THIS THING RULES - KEMPER PROFILER PLAYER

[@OlaEnglund]

That song in the beginning is from The Chug Project album 2 and can be heard here: open.spotify.com/album/1ZQNEE3ChpdPvkoplNvKqp?si=y-gZddDASUyWiZSty34-8g

[@davislunatic]

This rips one's brain out from the ears. Very Eargasm friendly.

[@defconALPHA]

Songs on my Spotify Playlist On Repeat 🤘🏻

[@mylesluca3184]

OLA WHAT SONG IS IT?!?! IM TRYING TO FIND IT BUT I CANT

[@przemysawchludzinski7115]

smthng sticked to your strings on the headstock

[@WaleshiddenhistoryMD]

After wasting money and being massively disappointed in the tonex pedal, I'm just going to stick to my Peavey 6505 and Marshall DSL 2000 amps...

[@WholeLottaBulldog]

I didn't like it either. Curious, what didn't you like about it ?

[@patpolowyk6434]

I totally agree with you.

[@Dustinchugs]

I still think the Kemper stage is the best of both worlds!

[@MusicAnirban]

I tried this at NAMM 2024 and it indeed sounds great.

[@hcnilsson]

There is some sweet spot in the mid on the intro, can't put the finger on it (obv. not there), but it's almost gnarly, the down pick just. Gnaurl 🎸

[@willman100]

Great video but that guitar is what I’m liking the most. Which Solar model is it?

[@johncarter1852]

Nice unit but I am sticking with my QC.

[@mylogify]

sticking with your Quality Control?

[@shazg567]

@@mylogify quad cortex maybe

[@Brentisahorse]

Ola I like the Chinese rocks font, reminds me of RDR2

[@KDWALKER1263]

You’re a great player Ola but I find your presets even the new one sounds like kaka ! You’re getting there young fella keep up the great work!

[@LeonLandgren-qt9pg]

Orig profile låter badass! Latency inget problem!

[@vincecarpenter661]

More OLA TECH DEATH

[@Kolibri92]

nice shirt

[@rockwithv]

Hello, I’m playing bass in a 2 pieces grindcore band, only drum and bass. Wanna ask you a question, is it possible for me to separate it into 2 channel, 1st one is distortion sound, 2nd is clean and can i switch or turn off one of em whenever i want?

[@guitartoneSA]

Of course. You have 10 Banks each with five rigs. What you want would use Bank one just using two rigs, you can switch between them using any two footswitches. You could just use Bank one and have five rigs (add some FX) that you could switch between, seamlessly and instantaneously.

[@rockwithv]

@@guitartoneSA thank youuuu

[@DonaHannah-x8k]

Plug straight into a pa desk

[@ForeverDownByLaw]

Meh, get yourself a Fryette GP/DI and the IRs of your choice and rock much harder.

[@JRP3music]

Telephone call.....

[@ShooterMG88]

Day 14 of me asking Ola to learn Six Feet Under “ Seed Of Filth”

[@OlaEnglund]

I did play it when I was in Six Feet Under! Only remember the main chunky riff

[@Zakkrifice]

Hey Ola, Kemper introduced "Liquid Profiling" about 6 months ago, where you can tell the Kemper what kind of amp and tonestack you are using and where the knobs were during profiling. Then the Kemper emulates the function of said amp/tonestack and gives you a very good combination of profiling and simulation. So it can really do both now and allow for a faithful/usable editing of profiles.

[@OlaEnglund]

Yeah I did play around with the tonestacks a bit. I really just felt that it's more about where the EQ is working when using it. I still prefered the original profile without tweaking bass, middle, treble

[@MusicheadRick]

Sounds ok..... yeah but the old Fractal AX8 still sounds better. Same price now 2nd hand, better fx, better software, more processing power, etc.

[@EulogyfortheAngels]

@@MusicheadRick does the AX8 lack a headphone jack?

