Hadn't considered that aspect before and that kinda also puts it into "why not just buy a Fractal or Line6?" land.
If the profiles are not accurate, the knobs don't match to the amp behavior that well, you might as well be playing Fractal/Line6 that should at least be accurate to their reference models.
I do get that if you already own a Kemper there's not a whole lot of reason to sell it for something else and these new features are very welcome additions, but at the same time I don't see a great reason to buy a Kemper over the competition.
I see it totally differently.
To me .... the point is that the Kemper Amp Channels .... as with the Fractal and Helix Amp blocks *are* accurate but *only* with respect to the Amp that was Kemper "channeled" or Fractal / Helix "modeled".
Take an AC30 as an example.
Kempers AC30 is "Amp Channeled" to
their AC30
Fractals AC30 is "Modeled" to
their AC30
L6's AC30 is "Modeled" to
their AC30
These are 3 different AC30's.
If you could set up all 3 of them next to each other and run them through the same Cab .. and they were all set at the exact same Amp Dial settings ....
all 3 are going to sound different ... its not just pot variances, its component variances, different components used, age, tubes used, transformers etc... etc... etc... its a myriad of things.
Which is the best-most accurate ? It is an un-answerable question. Why ?
All 3 companies have brilliant technicians and doubtlessly have channeled/modeled
their Amps ultra accurately ...regardless of the techniques and processes and methodologies they have each used ....... but we the user can never know or tell which is the most accurate or better because they are 3 of the same,
but different Amps.
The only answer we can legitimately come to ... is which one do our ears and fingers prefer ... that's it ... no more ... no less.
We may prefer maximum non-core-amp-controls tweak-ability = get a Fractal
We may prefer reasonable non-core-amp-controls tweak-ability = get a Helix
We may prefer minimal non-core-amp-controls tweak-ability = [now] get a Kemper.
But each of the 3 different AC30's that each company used are all doubtlessly "channeled / modeled" to a stupidly high degree of core-amp accuracy for they Amp
they used ... all 3 are doubtlessly ultra accurate to
their Amp.
Just for a laugh ....... "
there end'eth the lesson " <= I've always wanted to quote Sean Connery from "The Untouchables"
Ben
