Kemper Profiler MK 2

[Gary_W]

Imported from...

I've been there sampled your finest cuisine and I agree, when done well, your food holds its own against our dog food.


And I have eaten what you call beef...

Sorry, are you ‘murican and talking about the food in another country in a disparaging way?

 

[Karl Houseknecht]

We have the southern Nashville style fried stuff here

In Sydney? On my trip there, we were unfortunate enough to have our client take us to some Mexican joint down by the harbor bridge. I can only describe what I ate as “Nachos Marinara”.

Nashville and Mexico are, for all practical purposes, about the same distance from Sydney. Given that geography, I’d be hesitant to try any American “Southern” food in your town.

Lovely place otherwise. We were taught how to properly eat a Tim Tam, order, prepare, and serve our own food at a local pub, and appreciate the difference between Australian Rules Football and Rugby (“Mate, they could not BE more different.”)

We did have a lovely time eating some prawns at the opera house and on an excursion to Bondi. Beautiful scenery!

 

[paisleywookiee]

I don’t really care if you call them fries or chips, as long as they’re done correctly. Crisps need to be salt and vinegar.

 

[BenIfin]

@Benlfin,

What rig are you running now? Genuinely curious.

Hey riffy !

No drams's - sorry for the late response ... time differences from here to the rest of the world .... firstly I shall put on my whole body fire and flame proof suit.

After years of selling and buy "all in one units" I decided to go modular digital

Here goes:-

-> Base is a Joyo RDB2 Pedal Board
-> MacBook Air M4
-> Tahoe OS
-> GigPerformer 5 Pro
-> 2 x Genome Instances for Pre and Post EFX
-> Scuffham s-Gear for Amps - runs everything internally at 8x Oversampling
-> whole rig runs at 96k
-> various other AU Plugins of choice
-> Scarlet 4th Gen for HiZ Input
-> Morningstar MC6 Pro + 2 x Auxilliary
-> real world measured I/O latency with everything turned on is ~ 3.1ms or lower
-> Racks / Presets switch instantly and seamlessly
-> Full spillover
-> the Mac M4 runs Gigperformer 5 at a steady %26 and less than %8 on the M4 itself
-> Used it for numerous gigs and rehearsals - both of which are basically non-stop 3 x 45 sets
-> Absolutely stable and glitch / pop / stutter free
-> shut the lid between sets - lift the lid again and go
-> the Joyo Board is compact and everything fits on it perfectly except for the Exp Pedal off to the side
-> and it all fits in my old Helix LT padded gig bag
-> see pic of it on my desk below - shit and leads everywhere because am in between gigs.

After trying Helix Native, 8 x NDSP Demos [for "load testing" purposes] and Nembrini, Polychrome etc..., I was recommend S-Gear and it is far and away - to me - the most natural sounding and feeling Amp sim I've ever used - only about 5 amps, but man.

F.w.i.w, I've emailed Mike Scuffham directly about a few things and thoughts and he responded back in detail each time within a day or so.

If I want to change and use different plugins / sims etc..... its easy. If I want a better HiZ I/O its easy. If want more or less Midi FSW its easy. If I want a different Exp Pedal is easy. If ever I need more cpu power and juice - almost unimaginable to be honest - I sell the M4 and buy an M5 or M6 or M7 - there are zero cpu processing limitations

is rock solid as are all the plugs and S-Gear.

Its the Mac M4 and Gigperformer 5 Pro that makes this all possible and work

You cans see now why my gut is telling me the Player V2 is facing some very stiff competition which I probably think it will struggle against even though Im going to give it a go .... the "modularity" of this rig is also going to be hard to leave.

Actually .... having now explained and laid it out, Im starting to think the Player might end up on FB Marketplace much sooner than I thought :)

 

[[Nathan]]

In Sydney? On my trip there, we were unfortunate enough to have our client take us to some Mexican joint down by the harbor bridge. I can only describe what I ate as “Nachos Marinara”.

Nashville and Mexico are, for all practical purposes, about the same distance from Sydney. Given that geography, I’d be hesitant to try any American “Southern” food in your town.

Lovely place otherwise. We were taught how to properly eat a Tim Tam, order, prepare, and serve our own food at a local pub, and appreciate the difference between Australian Rules Football and Rugby (“Mate, they could not BE more different.”)