[@MusicheadRick]

@@EulogyfortheAngels yes no headphone out. But thou shall use the godly tool in the form of a cheapo mixer !

[@williammartinez9906]

@@EulogyfortheAngels Ax8 has headphones jack

[@Lamarro]

And he didnt even try the liquid Profiling yet !

[@spicyfox7734]

Loving the player so far, it has kept me from option paralysis. Found 4 profiles i love and just use them as needed,no more endless tweaking. Using it as a pedal platform and building a board around it.

[@METALHAWK]

People attacking kemper tone is so funny. They probably know more than Judas Priest musicians. Btw, the tone in this video is actually quite bad! I think he has the Pure Cabinet option active. I dont recognize my unit AT ALL watching this. If you guys want to know how Kemper is, you should watch Andertons kemper blindfolds, those are must watch.

[@Oakyplays]

PLEASE sell those string mutes by themselves! Found out about jimmy clip years after they stopped making them so never grabbed one

[@SmokeWasTaken43]

Hey Ola I know you're a busy guy and are very unlikely to see a comment from a video 5 months in the past! But I love watching you explaining modelers and how you make your tones on a new rig setup, do you think it's likely you'll do an updated Helix LT or Floor tone making update? I noticed your previous video was 7 ish years ago and would love (As a helix player and enjoyer) to see how you make a KILLER tone on there nowadays! Much love from the UK and hope you're all well

[@seanchristopher740]

Kemper Liquid Profiling has changed the destructive editing thing you're talking about. Which was pretty much like using an EQ on your signal chain like anyone would normally do and its something front of house already does as well so it isn't really as negative as people were thinking.

[@MrCcfly]

Same time it is just a variation on bad sound , nam has twice better real sound ,tonex if it has fx it will run circles around kemper

[@DeathMattl]

The older rigs also sound a bit weak on the Stage and Powerhead. So its not the fault of the 'Player'. Effects are definitely limited compared to the big brothers 😄

[@SHREDTILLDEAD]

It's all about what the mic captured. Most of what people upload into the kemper are pretty " vanilla " compared to what you can get by knowing where and how to mic it or summing more than one mic on a profile.

[@DeathMattl]

Exactly 👍

[@toftetofteson]

Hey, the Player is limited in the effects. You can just use two in the Front and two after the amp! Midi is possible with an USB-Adapter!

[@bellinghammond]

forgive the newb question but, what can you do with MIDI?

[@guitartoneSA]

Bit of a weird review video. 🙂 The title says Kemper Player Rules, thumbnail says I'm Sold. And then Ola says his own original Profiles sound like shit. 😂 In fact his original Profiles are awesome and the metal guys using Kempers still reckon it sounds better than all the new competition.

[@zomielastaroth4956]

How could you miss liquid when tweaking? Someone didn't read the manual. 😅

[@joemusicman64]

You're always selling, that's for sure. 😂

[@rndm_rob]

I was given an introduction to the Kemper Player at the headquaters in Recklinghausen. There will be an update to fix some bugs and add more slots for effects (up to ten I think). Also the power adapter is outside of the kemper and not grounded, there is a noise when you only use your headphones and nothing else but the guitar is attached - they are searching for a solution for this.

[@88Nikoli]

Yeah, the Spark 40 had that problem too, but if you grounded it through something, even a usb cable, it eliminated hum . They ended up making grounded psu .

[@richardjones2811]

Amp, couple of pedals and that's it. All this computer stuff distracts people from actually practicing

[@den_sink]

I think the main thing of this device is control via Bluetooth

[@ElvisVillarrealTapia]

Yes, some people are disappointed , it doesn't have a display and the player is limited to 02 pre and 02 post FX.

[@manuelGroo1]

sorry ola but i didn like it. sounds fizzy af

[@anthonyschreck]

IMHO The old profiles did not change. Your hearing developed.

[@pj666kemperprofiles]

Agree. In fact old profiles can't even "change". Nevertheless, some effects may be missing because the Player is limited to 2 effects slots before amp and 2 after.

