I’ve not fired up a tube for a live event in almost 10 years. I use Kemper for guitars electric and acoustic. This small unit doesn’t really appeal to me but a more than 4 effects before and after the amp block and maybe the ability to do 2 amps would be nice. I would love to have the ability to route out a WDW setup out of the Kemper. I travel pretty much every week with a toaster or Stage. The unit doesn’t need to be smaller for me. In addition I have NEVER profiled an amp. Yet l paid for the ability to do it. I’m perfectly happy with buying profiles at a reasonable price and I greatly appreciate free rigs and profiles that Kemper and this channel offers. Blessings to you all and I do appreciate the channel. 😊
Danke für die ersten Infos und Eindrücke zum Kemper Player. Habe schon einen Kemper Stage und habe gleichwohl den Player bereits bestellt und er ist auch schon auf dem Weg zu mir. 😀 Es wird aufgrund der geringeren Anzahl an Slots und Fußschalter sicherlich eine Umstellung für mich, aber mein Ziel ist es mit dem Player auch ein kleineres Pedalboard nutzen zu können. Schau mer mal, ob es klappt. Falls ja, darf der Player bleiben und auch statt dem Stage zur Probe und ggf. auch auf die Bühne.
Danke. Gutes Video. Den Graben zwischen analoger Haptik und digitaler Welt überbrückt das neue Produkt irgendwie nicht für mich. Keep Rockin' und Danke für die sachliche Darstellung.
While it can't profile, the formfactor and size (and look 😍) is something I could actually bring on the road. I'm buying it as soon as I can afford it!
Would you actually profile amps though ? I know I wouldn’t, I don’t have access or a need to profile amps but I will happily buy 4-5 of my favourite amps and be done with it
Looks very interesting. I recently purchased an FM3 Turbo, otherwise I would be all over this unit: Who knows maybe GAS will still make me buy one in a few months 😁
I am very happy that you released Player. I suggested this sort of approach to you guys a while back, great minds think alike :) send me one to review if you can. Congrats!
I think after having the Tonex honestly I don’t see the a big deal on the issues that people are having with this unit. The company just gave birth to this thing a couple of days ago and people already knocking it.
Danke für das sehr informative Video. Ich habe ein Stage und bin sehr zufrieden. Der Player ist bestellt und soll als Backup fungieren. Bin sehr gespannt?! Eine Frage ist nur wie ich Profile in den Player bekomme?! Per USB?
I'm looking at this as a backup option in case my stage were to crap out on me at a gig. It's a lot cheaper than having another stage as a backup. I use an expression pedal for the wah function and a separate footswitch for the morph. It looks like one of them would have to go if I were to use the player. I wonder if there are seperate output controls for the FOH and monitor output like on the stage?
Well not going to be fully compatible with you rigs no morphing no transpose only 4 effects so if you have anything like these in your rig you are to strip down your set up ….i would be happy with Amp/ Cab only player at $400 that would make sense why limit KEMPER users on all functions out of the gate at $698 imho
I know that the guys at Kemper have updates for it under their sleeves, the same way the Stage had a hidden Wi-Fi card, that they activated on one of the updates. They will be able to re-route any of the IN/OUTs to whatever you’d like…
I ordered mine already and waiting to get the notice that it has shipped :) It is definitely a unit with a lot of pros and cons - and that's my opinion - depending for what you will use this little unit. I had the Kemper Rack and sold it, was kinda "too much" for me at the time. This little thing is what I was waiting for, a unit that can play those great sounding profiles at a finger tip, some nice effects and that's it. Of course if you are a musician who needs a ton of effects this unit is, as far as what's written in the specs, not the 1st choice. Same if you need 2 XLR outputs or are in a desperate need of a fx-loop. Screen or no screen? Well, for those using it on stage, a simple screen showing the used profile would have been a good idea, cause being on stage with iPhone oder iPad sounds a bit funny to me. Just my 2 cents :)
@@zakklee2556 correct it has stereo output. He might have been referring to only one XLR out; but you could run stereo output through the single xlr if it is balanced output.
