Kemper to unveil radical “profiling” guitar amp at NAMM 2011

From their press release:

“Kemper GmbH announce the new Kemper Profiling Amplifier to be unveiled at the NAMM Show 2011 in Los Angeles. The Kemper Profiling Amplifier is an entirely new concept for guitar amplification in the digital domain. Following the radical idea that every guitar player should be able to bring his personal sound of the tube amp setup he owns into a versatile, comfortable and most important reproducible format: The Kemper Profiling Amplifier “learns” the sonic behavior of any guitar amplifier and offers exactly the tone and feel the player knows from his “real” amp. The times of struggling to “re-find” that magic mic position in front of the speaker are over. Now there will be a profile available of basically any sonic condition the tube amp setup can provide. Of course not every guitar player owns a perfect studio environment or owns a number of classic tube amps. That is why the Kemper Profiling Amplifier comes stacked full with profiles of classic tube amps: the british, the californish, the germish … of course including the classic speaker cabinets which are a part of the profiling result.”

The Kemper Profiling Amplifier comes as a lunchbox size device with a full set of connections for home, studio and stage use. It is completed with a stomp box section, a master FX section. A reportedly realistic power amp sagging, normally only available at very high volume, is also “a part of the stack”.

Kemper aim to prove their claims at NAMM. They will have a profiling setup installed, consisting of a very versatile high class tube amplifier with various classic tube amp architectures, connected to an isolation cab with a celestion vintage 30 speaker that is miked up with the standard SM 57. The guitar is connected to the tube amp via the Kemper Profiling Amplifier and the mic signal goes back into the mic input of the Profiling Amplifier. The profiling process starts and after 10- 20 seconds the guitarist will be able to compare the profiled sound with the sound of the real tube amp.

Source: Press Release