[@CrushingAxes]

Nice man! This intro riff is kille! Awesome stuff! Ola the profilerer

[@samizdat113]

How is this better than the $400 ToneX?

[@stephonwilliams8890]

Don’t get why people keep comparing it to Tonex. It doesn’t profile and has additional effects other than amps. Should be compared to hx stomp,gt 1k core etc.

[@ShreddingFinn]

​@stephonwilliams8890 it doesn't have anything close to the flexibility of the stomp

[@stephonwilliams8890]

@mtsalmela80 wouldn't argue that. All of these units have their drawbacks. I could say the hx stomp doesn't sound as good as the kemper. It's all about tradeoffs.

[@gabrielstevens41]

Or the Ampero Stage 2 that just came out which at least as far as features go shits on this for the same price

[@steveareton697]

@@stephonwilliams8890 They are both very realistic sounding and fairly inexpensive amp/cab profile players in a very compact unit. The stomp,1k core are just traditional modelers that some people are trying to get away from?

[@Draugrtvv]

Ola skägglund

[@matthewmorin7016]

Still to expensive

[@MikaelNihilsen]

This has 2 pre and 2 post fx slots so if you had a rig with more fxs then it’ll sound different… also some fxs aren’t in the player so they will be replaced by the included ones so also will sound different. I ordered this because it’ll be perfect for me. Although Pink Floyd with 2 pre and 2 post might be tough lol

[@88Nikoli]

Fx is short for and pronounced effects , so fxs is effectses !

[@kauko8124]

I really love the Kemper over all the others that I've tried. Something for everyone...

[@hillblocksview]

@12:38 yeah, they really "Put the *NAIL* on the head!" 😂 agreed 😁

[@MotoMatt418]

So this or the Fractal FM3?

[@TheWelhaven]

I love mine! Week two, and still on the first profile. Some day I’ll check out the other amps 😅 Tried to record in Garageband yesterday, and it sounded real good.

[@menschlicheswesen84]

U run a kemper for a garage band...? Isn't that bit much for a garage...?😊

[@tunnelportterror]

You're putting yourself in a digital sampled CD distortion sound closet, and rolling a rock in front of the door.

[@TheWelhaven]

@@tunnelportterror No worry, my band still uses tube amps and analog pedals 🙂 Kemper is just for home practice and demo recordings.

[@poindextertunes]

@@tunnelportterrorwtf does this even mean? 😂

[@RishPanjeetJr]

Can you help a caveman? Can I use THIS Kemper player pedal *instead* of actual amps? Would I just plug into two speaker cabs? Into a front-of-house PA?? 🤔

[@Derpadeedooda]

One thing that's rarely talked about is how the Kemper has its own distinct sound regardless of what amp it is profiling. It's hard to say exactly what it is, but it has its own "color" that it adds to profiles that just make it sound amazing

[@VortechBand]

The closest I could describe the sound is a compressed presence on top of the "actual sound".

[@Derpadeedooda]

@@VortechBand I was thinking that it has a slightly cocked wah sound

[@ZomBeatBrainZ]

That could be the microphone used to profile

[@JeffJacobson-ge4be]

I used to think this, but then I did some blind A/B tests with the real amp versus Powered Kemper and Kemper Kab. I could not pick the real amp. I think what people are hearing as the Kemper sound is their amp / speaker / headphones

[@dubbxylon1470]

Ola! 🎉do you run the Kemper into a cab or studio speakers in this video? Sounds fantastic as fuck!

[@Gatecreeper69]

This is the perfect segway to a power amp video. Would really appreciate a video showing different power amps for these units going directly to cabs. Your opinions would be most appreciated. Orange pedal baby, seymour duncan power stage and whatever fancy shit you probably have. Something for everybody!

[@EarthisnotforSale]

Can you run this into a Katana PowerAmp?

