Kemper

Christoph Kemper had already made his name in music technology as the co-founder of Access Music, where he led development of the Virus synthesizer, before turning to guitar gear in 2006. The company he founded in Recklinghausen, Germany, in 2010 debuted the Kemper Profiler at NAMM 2011, built around "profiling" — capturing the sonic characteristics of a real amp, cabinet and mic setup as a digital model a player can then load and tweak, rather than modelling amp circuits from first principles the way most rivals do. The Profiler became one of the first amp modellers taken seriously by touring professionals rather than just home players, and it remains the reference point Neural DSP and IK Multimedia get compared against. New Profiler hardware and firmware updates are what we cover most. Here's what we've written.