I've been trying out the Kemper through tube poweramp+cabinet. Last saturday I play the first gig of the tour with it and i think i will do for the rest.
Here there are some conclusions:
- A typical profile (profiled with the preamp+poweramp+cab+mic): CAB OFF - Sounds good but not great. The Kemper is 'removing' the cabinet artificially.
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Profiling just the preamp section of an amp (through FX LOOP SEND) -
Sounds great, both CAB ON and CAB OFF, just a matter of taste.
I
wish everybody who profile the miced amp would profile the preamp
output, it is very easy to do and very useful for people who use kemper live
with poweramp + cab. I did it myself with some Engl amps I profiled and uploaded to the comunity.
- Another important thing I must say about this is that when using kemper+ tube poweramp + cabinet there is not big difference in sound between the amps. Tube poweramp and cabinet is 70% of the tone, so don't expect huge differences lets say, between an Diezel and a Bogner.
- The good thing of the kemper is that you have multiple options to edit a tone, so you can always tweak it until you get your final tone.
- Effects are much better than I had expected.
- MIDI board works great in performance mode, but I notice and listen the change of program.
My 2 cents.
Jevo