[@VladoBelo]

Hi. Today I was offered a Kemper and I tried it with Catalyst 60. Signal goes to power in Catalyst, return input. And satisfaction, It plays best with the IR turned off.. Between the Kemper and the Catalyst I'll also put the Flamma looper 😀 You know what I enjoy the most is that Kemper plays songs from my mobile phone at the same time as the guitar via Bluetooth...

[@ProjectCreativityGuy96]

I always steal My Sister's bra to the sound of Ola's guitar tone!!!

[@canyonproductions7683]

Im STOKED with the new 2.0 update my Pod Go but that Kemper sounds cool too! These are ALL capable brands. Then its all in the fingers 🙌🏻

[@blakeoms]

Love my pod go, best piece of gear I use it everyday and yes the new update really makes it worth the price.

[@johnpaulstez]

How do you like the pod go? I’m considering the wireless. I’m looking for some thing that has all the depth and richness that I used to be able to get out of my stacks in the 80s. But I am now a dad and a dedicated headphone wearing guitarist now. Can I get that all that tone and response of the pod go as a standalone with a good pair of headphones? Thank you. All of the guitar plug amps, and the Waza have come up pretty short.

[@blakeoms]

@johnpaulstez personally I'm not a big wireless or battery operated type of person, but I would strongly suggest the pod go. I actually get a lot of my IRs from tone hunt (for free) and haven't had any problems, and the line6 custom pre set sharing with the community is even better. I use mine everyday day and I'm using it right now for my low volume practice on my monitors. And you'll find countless versions of a JCM800 and plexi' cause everyone has their own ideal sound for how every amp should sound, but that's subjective for what sounds "best" to you. I have 3 JCM800 presets and 4 Superlead and 2 plexi' that just sound amazing, you hear them and you're like this 🥴

[@freekornwilly]

How quick does it change patches? Is there a noticeable gap when shifting?

[@boddha9925]

Wouldnt it be great if this would also have a tube or power amplifier for live playing with a band? Also if you could add your ipad to this thing on top for easy set switching, where you could switch effects and amps easily per drag and drop would be awesome. Well i saw there is a function to connect your ipad, but the software looks horrible to me for easy and fast use on stage. If that would be refined with good UI design, i could get into it. Also Important to me is when i would use this thing, that i have a very similar feeling to a tube amp while playing.

[@realtruenorth]

I run a rack Kemper through a 90 watt 6L6 powered Mesa simul class into an old school 200 watt EVL 12" cab and it sounds as good as my real Mesa and Fryette tube amps. It might sound slightly different in some ways but sounds just as good when pushed by real tubes with some class A magic in the mix. Kemper needs a good amp/cab rig to let it shine.

[@bellinghammond]

have you tried the Kemper Power Kabinet?

[@DragonPlays_Gaming]

Good to know. I'm looking at getting the Profile Player and running it through my 6505+ 🤓

[@realtruenorth]

@@bellinghammond I'm sure it's great, but I don't feel a need to improve my rig. Plus those old EVs are very transparent. So kinda similar concept to what Kemper kabinet is doing there.

[@realtruenorth]

@@DragonPlays_Gaming it should sound great running it like that. You might have to tweek the secondary eq to match things up, but a little tweaking can nail your tone.

[@t_separator]

If it had 8fx blocks and performance mode I would be a no brainer for me🤷‍♂️

[@Vagran]

I've been out of the game for a bit. Is this basically what's replaced Multi Effects Pedals?

[@Paulhartrocks]

Yep, and amps as well.

[@sebrura]

I know the Stage is a lot bigger, but still, it has everything and no need for extra time-consuming tweaking to have your profiles work well. If smaller size isn't paramount, Stage all the way.

[@DragonPlays_Gaming]

But the stage costs so much more. This little units cost puts it in an affordable price point for many 😀

[@matthewearl9824]

This is a hard miss for me.

[@mjmason75]

Dang! I'm diggin' that Intro Song even more than the Kemper Profiler Player!

[@adamphillips6747]

Can you use old presets from the bigger Kempers?