I have waited for it for a long time, now when it came out, i am not so sure. Pity it doesnt have a screen for orientation. Too early to know of its UI capabilities and limitations without demos and tutorials. For example 10 year old Atomic Amplifire and FM3, both with 3 switches have ability to recall 6 different sounds total, 2 sounds/scenes/presets per switch. Very easy to set it up, but for me it makes a big difference live. Size is perfect, i do not care about fx loop, it will be interesting to find out how good it does usb audio recording directly to DAW. I dont want to haul my Profiler Stage setup back and forth from studio and home, especially since i am constantly traveling between 3 living spaces in different countries.
You can use the three switch to jump between the five rig of the bank? (switch one for the first rig, switch 2 for the second, switch 3 for the third, switch 1+2 for the fourth switch 2+3 for the fifth)
I've never met any guitarist who uses more than two or three Performances at a gig. And here you have 10. In fact most guitarists I know use one Performance and 5 rigs.
While 90% of the time, I haven’t and I’m probably not going to use more than 4 effects when mine comes in tomorrow; but I hope in a future update there could be a way to condense or consolidate effects in to one “effect”. I mean, it’s digital, would just take some programming…
@@LochNessAnthonylol that was my thoughts exactly. I ordered it about 24 hours ago too… I’m in the US and only 8 or so hours away from Chicago where Kemper US is. UPS says it’ll be delivered tomorrow, I thought that was hella quick, even if it were middle of summer quick, let alone the holidays!
@@AkimboVermon None of the Kemper units do dual amps. But for the price of a quad cortex you could buy 2 of these and have dual amps totally independent from each other.
I think it would take a while to get my head around there not being “performances”, and I can’t tell if Liquid Profiles will work with this unit. The LP section was not visible on the rig manager you demonstrated? Thank you for the great show. Merry Christmas to you and your loved ones. Looking for to 2024!
I was Sooo excited for this unit BUT it is limited on effect chain / no loop and no Morphing function?.....I can live with the limited effects but Morphing is a game change for me with these 3 switches I need that function :( ...bummer ....at that price point hmmm it should be $400-$500 range with these limitations UNLESS of course updates will change these "issues" per say.
+1. Missed FX Loop is very unpleasant :( How do they decided to make single XLR and 2 TS? Why not 2 TRS like L6 HX Stomp, Headrush MX5 or Ampero Stomp 2? It's not a problem to purchase TRS-XLR cable. But you leave place on device for FX Loop. This thing ruins whole the idea of unit in board for professional use. Should I send unbalanced Strymon Bigsky to mixing console? Should I set it before Player? Should I buy separated stereo DI? Ah... such a diappointment!
@@Theliraan yeah mate seriously this seems like a $700 practice tool more then a legit pro Kemper rig … I think this wasn’t meant to be pro just a entry practice level toy imho
The way they hesitate to answer how they would use this unit, gives it away that it’s not design to be integrated in a pedalboard or standalone due to its limitations of I/O and functions. If we need to make compromises to make it work and or find workarounds it was not design to be use as such! For bedroom practice it’s good but too expensive for a practice device!!
It stated on the back of the unit. 9 volts or 12 volts at 24 watts. This converts to 2.6 amps at 9 volts or 2 amps at 12 volts. So this unit is very power hungry and you have pretty much the same issues as powering an HX Stomp.
Is sad... after so many people complaining about lack of fx loop on Tonex and Iridium, Kemper comes out without fx loop and with midi over usb... mono DI out in 2023... If you just added midi trs with mini-trs and stereo DI out and stereo TRS fx loop. You could for sure be the number one in the market. It will make people buy you instead of canvas/pinstripe and other stuff... And mono is really an outdated thing, specially for FOH. If you want to make anything mono make the regular jack output... Because this is for rehearsal studios with amps only. I'm not interested anymore in the Kemper Player. Really sad...
