Description
Both the Rack and the Head (black version only) are available with a build in Class D power amp. It produces 600 Watt @ 8 Ohm or 300 Watt @ 16 Ohm. The power amp was designed by enowned IcePower in Denmark. It offers prestine sound quality running linear speakers, as well as running classic guitar speaker cabinets.
The Class D technique makes the most energy efficient power amp solution, emitting only a minimum of heat. That reduces the need of heat sinks, as well as the size and weight. The combination with the Kemper Profiler turns the PowerHead and the PowerRack into a super smart and compact all-in solution. The Power Head weights a little over 6kg.
If required, you can switch off the build-in power amp, converting your powered Profiler into a line level unit for recording purposes.
Kemper Profiling Amp
Profiling is a unparalleled technique to extract the exact tone and feel from any amp. The entire process takes you only a minute and can be performed on virtually every guitar and bass amp. A profile does not only capture the amp itself but every aspect of the cabinet and microphone configuration as well. The result is as living, vivid and dynamic as the original amps. A mandatory A/B comparison is done after every profiling run ensures the unique authenticity of the profile: So close that you won’t be able to distinguish from the original.
We use proprietary digital technology to analyze the sonic DNA of your amp. As a result, you can go beyond what’s possible with the original amp and tweak everything to your liking. Use the gain control and equalizer in a regular fashion to adapt the sound to your guitar. Add power sagging to the distortion and tweak the power of your pick attack without compression. Or exchange the cabinet later on.
The Profiler gives you more freedom of choice than any other real or virtual amp available.
Profiles you take in session while tracking your next song perfectly work on stage when you tour the songs you’ve recorded earlier on. It was never easier to have a unique and consistent tone in every situation.
The modeling amps you know are based on predefined algorithms, designed by the respective company for a number of specific reference amps. By nature, those algorithms are limited by number and cannot cover the variety of the individual nuances and differences of tube amps, even in the same product line.
This might be the reason why you rarely see an A/B comparison of a tube amp and the respective digital model.
The Kemper Profiler has no predefined amp models and therefore no signature sound. The model is the profile, and each profile was carefully created by its individual maker by carefully setting up the reference amp and chosing the combination and positioning of the microphones. Each profile has undergone the obligatory A/B comparison and passed the judgement of its maker. Each profile will sound like you have plugged your guitar into that same amp in this specific studio situation. And yes, the Profiler will react to your individual guitar and your playing style, as the original amp would have.
How to connect Kemper Amps
The Profiler ships with hundreds of amps and rigs already installed. Profiled by pro musicians and engineers in top studios around the world, the premier selection of factory rigs grants you access to the rarest and finest amps on the planet.
On top, we constantly refine, update and extend what’s to your disposal by licensing additional content and fine tuning the existing catalog. We care for a high versatility of the cultural background of the profiles, even in the same genre.