We did have a lovely time eating some prawns at the opera house and on an excursion to Bondi. Beautiful scenery!

Yeah most stuff in those city areas suck, it was probably el loco. They’re in shopping malls and that kind of thing… “corporate food” kind of vibe (we have a bunch of those restaurants and they trot them out everywhere, bland boring and expensive).

if you’re here for a couple days then it makes sense to hang by the city and soak it all in, good work on the trip to Bondi (I grew up around there). But if a person is here for a week or more then there’s more nooks to explore with better food and less seen / busy spots.

We’re also a bit of a”baby America” with culture etc. We’ve definitely upped and dare I say surpassed most American places for burgers. There’s some really good southern chicken places here and they rival the stuff over there. I’ve been to Memphis and Nashville (hatty Bs is amazing), yay for fat food.

 

[Sascha Franck]

In case it helps anyone to feel better, we've got the worst genuine fast food over here. Bratwurst, Currywurst, Weißwurst and Brezn basically. As bland as it gets. And as if that wasn't bad enough already, when some mates from countries with better fast food habits decide to settle here, we manage to make their fast food bland lame stuff as well. Zero proper mexican or indian fastfood here in a town with >500k citizens. Hardly any decent asian stuff, either. Just Döner shops everywhere - but they're using the cheapest meat and veggies available, so you don't taste anything but whatever sauce. Can't get a decent burger, either (well, it has gotten better, but the good ones are incredibly expensive).

 

[BenIfin]

Yeah most stuff in those city areas suck, it was probably el loco. They’re in shopping malls and that kind of thing… “corporate food” kind of vibe (we have a bunch of those restaurants and they trot them out everywhere, bland boring and expensive).

if you’re here for a couple days then it makes sense to hang by the city and soak it all in, good work on the trip to Bondi (I grew up around there). But if a person is here for a week or more then there’s more nooks to explore with better food and less seen / busy spots.

We’re also a bit of a”baby America” with culture etc. We’ve definitely upped and dare I say surpassed most American places for burgers. There’s some really good southern chicken places here and they rival the stuff over there. I’ve been to Memphis and Nashville (hatty Bs is amazing), yay for fat food.

Plus we have actual real coffee ... not those buckets of brown dishwater that our fellow compatriots in the US *think* is what coffee is

 

[paisleywookiee]

Hey riffy !

No drams's - sorry for the late response ... time differences from here to the rest of the world .... firstly I shall put on my whole body fire and flame proof suit.

After years of selling and buy "all in one units" I decided to go modular digital

Here goes:-

-> Base is a Joyo RDB2 Pedal Board
-> MacBook Air M4
-> Tahoe OS
-> GigPerformer 5 Pro
-> 2 x Genome Instances for Pre and Post EFX
-> Scuffham s-Gear for Amps - runs everything internally at 8x Oversampling
-> whole rig runs at 96k
-> various other AU Plugins of choice
-> Scarlet 4th Gen for HiZ Input
-> Morningstar MC6 Pro + 2 x Auxilliary
-> real world measured I/O latency with everything turned on is ~ 3.1ms or lower
-> Racks / Presets switch instantly and seamlessly
-> Full spillover
-> the Mac M4 runs Gigperformer 5 at a steady %26 and less than %8 on the M4 itself
-> Used it for numerous gigs and rehearsals - both of which are basically non-stop 3 x 45 sets
-> Absolutely stable and glitch / pop / stutter free
-> shut the lid between sets - lift the lid again and go
-> the Joyo Board is compact and everything fits on it perfectly except for the Exp Pedal off to the side
-> and it all fits in my old Helix LT padded gig bag
-> see pic of it on my desk below - shit and leads everywhere because am in between gigs.

After trying Helix Native, 8 x NDSP Demos, I was recommend S-Gear and it is far and away - to me - the most natural sounding and feeling Amp sim I've ever used - only about 5 amps, but man.

F.w.i.w, I've emailed Mike Scuffham directly about a few things and thoughts and he responded back in detail each time within a day or so.

If I want to change and use different plugins / sims etc..... its easy. If I want a better HiZ I/O its easy. If want more or less Midi FSW its easy. If I want a different Exp Pedal is easy. If ever I need more cpu power and juice - almost unimaginable to be honest - I sell the M4 and buy an M5 or M6 or M7 - there are zero cpu processing limitations

is rock solid as are all the plugs and S-Gear.

