Kemper Profiler MK 2

[LP59]

It's legit. But if they deliver what they've promised this summer, then what does it matter? It's just an interesting mystery how they're going to get more power out of the same old horse.

 

[Mongillo19]

It's legit. But if they deliver what they've promised this summer, then what does it matter? It's just an interesting mystery how they're going to get more power out of the same old horse.

Because then why wouldn't they be able to run the same thing on the MK1? Why even make a MK2 if it's the same chip?

 

[LP59]

There are reasons for the Mk2 aside from the new profiling, mostly I/O and memory. But it's hard to see how updating the chips around the dsp processor will make much difference to the dsp cpu power available for the new profiling/player code. I would tend to trust Kemper when they say the new profiling won't run on the Mk1 even though it has the same DSP processor, but you'll probably have to take that on faith.

 

[Mongillo19]

would tend to trust Kemper when they say the new profiling won't run on the Mk1, but you'll probably have to take that on faith.

I don't doubt it won't. But I don't necessarily think that means it can't.

Im starting to think "Profiling 2" was an add on because why would anyone buy a MK2 solely for the fixed effects and faster boot time? Something else had to be unique to it. Also, the fact it didn't release with the Mark II launch? That's super strange to me as that is by far the "big ticket" item on paper at least

 

[ChordInversion]

Kemper Player chip:
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It is not the same chipm as the MK1 units.

Just under 12 bucks each in quantities of 90+ at Digikey. State of the art!

 

[norminal]

Just under 12 bucks each in quantities of 90+ at Digikey. State of the art!

John Nathan Cordy confirmed!

 

[Ed DeGenaro]

The moderators Burkard and G String are assholes. They always make any legitimate questioner feel like they're stupid. Rude, rude culture.
AND they're dead wrong about this. Their press release never clearly stated the compatibility question.
Older units will run new profiles at the original resolution.
I like the product and bought a player, maxed it out when I sold my toaster rig to a friend. I just bought so many profiles, in the past, that I knew I'd use it as a fly rig device. I still like my AXE3 MKI better overall, but that stays in my studio desk.

Well, not to make apologies for “my people” but their behaviour is fully in line with typical German conduct.

A nation made up of of people that like to draw within the lines and when they they start to bitchmoan an authoritarian response has them folding like a house of cards.

I’m happy AF I spent 3/4 of my adult life elsewhere.

Signed, AmerikanizEd

 

[norminal]

Behold, ye works of Kemper’s Mark II, shrouded in veils of uncertainty, stand as riddles in the dawn of anticipation. For lo, the ardent proclamations of artificers and savants, those erudite architects of circuit and code, weave grandiose tapestries of presumed mastery. Their verbose rhetoric, a maelstrom of vaunted certitudes, clashes in ceaseless disputation, each sage claiming sovereign insight into the machine’s arcane heart. Yet in the cacophonous agora of discourse, their contentions pile high, built on the brittle scaffolding of unverified conjecture. The device, mute and enigmatic, bides its hour of judgment, its virtues or frailties cloaked in the gloaming of untested boasts, deriding the hubris of those who profess to fathom its esoteric depths.

- Sir Conrad von Kemper

 

[Funk Soul Brother]

Behold, ye works of Kemper’s Mark II, shrouded in veils of uncertainty, stand as riddles in the dawn of anticipation. For lo, the ardent proclamations of artificers and savants, those erudite architects of circuit and code, weave grandiose tapestries of presumed mastery. Their verbose rhetoric, a maelstrom of vaunted certitudes, clashes in ceaseless disputation, each sage claiming sovereign insight into the machine’s arcane heart. Yet in the cacophonous agora of discourse, their contentions pile high, built on the brittle scaffolding of unverified conjecture. The device, mute and enigmatic, bides its hour of judgment, its virtues or frailties cloaked in the gloaming of untested boasts, deriding the hubris of those who profess to fathom its esoteric depths.

- Sir Conrad von Kemper

 

[Joshual-L]

So, you think that gazillions of guitarists (some high profile ones among them) are just ignoring that cocked wah sound? Sorry, but I call BS.

Too much talking here...

If the Kemper is so great record some plexi tones that can be as good as that.

Quick noodling made with my fm3, 1959slp, volume pot is on 10 all the time. Find me a profile and record something with that real dynamic (no dynamic is not just lowering the gain when lowering the volume pot), punch, clarity, in your face crunch, depth and tone qualities (hear how the low E string got those ringing bell qualities).

No post processing, this is my crunch live tone. and give me the pleasure to not listen on your phone please.

If I had all those qualities in the Kemper I would have not cursed it.

I'll wait...

 

[BenIfin]

Too much talking here...

If the Kemper is so great record some plexi tones that can be as good as that.

Quick noodling made with my fm3, 1959slp, volume pot is on 10 all the time. Find me a profile and record something with that real dynamic (no dynamic is not just lowering the gain when lowering the volume pot), punch, clarity, in your face crunch, depth and tone qualities (hear how the low E string got those ringing bell qualities).

No post processing, this is my crunch live tone. and give me the pleasure to not listen on your phone please.

If I had all those qualities in the Kemper I would have not cursed it.

I'll wait...

I hear your excellent tone and I raise you this. You're welcome :)

 

[Sascha Franck]

If the Kemper is so great record some plexi tones that can be as good as that.

I don't own a Kemper.
The sound you've recorded is quite great. But that doesn't help in proving that all Kemper profiles sound like a cocked wah.

 

[Mongillo19]

Man, imagine if Kemper wouldn't have released a MK2. What else could we have discussed in 62 pages

 

[DLC86]

I hear your excellent tone and I raise you this. You're welcome :)

This was done on a Kemper

 

[madmarcus1960]

Well, not to make apologies for “my people” but their behaviour is fully in line with typical German conduct.

A nation made up of of people that like to draw within the lines and when they they start to bitchmoan an authoritarian response has them folding like a house of cards.

I’m happy AF I spent 3/4 of my adult life elsewhere.

Signed, AmerikanizEd

I'm not hanging it on culture, assholes are assholes. In industry, I've worked with German engineers that were polite, great teammates.
This included their inexperience in with certain applications, being humble and working with us for a solution.
I would never make it a blanket statement.
I knew what would happen by digging at Kemper and almost dared them in my posting. This is no surprise.

 

[Joshual-L]

I don't own a Kemper.
The sound you've recorded is quite great. But that doesn't help in proving that all Kemper profiles sound like a cocked wah.

So you don't own a Kemper?...


cocked wha..








These are mine, all made with different profiles..

 

[Joshual-L]

Now compare the tone of guitar solo of this one


With this one : solo at 1:42

 

[Sascha Franck]

These are mine, all made with different profiles..

And they all sound like not too great profiles.
As said before, you can make anything sound bad.

 

[paisleywookiee]

Not content with just arguing with Sascha, Joshua then proceeds to argue with himself, post more clips, and win the argument.

 

[JiveTurkey]

Man, imagine if Kemper wouldn't have released a MK2. What else could we have discussed in 62 pages