Gear Curiosities: Kemper Profiler - Ten Years of the Tone Matching Toaster!

Today in Plague Scythe Studios, I take a long-overdue (and just plain long) look at the OTHER big player in amplifier modeling - the Kemper Profiling Head!

Kemper Profiles: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/10TMlDlGTjGWEILUMhdNvsOhWb1jGVsg5?usp=sharing

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Buckle Up, Buckaroo.

00:00 - The Beginning

02:37 - The stuff this video does NOT cover

06:38 - The Plan

08:08 - The Differences between Profiles & Models

12:01 - DEMO: Free & Premium Kemper Profiles

19:26 - The Kemper's Signature Sound

22:34 - The Secret to Profiling... is Modeling

26:20 - DEMO: Capturing a Kemper Profile

29:41 - The Capabilities of Profiling vs. Modeling

33:53 - The Biggest Problem with Profiling: Refining

37:46 - The Other Types of Profile: DI & Merged

41:45 - The IR Proposition

43:21 - DEMO: Real Amp Stack vs. Merged Profile vs. DI Profile w/ IR

44:24 - The DI Profile Investigation

46:25 - DEMO: Real Amps w/ IR vs DI Kemper Profiles w/ IR

51:20 - The Kemper is REALLY Close, But...

57:07 - The Kemper struggles with some amp qualities

1:05:18 - The High Gain Homogeny Dilemma

1:09:40 - DEMO: Advanced Profile Tweaking

1:13:31 - DEMO: Kemper Drive

1:16:43 - DEMO: Kemper Fuzz

1:21:05 - DEMO: Live FX Playthrough

1:31:47 - The Big Takeaways

1:43:50 - The End