Oh crap! I just turned it on and it crashed for the first time!
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Just kidding. April Fools
Oh crap! I just turned it on and it crashed for the first time!
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Just kidding. April Fools
No crashes 1 year in.
Unpowered rack.
2 Years, +100 gigs, a toaster and a Rack version. They never failed during a gig.
My toaster froze 1 or 2 times at home due to rig manager.
Totally solid for me here (unpowered toaster). I'm more likely to break a string than have the profiler let me down, I've never seen it do anything other than what I want.
3 years here (started out with the toaster, then last ~ 2 years with rack) - never crashed once.
2 year of heavy use. 1 crash total.
Totally solid for me here (unpowered toaster). I'm more likely to break a string than have the profiler let me down, I've never seen it do anything other than what I want.
Indeed. Much more likely. Of course, I carry multiple guitars and only 1 Kemper. My backup "amp" would be my old Digitech 2120 since I no longer own a real amp. I could get by, but would feel like I was playing a playschool guitar with respect to my tone
2-3 crashes in very public performances. However, I contacted support and they first tried to fix the unit...which didn't work since the fixed unit promptly crashed at my next gig...then they replaced it
I've done about 30 gigs plus many recording sessions with the new unit and no issues. Kemper support was great to work with and the long warranty is very cool.
In hindsight, I should have stress tested more in/thru practice and then contacted support at the first sign of an issue.
2 years, 50+ gigs no crashes....
However, had valve amps fail on me so its way more reliable.
The answer is always have an emergency backup, to get you through a gig. I carry a sans amp at the total outside possibility of an amp problem...
I would recommend a shock mount rack ( wish I had one as I dropped my once) and power conditioner...
2 years, 50+ gigs no crashes....
However, had valve amps fail on me so its way more reliable.
The answer is always have an emergency backup, to get you through a gig. I carry a sans amp at the total outside possibility of an amp problem...
I would recommend a shock mount rack ( wish I had one as I dropped my once) and power conditioner...
Yea, but one area that a true tube amp will always surpass the Kemper is in the spectral of failure. I have seen some pretty impressive tube amp failures in my time! Spontaneous combustion with a loud BAM in one instance .... followed by smoldering dark smoke rising from the embers
Compared to this, the mere lockup of a Kemper can never match such behavior
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Rock solid powered toaster
Impressive stability so far
Had 2 lock ups - just rebooted and was fine - and one crash that needed rebooting from the kaos on a memory stick in about 2.5 years. Before that I had a valve amp that blew a fuse twice live in 10 gigs and another that had a valve go, even though it was under a month old groove tube. So, I've had very slight problems with it, but less than with valve amps.
imo it's an awesome device and if I could afford it I'd just get another as back up
3 years of heavy use, never crashed
I've seen some of those reports and agree, it can be quite disconcerting if it happens to you.
I've never had a crash though.
My toaster never crashed (I don't install new firmwares in beta version).
IMO, an UPS on stage is much more needed than a voltage stabilizer: in case there's a 1/10 s current drop the Profiler will take tens of seconds to reboot... while most of the other instrument(ist)s won't even be aware of that
Yea, but one area that a true tube amp will always surpass the Kemper is in the spectral of failure. I have seen some pretty impressive tube amp failures in my time! Spontaneous combustion with a loud BAM in one instance .... followed by smoldering dark smoke rising from the embersCompared to this, the mere lockup of a Kemper can never match such behavior
This is true, you would need to rig up some sort of pyrotechnics to mimic the failure. Maybe this is an improvement we could suggest - a crash is linked to some sort of puff of blue smoke?
not once in the limited time i have had it..German engineering was one of the biggest selling points for me, oh that and the sound.
I have a powered toaster that I bought 3 years ago, never had a crash while using it live or at practice. The only crashes I had were on an older firmware when I tried to move rigs in the arrange menu too fast. That issue was fixed in the next released firmware. So, no real world issues for me. Very happy with the stability!
Never had a crash so far. Have my Kemper something like 2 years now.