Some interesting news from Kemper (Profiler Player)

[JiveTurkey]

A work in progress, but a TGF receptiveness flow chart in the making…

Positive

• Fractal
• Line 6 (Minus JCM800)
• Mesa
• Marshall (Minus pricing in the states)
• Friedman (Minus La Szum)
• Synergy
• ENGL
• Strymon

Rage

• Neural DSP
• GearTuber’s not named Leon Todd or John Cordy
• Meris pedals with the bubble menus
• Chase Bliss
• Fender digital products
• Universal Audio pedals

Meh

• Anything by Boss that is not a 30 year old stomp box
• Everything else that is not covered above

 

[Whizzinby]

CK mentions trying to solve the only one input issue

This isn’t some old random 3rd party device.
HOMIE, YOU JUST DESIGNED and RELEASED THIS.

I still think this will probably be cool for some people embedded in their ecosystem, I just don’t see this expanding their reach.

 

[Enchilada Jones]

This isn’t some old random 3rd party device.
HOMIE, YOU JUST DESIGNED and RELEASED THIS.

I still think this will probably be cool for some people embedded in their ecosystem, I just don’t see this expanding their reach.

Aren’t you simply supporting the line of reasoning that it was never meant to be a smaller equal or better Stage or Toaster?
Of course he understands what is and isn’t in the design/box. Yes some of his team is tossing around the idea of what they might be able to do beyond its original design. I think it was primarily designed for pedalboard users to replace Iridium’s etc on their boards and introduce more people to Kempers uses in general.

 

[timbuck3]

If 80% of Kemper users don’t actually profile and simply use it as a ‘player’ then turning the new Player into everything the older units offer except ability to profile you effectively reduce 80% of all future sales to be permanently discounted by around 65%.

If it was your company would you do that?

for 4-500 dollars it would be worth a try but 750?

 

[BenIfin]

So why the f%ck does it say "Profiler" in big letters on the front ?

Deliberately "bait'y" marketing (?) -or- an acknowledgement that one of the future paid-upgrade options will be an add-on-hardware-box that allows you to add profiling to the player (?)

However .... the lack-off / missing Amp deep-editing parameters is a *very big* neutering from an Amp tweaking perspective.

Ben

 

[JiveTurkey]

No one buys a Kemper for deep tweaking.

 

[Lysander]

So why the f%ck does it say "Profiler" in big letters on the front ?

To be fair, it's a Profiler Player.

 

[Mongillo19]

To be fair, it's a Profiler Player.

I can see them releasing a $300 profiling only unit. It would be interesting!

 

[norminal]

To be fair, it's a Profiler Player.

Then they should have named it “Profile” Player, not “Profiler” Player.

 

[Deadpan]

Then they should have named it “Profile” Player, not “Profiler” Player.

I'm sure they call it Profiler because of the trademark:

Trademark Status & Document Retrieval

tsdr.uspto.gov

 

[Enchilada Jones]

for 4-500 dollars it would be worth a try but 750?

I don’t think you understand the question, but you get a cookie for the Aaahrnold gif!
It is for sale, some people will get it. Some don’t and won’t.

and in that vein….is there a Tuco gif? …because I definitely need to ‘Stop. Helping.’

 

[Boudoir Guitar]

I was kinda wondering that. No modeler vendor has to my knowledge made any expansion capabilities to their units beyond adding footcontrollers.

It would be neat to buy some extension I/O box for this stuff that you leave at home when you don't need all that and bring a more compact unit. Now that means you have two modelers.

"I just don't quite have room for the extra XLR jack for this gig"

 

[JiveTurkey]

"I just don't quite have room for the extra XLR jack for this gig"

 

[Whizzinby]

"I just don't quite have room for the extra XLR jack for this gig"

 

[texhex]

Real men play racks.

 

[JCW308]

Here's how to fix this, Kemper:

-Change the name to "Kemper Profile Player"
-Add all features immediately for free

That's the only way this is going to work.

 

[texhex]

Real men play racks.

Technically though it is only just one amp and four effects.

 

[BenIfin]

So why the f%ck does it say "Profiler" in big letters on the front ?

Deliberately "bait'y" marketing (?) -or- an acknowledgement that one of the future paid-upgrade options will be an add-on-hardware-box that allows you to add profiling to the player (?)

However .... the lack-off / missing Amp deep-editing parameters is a *very big* neutering from an Amp tweaking perspective.

Ben

Then they should have named it “Profile” Player, not “Profiler” Player.

I'm sure they call it Profiler because of the trademark:

Trademark Status & Document Retrieval

tsdr.uspto.gov

Just had another look and unless I'm missing it ... it doesn't say "Player" anywhere on it ..... "Profiler" however is very prominent .... Nux / Donner / Mooer would be proud !

 

[Ed DeGenaro]

Just had another look and unless I'm missing it ... it doesn't say "Player" anywhere on it ..... "Profiler" however is very prominent .... Nux / Donner / Mooer would be proud !

Good point the product name is Profiler Player however that box says...

 

[Ni6htWalker]

You guys need to consider that just because something is labelled one way, doesn't make it necessarily so. Take myself and @NightWalker - he's been impersonating me for months now!