The Kemper Arrives...

Yup...it's here and boy howdy is it a wonder.  This one is an ebay purchase with the kemper gig bag and just over 600 rigs included.  So far, in my initial and very cursory test, it's all they say and more.  Responds to your playing like an amp, sounds totally amazing and is totally tweakable.  Only bummer so far is that I was gonna run it spdif into my MOTU and on into Sonar.  But I run both of them at 48k and, apparently, the kemp wants to see only 44.1.  Perhaps this will change in a future update.  But geeze louise, what a great piece of kit.  I'll keep ya posted.

mike_mccue
So does it really sound like everyone else's Kemper?

Prolly not like Straummys. His is special. Like me. I'm special ed.
 

I AM in awe.
 
Congrats Ol Pal!!
 
 
 
 
(I ain't seen too many things that ol Bapsi is jellyus of........usually the udder way around)

Someday...  Someday...
 
Enjoy it My Ol Pal!

Although Julien has a nice plan, I'd probably just buy the profiles for the Dumbles if it was me...

Mr. Dumble frowns on you Julien.

Congrats Ol Pal....

BTW....keep your doors locked...

Yea...Howard's actual last name is Dumble...not dumb bell. Not even sure if he's still around but he was always in pretty poor health. Strangely enough a doctor pal (Gil Johnson) from my home town was...may still be for all I know...Howard's personal doc for many years. I have never been a card carrying member of the Dumble fan club...tho a couple (Larry Carlton and Robben Ford) of my idols are. But yes, there are already Dumble profiles in the Kemper. It's pretty scary.

Congrats myolpay!!
 
I sure am liking the Kemper rack unit.
For the last few years Cakewalk has done a good job
at saving me money.
Maybe it won't be long and I'll know if they are going to
change my attitude or if I need to find out if (PT) will inspire me again.
 
As a guitarist (not dealing with recording studio aspects such as yourself) I'm sure attracted to what PT is doing with Eleven- not to mention many other "game changing" changes they are making.
Interested to see how Cake handles/addresses or doesn't address such things because it does effect other choices such as hardware...as I prefer minimal hardware useage the integration with the host is very cool and hard for me to ignore.
 
 
 
 

Myolpal,
 
Do you have a downtown studio with uptown prices?

@bapsi:  Sorta.  At least for our broadcast clients.  The new "mix" room will be geared and priced for the home studio/garageband user market and will be priced accordingly (read, cheap). 

ampfixer
Hey Olpal, I have a question. From my brief readings it sounds like the profiling process is to simply record your amp with a mic. or D/I. If this is true, I'm wondering if a recording of an amp would be enough to create a profile. I have access to a huge number of cool vintage amps and guitars, so could I sample them and send the wav files to Kemper owners to use as profiles?
 
 

John, there is a two-stage process to profiling an amp (incidentally, you actually profile the whole signal chain, so if you want to use a stompbox up front, that gets included in the final profile, as does the microphone you use to make the profile).
 
The first part is to connect your Kemper to the input of the amp (or the first point of the signal chain). You then mic up the amp's speaker as you would normally, but in this case, the mic outputs back to the Kemper. The Kemper then sends a series of audio patterns and frequencies through the amp and analyses them back through the microphone.
 
To fine tune the profile, you can then plug your guitar into the Kemper and strum a few chords - this signal is also sent through the amp and back into the Kemper via the mic.
 
A lot of the rig profiles available (some free*, some are charged for) take advantage of the fact that the complete signal chain is profiled. An amp can be hooked up to different speaker cabinets, and the character of each cab is profiled with the amp. As I've already mentioned, you can use different mics, and different mic settings, and even use signal processing. Each channel on the amp, and various combinations of drive/EQ etc can each be profiled independently too.
 
The Kemper itself has an impressive bank of stomps and effects built in, plus the unit itself has all the usual parameters (Drive/EQ etc) available on the front panel to tweak any profile. You can even dig down a lot deeper and start changing parameters like Power Sagging and Tube Bias in your profiles.
 
 
* There are 170 pages of Users' profiles HERE, all free to download and use.

 
There's no equivalent of The Bapu on their forums either
 

As my ol pal, Onslow might say:  "oh, noice".
 
I do miss him so.