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I was using the Kemper through a Laney LFR-112 and it sounded huge. I'm really impressed how the Laney sounded, it sat in the mix really well and didn't give me any surprises; my profiles sounded as I expected them to with no tweaking needed at all. I also bought and tried the Reampzone PRS MT15 and although I forgot my laptop and only had one of the profiles loaded it sounded absolutely brutal. I'm still getting used to the Kemper remote, it feels like a bit of a tap dance but I've never been an FX guy. I was reading yesterday about morphing though so I'm going to set up a rig where the morph adds a volume boost and a touch of delay for solos.
Sorry for the pointless post but this is one Kemper user who is extremely happy. The drummer in the band has worked with a lot of bands and heard probably hundreds of amps of all shapes and sizes and he said last night (and the night before he worked with another guitarist for the first time who had a Kemper) was the best guitar tone he'd ever heard. I was using a Reampzone Dual Rectifier for most of it and then a TopJimi AFD100 #34 mode for a song at the end. But yes, major +1 for the Laney
View my feedback at www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/comment/1201922
Every part of me is telling me to get a stage as I've got the unpowered rack anyway and it would save space and be one less thing to carry. But the amp lover in me loves seeing the rack on top of the Laney cab as it looks more traditional. Terrible reason to stick with a piece of kit I know but it just seems a step too far right now!
The first time around I didn't get my head around it and wasn't happy with the form factor (I usually commute to central London for practices with the band etc).
So yesterday I spent some time with it expecting the same old issues my ear always pick with digital.. some weird low mid bump. Plugged into my studio monitors, the sound was just exceptional, exactly what I wanted to hear from fiddling with literally 3-5 profiles.
I've managed to get a very close sound out of my qsc k8.2 as well, it still adds some extra low miss but I'm hoping that with a eq sweep I'll be able to find that frequency range and dial it back a bit.
Very happy with the purchase and can foresee a bunch of other gear inundating the FS forum
If you do nothing else in life - explore the morph feature. I use a Boss FV-500-H pedal. Set this as Morph, then turn all the effects on. Toe up - set your rhythm sound on the Kemper (so wind the delay down to zero - don't turn it off), press save. Now push the toe down - nothing will change with the sound. Turn up your delay, volume, boost the mid etc and save again. Now toe up will give you your rhythm sound and toe down your lead.
I started doing this with my old POD500HD, then the Kemper and now I also have a Helix for live set up the same way. I started doing this because I was also singing and I couldn't look down to change patches. Now I only do backing vocals but I still use this method.
Congrats! The people in this thread have been really helpful with me with any questions. I've had mine for a while now and I'm still only just discovering features! I only tried performance mode for the first time last week! Let us know how you get on.
That's exactly how I want to use it, thanks! Glad to hear its as useful and powerful in practice as it is in theory. I've never been an FX person minus getting a Nova System for a band I was in. When I practice for myself i'm a guitar straight into the amp kind of person so it is taking me a while to get used to but it is intuitive. One thing I always hated was putting a boost or EQ in the loop for a solo boost. It was just 'sudden' and never sounded great and was an extra press if you wanted delay on the solo. The idea that you can taper in the boost with the delay already applied with an expression pedal (or I believe you can predetermine the taper length and just use the switch on the remote for the morph feature?) is just mind-blowing to me as I've never owned anything capable of that.
View my feedback at www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/comment/1201922
The TopJimi stuff sounds amazing with it - discovered the 74 SuperLead profile last night for rehearsal, and it sounded and felt brilliant.
Messed around with my QSC K8.2 settings and managed to get a pretty accurate sound out of it compared to my studio monitors. If it sounds as good as that at full volume with the band I'll be extremely happy.
Been using the Two Stone Bloom from Tone Junkie with my strat and it is very, very close to their sample video here (around 2:06):
The form factor without the editor is a bit of a pain of course but the interface was easy enough to get my head around with no time. Guess I can remove the display's plastic protector now
https://petesprofiles.weebly.com/wizard-profiles.html
What I mean is... can you move from performance 1 slot 5 to performance 10 slot 2? Will it allow you to queue up a change like that, or does it switch performance slots instantly? Can't find a video of this in action.
For example - with the Boss ES5 I can hit the bank switch to change banks.... I hit bank 2.... it then waits for me to hit the switch for the preset inside the bank. So I can queue up changes throughout the song very easily this way.
Also does it change from rig to rig instantly, and what about trails?
Here it is: