I was a bigger skeptic than Les. A close buddy is a close buddy of Michael Britt and they were pioneering with this new device called the Kemper. My buddy ranted and raved and toured with it constantly. Got to hear Michael’s wizardry profiling some HUGE and expensive amps and it was impressive. But this was the day before the FRFR craze hit. If I were a touring musician with fly gigs, it made huge sense, but I’m a bar band schlep. Not convinced to take the leap.
Went to EXP ‘16 and stayed with another buddy. This guy had a Kemper rig tweaked by our mutual buddy and Mike Britt. It was a little weird looking,
but kept an open mind because Mike was on the speaker phone saying, “keep an open mind”.
Picked up a regular Tele, dialed in a Deluxe Reverb profile from Mike, and smashed a power chord.
Ho
Lee
She
It.
Two words…real deal. Played that with the rest of the band all night and fell in love. Disbelief, not convince it wasn’t total luck and BS, but my bias was shattered.
That started my downhill slalom of Kemper. Bought my buddy’s Brave a little Toaster since he was going rack, and never looked back. So many thanks to CRGTR for his generous sharing of knowledge and intro to Michael Britt, The Kemper wizard.
Six years of continuous shows and discovery. I think I sound pretty ok, which is mission accomplished. Thanks
@crgtr , you lousy enabler!!!