Since this is my first post I will start by introducing myself.
Hello everyone, my name is Xiocus I'm an old fart bass player with 30y experience on the best instrument ever 8). During all these years I have been collecting a huge amount of bass gear, many of this gear (My amps) are back where I come from taken care by a childhood and best friend who owns a studio. I moved to another country and I simply can't bring them all here where I live now.
My first experience with amp simulators came by visiting this friend I mentioned and whine about how much I miss my amps, 3 days later he came to me with a present, a brand new line6 UX2 with all the expansions. He told me: This is not even close to what you are use to but, it will keep you busy. To be honest, it doesn't sound "great" but, indeed has keep me busy and some presets after some tweaking sounds quite decent on my Yamaha HS80M.
I have been saving some money to get me an amp, I'm sick of tire to just DI when I get some gigs but, that money is hard earned and as a father, it is very hard to expend it. When is not the garage, it is the freezer or the kids needs new glasses and so on... I guess you get the picture.
I came across a youtube video about the Kemper and I have to admit that, I got close to an orgasm just by thinking that I could profile my precious collection of amps to have them all in a tiny little box, tiny if you compare it to 17 amps/cabs that I own. Still the quality of the videos is not something that you can take for granted that is going to sound great. I have read that Kemper has made some improvement for the bass players (Still a lot more to read) but, mostly the audio files I have been able to get with proper quality are guitarists.
My questions now to the bass players owning this piece of engineering art:
Strictly thinking as a bass player, does the Kemper really makes justice to the simulated bass amps?
Now that you owned, is it really worth it? (I do not care about guitar amps, strictly bass),
How does the Kemper transcribe the sound in live situation?
Is there downside when you only use it as a bass pre amp?
Would you buy it in my situation? (Please be fully honest in this last one, don't sell me smoke)
I really appreciate any input and thank you all so much in advance.