Intrigued by a few things: 1, that you used the Kemper as your live monitor sound and not the FM9, and 2: that you used the Kemper as your live monitor and not the plugins you used to check the performance after recording. Given how the modeler shootout went, i figured you'd have gone with the Fractal for this job, and given you're using plugins to check your DIs anyway it seems like looping a modeler in at all is redundant at best. I'm sure there's a good reason, but it's not one that occurs to me. The IR Nuke got a good laugh out of me :D
A few reasons I used the Kemper for monitoring: 1.) I just wanted to try something different after using the AX8 on Children of the Stars, and get more use out of the Kemper in a "real" tracking environment to decide what I would do with it. This ultimately solidified my decision to sell it, but it was nice to use a different piece of gear compared to my usual combinations. 2.) The analogue DI output of the Kemper adds basically zero additional noise to a guitar signal, at least in my testing. For how I would've used a Fractal product in this role, the Kemper was essentially equivalent. 3.) I didn't want to record while monitoring plugins so I could minimize recording latency. 4.) The type of profile the Kemper excels at is the Marshall sound, and it profiled my Gargoyle very well. Not perfectly, as I proved in the shootout, but close enough for this use case. For tracking, I liked having a sound that I was deterred to tweak and motivated to just play. I tend to constantly fiddle on the Fractal stuff because it's so rewarding, but it wasn't the time for that.
00:09 that riff reminds me of the intro riff from the song "war of words" from the French metal band Eyeless : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Lp5RJwaW0ow.htmlsi=kTOb0ztAsC8JdFYb&t=929
