Kempers were already earning their keep, for years, before any major free updates. Using nothing but the legacy effects, with zero external pedals—pre- morph, pre- editor—it was already so easy, so good.
Of course a tiny unit that does everything the big guys do would've been great, at almost any price. What CK has released instead is a totally giggable device with best in class tones at a not cheap but decent (for Kemper) price.
Again this unit has everything in it that so many guitarists were using to earn a living making music since way before the new drives etc etc, but in a new fun size package.
Historically, despite similarly at first-read head-scratchy specs—and the requisite similarly knee-jerk, secondhand hate—every product CK has ever released has gone on to major success. Biggest tours. Hit records. Tv shows. Movies. And yeah, they’re even all over P&W and local gigging environments. (Although a Princeton with pedals is still a great alternative for most people’s gigs).
Nobody has to buy this product. But it will be a hit. It probably already is, literally. I’m not sure why that’s important here, as long as it’s available to guitarists who want them. But it will be. And you know this is one company that will continue to support and evolve the device going forward.
Nothing I’ve read about it here neuters this thing. Thanks g*d for no screen. And I’m sure that eventually if I need to play through one, and I make music with it instead of overthinking equipment, as ever it’ll be me not it to blame if I don’t blow minds.
ymmv
would be a nice little aesthetic pairing of fun pedal + core-tone pedal, but alas… Chroma Console in mono seems a waste.
