For me it is not clear what kind of profiles we get?! The free rigs seem to be studio profiles that just got another cab copied to them (Tone Junkies Two Rock 2x12). There is only one profile with the original 1x12 speaker. None of them seem to be actually profiled with the 2x12 cab and they seem also not real merged profiles.
Or perhaps, as with 99% of profilers, they didn't care with proper taggin, which is a shame.
Ok, sorry i derailed my own topic, back on topic please.
As for Profiling not being ‘at the top’ - we’ll vehemently disagree. The rest of the industry has had over a decade to get better.
Many comparisons have been done online recently about between the profiling habilities of Kemper, QC and ToneX. The Kemper hasn't come victorious in any of those comparisons. I repeat i'm writing about comparing profiling abilities only.
I honestly don’t think Kemper2 is forthcoming.
Not unless CK comes up with something related to Profiling to help improve it. Something he’s said he doesn’t see happening.
Product life is not only drived by technical progress but also by sales.
If for some reason the Kemper 1 sales are declining, they will have to develop (it's probably already in the work) a new model.
As users, we all know that the unit is still enjoyable, but the profiling part is not at the top of the game anymore, and the ui feels a bit dated, so i'm quite sure there will be a new unit in the forthcoming years.
I don't know if we will get the "mod update" before that, thought.
It seems that for a year, JHS have been using a Kemper for all their demos, while displaying a Milkman amp.
They released it https://www.strymon.net/product/bigsky-plugin/
It is a bit expensive though (200$ excluding VAT, 239€ at Thomann !)
I have always wanted to get a big sky, but comparing the actual plugin to the reverbs in the Kemper, i think the only interesting reverb you can't really match with our units is the Cloud Reverb. Other feels a bit cheesy (i think i prefer the Hall in the Kemper to the big sky's Hall), average, or considerably inferiors (spring reverb).
I guess CKemper considers the reverbs in the Kemper to be final but i would like to have a good aproximation to the cloud reverb which seems unmatched to me.
OneEng1 where in the video is he saying that a Fender BF and a triple rectifier can be made to sound the same with just tweaking ?
He is wondering where the sound come from in an amplifier. His findings suggest that the tone stack (and not the type of tubes) is making the biggest differences. AFAIK, the tone stack in a BF and in a high gain amp are not the same (even when the first Mesas were modified Princetons).
I'm a big fan of his work, which goes always further.
It's not Kemper related though. Or is it ?
Most of the time i play my Kemper through headphones because my playing sucks and i don't want to annoy my neighbours.
It sits on my desk, hooked to my audio interface with the headphones on the interface, so no problem playing it with a backing track or online lessons.
I have also studio monitors (Focal) that i really like to play music, but who doesn't really transpose what i hear in my headphones with the Kemper.
However, i recently went to my parent's house in the countryside where i have left my "old" THR10C, and i was really impressed by the sensations it provides. I like it better than my Kemper through my monitors. It feels really amp-like.
I also tried the Powered Kabinet, which didn't bring anything for me over my monitors at bedroom volume.
Those using it in a live show might be a bit nervous about the idea a metronome could appear on the outputs.
It has probably been mentioned that most people have a phone and metronomes are free.
Those using it in a live show might be a bit nervous about the idea of the sound disappearing when engaging the tuner by mistake.
It has probably been mentioned that most people have a phone and tuners are free.
I ended up buying the Dream 65, it sounded so good in the demos online.
However i am not convinced.
Clean tones are good, but not really better that what the Kemper can do. The different cabs are nice.
ODs feels artificial and not really inspiring to me. When you are increasing the gain, you are clearly hearing that you switch suddenly from clean mode to OD mode. It sounds boxy in my headphones.
It doesn't take pedals that well (not a strong point of Kemper either). Various one i tried (bluesbreaker clone, tube screamer, dumble style OD...) sounded MEH.
I had high hopes about the spring reverb, but i think the one in the kemper has a wider range of use.
Tremolo is OKish.
Ergonomics are really bad, only one recallable preset, no way to see what are the values of said preset. There is no editor. No midi. No TRS output (but two TS instead). No XLR. Rotating dials don't feel like a pedal dial but like a remote : you have to move them a lot for them to register that you want the actual setting to change. Alternate mode for the Tremolo makes you wonder what is happening when you forgot in which mode you are.
This is a stereo pedal, but i couldn't tell the difference listening to it in mono.
Connected to my soundcard, the volume seems too low.
I don't really understand for whom this is intended. I wanted to create a compact pedalboard with a few ods and effects to replace my Toaster on the go, but for me there is only the clean sound that sound good, and as much as i like fender cleans, this seems a bit short to constitute a "rig".
I hope we will get an OS 9 with improved modulation effects.
But a new hardware is probably in the works since our beloved Kemper is not in many conversations online and i bet sales are declining.
For me it would be an improved quality of the profiled tones.
Other features like double amp, pedal profiling, fancy screen would be nice to have, but would probably not be enough to justify the upgrade for me.
If a Kemper 2 was to be released, what would be THE killer feature which would make you think "i have to upgrade" ?
I was lucky enough to get a grip on the complete collection of a well known Profiles maker at a highly discounted price.
Now i have 180 something folders to insert in RM and i will have to import them one by one, recreating the virtual folders each time by hand.
Please do something. 
Hi Pre-Amp, thank you for taking the time to help me 
The reverb is placed post-amp. I was intially using it pre-amp (with same issues) but wanted to try it in stereo. Since it seems better in stereo and since my amp is pretty clean, it's not less authentic so.
I have tried to lessen the mix but even at very small value the cliping was still there.
I have tried per you recommandation to try a different amp, i switched the princeton profile for a deluxe reverb profile, and the clipping is less apparent... Althought the DR seems louder, i guess its frequency content is different (darker) and so it clips less.
What i ended-up doing with the Princeton was using a pure boost at -5db before the reverb, and removing -1db in the amp block which seems enough to tame the problem.
Again, thank you for your help.
I would love some sort of USB dongle to allow iPad connection wirelessly for non-stage units.
It's actually possible at home when the Kemper is connected on your network.
My wish is for Rig Manager to be able to search subfolders like any normal database.
My wish is for Rig Manager to just be a mirror of the actual folder structure on the hard drive and not a database.
Hi everyone,
i have been playing lately with the spring reverb to get surf sounds. I ended with a tone i like, with some parameters pushed but there is always a tad of clipping in the result.
Now, i'm a trying to learn a song that require to use the bridge pickup on my strat (it was the middle till there), and the clipping is unbearable.
I'm using pretty extreme settings on the surf reverb
Mix 85% Decay Time 3,2s Dripstone +5 Spring size 8.6
All the other valus are relatively stock.
I have tried many countermeasures to adresse the problem : decreasing the mix, putting a parametric EQ at 3khz before or after the reverb, putting a high cut on the spring reverb, decreasing my guitar volume, decreasing the rig volume. All of these gives me so so results, either the clipping is not reduced enough or the tone loose all his sparkle.
For now the best solution i have come with is to reduce the input sense.
It's currently set at +6db globally. I don't get any clipping without the reverb, i get sometimes small orange flickering when digging very high.
When adding the reverb, i get the clipping demonstrated in the first clip.
WIth clean sens at -6db (minus six), the problem is really tamed (albeit still there when digging very hard), but it can't be a solution to fiddle with the clean sens just for one sound (is it even possible to change the clean sens only for one rig without using a performance ?)
What could i do
On the demo of the OCD capture, the transients are missing in the modeling.
