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stages are becoming more common. I'm sure you can adjust to any type of amp if you want to.
The thing is you won't know until you try one for yourself.
I'd say Fender, Marshall and Vox for the first 3..
Mesa recto chug sound as 4th?
So in the end I bought a power head in 2014. Fantastic bit of kit, the remote came out which made it easier to gig and I was generally happy. Sonically it's awesome, I played it through a 112 H&K can and then a Zilla 212. Never let me down and always sounded excellent however I rarely use it these days. I just don't get a buzz from it like I do my valve amps. I missed flicking the toggle from standby to play and hearing the clunk of the switch snapping in to position. Also, option paralysis kicked in and I got fed up faffing with presets, balancing volume between rigs, updating firmware etc.
Personal things but in the end they added up to reduce my overall satisfaction from playing.
I've had mine (unpowered rack version) since May 2015 and I still love it. It's my go-to in the studio and I've gigged in many times although I nowadays use a Helix for portability / better MIDI capabilities. I do own a ‘proper’ amp (a vintage Fender Pro Reverb) so I completely understand the lack of amp in the room feel but, in my opinion, the only person who benefits from that is the player and I’m very much about audience first (and since I’m on in-ears it doesn’t really matter to me). At the end of the day it’s all about personal preference so, amp or modeller, go with whatever floats your particular maritime vessel.
I did find the vast choice of amps bewildering at first but these days I use two, or maybe three, amps 90% of the time.
Started off using it through one or two MatrixNL12 cabs for some on stage noise, stopped after a couple of gigs as couldn't hear them ... bloody drummers
Now i just have a bit of me in the monitor and let the PA do it's job, it's been working really well for me. Another plus I find is that I can place the rack anywhere on stage, it doesn't matter. It's usually on it's side and inbetween the drummers stands LOL.
Now a couple of weeks ago I became interested in the simplicity of the Quad Cortex menus, so easy to set up. Went and tried one today, and it's as easy as it looks on YouTube and it sounds superb. Had to have one, not gigging it yet but if it sounds as good as the Kemper then it's a keeper, as I hate tweaking.
2) Marshall-ish (includes Friedman, Soldano etc.)
3) 70's UK 'glam' amps Orange/White/Matamp/Burman/Hiwatt/Sound City
4) German high gain amps (e.g. Diezel)
Number three is up for debate.
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I've become fed up with my pedalboard for pretty much the same reasons. Although, if I'm honest, I've been happiest with rack gear anyway, mainly a Marshall JMP1, a Mesa Studio pre with Lexicon and Rocktron multi effects. The Kemper takes that one step further with a convenient user interface plus opportunities to tonehunt hundreds of thousands of quid's worth of gear at next to no cost. The one drawback is planned obsolescence in the software - I hope that in ten years time, the rig manager will still be compatible with all previous versions of the profiler.
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Running a single Powered Kabinet at the mo and will be adding another one this year..
It's a tool and does a great job.
Si