I recently sold all my pedals and amps and bought a Kemper. It's a great tool and sounds fantastic (and is way easier than micing an amp at home).
I made some hip hop with a kemper
Great tone Dan, does the Kemper do all the effects you need too?
Hey Brad!
Yeah, I sold most of my gear to get a hold of the kemper. I kept the H9 though. The Kemper has great mod effects, but I don't shmaak the delays and reverbs too much. They're not bad, but they ain't timeline/timefactor quality. So I just use the H9 in the loop, and will maybe add in a Timeline again later on.
That being said, I am extremely happy having moved from amp + pedal board to kemper. I'm only making music at home now (in the final year of my LLb, and then doing masters next year) and the kemper is fantastic for bass and guitar, and even for acoustic DI too. And the routing is flexible enough that I can track through the kemper and track a DI signal simultaneously to use for reamping/DAW amp plugins later.
The amp tones are fantastic, but they really are only as good as the profile - if it's a shit profile, it's gonna sound like shit. Furhter to that, you need a good set of monitors if you're using it at home. I'm lucky enough to have some Genelecs, but if I didn't I probably wouldn't have made the move. Lastly, a kemper does not replace an amp for me. The kemper is the sound of a mic'd amp, so as if you were sitting in the control room with your amp mic'd in the live room. For guys that haven't had much experience in studio this would probably be a big turnoff on first listen. But, the advantage for a home studio owner is that you are getting access to great amps profiled with good pres and good mics in a nice sounding room by someone who most likely has good knowlegde on mic placement. So for making music at home (which for me means creating pieces and sending a bounce to friends to collaborate) it is a killer tool. And the ability to take those exact tones into a live setting (depending of course on how good the FOH rig is) is fantastic.
Yeah, I sold most of my gear to get a hold of the kemper. I kept the H9 though. The Kemper has great mod effects, but I don't shmaak the delays and reverbs too much. They're not bad, but they ain't timeline/timefactor quality. So I just use the H9 in the loop, and will maybe add in a Timeline again later on.
That being said, I am extremely happy having moved from amp + pedal board to kemper. I'm only making music at home now (in the final year of my LLb, and then doing masters next year) and the kemper is fantastic for bass and guitar, and even for acoustic DI too. And the routing is flexible enough that I can track through the kemper and track a DI signal simultaneously to use for reamping/DAW amp plugins later.
The amp tones are fantastic, but they really are only as good as the profile - if it's a shit profile, it's gonna sound like shit. Furhter to that, you need a good set of monitors if you're using it at home. I'm lucky enough to have some Genelecs, but if I didn't I probably wouldn't have made the move. Lastly, a kemper does not replace an amp for me. The kemper is the sound of a mic'd amp, so as if you were sitting in the control room with your amp mic'd in the live room. For guys that haven't had much experience in studio this would probably be a big turnoff on first listen. But, the advantage for a home studio owner is that you are getting access to great amps profiled with good pres and good mics in a nice sounding room by someone who most likely has good knowlegde on mic placement. So for making music at home (which for me means creating pieces and sending a bounce to friends to collaborate) it is a killer tool. And the ability to take those exact tones into a live setting (depending of course on how good the FOH rig is) is fantastic.
Well done Danny B! Your track sounds great!
Very nice!