Want doesn’t equate to need. If they added all those features people would complain it was too expensive. If those features are important the stage is a better choice. As you stated the current offering is equipped comparable to others on the market for the price. The issue as I see it is that we, as consumers, want to eat our cake and have it too. It’s not sad at all, we have more amazing affordable guitar gear than any other time in history.
It' a kemper in a stomp box, go listen to kpa demo if you don't know how it sounds. After rtfm, the only thing I need to know is what about an ultra cheap tablet/mobile to decently dialing in this kpp ?
Seems awesome overall. Hope Kemper Drive and Kemper Fuzz will be added down the road.
I’ve not fired up a tube for a live event in almost 10 years. I use Kemper for guitars electric and acoustic. This small unit doesn’t really appeal to me but a more than 4 effects before and after the amp block and maybe the ability to do 2 amps would be nice. I would love to have the ability to route out a WDW setup out of the Kemper. I travel pretty much every week with a toaster or Stage. The unit doesn’t need to be smaller for me. In addition I have NEVER profiled an amp. Yet l paid for the ability to do it. I’m perfectly happy with buying profiles at a reasonable price and I greatly appreciate free rigs and profiles that Kemper and this channel offers. Blessings to you all and I do appreciate the channel. 😊
Danke für die ersten Infos und Eindrücke zum Kemper Player. Habe schon einen Kemper Stage und habe gleichwohl den Player bereits bestellt und er ist auch schon auf dem Weg zu mir. 😀
Es wird aufgrund der geringeren Anzahl an Slots und Fußschalter sicherlich eine Umstellung für mich, aber mein Ziel ist es mit dem Player auch ein kleineres Pedalboard nutzen zu können. Schau mer mal, ob es klappt. Falls ja, darf der Player bleiben und auch statt dem Stage zur Probe und ggf. auch auf die Bühne.
Danke. Gutes Video. Den Graben zwischen analoger Haptik und digitaler Welt überbrückt das neue Produkt irgendwie nicht für mich. Keep Rockin' und Danke für die sachliche Darstellung.
While it can't profile, the formfactor and size (and look 😍) is something I could actually bring on the road. I'm buying it as soon as I can afford it!
Would you actually profile amps though ?
I know I wouldn’t, I don’t have access or a need to profile amps but I will happily buy 4-5 of my favourite amps and be done with it
Looks very interesting. I recently purchased an FM3 Turbo, otherwise I would be all over this unit: Who knows maybe GAS will still make me buy one in a few months 😁
I am very happy that you released Player. I suggested this sort of approach to you guys a while back, great minds think alike :) send me one to review if you can. Congrats!
Its the best desktop Kemper model for your studio by far.
Finally somebody has it..
I think after having the Tonex honestly I don’t see the a big deal on the issues that people are having with this unit. The company just gave birth to this thing a couple of days ago and people already knocking it.
Please use a gate on the mic. The heavy breathing is distracting.
Danke für das sehr informative Video. Ich habe ein Stage und bin sehr zufrieden. Der Player ist bestellt und soll als Backup fungieren. Bin sehr gespannt?!
Eine Frage ist nur wie ich Profile in den Player bekomme?!
Per USB?
I'm looking at this as a backup option in case my stage were to crap out on me at a gig. It's a lot cheaper than having another stage as a backup. I use an expression pedal for the wah function and a separate footswitch for the morph. It looks like one of them would have to go if I were to use the player. I wonder if there are seperate output controls for the FOH and monitor output like on the stage?
Well not going to be fully compatible with you rigs no morphing no transpose only 4 effects so if you have anything like these in your rig you are to strip down your set up ….i would be happy with Amp/ Cab only player at $400 that would make sense why limit KEMPER users on all functions out of the gate at $698 imho
I know that the guys at Kemper have updates for it under their sleeves, the same way the Stage had a hidden Wi-Fi card, that they activated on one of the updates.
