Kemper Profiler Stage: Unboxing & First Look! 

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Came for Danish Pete’s sick riffs, stayed for the Captain’s shout out!! 😂 Thanks dudes!!

The Klimper Proton is the first pedal we find in Area 51

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE can we have more of Pete on this channel hes just so phenomenal and has the skill to demo just about anything in the right way

It's pretty big. Imagine a Mini Kemper Stage with only 4 footswitches and most of the fancy buttons moved to a phone or PC app. I'll be delighted!

Pete, always sooooo inspiring. 20 seconds of your playing and I'm going for a guitar. Thanks man.

Thanks for this, Gents! For my part, I haven't been a Kemper user, but I will be now. The Profiler Stage seems like exactly the kind of product I've been wanting, especially for live performance. Can't wait to get my hands on one! I'd love to see you guys do more videos on this unit.

That's some of THE most convincing tones I've heard of out of a kemper. Nicely done Pete.

Finally got my Stage. Been using the toaster + remote for gigs for the past two years and now with the Stage I can literally set up and tear down in 5 minutes as opposed to 20+. It fits on my Pedaltrain Novo 24 with my line 6 wireless unit and mission expression pedal perfectly. And for simpletons like me who can’t figure out how to get a good tone from the Helix, just want to find a good tone and make some minor effect tweaks... the Kemper is the way to go.

I've been a helix user for a year and a half now. I loved the kemper concept, but it was just so big and heavy to gig with, now i can finally look to buy the kemper stage

You have GOT to make a comparison against the Helix!

2:47 It's really impressive that people still buy the Behringer MIDI pedal controller. That thing is ancient and it still does the job!

if it sounds good, i dont care whether tube or profile. and it sounds amazing to me.

Danish Pete killing me again! Great tone and feel! It may not have the sexiness of the Helix due to the screen, and lack of onboard foot pedal, but the tonal difference is undeniable. From what I've heard and seen of Helix users blind testing these 2 units head to head, hands down choose the Kemper for feel of playing, and most often tone quality over the competitors. I'm getting the Kemper Profiler Stage!

The stage is the Kemper deal breaker, bought yesterday I have a pristine Helix floor for sale. Compared to the Kemper the Helix sounds like I'm playing with dull strings, the Kemper brings out the upper harmonics, sounds richer

I bought this product from Andertons and when I gave them an average review on Feefo, strangely enough, my review wasn't published on the Andertons website. My gripe was that they had sent out an item (costing almost £1449) for delivery just in the original Kemper box - with no additional protection or packaging. This seemed lazy to me and I told them so. Now that I know that the Feefo reviews are vetted for negative comments, I will not be buying from Andertons again.

Wow very interesting bit of kit. To reduce weight for gigging I modified a 1988 Fender Red Knob Princeton chorus and dropped 2x g10 vintage 80s sounds more like an ac15 than fender now but quarter weight wish I could afford one of these cheers for showing us Pete and Captain👍

Just want to point out that I got an ad for riff city guitars closing and it made me sad.

“Let’s check this out for the first time ever.” Comedy gold. How do you guys keep a straight face?

pete's playing ALWAYS blows me away......

Would not have even known about this, had my old bandmate who owns a Kemper setup, told me about it. Looks great.

Long time Kemper user here - The Kemper will only sound as good as the profile being played. Think of a Profile as a snapshot of a amp tone. There are good profiles and there are bad profiles. Also, the Kemper needs the correct kind of output speaker to be appreciated. At low volume that would be quality near-field monitors. My Kemper with Michael Britt profiles and some decent Focal near-fields sounds so good I get misty eyed thinking about it.

nice high quality screen like in modern digital floor units , very impressive....

Captain, Pete, Shorts & Kemper??? Ok I'm in.

I want an Anderton's Klimper Proton t-shirt. I hereby patent that.

I'm so glad i haven't bought the rack mount yet, this looks a much more diverse unit. However, it would be cool to see a blindfold challenge again to see if there is any anomalies that you don't get in rack mount unit.

Apologies if this has been said already, but I wish that it had 6's Floor models screen.

If Kemper did a combo amp my god I’d be all over it.

