PROFILING
With the advent of the KEMPER PROFILER, everything has changed. For the first time in history, guitar players are free to create their most individual tones – tones that reflect the very essence of their playing style – and then capture these tones exactly into the digital domain with the unique technology provided by KEMPER™.
PROFILING is an unparalleled technique to extract the exact tone and feel from any amp. The entire process takes you only a minute and can be performed on virtually every guitar and bass amp. A PROFILE™ does not only capture the amp itself but every aspect of the cabinet and microphone configuration as well. The result is every bit as vivid and dynamic as the original amps. A mandatory A/B comparison is done after every PROFILING run to ensure the unique authenticity of the PROFILE: so close that you won’t be able to distinguish from the original.
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We use proprietary digital technology to analyze the sonic DNA of your amp. Now, you can go way beyond the boundaries of the original amp and tweak everything to your liking. Use the gain control and equalizer to adapt the sound to your guitar. Add power sagging to the distortion and tweak the power of your pick attack without compression. You can even exchange the cabinet later on.
The PROFILER gives you more freedom of choice than any other real or virtual amp available.
A PROFILE you take in a tracking session for your next song will work perfectly on stage when you take it on tour. It was never easier to have a unique and consistent tone in every situation.
WHERE DO YOU PLAY?
RECORDING STUDIO
The PROFILER revolutionizes the typical workflow of a recording session. Guitarists can now move freely between projects – the PROFILEs of their guitar rigs allowing them to do overdubs or alternative takes whenever they like. You could rent a professional studio for a day or two to create the best PROFILEs of your amps, and then record in your project studio later – you’ll have the exact sound of the professional studio, but with all the time in the world.
Think reamping … Imagine you’re working on the final mix of an album – wouldn’t it be great to reamp tracks with the exact same sound and response, without having to rebuild the entire recording setup for each song?
ON STAGE
Playing live is where the PROFILER really comes into its own – just spend a little time making PROFILEs in the studio, and you can play live with the exact same sound that you used on your blockbuster hit, only without the need for multiple amp setups on stage. You will sound better than ever before through the PA.
Since the sound of the cabinet you mic’ed in the studio is immortalized in the PROFILE, there is no need to mic a speaker cab on stage. In fact, you don’t have to carry a cabinet up on stage at all! You can monitor yourself via the common stage-monitor wedge and save a lot of backache and cargo costs. Not to mention your band mates (and mixing engineer), who might just love you for leaving this very loud sound source at home!
Of course, you might still be drawn to the raw energy that a real cabinet can bring to the rehearsal room and live stage. The KEMPER PROFILER is well prepared for this as well – you can still drive a cabinet by an external power-amp, fed by the monitor outputs of the PROFILER. Or, for ultimate convenience, our ‘powered’ PROFILER versions are equipped with a built-in Class-D amplifier with up to 600W output. To prevent the amp sound going through two guitar cabinets in a row, the virtual cabinet can be switched off for the outputs feeding the monitor and speakers, while remaining active for the main outputs feeding the PA.
Now, as the real cabinet is only being used as your personal monitor, you can adjust your volume on stage independently, without affecting the signal volume going to front-of-house.
AT HOME
Let’s face it – rocking-out at home is difficult for most of us. Analog tube amps only start to sing at levels where the only neighbors who’ll enjoy your 10min rock’n’roll extravaganza will be the ones who live half-a-mile away! The PROFILER, however, sounds great at any level.
Play it through your home stereo or through headphones. Use the dedicated ‘Space’ effect to make headphones a more pleasurable experience, and to reduce ear fatigue. Play along to your favorite music by connecting your MP3 player to the auxiliary in, and then mixing it with the amp signal.
RETAIN CONTROL
THE LIVE INSURANCE
The PROFILER has been designed with live performances in mind. Performance Mode provides dedicated memory with which to create and organize complete musical scenes that correspond to your repertoire. Any tweaks you make here will stay exclusive to the Performance. There is plenty of space, allowing you to store up to 125 songs with five musical scenes each. During a concert, you can simply step from song to song according to your set-list.
PROFILER REMOTE AND MIDI FLOOR BOARD SUPPORT
The PROFILER Remote is the perfectly integrated solution to control the KEMPER PROFILER. It connects via a single cable, no additional power cable is required.
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Traditional MIDI based foot controllers are also supported, and pretty much every parameter can be controlled.
