Bedtime story:
- Not 100% happy with my sound at a gig playing kpa.
- Started the old “compare my analog stuff” A/B…bring in the boutique overdrives/preamps..yadyda etc.
- Got a much better sound than my KPA presets..f@#€€#!!!…..nothing beats analog!
- Had a cup of coffee
- Took 10 min to direct profile the sounds of the analog rig I set up
- Could not tell the difference between profile / real.
- Boy has 5 new sounds in a performance he’s gonna use in the foreseeable future.
Null tests and proofs of accuracy are relevant if you are about to make purchase decisions…cause they are quantifiable, and user experiences are not…unless you really trust the person.
For me as a user..,kemper profiling will be good no matter how old it is, no matter what the competition does, no matter measurements…cause I verified that I can’t tell profile from real..what more could I wish for?
Would I buy again? Probably, cause it’s still the only one out there with profiling and mature HQ efx in one box. I’d rather use a platform that also offers a full speced small unit also…unfortunately they choked the efx on the player…that does release thoughts of other brands.
I would consider QC also, great size, modeling and capturing in one…but atm I am not confident the delays in there meet my needs…so for now I’ll probably stick to the green dinosaur