Was going to buy a helix, gonna go kemper now!! 😁😁

Cool. Must admit I’m a kemper noob and I always thought that you had to buy profiles from 3rd parties in order for the unit to work. I didn’t realise that kemper does ship with preset profiles which I thought sounded pretty good! I think I’ll consider this! Looks great for live! Thanks for clarifying Andertons!

Clicked for the Kemper, stayed for that Tele

Petes playing is the best part of this .Wow.

Thank you Kemper

You continue to blow me away Pete! What feel! Wow.

Great demo and introduction. I have the toaster and I’m proud to be a Kemper user for sure. K Kemper seems to make logical decisions regarding design and the tones are right.

If I could insert Kemper tones into my Helix floor it would be supreme👍🎸😜

Danish Pete is the master of tasteful demos and loops !

finally a guitarist that plays lead as if telling a story instead of just licks patched together.. bravo on the mad playing skills

Floor model should have a built-in wah/ volume pedal to one side of the board.

It's 47cm wide and a rack width is 48cm wide. It's just under 2u rack space high. Gonna try putting this in the studio on a 2u slide out. You reckon Kemper planned this?

Sold!

Great for regularly gigging musicians and or someone wanting to get in on the Kemper world and save a few $ over the Rack or head/Remote bundles.

Pete is just too good. I need an album of tasty danish jams.

I'M SO EXCITEDD

Best sounding presets and the volumes seems to be well balanced when switching from one press to another. The drives and gains sound great.

I plug my Shedua Strat into a Mesa Lonestar and that’s all I need 👍 Weighs a bit more though I guess 🤔

I really like it.needs an expression pedal.pete's playing is freakin the best!so inspiring.#1

I owned a Line 6 Helix and got rid of it, tones were very disappointing. Bought Kemper toaster and never looked back, amazing sounds.

Does this pedal board let you modify effects based on picking / plucking dynamics?

Somehow I missed this product and this video but some pro friends of mine are highly recommending it. I’ve been really happy with my Helix....can it sound better than a Helix....?🤔

I would love you guys to prank Mick and Dan at that Pedal Show, offer them a chance to blast through the "Top End" amps of Anderton's and keep switching "amps" until they twig the sound is coming from the same place each time no matter which amp is selected!

FM3 and Kemper stage which one is more worthy to buy?

So... they waited for me to buy a Helix before bringing this out :( I don't know if I could turn up to practice with one of these anyway. My bandmates already call the Helix 'The Spaceship'.

Pete, you machine you! Amazing riffs!

Ditched my helix and got me one of these kemper stage i always wanted to own a kemper but for traveling musician i dont to bring the rack or the toaster plus a floor controller. dont get me wrong i like the helix but the kemper stage is way better even the effects are sick !!! Its like stymons on steroids

What happened to the Jeorge Tripps video from yesterday?

Helix vs Kemper.... Well Fx are a dfferent story but when it comes to amp modeling, with TWEAKING, you can make one sound identical to the other. To properly compare them you have to understand a few things first. the reason the two sound different is the way they model amps, kemper is basically a sample of a real amp that is known to sound good already, while helix models the circuitry of a amplifier for a schematical perspective. so imagine lets say its modeling a plexi, well it would be like a brand new plexi right out of the box and not broken in, out of 10 brand new plexi's it would sound like the average of them, not the one that sounds best. thats why you have to tweak the power/sag and eq effects of the amp in order to properly compare it with a kemper, because the kemper is a sample of a broken in and warmed up amp run at the correct voltage (110/220 etc), and most likely the best amp out of say 10 off the line.... Theres downsides to both. For the Helix it means you have to tweak it. The downside for the kemper is, when you want to tweak it or change the eq, its like manipulating a wav file on a track, so when i add bass or take away treble, it will react like using the eq on a mixer, where as the helix models the circuitry and potentiometers of the original amp and you will get a different sound effect. to better explain that imagine this, if i have a real plexi in the room and i turn up or down the bass knob, you should know that it sounds completely different then if i leave the bass knob in place and just alter the bass with a parametric eq pedal. Also the kemper will have a hard time mimicing the amp when different input gains are applied(ex: turning your guitar volume down to 6 or 7 on a cranked plexi gives you an awesome clean tone). To sum it up, the kemper models an amp at its peak performance at the point in time where it was captured (where the knobs were set) but a helix can model the organicness of an amp

A great advance but I'm waiting for the 100w 2 x 12" combo version ;0)

I have owned the toaster Kemper for a year and I haven't seen the remote floor pedal for it separately for sale on Andertons or Thomann. I'm a very technical person but for me, the Kemper is too confusing.