They will be able to re-route any of the IN/OUTs to whatever you’d like…
I wonder how would that work, is that even possible?
I would buy it if these four effects could be freely placed before or after the amp.
They will when the software updates start happening...same with an FX loop.
I ordered mine already and waiting to get the notice that it has shipped :)
It is definitely a unit with a lot of pros and cons - and that's my opinion - depending for what you will use this little unit. I had the Kemper Rack and sold it, was kinda "too much" for me at the time. This little thing is what I was waiting for, a unit that can play those great sounding profiles at a finger tip, some nice effects and that's it. Of course if you are a musician who needs a ton of effects this unit is, as far as what's written in the specs, not the 1st choice. Same if you need 2 XLR outputs or are in a desperate need of a fx-loop. Screen or no screen? Well, for those using it on stage, a simple screen showing the used profile would have been a good idea, cause being on stage with iPhone oder iPad sounds a bit funny to me. Just my 2 cents :)
It does not have stereo effects, then what a left/right output?
@@zakklee2556 correct it has stereo output. He might have been referring to only one XLR out; but you could run stereo output through the single xlr if it is balanced output.
@@zakklee2556 I meant XLRs and corrected it :) There are some stereo-effects when using REV or DLY if desired.
I have waited for it for a long time, now when it came out, i am not so sure. Pity it doesnt have a screen for orientation. Too early to know of its UI capabilities and limitations without demos and tutorials. For example 10 year old Atomic Amplifire and FM3, both with 3 switches have ability to recall 6 different sounds total, 2 sounds/scenes/presets per switch. Very easy to set it up, but for me it makes a big difference live. Size is perfect, i do not care about fx loop, it will be interesting to find out how good it does usb audio recording directly to DAW. I dont want to haul my Profiler Stage setup back and forth from studio and home, especially since i am constantly traveling between 3 living spaces in different countries.
I ordered one and these guys about talked me out of it lol
Great marketing. 🤔
You can use the three switch to jump between the five rig of the bank? (switch one for the first rig, switch 2 for the second, switch 3 for the third, switch 1+2 for the fourth switch 2+3 for the fifth)
I've never met any guitarist who uses more than two or three Performances at a gig.
And here you have 10.
In fact most guitarists I know use one Performance and 5 rigs.
While 90% of the time, I haven’t and I’m probably not going to use more than 4 effects when mine comes in tomorrow; but I hope in a future update there could be a way to condense or consolidate effects in to one “effect”. I mean, it’s digital, would just take some programming…
Yours is arriving tomorrow?
Who’s delivering your package? The flash?
@@LochNessAnthonylol that was my thoughts exactly. I ordered it about 24 hours ago too… I’m in the US and only 8 or so hours away from Chicago where Kemper US is. UPS says it’ll be delivered tomorrow, I thought that was hella quick, even if it were middle of summer quick, let alone the holidays!
Let me know if it can run dual amps I’m in a quad cortex debate
@@AkimboVermon None of the Kemper units do dual amps. But for the price of a quad cortex you could buy 2 of these and have dual amps totally independent from each other.
Thank you for shipping worldwide, selling direct to consumer, and 30 day returns.
get rid of the middle man.
Elon Musk would approve.
to be honest I would miss a display for orientation. I am not good in remembering for instance which sound means color red and position lets say 3/4
Please do a video showing how to actually program and use the Player.
Hashtag dumb first time users who've never owned a Kemper.
Is there 4 FX blocks plus a noisegate? Or the noisegate takes 1 fx slot?
I think it would take a while to get my head around there not being “performances”, and I can’t tell if Liquid Profiles will work with this unit. The LP section was not visible on the rig manager you demonstrated?
Thank you for the great show. Merry Christmas to you and your loved ones. Looking for to 2024!
Liquid profiles work.
I was Sooo excited for this unit BUT it is limited on effect chain / no loop and no Morphing function?.....I can live with the limited effects but Morphing is a game change for me with these 3 switches I need that function :( ...bummer ....at that price point hmmm it should be $400-$500 range with these limitations UNLESS of course updates will change these "issues" per say.