[@ProjectCreativityGuy96]

Right, it's time to go Kemping!

[@valuedhumanoid6574]

When I went to a guitar store, I made sure to always have my Kemper with me. If I found and amp I liked, I would ask if they would let me profile it. Some did, some did not. If they did, I would bring it in, set it up and profile it. So I knew EXACTLY what the original sounded like. When I got it home, I would try it out while the memory was still fresh in my head. Perhaps conformation bias made me believe it was a perfect copy, but it was amazing. I "collected" eleven profiles of very high demand amps that way. I even got a Dumble that had a price tag of $110k. But eventually it came back to haunt me. I left it in the trunk and came back out, it was gone. Someone smashed my window, popped the trunk lid open, cleaned me out. Whoever has my Kemper got it preloaded with some KILLER tones. I hope they choke on it.

[@bellinghammond]

sometimes "The Cloud is your friend"

[@valuedhumanoid6574]

@@bellinghammond Yeah. I wish I would have had the forethought of storing it all online. Story of my life!

[@88Nikoli]

Yeah, and the asshole who stole it never even knew what they had !

[@DragonPlays_Gaming]

Man, great idea profiling the amps at the music store 😂

[@davidramos4317]

r/thathappened

[@pitaorj]

what about the liquid profiles?

[@therileyobrien]

If it was $400...maybe.

[@tattooed1979]

Exactly! Keep it around the same price as the tonex.

[@RarelyMediocre]

Hey Ola! awesome riffage, bro! Made me pickup my guitar instantly!

[@landmine940]

Ola I’m sorry I haven’t been able to give your channel the attention it deserves but in April of last year I fell and broke my Back and was in recovery for a 9 months but now I’m back and I have a lot of content catching up on thank you for everything you do you’re a great person and a great way to get a person back on their feet you really inspire me brother Much respect 🫡 and love ❤️ Chug on 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

[@darkhunterc7]

Did you know? "Ola" means "Hello" in both portuguese and spanish! When you're tripping to a country that spells in one of these languages, ya saying "Ola" to people you meet there!

[@TudorAdrian]

This would have been good value if it traded blows with the ToneX pedal price-wise but with its current cost, it can't compete. IK have issues with the input gain etc on ToneX etc but as far as the profiling accuracy and overall offering, the ToneX pedal is still the better buy. Kudos to Kemper for still carrying the torch though. Hope to see more, improved, products from them in the near future.

[@compucorder64]

It is great. But not for me, because it's only mono input. So doesn't play well with all the great modern digital pedals. Even newer analogue pedals like the Boss DM-101, CE-2W, Dimension DC-2W. And the Tonex is half the price, if mono was ok for me. Which makes Helix or Quad Cortex still the default at middle price. Or I see some people using a pair of Tonex pedals, which is a nice idea, especially if you put them under MIDI control.

[@MonolithStudiosMelbourne]

Worth noting it DOES have midi/ using a USB > MIDI cable :)

[@timloerke2454]

Yeah, nice, but...., Gelaps also can play IRs and..., the Software is nearly free. The sound is, you know it, good like the impulse recording is. I mean, you can have great or worse results but it depends of the recording from the IR's. I guess, the Kemper is some years to late. You can have same results on any mobile fon. For me, this unit is overpriced. Rock on Ola. 😁

[@NessMeister]

It had MIDI via usb

[@smeemusic]

Imagine aliens making contact with humans and having no concept of music. Channels like this would be impossibly confusing to them. Sry still waking up and getting my head strait. No clue why I went for aliens. Lmao. Really just a comment for the algorithm.

[@jonyi467]

Man. I clicked on this because I thought it said "I'M SO OLD." You're young. Clickbait!

[@LouCondon-j1v]

Ola, could you go into more detail into the "Destructive" part in Kemper profiling. Thanks.

