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Dog ran into a table and knocked my sons cup of milk all over mine yesterday. I panicked and struggled to get the thing off the pedal board, but it seems absolutely fine. The buttons were a bit sticky at first but they’re all working fine. So to all those who are worried about beer, I think it’s quite sturdy.
My Kemper didn't turn on at the gig on Friday; a hard reset seemed to work though, and thankfully got through the gig.
However, I'm now getting a 'flash failure' error when booting. Sometimes it loads fine. Kemper have stated this is a hardware failure... so back to Andertons it goes.
I'm hoping we can swap it out, as I have gigs all weekend!
I purchased it August 2018, and explained the situation to them; they're collecting it tomorrow and sending a loan unit! Legends
View my feedback at www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/comment/1201922
I presume that there is some hardware eq and compression happening on nearly all of them. From my own experience of what enhancement outboard eq and comp can add to the signal coming from a mic or mics on a guitar cab, I wonder it this is what people are actually picking up on when they talk about the Kempers amp tones being better.
Even certain preamps without adding any other processing have that quality about them. A friend of mine has a couple of Chandler Germanium pres wich can be pushed in a very musical way and add a certain extra something to a guitar recording. Same deal with lots of other stuff - Neve, API etc. Adding a bunch of extra transformers and/or tubes to the chain gives a weight and harmonic richness that is a lot of fun.
Most tones are probably RAW though. The Kemper sounds great to me, I'm thinking of buying one to use at home and just leaving all the amps at my practice room.
I've got a toaster on loan at the moment, with custom profiles and it does sound great.
I did one or two profiles of my Lazy Jwith just an SM57 direct into the profiler. They didn't turn out too bad. To my ears, they were better than the Amp Factory versions of the Lazy J 20 - although that was probably because they used an amp with a 15" speaker and not a Celestion Blue.
I've since got the Brian Carl Lazy J profiles, which are good, and some of the Michael Britt Divided by 13 profiles are in the same ball park. I think Michael Britt uses some nice preamps, and possibly uses combinations of mics mixed together. I'm at the point now, where I've got a good selection of profiles, so I'm not chasing my tail to get a slightly better profile of my own amp, when there are plenty of good profiles in the same ballpark for not a lot of money.
No idea whether people rated these guys profiles, but it would seem that outboard compression still gets a look in.
I get it home and it’s doing that ‘bootnorm error’ thing.
Luckily I found a fix online and sorted it out pretty quickly.
We've been tracking the other guitarist using his Hagen and Mesa Boogie Recto OS 4x12 cab.
SM57, 421, and SE Electronics SE3A, each on their own speakers. Pretty much dead centre, and a finger away from the grille cloth.
So we tracked yesterday and today, and did some profiles at the end of the day. Our other guitarist had never used a Kemper before.
He was very impressed with it. He could spot a difference between the profiled amp and the real amp, as could I. But both of us agreed that the differences weren't that important and that it still sounded great. He was particularly impressed by the ability for a distorted rig to go from clean through to massive super high-gain, and he started fantasizing about using an expression pedal to get all the range of gain-tones. So did I.
We want to try two Kempers at loud band rehearsal levels with drums and bass to see how it feels and sounds within the band.