedroom player.
Feel free to pm, and we can chat on phone about it all, but obvs just my opinions etc...
All my amps are sold now aprt from my Fender Deluxe Reverb 68 Custom ... but only because I keep forgetting to list it LOL
I originally gigged my Kemper with a Matrix NL 1x12 for some on stage sound, then two of them ... cos it looks better right ? haha. Last five or six gigs I've not used any cabs, just ask for only my guitar in my monitor and it works fine. I wear ear defenders now on stage so most backline is muffled anyway. I find there's a bit more clarity using monitors.
At home I still use a 1 x12 and it sounds superb.
Can't ever see me going back to amps.
What will cure amp GAS is the realisation that you don't need accurate representations of particular amps, you just need a clean sound and an overdriven sound you like. Or clean-ish and more overdriven, or overdriven and really overdriven, if you prefer. Or just possibly three sounds, if you like truly clean, moderately overdriven and heavily overdriven.
All the rest is just angels dancing on the head of a pin.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
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Spot on.
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The Kemper is a great bit of kit to be fair and I’ll never sell mine. I’ll probably never scratch the surface of its features either but it’s always nice knowing they are there if I ever need to sell all my pedals.
I find the other real cure for GAS is to find a good Youtube music teacher/instruction book and every time you are gassing, just learn something new on the guitar and integrate it into your playing. You will save money and sound better.
There is always something fairly within reach that will take your playing to the next level - practicing diatonic triads of the major scale or spread triads and their inversions always throws up new ideas no matter how familiar you are with them.
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long answer : No, who you kidding?!
My Kemper would not have achieved that, the feel is much better on AF2 and AF3
I believe @octatonic has an opinion on this too
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