[@steveareton697]

Neat little unit I gotta say - but imho Tone-X really seems to have it (mostly) beat at $399 (including the super useful Amplitude software!) AND it also profiles + very useable built in reverb and noise gate. All it needs is your favorite delay pedal if you're into playing leads and you're good to go!

[@OlaEnglund]

Good and fair point for sure! 👍

[@redsilverjack]

Love my tonex pedalboard

[@bemorecheetah]

I tried both at NAMM and the Kemper was much better

[@superdave452]

not having midi is a deal breaker for me. what a shame. i was really looking forward to this pedal. I wasnt worried about the lack of effects. I have an HX effects unit.But if i cant 4cm with this and control it thru midi...I mean...wtf?.....WHO is this pedal targeted for? EVEN THE BOSS ME-90 HAS MIDI....SO LAME imo. With the lack of fx capability and midi this thing is a paper weight that was obsolete 10 years before it even hit shelves.

[@paulbaglio6295]

I've owned the Kemper and Fractal units for the past 10 years... I've never been able to pick a clear winner. Personally I feel the Kemper produces better hi gain tones and the Fractal has superior effects

[@JeffJacobson-ge4be]

super cool, I love my Kemper, I don't think there is much room for improvement on sound or feel, but man they take a long time to boot up, hope the pedal is faster.

[@jasonhudson5357]

I can't see this being successful, for one thing the price. You can buy a used Kemper Profiler for the same price.

[@aris9125]

Ola, do you know about the Tight Metal Pro II? hope one day to see it demoed on your channel! by the way, nice guitar!

[@darkoniiii]

Mr. Ola, if you could upload that new preset, it would be amazing :)

[@musicboise208]

So this is your new live go to rig?? No more tubes just a plug in kemper and Rawk

[@tjkrave5811]

Just ordered one for recording at home does anyone have any recommendations or suggestions as far as running it direct or could you stack it through a head? Thanks 🙏

[@pauliusmscichauskas558]

Considering this thing does not do proifling and tonex does (Just as well as Kemper), while also being twice as cheap, I think the winner between the two is clear.

[@elsantish]

kemper profiler player / Headrush Core / Quad Cortex. Ola please help to decide which one to buy.

[@raven_glass]

Did they have to make this thing shaped like it's straight from the 1970s? Many of their competitors are smaller at a similar price point.

[@kencreten7308]

Great review. you might be surprised with our failing human ears... (see equal loudness curves, among other things) that you may not remember things exactly as they were.

[@tjkrave5811]

Keep up the content brother! You helped me figure out my profiler way better than the half hearted manual they sent with it hahah. \m/

[@shizzlefohizzle417]

Hey Ola! Can you make a kemper profile pack of all the amps you have? With your settings and pedals and your IRs? Id love to have access to some of your tones!

[@matthewfreeman33]

I'm sure he'll get right on it. I'm sure he has at least 3 free hours to help some random youtuber commenting on his videos

[@retrorewind6042]

@@matthewfreeman33a fair amount of people do this. Settle down

[@ELECTRICSCARS]

Way to expensive, 700€ for that little piece, come on

[@stink-a-lynx6571]

save up a little more money and get an FM3 that does more

[@mylogify]

More like what else?

[@djabthrash]

00:04 that drum tone (especially snare) sounds so much like the latest Dying Fetus albums hehe

[@bt43ar]

Your presets on this kemper it's suck's!!!I have this unit and i know dude!

[@randomrob2221]

Its just kinda made me scratch my head cuz why dont they add a screen on it? Like I would like to use a tuner without adding another pedal

[@kelvindam3306]

Hi Ola, any chance you'll review the new KMA Machines Endgame pedal?

[@Brandon-RZ]

Not being able to capture rigs with that price point is a major L.

[@bradhienzachary]

Wow only a few more years we’ll get something better smaller and cheaper!

[@jaycswift4751]

Its okay dude, I've butchered that song before too. 😅

[@Tru_Gamer]

Nice DooM T-Shirt I'm a metal head gamer also :)