QUOTE (Chris S. @ Apr 30 2015, 03:34 PM)
What about an Axe FX vs a Kemper profiling amp?
I have the 11 rack and love it (who couldn't?) but when I decide to make the jump up I'm torn between the two.
Well, i have no experience with the kemper so i can't say anything about quality of tones but i can tell you why i chose the Axe.
Main reason was all the possibilities in my home studio. I can hook it up for recording in many ways; spdif, usb, analog, aes. Reamping is a great feature where i can record both the wet and dry signal in my DAW at the same time. Right now i have it set up so I record the wet thru analog and dry thru spdif. This means i can later go in and reamp the dry signal thru the axe and record with another modified tone if i want. Without playing again. Great when you nail a take but want to change amp or eq or add effects or whatever. I'm sure you can ramp with the kemper too, but i doubt it's as easy.
Another thing is Axe Edit, the software editor for the Axe. Much easier to dial tones on a guitar on the pc than messing with the front panel. I think Kemper still have no editor even though they talked about it for years.
Continous upgrades are another big plus. The Axe II is on FW 18.10 now. Fractal never stops to try and make this machine better. New amps/effects every major firmware,and... it's always free.
Loads of preset sharing going on over there too, and there are a couple of guys that really know there stuff, check out a guy with the username Fremen, awesome stuff! With Kemper there are a lot of profiles to download, butmany of the best are however commercial so i imagine you'll end up spending plenty of dollars chasing your ideal tone, cause let's face it, guitarists are always looking for that holy grail of tone.
I feel the Kempers best treat is it profile amps and results are extremely accurate if you know what you're doing. However, I don't have access to nice tube amps so that feature is not for me.
These are a few of my thoughts in the matter but I think you'd be happy with whatever you choose, just think of how you're gonna use it, Make a list of what features you must have, would like and which you don't need, then read up on what they can do. Register in both forums and read threads there and listen to clips.
You will have GREAT tone with both I'm sure, it's probably more a matter of what you want to use it for.
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