Kemper Profiler Head Black

The Profiler Head comes with classic curves. It makes a perfect figure on a 4x12 cabinet. Still it's so compact and light that can be taken as handluggage onto an plane. The footprint of the Head is tiny, designed to stand on the desk of your project studio, right beside your computer.

THE BEST AMPS IN THE WORLD


If you feel that you do not own first class tube amps worth to be profiled, no problem. There is actually no need to create your own profiles.

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.

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.

The signal chain comprises of 8 effect slots in addition to the amplifier stack. Up to four stomp effects can be placed "pre" the amp stack, another two "post" the amp in the effect section. The final elements of the entire effect chain are a dedicated delay and reverb section. Both delay and reverb offer "spillover" - meaning, the sonic tail is not cut off when you change to another rig. Pretty much every effect offers optional "ducking" to dynamically control the effect intensity just by dynamic playing.

All effects - even the whole signal flow can be accessed by 13 dedicated buttons. Editing a rig cannot get easier! The effects are individually colour-coded by LEDs. You can tell by a single view what type of effect will come up by activating an effect slot. You can lock an or more effects to its slots by simply pressing the Lock button. Those effects will stay when you change to another rig.

STOMPS AND EFFECTS


The Profiler offers a selection of the finest effect processors in the world. The company Kemper is responsible for creating the Access Virus, one of most successful hardware synthesizers of all times. A part of the success of the Access Virus are the highly regarded build-in effects. Nearly 20 years of experience in creating effects allow us to find the essence of classic and new effects and a well-conceived parameter set, without presenting dozens of ineffective controls per effect algorithm.

Among our effects, you will find algorithms that have rarely been implemented in a guitar processor, such as the Frequency Shifter, the Formant Correction for our Pitch Shifter, an absolutely authentical Rotary Speaker and the Beat Scanner to control the musical delay time and other effects just by the rhythm of your instrument.

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

DIMENSIONS

Head:
Height: 21.7 cm (8.54 inches)
Width: 37.8 cm (14.88 inches)
Depth: 17.3 cm (6.81 inches)


WEIGHT

Head:
5.32 kg (11.73 pounds)

DIGITAL INPUTS AND OUTPUTS

S/PDIF In/Out 44.1 kHz (24 bit)
with RCA Phone connectors
(Master only)

ANALOG INPUTS

Front Input:
¼ inch TS unbalanced, dynamic range >108dB, impedance 1 MegOhm
Alternative Input:
¼ inch TRS balanced with ground lift, dynamic range =105dB
Return:
XLR balanced, ¼ inch balanced with ground lift, dynamic range =105dB
ANALOG OUTPUTS

Master L and R Outputs:
XLR balanced, ¼ inch TS unbalanced with ground lift max. output level: XLR +22dBu, TS +16dBu
Monitor Output:
¼ inch TS unbalanced with ground lift max. output level: +16dBu
Direct Output/Send:
¼ inch TS unbalanced with ground lift max. output level: +16dBu
Output Dynamic Range:
>108 dB
Dedicated Headphone Output:
¼ inch TRS stereo, 33Ohm

CONTROL AND DATA INTERFACES

Midi:
5-pin DIN commectors for In/Out/Thru
Switch/Pedal:
Two 1/4 inch TRS, each for
mono/stereo switch or expression pedal
(10kOhm min, 100kOhm max. impedance)
Network:
RJ45 connector
USB:
USB 2.0 (FS) compatible device,
USB-A and USB-B connectors