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Display MoreATTENTION EVERYONE: The sky is falling. Kemper MKII might need a computer to profile. Grab your torches and your pitchforks, it’s time to riot.
Because obviously, having to use a computer in 2025 — the literal stone age of modern technology — is just too much to ask. Next thing you know they'll expect us to update firmware, or read a manual. OUTRAGEOUS.
Back in my day, I could profile a Mesa Dual Rec in the middle of a cornfield, using nothing but the Kemper and a 9V battery!
And now? Oh no. You might need... a laptop. The same one you watch cat videos and tweak your Axe-FX on. Tragic.“But ToneX made me sad, I don’t want another computer thingy.”
Understandable. Using a computer is exhausting. You have to... plug it in. Click a few things. Maybe wait 30 seconds. Honestly, it’s amazing civilization has made it this far.“I want to profile on the fly, on a plane, in a cave, at Coachella...”
Of course you do. Because what if inspiration strikes while base jumping with your Dual Rectifier strapped to your back? If MKII can’t profile in-flight, is it even a real profiler?And let’s not forget the true horror: higher-resolution profiles that sound even more accurate — but requires a connected computer to process them. Disgusting. How dare Kemper leverage the power of modern CPUs for something as ridiculous as better tone?
TL;DR: If you need to profile on-the-go that badly, tape an iPad to your Kemper and call it "portable AI integration." Problem solved.
Your exadurated sarcastic mocking tone is somehow a kick for you? To prove a point you must go to extremes yet if your awnser was the right one you wouldnt have to try so hard. I for one want mobility an I travel between the uk and australia with my kemper. I dont want the extra fluff to profile on the go or at a band practice where the guy in the next room has a amp I love to try. This will take more that a computer, you will need a tonex style box too. Will need more than a ipod hotshot. I FORGOT MY BOLD CAPITAL TEXT SO HERE WE GO
I’d genuinely love to see an interview or intro video with Christoph Kemper.
Because this doesn’t feel like just another feature drop – it seems like a fundamental shift: “massively higher resolution, near-zero aliasing” (as some like to call it).
Kemper knows they only get one real marketing shot at this. So maybe the current silence isn’t hesitation – maybe it’s strategy.
Stratergy. To the people that are loyal and have already bought units they will be at home with a new update while the plebs are going to wait for shipping. Bands cant even keep albums under wraps now its a big deal to have nobody talk about this when there so many people in the line for production. There def suprises comming.If not they are going to fall flat on their faces. An I doubt that.
A little video I made showing the new MkII Unpowered Rack and a quick sound comparison with the MkI.
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Umm, Im going to get shot for this. I think I hear a difference
For thos talking about aliasing
Oh man I hope not the whole reason I gave up on NAM was the pain it was to profile. I too want to be able to do it on the fly. Im even installing the kemper DI inside my unit so I can profile anywhere anytime with ease
Are the knobs interchangeable.
If they are - Kemper could sell them as an 'aesthetic upgrade' for the Mk1. Black knobs on teh Mk1 looks cool
Just buy online mod away.
Ah no stomp or effects buttons. Didn't notice before.
Yea I use them alot I would want them, Someties I want to switch everything off to run a mic or use the kemper as the interface only.
Display MoreReceived my MkII Rack today. I've only played briefly through it as UPS was later getting here than usual.
I do like the updated look. it boots fairly fast. On the screen you can see places for the extra effects but I haven't yet learned how to delve into all that yet. Haven't hooked it up to my computer yet to look into Rig Manager.
Loaded up some old profiles and A/B'd the two Kempers - I'd swear the new one sounds a tad bit more 'crisp'. I restored from a backup I'd just made from the MkI unit so everything's set identical. Might be Placebo but I'm not sure. I'm working on a video that'll probably release tomorrow & I'll be sure to include this.
Only hiccup so far is this - I'm in the US. The Profiler shipped from Kemper Americas in Illinois. This is the power cable they shipped LMAO!!!!! No biggie - I got a bunch of US IEC cables lying around.
Gonna dive into the software & see if I can find anything different.
I had a suspicion that a part of kempers limitation to accuracy could also be a hardware thing. The routing or converters etc. Signal path. This may support that bein that your playing the same profile but mark 2 sounds better. Be interesting if it is the same against the player. Looks wise I wish the module buttons where there, the backround shading too. The top section looks like train map. Think they copied my modded toaster even I had a off orange pointer knob line an the player has the exact same colour. Im waiting for white to come out. Looking forward to the comparison video. The head looks wider in pics i seen too. Have not had anyone sa yet. Hope my custom tube amp will fit in the back of a mark 2
I noticed it after my last update but its loudness. I only use browser mode
Not to add to speculation and yes I know they said no change, but my profiles yesterday turned out great. Strangely my clean matchless sound turned out for once. Not tiny an tinny with low volume. Maybe I just fluked it.
You would think just a interview or announcement with Christoph but who knows. Prob want to hear us bitch for a while first. It is wierd to hsve a new product an expect people to speand a grand on it with no hype or rundown. But I have faith in kempers process.
I have a pedal which is actually a "preamp" consisting of Vox AC30 + Treble Booster. Can I profile this pedal as a "amp" in the Kemper? And then add a cabinet to the stack?
Many thanks.
If you want to just profile it as a pedal an not as a amp chain then yes. But a good sounds requires preamp, power amp. then speaker. If your asking what I think then profile the pedal alone an have the cab section off like a direct profile. I have profiled my preamp pedals as backup matchless hotboxes, badcats, morris, marble blues box. If I ever want to run them into VSTs or a amp if im away or something.
Display MoreI remember when i bought my Stage in 2019, i've never heard of "amp modeling" or "liquid" or work in that direction.
