[fatoni]

Originally Posted by Sideways&Smiling

Through a 5150 III power section into a mesa 4x12 and also direct in to my interface for recording. It's not bad. Don't get me wrong. The cleans and effects are great, but those can be had elsewhere just as well for recording (DI + EQ & compression + SoundToys effects) and I just wasn't happy with the distorted sounds. I mean, in reality, it just uses impulse responses. There are good cheap/free amp sims out there that can load your own impulse responses and sound just as good, TSE X50 2.0 being the best.

That's just me though. When it comes to guitar, I want crystal clean jazz/fusion tones, balls to the wall metal tones, and trippy spatial effects... and I don't care for much else. haha. I could see guys that play all clean or low gain being happy with it... but the Kemper pulls off the metal tones more convincingly without sounding like the overly noise-gated, stiff, super artificial "djent" tone everyone with an Axe-FX uses.

I'm surprised at the amount of guitar nerds on this forum, by the way. Didn't think there'd be any here. haha

i kinda see where youre coming from. the axe has too much depth and you really have to dig for some of those tones. i really think you might have been limiting yourself with that power section though. one of the things i learned with my frfr speaker and now decent headphones is how much of a difference the power section and speakers make. having control over those has proven much more powerful than changing the preamps alone. ive never used a kemper though so there might be something to it but as far as i read, its just a lot easier to get to where youre going.