+1. Missed FX Loop is very unpleasant :(
How do they decided to make single XLR and 2 TS? Why not 2 TRS like L6 HX Stomp, Headrush MX5 or Ampero Stomp 2? It's not a problem to purchase TRS-XLR cable. But you leave place on device for FX Loop.
This thing ruins whole the idea of unit in board for professional use. Should I send unbalanced Strymon Bigsky to mixing console? Should I set it before Player? Should I buy separated stereo DI? Ah... such a diappointment!
@@Theliraan yeah mate seriously this seems like a $700 practice tool more then a legit pro Kemper rig … I think this wasn’t meant to be pro just a entry practice level toy imho
The way they hesitate to answer how they would use this unit, gives it away that it’s not design to be integrated in a pedalboard or standalone due to its limitations of I/O and functions. If we need to make compromises to make it work and or find workarounds it was not design to be use as such!
For bedroom practice it’s good but too expensive for a practice device!!
Can I use kemper remote? thanks
How well would this work with the STL tonehub packs for kemper?
Are the presets good and usable??
Just wanna hear the sounds. 7 minutes in and I’ll wait for the other RUclipsrs videos to come out.
Bank Select has got to be a joke, right? Whomever designed this needs a "UI design for dummies" book as a xmas present.
No treble booster…?
What is the current draw on this unit? Would I be able to run it off a good quality pedalboard PSU?
Thats the last unanswered question i have on this too haha
It stated on the back of the unit. 9 volts or 12 volts at 24 watts. This converts to 2.6 amps at 9 volts or 2 amps at 12 volts. So this unit is very power hungry and you have pretty much the same issues as powering an HX Stomp.
Two guys holding guitars - 35 minutes - Almost no guitar playing. *Shrug*
Can i use compressor, chorus, amp, delay, reverb at same time?
yes, of course!
Is sad... after so many people complaining about lack of fx loop on Tonex and Iridium, Kemper comes out without fx loop and with midi over usb... mono DI out in 2023... If you just added midi trs with mini-trs and stereo DI out and stereo TRS fx loop. You could for sure be the number one in the market. It will make people buy you instead of canvas/pinstripe and other stuff... And mono is really an outdated thing, specially for FOH. If you want to make anything mono make the regular jack output... Because this is for rehearsal studios with amps only. I'm not interested anymore in the Kemper Player. Really sad...
Want doesn’t equate to need. If they added all those features people would complain it was too expensive. If those features are important the stage is a better choice. As you stated the current offering is equipped comparable to others on the market for the price. The issue as I see it is that we, as consumers, want to eat our cake and have it too. It’s not sad at all, we have more amazing affordable guitar gear than any other time in history.
95% of these complaining people don't know there's no need of fx-loop in a digital stack amp. Fx are placed after the cab, it's the studio method.
The: "it's sad" beginning made me read the whole post in Donald Trump's voice. Very confusing
@@Herfinnur Good thing you didn’t try to read it in Biden’s voice. It would have been rambling gibberish without a teleprompter 😂
There’s no need for an fx loop…your time based stuff will just sit after the player pedal as it would in a studio chain.
Can it do morphing?
No morfing in Kemper Player.
Does this have built in looper?
No, at least not yet, as far as I cloud see.
2 guitars and no playing.....hmmm.
The guy on the left-hand side are so boring that they make me feel sleepy
Dudes with guitar in hands didn’t play a single note. Kemper philosophy 😂
You obviously weren’t paying attention, or didn’t watch the whole video.
@@jimmcdougall9973 35min video they play less than 10 chords
No: they're showing off the equipment, not themselves.
And they did play a little bit!
It' a kemper in a stomp box, go listen to kpa demo if you don't know how it sounds.
After rtfm, the only thing I need to know is what about an ultra cheap tablet/mobile to decently dialing in this kpp ?
All they doing is running they mouths.