Long termers

It’s mid-afternoon at our house and our little daughter is fast asleep having her nap. This is no obstacle to recording with the Kemper Stage, however. As we have discovered in previous tests you can get great cranked amp sounds out of this digital profiling amp and into your recording device completely silently.

Today’s recording project is to make a couple of demos to form the basis of an upcoming jam with excellent blues-rock guitarist Innes Sibun. I’d mentioned a couple of Neil Young-esque pieces I’d written to Innes and he suggested sending them over before our jam so he could familiarise himself with them. This presented a more or less perfect first practical test for the Kemper as I wanted really organic, tweedy amp tones on these tracks. If the Kemper could deliver these digitally, it would be impressive proof of its much-vaunted profiling capabilities.

“I’m learning to use the Kemper and my valve amp as complementary tools in my studio toolbox”