I was said that i had to browse rigs and find the one i like the most and work on it. The approach is different from modelers but it is the way it works....
There's a generic amp section that applies the same settings whatever amp you use, that's it....
And I have rather read the opposite concerning "liquid" too, At the beginning, C.Kemper didn't want to waste time to model all amps and wanted a faster way to reproduce them... Maybe adding "amp modeling" on profiles was hard to do but i'm not even convinced.... I'm pretty sure that Kemper was 100% OK to propose and keep his general T/M/B/G amp settings and i understand that.
All things behave like this in Kemper verse, there's only one fuzz, one Kemper drive, One Wah, etc.... Then the settings encompass all the possibilities in the world (and even more with suffs that doesn't exist)....
In my humble opinion, Liquid and this new AI profiling is indeed due to market pressure.
Is it serious ? Is that a proof of weakness ? what's wrong with that ? Nothing ; Kemper respond to some market needs.... It is a company, there's an international market and competitors, they have their own solutions, way to think
, design, but they have to sell units....
I been away an have been reading these comments with no account active. Have had a few days to digest the new news an a few days in some things are obvious now. Easy to get excited an jump to conclusions but once ya calm down its hit or miss. But one thing that pops up is this due to market pressure bla bla. Lets get one thing straight chris an co read this stuff, they are not dumb. They been hearing about kemper 2 forever an all the things people want. You think they just concieved this in a bedroom over a weekend to pump it out because the markets dictating it? Kemper have never walked to the sound of the drum an do things as they want. You cannot come up with new profiling over night they may have worked on this 5 years in the background. While your at work an playing with the kids wondering when our wife finally going to open her legs, these guys live an breath inventing an making these products. A company that has stood by the customer and has innovated to keep mark 1 relevant as long as possible an now people are accursing them of rushing some product? hu? Makes no sense. The company is old school like things used to be in the 60s, made to last with good thought an precision and have tried to keep a constant like say marshall does in the design. We are in a space were 50s an 60s classics designs rule the market . Are we praising these things now or bashing them? It seems to me we have got a bit greedy in this instant gratification world an we seem to forget the upates we have got with a 12 year old unit an now we finally got a new one that people feel riped off because the bought a stage a month ago. They have done all they can to keep us happy with mark 1. Im glad it looks the same, I would change a few things but the same but not same look is great. An this is what they were thinking too? If it was drastically different we would be complaining about that.. The screen? Like I said, method to the madness, maybe there a reason. Like so the updates an changes look the same on the screen with mark 1 an mark2. Tonex looks like a 80s arcade game. All these complaints yet KEMPER HAS NOT EVEN RELEASED A VIDEO WITH NEWS OR UPDATED YET. Who knows whats in store maybe we will get dual amps in a update maybe we will get 100 percent nul tests but to complain before we have official updates is stupid. It is wierd they are selling a product without official breakdown of it but again, deliberate Easter egg marketing kemper style. They are calculated, they are loyal and they are german, They have a way. Ive worked in germany they are bat shit crazy in a good way. We are from all over the place an think maybe a bit different to they do. The best engineers in the world. Lets just hang tight. My complaint? Why is it not in white ha. I will buy as soon as a white one comes available.
All I see when I look at is is a lamborghini. same lines
dual profiles, where are you getting this from?
I didnt im just saying if people want all that they have a market for the v2 but us v1 peasants be happy with the beter profiling. What am I saying ofcoase v1 going to have it. Otherwise the sales of v1 drop to the floor
Like I said other thread the kemper has the same screen so updates compatable on v1 an v2 units is my guess. Just they shouldve done a finer pixel display. An by the way the toaster display looks longer even to the new rack version? I dont want a cheap feel tesla screen anyway. Feels gimicky. But a small improvement woulda been nice. Im just happy abou the improved profiling I dont need the rest. Im here for sound
I had convinced myself Christoph and Co. weren’t going to do this. Not ‘for a while’ - ever.
It’ll be interesting to see how this stacks up against the others. People have been crying Kemper ‘fell behind’ (which is true in a sense).
Then again, a 14 year old technology competing - and fairing quite well - with units far, FAR newer is amazing.
Hope to see the bar has been raised a good amount.
I knew it was comming. Things were a bit quiet an they advetrtised for a new dsp programmer. My thinking was if chris said the profiling cannot be improved then that was going to hurt them. An if they scraped what makes kemper kemper an used NAM then that defeats the brand. So they were in a tight spot. But like I said a tiny while ago kemper a inovator an smart dude an i was sure he was on the sidelines conduring up something to take it to the forefront again for the next decade. Big hairy profiles just did a kemper comparison an that whoofy mid plastic hump was there an the cheap hotone wiped the floor even with nueral. So if kemper finally upgraded the profiling to be more accurate then game on. Looking forward to the gear demos
So…. you’ve seen the whiners on TGP about that exact thing…..
Method to the madness I think its so when they do updates they will work same on the screen v1 to v2. But a newer finer pixel screen but in the same old format would have been the ticket. Im still excited its great news about the improved profiling
Im a bit unsure...disappointed they didn;t upgrade the power amp to Stereo as I suspect some people would have loved that.
Also Im unclear as to what the tonal changes will mean, are they just tweaks/more things to adjust or will it ultimately just sound better?
Also whilst it does look classy, I miss the green.
So Im a bit underwelmed tbh....
Will I buy one? Of course!
Its superficial of us but yea, this should have the coloured backround in the slot section. It looks a bit 90s trying to be the future. I love they kept the old format just they shouldve done a finer pixel screen. But I see what he has done. If you keep the screen the same then the updates will program the same on V1. Wich hopefully means v1 users will get updates. I just want the improved profiling.
