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So, quite a few more gigs in the bag and still loving the Kemper. I tried something a little different this weekend. I used a 5150III as my stage monitor amp. It seemed like a waste to just use my 3P for just its power amp section, plus the 5150III is louder (not that I really need it with IEM's). I think the biggest reason is that in case of a Kemper crash (hasn't happened yet), the 5150 will be a quicker plug-in transition. The 3P requires a bit more cable connections with the addition of an fx loop buffer and two channel inputs. Plus, I wanted to bring my 3P home to play it there and the 5150 is def not a small room amp.
I check with our foh engineer every night and he is still completely happy with the Kemper tones I'm sending him. I just step through our set list on my ground control pro pedal and I'm seldom if ever tempted to go over and tweak anything. And if I do, it's usually because I'm using a different guitar that may need an extremely minor eq adjustment in the amp tone stack. I looked over to my rig last night and thought, "I'm running entirely digital". I never would've thought that. I mean, I've done it before because I'm not afraid to try new technology, but I always went back to tube amps and pedals. At this point, I'm not really sure what I'm looking to get that I'm not getting and that is both an unsettling and satisfying revelation. I have spent years and thousands of dollars chasing tone and thought I had it caught a few times. I'm sure there will be changes again in the future, but it is really nice getting the tones I want to hear with the tweakability and consistency that I have them now and be able to use them on bus gigs and fly gigs. When I've heard tv tapes and youtube clips back of our recent shows, I think, "no one would ever in a million years NOT think that was a tube amp."
I honestly think the folks at Kemper have developed a true game-changer. Thank you Kemper.