Its the Mac M4 and Gigperformer 5 Pro that makes this all possible and work

You cans see now why my gut is telling me the Player V2 is facing some very stiff competition which I probably think it will struggle against even though Im going to give it a go .... the "modularity" of this rig is also going to be hard to leave.

Actually .... having now explained and laid it out, Im starting to think the Player might end up on FB Marketplace much sooner than I thought :)

I agree, I definitely prefer S-Gear over NDSP stuff.

 

[Dom Mcsweeney]

Yep, S-Gear is definitely up there with the best and Mike Scuffham is one hell of an awesome dude.
It's looking likely that in the next update or so, he's going to be adding a NAM loader too. =)

 

[riffy]

Hey riffy !

No drams's - sorry for the late response ... time differences from here to the rest of the world .... firstly I shall put on my whole body fire and flame proof suit.

After years of selling and buy "all in one units" I decided to go modular digital

Here goes:-

-> Base is a Joyo RDB2 Pedal Board
-> MacBook Air M4
-> Tahoe OS
-> GigPerformer 5 Pro
-> 2 x Genome Instances for Pre and Post EFX
-> Scuffham s-Gear for Amps - runs everything internally at 8x Oversampling
-> whole rig runs at 96k
-> various other AU Plugins of choice
-> Scarlet 4th Gen for HiZ Input
-> Morningstar MC6 Pro + 2 x Auxilliary
-> real world measured I/O latency with everything turned on is ~ 3.1ms or lower
-> Racks / Presets switch instantly and seamlessly
-> Full spillover
-> the Mac M4 runs Gigperformer 5 at a steady %26 and less than %8 on the M4 itself
-> Used it for numerous gigs and rehearsals - both of which are basically non-stop 3 x 45 sets
-> Absolutely stable and glitch / pop / stutter free
-> shut the lid between sets - lift the lid again and go
-> the Joyo Board is compact and everything fits on it perfectly except for the Exp Pedal off to the side
-> and it all fits in my old Helix LT padded gig bag
-> see pic of it on my desk below - shit and leads everywhere because am in between gigs.

After trying Helix Native, 8 x NDSP Demos, I was recommend S-Gear and it is far and away - to me - the most natural sounding and feeling Amp sim I've ever used - only about 5 amps, but man.

F.w.i.w, I've emailed Mike Scuffham directly about a few things and thoughts and he responded back in detail each time within a day or so.

If I want to change and use different plugins / sims etc..... its easy. If I want a better HiZ I/O its easy. If want more or less Midi FSW its easy. If I want a different Exp Pedal is easy. If ever I need more cpu power and juice - almost unimaginable to be honest - I sell the M4 and buy an M5 or M6 or M7 - there are zero cpu processing limitations

is rock solid as are all the plugs and S-Gear.

Its the Mac M4 and Gigperformer 5 Pro that makes this all possible and work

You cans see now why my gut is telling me the Player V2 is facing some very stiff competition which I probably think it will struggle against even though Im going to give it a go .... the "modularity" of this rig is also going to be hard to leave.

Actually .... having now explained and laid it out, Im starting to think the Player might end up on FB Marketplace much sooner than I thought :)

You know, that is actually a killer set up that you have going now. I think any hardware modeling or capture system might have a tough time with that. The way you have it set up with gig performer, if you wanted to, you could substitute Tonex, the Factal software, or anything else you choose if Sgear isn’t satisfying you.

I have seriously thought about going the way you are going now. I have put together a killer Windows desktop that will run anything. I like with probably 20 instances of it all go away. Get the same time with never a hiccup.

I just may follow in your footsteps.

Thank you so much for your thoughtful it very descriptive way of the way you’re doing it. I am thinking about seriously adopting your approach.

 

[Chocol8]

Sorry, are you ‘murican and talking about the food in another country in a disparaging way?

We have some pretty bad processed food substitutes, but we also have some of the best food in the world, and from all over the world. Its a matter of making good choices.

 

[dws2384]

Hey riffy !

No drams's - sorry for the late response ... time differences from here to the rest of the world .... firstly I shall put on my whole body fire and flame proof suit.

