Hello Kemper peeps.
Some time back I was a Kemper owner, and since then I have been on a bit of a journey.
Whilst I loved the Kemper, and I gigged it a lot, I decided to move back to my tube amps due to only really using the JCM800 patches. I have since gone through some bizarre configurations of tube amps and pedals (man you really realise how many cables you need!), then onto the Axe FX 3 which despite its complexities is a pretty awesome piece of kit.
I have since sold the Axe FX 3 as like the Kemper I only used a very small portion of the amp sims, however it was my audio interface too albeit a very cumbersome to use one.
Back to today, I am using my JCM800 and Silver Jubilee which I love, but space, needing a new audio interface, reducing my humble home study down, means I need a new solution.
So why am I here:
- I miss the ability to reamp.
- Having gone through Radial and Art reamp boxes, all sound pretty poor, mainly the inability to get the same level as plugged into the amp
- Noise from the pedal set up, two amps and then adding in reamp via a sound card brings a lot of hiss.
- Soundcard is the UR-RT4 which is very underused as I already have a Neve based PreEQ73 Premier which sounds a lot better than the RND gain stage.
- Outboard gear is becoming a little cumbersome and I would like to minimise.
- Starting a grunge covers band is requiring me to have a larger pedal board.
My questions regarding the Kemper now is:
- How does it fair as an audio interface on a Mac?
- I understand it is 44.1khz but I am not too fussed by that as the round trip latency will be mitigated by Direct Monitoring.
- Is there a guide on how many I/Os there are per device. For some reason I cannot find this, even in the manual. I have very simple needs outside of guitar and vocals so do not require a lot of I/O capabilities.
- One of my frustrations with the Kemper was its integration into Rig Manager and its constant inability to retain a stable connection. Has this been improved as Performance Mode was where I spent my days.
- When is the Kemper 2 out, I joke I joke LOL.
Anyway, thank you in advance and have a nice weekend.
Mike