Katana vs Kemper vid

LuttiS

From everybody's favourite YouTube sensation!

Actually quite an interesting vid, not a huge amount of information as it's quite casual, but still interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnILKKeR_3A

usedtobe

If you’ve watched it, you could add a brief summary, to save us all watching it..?

Fortheloveofguitar

I’m not sure about all the hype surrounding the Katana

Played one at guitar center while on holiday a couple of weeks back. While it covers a lot of ground for a great price I found the overdrives to be your typical Boss garbage and unusable 

LuttiS

Tbh, its not so much as a vs, its more of a you can do similar things.. 

Basically him using the katana as he would normally use a kemper for recording and getting good sounds. 

The relevant comparison is from 5mins ish to 6.30, but there is a bit of talking around this. 

p90fool

Fortheloveofguitar said:

I’m not sure about all the hype surrounding the Katana

Played one at guitar center while on holiday a couple of weeks back. While it covers a lot of ground for a great price I found the overdrives to be your typical Boss garbage and unusable 

There are more "unusable garbage" Boss pedals on professional touring boards around the world than any other brand. 

Unusable by whom?

JayGee

p90fool said:

Fortheloveofguitar said:

I’m not sure about all the hype surrounding the Katana

Played one at guitar center while on holiday a couple of weeks back. While it covers a lot of ground for a great price I found the overdrives to be your typical Boss garbage and unusable 

There are more "unusable garbage" Boss pedals on professional touring boards around the world than any other brand. 

Unusable by whom?

I was wondering about that too. I’ve been using those unusable overdrives for some time (albeit mostly at rehearsals and a couple of gigs where my “proper” rig would have been a PITA), do I have to stop now that I’ve been told they’re unusable? :-)

Incidentally I don’t think the Katanas do anything at all ground breaking, the ground breaking bit is accessibility (in terms of both cost and simplicity in use) compared with the likes of Kemper, Fractyal eat-al...

darthed1981

Fortheloveofguitar said:

I’m not sure about all the hype surrounding the Katana

Played one at guitar center while on holiday a couple of weeks back. While it covers a lot of ground for a great price I found the overdrives to be your typical Boss garbage and unusable 

It models some non-Boss ones as well, including a Tubescreamer and a few others.

Maxx77

Fortheloveofguitar said:

I’m not sure about all the hype surrounding the Katana

Played one at guitar center while on holiday a couple of weeks back. While it covers a lot of ground for a great price I found the overdrives to be your typical Boss garbage and unusable 

now we are getting into tgp ground.

let me grab my popcorn buckett

Philtre

Maxx77 said:

Fortheloveofguitar said:

I’m not sure about all the hype surrounding the Katana

Played one at guitar center while on holiday a couple of weeks back. While it covers a lot of ground for a great price I found the overdrives to be your typical Boss garbage and unusable 

now we are getting into tgp ground.

let me grab my popcorn buckett

It's all garbage, isn't it? Boss pedals are total shite. So are Wampler, MXR, Keeley, and Strymon. And, fuck it, so are Gibson and Fender guitars. And PRS. Total trash.

OK, I'll register for an account on TGP...

;-)

LuttiS

Philtre said:

Maxx77 said:

Fortheloveofguitar said:

I’m not sure about all the hype surrounding the Katana

Played one at guitar center while on holiday a couple of weeks back. While it covers a lot of ground for a great price I found the overdrives to be your typical Boss garbage and unusable 

now we are getting into tgp ground.

let me grab my popcorn buckett

It's all garbage, isn't it? Boss pedals are total shite. So are Wampler, MXR, Keeley, and Strymon. And, fuck it, so are Gibson and Fender guitars. And PRS. Total trash.

OK, I'll register for an account on TGP...

;-)

Skip TGP, go straight to mumsnet with that!

Marktigere1

Philtre said:

It's all garbage, isn't it? Boss pedals are total shite. So are Wampler, MXR, Keeley, and Strymon. And, fuck it, so are Gibson and Fender guitars. And PRS. Total trash.

Totally agree, I've just chucked my BOSS pedals in the bin as I believe my ears are now defunct as they sounded pretty good.

Also, sneaked into my son's room and fed his Katana and BOSS pedals to the cat.

Surprisingly, the cat sounds pretty good now, go figure