Kemper Profiler MK 2

[paisleywookiee]

In Chicago area, I've not seen a Kemper in quite awhile. People have moved on to Fractal FM9's and Quad Cortex, with a lot of boards built around HX Stomps too.. Any of this is anecdotal, but even from non-gear nerd types, they've got no interest in Kemper. Everyone, nerd or not, seems to be aware of Fractal, Helix, and Quad Cortex, with Kemper being seen as "old and outdated".

 

[Antipodes]

In Chicago area, I've not seen a Kemper in quite awhile. People have moved on to Fractal FM9's and Quad Cortex, with a lot of boards built around HX Stomps too.. Any of this is anecdotal, but even from non-gear nerd types, they've got no interest in Kemper. Everyone, nerd or not, seems to be aware of Fractal, Helix, and Quad Cortex, with Kemper being seen as "old and outdated".

You rang?

 

[PorcinePicker]

In Chicago area, I've not seen a Kemper in quite awhile. People have moved on to Fractal FM9's and Quad Cortex, with a lot of boards built around HX Stomps too.. Any of this is anecdotal, but even from non-gear nerd types, they've got no interest in Kemper. Everyone, nerd or not, seems to be aware of Fractal, Helix, and Quad Cortex, with Kemper being seen as "old and outdated".

From my time gigging in the Chicago area, I remember a lot of Line 6 products. I don't recall seeing a single QC. No Fractal products either, aside from the one I was using. I always felt like I must be the only one, and got a fair number of questions about what I was using. I did see Kempers, but those were usually with touring bands from out of town. Things must have changed.

 

[paisleywookiee]

You rang?

To whom am I ringing?

 

[DrewJD82]

I just saw a Kemper in the wild for the first time in a long time a couple weeks ago. Dude had some killer fucking profiles on it. Cover band doing a lot of 80's tunes. When I saw the Tyler sitting on a stand I knew I was going to hear some good tones and the dude certainly delivered. Alas, that's been the only one on a local-band level for quite a while. I wanted to ask him what profiles he was running out of curiosity but that was the night I was introduced to Joey Belladonna and Derek Roddy and it was a bit cooler to shoot the shit with them than it was talkin' profiles.

The Helix, FM3, QC, AX8 and whatever Headrush model has the touchscreen on it are what I see fairly regularly for modelers over there. Fairly evenly spread out, if you count the HXFX than Line 6 might have a bit more users than the others. Still see more amps than modelers, though.

 

[LP59]

I don't know the situation in the US, but on Thomann, the Player is still in #10 sales rank. That's pretty high. Not sure what that translates to in units sold. And that's just one store of course. Worth mentioning though is that both of NDSP units are ahead, as well as Line6 Helix LT and Fender Tonemaster Pro. Funnily enough, Kemper Stage is in sales rank #7, so it's bought more often than the Player.

I think it's the trajectory that's the issue. Kemper used to top those lists, especially in europe. But now they trail Line6, NDSP, and Fender. In other words, they went from leader to trailing all their competitors.

The Player is a compelling product, but it must be tough for them to move Stages (it's far down on Sweetwater's list) and heads these days.