Kemper Profiler MK 2

[Orvillain]

You’re hilarious

no u

 

[Eagle]

The effect that has on feel is good to some people. That’s why old classic rack fx are still in use and con sound better even if not accurate.

 

[Karl Houseknecht]

Considering there’s nothing on the unit that justifies the price to begin with, they’d definitely never sell a $1000 Player.

A new Player with level 3 is $977. They’re selling those now, right?

 

[Dimiguitar]

2. Many people tried Kempers when they came out around 2012. But profiles and effects weren’t as good back then as they are today. There have been significant improvements in (Liquid) profiling, the internal effects and the quality of commercial profiles, but if you made up your mind over ten years ago, it’s gonna be hard to change that without the first hand experience

There was the aliasing fix and a fix for bass end. But some wanted more upgrades in the core accuracy of profiling, which remained unchanged aside from the early bass end fix.

But here we are with mkII :) At least the EQ match portion of profiling seems improved.

 

[molul]

A new Player with level 3 is $977. They’re selling those now, right?

I'm guessing that will be the price for Helix Stadium Stomp.

 

[Orvillain]

There was the aliasing fix and a fix for bass end. But some wanted more upgrades in the core accuracy of profiling, which remained unchanged aside from the early bass end fix.

But here we are with mkII :) At least the EQ match portion of profiling seems improved.

The aliasing fix wasn't good enough, unfortunately.

 

[Eagle]

The aliasing fix wasn't good enough, unfortunately.

The profiles you liked must of really had issues because it doesn’t bother me that much. I like the way it sounds and feels. I do use it a lower volume and I don’t use IRs with it so that is probably making a difference.

 

[paisleywookiee]

A new Player with level 3 is $977. They’re selling those now, right?

I guess to some capacity. We’ll never know the amount of suckers that ponied up.

 

[LP59]

There probably aren't a lot of people upgrading their Player to level 3. That's why Kemper shuffled the features around.

They are selling a lot of Players though. For $700 it may not match the HX Stomp feature for feature, but it gives people who have always wanted a Kemper, but who use a pedal board, a small pedal they can put on their board alongside their favorite pedals. There are a lot of people out there who fit that description.

 

[Dimiguitar]

The aliasing fix wasn't good enough, unfortunately.

For me it was fine, but I can understand people not being satisfied with it.

 

[Tanax]

I am not sure I can explain accurately in a few words but aliasing is basically high frequency reflections that shouldn't be there. It is mostly at a much lower level than the main signal and at frequencies few if any of us can hear, but it looks really bad on a graph if you make the graphs to look really bad and then you can make YouTube videos and forum posts bashing various products for their bad aliasing.

In some cases it is audible and then it should be addressed, but it has been blown WAY WAY out of proportion online these days.

You may find videos like this educational:



Edit: Start at 7:50 if you're in a hurry, but I think the whole video is worth watching.

Not bueno. Short story the way I understand it is artifacts introduced in to the signal.

Thanks for the explanations! And that video was great.

 

[AlbertA]

Thanks for the explanations! And that video was great.

Check this out: https://thegearforum.com/threads/modelers-and-aliasing.1815/page-7#post-60757
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