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<blockquote data-quote="Scott Bolt" data-source="post: 129096" data-attributes="member: 3950">Re: Guitar Amp ModelersI totally agree.&nbsp; Modeling of any system is only as good as the understanding the engineer who models it has and the number of non-ideal behaviors he/she has modeled correctly.&nbsp; This is likely the cause of so many poor sounding modelers IMHO.The method Kemper is using is the impulse response (and some other magic that I haven&#039;t been able to get a handle on) of the actual amp, speaker, and microphone.&nbsp;&nbsp; IMO, this is a totally different approach than a modeler and is the reason for the stellar sound quality achievable with the Kemper vs nearly every other digital modeling amp out there.&nbsp; The one exception may be the Axe II Fx.&nbsp; There are some (a minority) users which have played both and prefer the flexibility of the Axe; however, it appears that more people that have used both end up selling the Axe and keeping the Kemper.&nbsp; In all cases, the Kemper is described as having the better raw tone of a tube amp.It is a very interesting idea.&nbsp; I am surprised that it has taken this long for someone to use the idea of impulse response on a guitar tube amp.&nbsp; I know that impulse responses are common in reverb technology for recordings.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Scott Bolt, post: 129096, member: 3950"] Re: Guitar Amp Modelers I totally agree. Modeling of any system is only as good as the understanding the engineer who models it has and the number of non-ideal behaviors he/she has modeled correctly. This is likely the cause of so many poor sounding modelers IMHO. The method Kemper is using is the impulse response (and some other magic that I haven't been able to get a handle on) of the actual amp, speaker, and microphone. IMO, this is a totally different approach than a modeler and is the reason for the stellar sound quality achievable with the Kemper vs nearly every other digital modeling amp out there. The one exception may be the Axe II Fx. There are some (a minority) users which have played both and prefer the flexibility of the Axe; however, it appears that more people that have used both end up selling the Axe and keeping the Kemper. In all cases, the Kemper is described as having the better raw tone of a tube amp. It is a very interesting idea. I am surprised that it has taken this long for someone to use the idea of impulse response on a guitar tube amp. I know that impulse responses are common in reverb technology for recordings. [/QUOTE]

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