Posts by Nikos

Quote from V8guitar

I think what you are asking for is another step change that is technically driven rather than creatively driven by players ?

I agree but I guess thats always the "golden ticket" that companies look for. Kemper did it before so its whether they can redefine other elements.

Even innovative companies struggle to consistently do this. Apple, Tesla, Google I would argue have fallen into mainstream now.

In summary, I agree, just can't envisage what "it" is

Kemper started his business with synths..now he and his company is also in the guitar business..

Maybe this simple fact is "good for something"??

Just thinking out loud. Like I was thinking out loud in 2017 that a kemper player would be a good idea. Before someone else does it first. And gets the t-shirt.

Quote from Ruefus

Asking for new sounds isn’t ‘finding’ them, though.

I ask for the ability to create new sounds. I thought that would be clear. Sorry if not.

Just like other guitar players "asked" for 7-8 string guitars or better amps for these guitars to achieve more "brutal sounds".

There is nothing strange about my request. It is 2025 and things move on.

Exactly..

So we can agree that it is ALWAYS about "finding a solution to a existing problem" which is that everything needs to develop.

Without evolution and sometimes even revolution things die. This is the rule of nature. Sorry for being captain obvious..

Quote from Ruefus

I may misunderstand and be headed for a(nother) pointless rant……but……

True Originals (capitalized intentionally) - like Beck, Page, Hendrix, Eddie, EJ…..etc…took what was there and figured out how to get what they wanted.

Distortion was an accident.

EVH’s ‘Brown sound’ was him tinkering with POS gear and his technique out of necessity. In doing so, he literally altered the course of music.

Hip Hop was created in New York in the ‘70s *because* of a lack of instruments and music teaching. New York cut funding for the arts - so people found other ways to express themselves.

They didn’t invent it, but sampling (aka Looping) became a core tenet of Hip Hop. Now?

Even the KPA has a looper.

It ain’t about the box.

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Some times it is about the "box" or otherwise we would still be waiting for someone to create the electric guitar and the tube amp.

I mean ...the acoustic does still "the job",right?

Instead of delay-ms and "moar fx/inputs/switches" etc etc we should focus on the "one and only question":

How do you keep a stand alone guitar modeler relevant for the next 10-20 years;

This should be by far more important than anything else. And it is a very tricky issue/serious question.

So..why should the today's 12-14 years olds buy a Kemper and not just use a AI-powered plugin by 2030;

I said it on the past and I did not change my mind..We need "new sounds" and ways to get and play them. Not only at home in front of our laptop but also on stage.

Quote from Wheresthedug

I think this is the issue.

Almost everything that is being asked for sounds more like Kemper 1.x not Kemper 2. In fact I wouldn’t be surprised if many of the common requests were actually possible with the existing hardware.

I think for Kemper to be interested in a Kemper 2 it would need to be as revolutionary as the current one. It would need to do things that we can’t even imagine as possible at this stage to get CK excited enough to want to devolp it. If it ever come I’m sure it will be something mind blowing not just dual amps or a colour touch screen etc.

Exactly!

Just a much "bigger,better" Kemper 2 is nothing different from what we see from fractal & line6.

Boring. Yawn..

The kids are already sitting behind their laptops and try to create "new sounds" (whatever this means) with ...AI..

It has already started years ago with all the specialized "ultra-metal" amplifiers which together with 7 string and 8 string guitars give more extreme sounds it is only a question of time until we will see a symbiosis of synth sounds and the "classical" guitar sound we know for decades.

It is time for a kemper 2. As revolutionary as the first one.

Just a "bigger better kemper 1" will not be enough.

Bleib stark Tobi..Du schaffst das schon!Alles Gute wünsche Ich Dir.

RIP Muddy..

For sure we will miss him here.

Devastating news..What a great musician. So sad. Best wishes..

Christoph many years ago made his "Roadmap" and the LQ thing was kind of the last thing he wanted to realize before the "cycle" of the KPA1 ends.

I am quite sure they are working on the KPA2.

And this is very logical,the competition has become to strong in the last 3-4 years. Keeping things "like this" is not possible anymore.

Interesting times..and I say that because I know for my part that the KPA2 will set (again) new standards for the modeling business. I don't hide it (I never have in the past years) I hope it will be some kind of revolutionary symbiosis of guitar & synth modeling.

Kemper can do this.

Quote from Ruefus

True enough.

But then you should meet this drummer guy I play with that I've known since kindergarten. No less than 3 vintage Neil Peart posters and 2 Rush silk flags hanging in his practice space. Things get weird (and really fun) in an all-fired hurry.

That sounds like a lots of fun!!

Quote from Ruefus

RE: Effects usage for Rock. Depends entirely on what you're defining as Rock.

Blues? I routinely played guitar-cord-amp with one sound and a volume knob. Maybe a dirt pedal for color.

Bar band ZZ Top, AC/DC, Southern Rock, GnR, Van Halen etc.? Sure. 4 slots might even be overkill.