After years of selling and buy "all in one units" I decided to go modular digital

Here goes:-

-> Base is a Joyo RDB2 Pedal Board
-> MacBook Air M4
-> Tahoe OS
-> GigPerformer 5 Pro
-> 2 x Genome Instances for Pre and Post EFX
-> Scuffham s-Gear for Amps - runs everything internally at 8x Oversampling
-> whole rig runs at 96k
-> various other AU Plugins of choice
-> Scarlet 4th Gen for HiZ Input
-> Morningstar MC6 Pro + 2 x Auxilliary
-> real world measured I/O latency with everything turned on is ~ 3.1ms or lower
-> Racks / Presets switch instantly and seamlessly
-> Full spillover
-> the Mac M4 runs Gigperformer 5 at a steady %26 and less than %8 on the M4 itself
-> Used it for numerous gigs and rehearsals - both of which are basically non-stop 3 x 45 sets
-> Absolutely stable and glitch / pop / stutter free
-> shut the lid between sets - lift the lid again and go
-> the Joyo Board is compact and everything fits on it perfectly except for the Exp Pedal off to the side
-> and it all fits in my old Helix LT padded gig bag
-> see pic of it on my desk below - shit and leads everywhere because am in between gigs.

After trying Helix Native, 8 x NDSP Demos, I was recommend S-Gear and it is far and away - to me - the most natural sounding and feeling Amp sim I've ever used - only about 5 amps, but man.

F.w.i.w, I've emailed Mike Scuffham directly about a few things and thoughts and he responded back in detail each time within a day or so.

If I want to change and use different plugins / sims etc..... its easy. If I want a better HiZ I/O its easy. If want more or less Midi FSW its easy. If I want a different Exp Pedal is easy. If ever I need more cpu power and juice - almost unimaginable to be honest - I sell the M4 and buy an M5 or M6 or M7 - there are zero cpu processing limitations

is rock solid as are all the plugs and S-Gear.

Its the Mac M4 and Gigperformer 5 Pro that makes this all possible and work

You cans see now why my gut is telling me the Player V2 is facing some very stiff competition which I probably think it will struggle against even though Im going to give it a go .... the "modularity" of this rig is also going to be hard to leave.

Actually .... having now explained and laid it out, Im starting to think the Player might end up on FB Marketplace much sooner than I thought :)

Gig performer is amazing and highly underrated. I’ve got an M4 MacBook Air as well and can run pretty much any plugin chain at 32 samples without glitches.

I’ve often thought of going this route as well. I like the mix and match approach. NAM, Valhalla, ProQ, Eventide, Soundtoys and even now Fractal is in the game. You can certainly get a better overall signal chain than you could on any hardware unit and you can upgrade the hardware over time without having to repurchase the software.

As someone who makes a living on their laptop daily, and taking into places way more demanding than any guitar gig, I’ve had one failure in 20+ years of doing so, I’ve had significantly more on guitar gear.

 

[RiffDuck]

I agree, I definitely prefer S-Gear over NDSP stuff.

Wow really? Can you explain why? I use NDSP plugins every day, but I've never tried S-Gear but I'm googling it right now

 

[RiffDuck]

We’ve definitely upped and dare I say surpassed most American places for burgers.

As a traveler and burger connoisseur, I've found that nobody has a monopoly on good burgers. I try multiple burgers in every country I visit, and so many countries just absolutely crush it. I think the best one I ever had was in some random restaurant somewhere in Thailand.

The worst ever was any burger made anywhere in Iceland. That is a nation of culinary barbarism.

 

[Mongillo19]

Wow really? Can you explain why? I use NDSP plugins every day, but I've never tried S-Gear but I'm googling it right now

S Gear is quite good!

You also have to remember some people on here would rather never play guitar again than play a NDSP product. Not saying that's wookie but you gotta remember the audience

 

[paisleywookiee]

Wow really? Can you explain why? I use NDSP plugins every day, but I've never tried S-Gear but I'm googling it right now

S Gear is quite good!

You also have to remember some people on here would rather never play guitar again than play a NDSP product. Not saying that's wookie but you gotta remember the audience

I own Nolly, and have tried quite a few other NDSP plugins. I just don’t think they sound very good. A lot of them sound congested, and I struggle to get tones I like out of them. The Soldano in particular is awful.