What an awesome video to come home from work to

it's "just" a kemper, in a pedalboard. still very good looking! love it

Pete is such a tasteful player.

Kemper unboxing vids: for that Christmas morning feeling midsummer.

so you need a power amp to have this working?

that tele is a guitar to die for

Yeah, Im one of the guys on the fence.. this, or a Fender Bassbreaker 30r with a Helix Stomp in the loop/fx return. Tough choice as both gives a lot of options. The amp/hx combo still seems more flexible to me, for less dough, but the Kemper seems to have an edge on the sound..

3:44 Pete feels “it” kicking-in.

ToneJunkie's views bout to go through the roof

Nice Jam at the end!

My lights on gain,treble,middle,treble and presence are burn and non fonctionnal anymore! did they resolve this probleme yet...

Came to see shiny toys, stayed to hear Pete's jam

I have one on order here in Chicago.....it will be epic!!!!!......

I like Noise Gate knob on the front of the rack unit.

Very interested in this for just playing in the office!

It's getting confusing with all the great modelling amps out there. Any chance we could see this Kemper Profiler Stage vs Helix vs Axe-FXIII vs Katana vs others in the running? That way it would help make things clearer for customers, it would break things down so we're not paralysed by choice, so we have a better idea of which has better functionality and better, more convincing sounds. Cheers guys, always enjoy your work.

I was planning on going with Fractal when they finally put out the FM3, but this looks a lot easier to use, more futureproof, and is an actual product that has been shipped. I always thought the heads/rack units were ugly but putting it on the floor, visible only to myself, fixes that.

That a Hanson?

Loving the end tune!

Got to get one of these!

Love the blowing at the end!

Dang that seems like a lot of work. I just plug in my sweet valve amp and it sounds great every time. But, probably having a Kemper for just a driven valve sound would be silly anyway. I like dirt and fuzz and that’s easy with valves. But definitely seems to be versatile.

Thanks for the review. Now I need to empty my credit card thanks to your video :( ;) But soon I will be happiest guy in the guitar world.

Why the hell does everything Pete plays on any device sound so good? He could make yogurt cups sound good. This is not fair! By the way, if I had filled the time I spent this year with digital guitar processors with practicing, I'd be a better guitarist now. My Helix is being sold. From now on: amplifier, a few pedals, done!

Do Kemper make the user interface awful for a reason ?

They must be doing something right as I'm looking at this when I was previously eyeing a Mesa California Tweed. No reason for the comparison apart from the similar price point and not really having a live requirement. I've been an Access Virus owner for years and love what they did there.

Awesome vid. You guys should try and react some guitar gadgets that you found online and give us your opinion on it. Have a good one.

Everytime you click a switch, the click-noise seems too be quite loud. Isn't it annoying?

the ending

Kemper GO model will be nice 😁

great vid guys

Has Pete talked about his new guitar? It's very nice. Oh, and the Kemper Stage definitely seems like direct competition to the Helix, though with the Helix there's more flexibility when working with a traditional guitar amp.

Wow that unit sound killer...

Nice outro Pete.

Danish Pete is a monster player!

Do a sounds like KISS/ACE FREHLEY busting and/or with out busting the bank pleaseeeee

Says it's not powered but there's a 240v iec plug in the back 🤔

I like it and I guess I'm glad I waited... I've been looking all over to see how (and if) it can be used to create profiles. From what I can tell it can??? I don't see a mic input as on the previous models so I'm curious how it goes about making them, if it does... If it does make them, then I'm in.

seeing a new andertons vid makes my day!

The screen sux, try adjusting that in a live situation at a gig in a dark venue! No chance look at Helix or even Headrush way better then the kemper screen and much easier UI the sounds maybe a bit better but this is aimed at live players its a bit of a fail not upgrading the screen kemper!

Soundsxgreat in this demo