Rush, Pink Floyd, Yes, Genesis.....? You can *do* it, but it'll sound like crap.

U2? The Edge's genius is his use of simple figures, with wild use of effects. ....and don't kid yourself. Yeah...the delay is doing a lot of the work...but Playing the riff to Where the Streets Have No Name for the 5 minutes the album version requires isn't child's play.

Perfect description of want I want to say.

But who will play in a prog-rock band without tons of fx;;

In this case ofcourse I would use BOTH of my bigger KPAs (rack & toaster) with the remote and 4 expressions pedals for the ultimate excessive fx-morph war..

But when I go for a jam most likely will not write the next 20 minutes epic in rock history..Most likely you will do spontaneous blues and rock jams in a more or less "usual context". Same for a small coffeehouse/bar gig.

The thing which should be of the greatest interest is that you can have that plexi tone even with the player. And this is really crazy.

Quote from Wheresthedug

Nikos I think it is probably an emotional reaction to childhood memories.

In my early teenage years I heard and fell in love with the sound of electric guitar. All my heroes at that time had pretty direct sounds - Clapton, Santana, AC/DC, Paul Weller in the Jam, Pete Townsend, Larry Carlton, Robben Ford, Al DiMeola, Ygnwie. The only ones that used used FX much were John Scofield and Lukather who both came later.

Those “pure” tones were what I aspired to. So when I hear a great guitar straight into amp tone it transports me back to my youth when guitar was exciting and amazing to me. I get to feel young and inspired again instead of the grumpy old man I have “matured” into 🤣.

When I hear fx laden tones they sound great and I’m fascinated by how they were achieved on an intellectual level but they don’t make that emotional connection to my early years.

Exactly..

In the 80s as a kid all my buddies went full berserk on eddie and ingwie.

My older brother one day brought a very old rolling stone magazine and told me "read that article" which was about Clapton and some other legends talking about the "Paul Kossoff vibrato"..

Imagine today playing fire and water and doing the leads with delay?

Who would do that?

For sure fx are a different thing today than there were in the past.

"Only 4 slots I can't play with only 4 fx.."..

why?I think that is a very legit question..

Quote from Wheresthedug

Me too.

Two Channel Dual Rec and a pair of EVM12L Thiele Cabinets. A wah (some of the time) and nothing else. I keep thinking I am missing out not having tons of effects so over the years I have bought rack processors, pedals and midi controlled FX switcher etc etc etc. Culminating in the Kemper as an all in one solution. However, in every incarnation of my rig I have ended up using pretty much a single channel switching amp and no FX because every time I A/B the result of amp plus FX compared to amp on its own I just find the amp works better.

I often hear other people playing with effects laden sounds and think they sound amazing. Then I try their sounds and I sound like shit until I tun the FX off. There must be something wrong with me that makes me allergic to effects

Maybe you're like me and you belong to the guys who just can't make fx work for you on stage.

I can't.

I mean I love doing stuff with fx in the studio while recording. I also love some fx when working live doing Support for singer/songwriters with no or just little drum support.

But doing Rock stuff with fx? Why?

The best fx for rock/Hardrock is ..Hearing yourself and your bandmates and ofcourse having a good vibrato helps for the leads..this is all I know..

Quote from DonPetersen

I regularly play considerably larger gigs than that with sounds that only have a subtle delay and a bit of reverb.

Bigger gigs doesn‘t mean you need bigger fx chains - at all

Most gigs I played In my life I played without any kind of fx.

With a dual rectifier or a steavens poundcake.

0 fx on the stage besides a wah.

But I never dare to say this here..until now..😆

4 fx should be enough to handle a jam or a small coffeehouse-gig.

For everything else..folks...use your KPA-HEAD and the remote and the 3-4 EPs..or the STAGE...

Think about what you get for 700$/€.

I am happy that when the "next spontaneous call" for a jam arrives I will be able to just grab a guitar and this Player and there I go..swuuush..out of the door..

I guess in the end it is really all about the size and the time you save for certain situations..and these situations are not "doing pro-/semipro things..".

Most likely all the situations I would like to have the player are about "having fun with my homies" somewhere with a FOH or an old FRFR waiting..

Why would I need tons of fx and more pedals for morphing for this; Highly unlikely.

Would I use the player for work in the studio or a bigger gig; No. This is why I have the rack and a extra laptop(for the studio) and the head/remote/3 EPs for "serious gigs".

Choose your weapons wisely.

And I am absolutely willing to pay 700€ to get this player just for having fun with my beloved rigs I use for years now. Even with half of the fx I never use.

Peace

The only negative issue I have with the player ..it is a little late.

Me and other folks asked for it (I think) for the first time around 2017-2018.

Now most lads already have a tonex or a stomp or a fm3 or whatever. The pedal-guys have their amp1s..

Now it is a thing for all the kemper guys like me who has already the rack and the head and would like to leave all this in the studio or to use it for "more serious" work.

I hope this player will find its buyers and take its market share. Sure it will. But just 4 years earlier this would have been an easier task by far.