I mean, the obvious debate on emulatio of tubes not feeling/sounding like the real thing. So maybe an Ampeg B-15 or the SVT-CL head. Even the SGT-DI could enter the shootout. @@deadbeatstudios
Please do many more of these Kemper AB tests. Most of the ones online are from when the Kemper first came out. But that was before a lot of Kemper improvements.
Great comparisons, - as a suggestion, would be great to hear how people react to the tones coming through a guitar cab, rather than the mixing desk/phones - i.e., how close do the modelers get in a "live" situation. I hate it when people talk about "amp in the room" blah blah blah... but I use Kemper primarily as a live tool these days. It still won't replace my deluxe reverb, but curious to see how others perceive the "live" tones in Kemper vs. the real thing... P.S. - just did a shootout of Kemper vs. FM9 vs. TMP, and to my ears Kemper still has the most real sound and feel thru a guitar cab (although the others are not far off).
I'd like to see a Peavey Valveking 100 contrasted against either the JCM 800, 900 or DSL100H. I own a VK myself and believe it comes very close to the tone of a Marshall with the bass lowered at about quarter with presence and resonance adjusted. There literally no videos RU-vid which makes the comparison, there's only one old video of a VK 112 combo against a Marshall Haze.
What's next, a plastic toy guitar ? You could plug in a cheap $100 guitar into a profile amp, and it would sound the same as if you plugged in Jimmy Page's '59 Les Paul. A profile amp loses all the resonance, sustain, feedback, tone, or lack of such, from the hardware. It eliminates the instrument quality from the equation. So a Stratavarius violin would sound same as kid's Playskool toy violin. Nobody with a good ear will take you seriously, playing through a profiler amp. It's been described as sounding like a swarm of bees.