 

[RiffDuck]

I own Nolly, and have tried quite a few other NDSP plugins. I just don’t think they sound very good. A lot of them sound congested, and I struggle to get tones I like out of them. The Soldano in particular is awful.

Nolly is the one I use almost everyday for practice, but I'm surprised you don't like Soldano, I really like that one - however, I've never played a Soldano IRL. But the NDSP sound as a whole has its own vibe to it that even I get fatigued by sometimes, so I can understand someone not liking them.

 

[BenIfin]

You know, that is actually a killer set up that you have going now. I think any hardware modeling or capture system might have a tough time with that. The way you have it set up with gig performer, if you wanted to, you could substitute Tonex, the Factal software, or anything else you choose if Sgear isn’t satisfying you.

I have seriously thought about going the way you are going now. I have put together a killer Windows desktop that will run anything. I like with probably 20 instances of it all go away. Get the same time with never a hiccup.

I just may follow in your footsteps.

Thank you so much for your thoughtful it very descriptive way of the way you’re doing it. I am thinking about seriously adopting your approach.

Thanks mate !

The M4 Mac is virtually un-overloadable. For fun / load testing I had all 8 instances of the NDSP Demos all with a ton of other plugins + 4 Genome instances and Gigperformer 5 didn't go above %45 CPU and the M4 CPU didn't go above %7 and it was as smooth as silk - and everything at 96k and ~3.1ms RTL. It sounded terrible with them all running into each other but it was just a test.

I had always thought modular was the way moving forward, but its really only been the advent of the M series machines and a genius program like GP 5 that has proven it to me ... but I'm a slow learner

Its hard to see myself for the foreseeable future not preferring S-Gear, but as you say, it will run anything from anyone and literally barely need to go past first gear.

Oh and just for some more fun - see below - I took my stock project and replaced S-Gear with 8 x Genome Codex Instances each running a full-res NAM Profile and left all of the other plugins there ...... GP5 % 80 CPU ..... M4 CPU %10.

And the only reason GP5 is at %80 is that at the moment it is single-threaded for its audio and not [yet] multi-core-audio optimized.

If GP5 were to become multi-threaded for its audio .... this system would easily run 40+ Genome Codex Full Res instances and still get nowhere near %50 - again It sounded terrible with them all running into each other but it was just a another test.

Thanks for chiming in.

 

[BenIfin]

Wow really? Can you explain why? I use NDSP plugins every day, but I've never tried S-Gear but I'm googling it right now

S Gear is quite good!

You also have to remember some people on here would rather never play guitar again than play a NDSP product. Not saying that's wookie but you gotta remember the audience

Hey. Not PW .. but f.w.i.w .. to my ears and playing, the NDSP stuff , when I was load testing with it, sounds really good but is very "stiff" .... and it has this sublet annoying "fizz" that comes across as very un-amp like and is a bugger to dial out. I too found it somewhat ear fatiguing after 15 - 20 mins ... but all this is just me.

The S-Gear such just feels and responds in such a gluey-sticky way, its very addictive - even though you are clearly not playing a real amp, you forget this very quickly.

Its only problems / limitations are it only 5 or so Amps and hardly any efx - not an issue for me .... and its not for really hard rock metal players as the "hardest" it goes is the "Stealer" which is Mikes "hot" Marshall - again - for me, not an issue.

I would genuinely suggest - d/l the demo - spend 2 or 3 days with it and use you own fav IR .... then go back to you "regular" stuff - I'd be quite surprised if it didn't put a smile on your face - as long as you can live with its limitations I mentioned above.

If you needs lots of harder-rock and Metal, its a no-go.

 

[BenIfin]

Gig performer is amazing and highly underrated. I’ve got an M4 MacBook Air as well and can run pretty much any plugin chain at 32 samples without glitches.

I’ve often thought of going this route as well. I like the mix and match approach. NAM, Valhalla, ProQ, Eventide, Soundtoys and even now Fractal is in the game. You can certainly get a better overall signal chain than you could on any hardware unit and you can upgrade the hardware over time without having to repurchase the software.

As someone who makes a living on their laptop daily, and taking into places way more demanding than any guitar gig, I’ve had one failure in 20+ years of doing so, I’ve had significantly more on guitar gear.

I didn't even know Gigperformer existed until 6 months ago