What about being able to fit your amp and ALL THESE EFFECTS in something the size of a lunch box?
EFFECTS
The PROFILER offers a selection of some the finest effects in the world. As a company, KEMPER is also responsible for creating the
ACCESS™ VIRUS™, one of the
most successful synthesizers of all time - there can be little doubt that the
ACCESS VIRUS owes some of its success to the highly regarded inbuilt effects. Nearly 20 years of experience allows us to find the essence of both classic and new effects and equip them with well-conceived parameter sets. We won't overwhelm you with dozens of ineffective controls per effect algorithm - everything has a clear, intuitive and musical purpose.
Along with the standard effects, you will find algorithms rarely seen in a guitar processor - these include the Frequency Shifter, the Formant Shifter for our pitch shifter effects, an absolutely authentic rotary speaker, and even a beat scanner that allows you to control the tempo of time-based effects, such as delays, just by the rhythm of your your playing.
Learn more about the included effects
DELAY
Without doubt, the delay effect types are some of the most advanced and comprehensive effects collections in the PROFILER. However, the approach we have taken might be a bit different from what you've seen before. You will not find a dedicated reverse delay, tape delay or ducking delay, as we realized there is no sense in splitting such crucial features into separate delay types. Instead, we have equipped every single delay type with most of these features. Why not have a dual reverse delay? Or a serial delay with analog tape character? Or a melody delay with ducking? All of these are possible with the delays in the PROFILER.
Single Delay
Dual Delay
Two Tap Delay
Serial Two Tap Delay
Rhythm Delay
Quad Delay
PITCH SHIFTER DELAY
The pitch shifter delays are powerful combinations of the delay types with one of four different pitch shifter types.
Crystal Delay: The Crystal Delay is a reverse delay in which the pitched notes are altered by playing back the delayed signal faster or slower. The crystal is placed in the feedback loop of the delay, creating a pitch helix with every repetition.
Chromatic Delays: The chromatic pitch shifter is positioned at the delay input and can be played polyphonically (chords).
Harmonic Delays: The harmonic pitch shifter is positioned at the delay input and is intended to be fed with single notes only. The pitch is set in musical intervals and will follow the selected key.
Loop Pitch Delay: This pitch shifter also works chromatically but is positioned in the feedback loop of the delay, resulting in a pitch helix or spiral with every repetition.
Crystal Delay
Loop Pitch Delay
Frequency Shifter Delay
Melody Chromatic Delay
Melody Harmonic Delay
Dual Chromatic Delay
Dual Harmonic Delay
Dual Crystal Delay
Dual Loop Pitch Delay
Quad Chromatic Delay
Quad Harmonic Delay
REVERB
The reverb offers studio-quality algorithms and works closely with the delay effect.
Brought over from the ACCESS VIRUS synthesizer, our delay and reverb provide an outstanding sound quality. They are also very unique in that they perform a full spillover when you change to a new sound. This means that both the delay and reverb will decay as per the previous sound and unchanged settings, while you play a new rig with all new settings.
Space
Hall
Large Room
Small Room
Ambience
Matchbox
DISTORTION
We have faithfully modeled the most prominent vintage distortion pedals. In addition, we have created a number of novel booster and tone-shaping effects that could not be realized in the analog domain:
Green Scream Inspired by the Tube Screamer TS808 or OD808
Plus DS Inspired by the MXR Distortion +
One DS Inspired by the Boss DS-1
Muffin Inspired by the Big Muff
Mouse DS Inspired by the ProCo Rat II
Fuzz DS Inspired by the Fuzz Face
Metal DS Inspired by the Boss Metal Zone
BOOSTER
The boosters feature several dedicated filter settings to perfectly shape your guitar for your individual amp distortion tone.
Treble Booster
Lead Booster Tunable peak filter, emphasizes specific frequencies
Pure Booster Boosting or attenuating without coloring the sound
Wah Pedal Booster
PITCH SHIFTER
One of the most advanced pitch shifter algorithms in the industry. It shifts single notes as well as complex chords with unsurpassed quality. The Pedal Vinyl Stop effect drives the pitch of your guitar continuously down to zero and silence via an expression pedal. The PROFILER introduces a new technique to the guitar world, called "Formant Shift" - this maintains the natural sound of pitched notes, even at large pitch intervals.
Transpose “Digital capo” for your instrument
Pedal Pitch Inspired by the Whammy pedal
Pedal Vinyl Stop Turns the pitch down to zero
Chromatic Pitch Dual-voice pitch shifter
Harmonic Pitch Dual-voice pitch shifter, creates intelligent harmony voices
Analog Octaver
MODULATION
The chorus effects span from the faithful recreation of the bucket-brigade chorus sound of the 70's to the crystal clear 80's multi-chorus, and the characteristic micro pitch effect, based on our pitch shifter algorithm. The Rotary Speaker effect, in combination with a PROFILE of a real rotary speaker, is indistinguishable from the original.
Vintage Chorus Inspired by the Chorus Ensemble
Hyper Chorus Complex six-voice chorus
Air Chorus Inspired by the Jazz Chorus
Micro Pitch Detune effect, based on pitch shifter technology
Vibrato
Rotary Speaker Inspired by the Leslie speaker
Tremolo
PHASER AND FLANGER
While the Flanger is based on a warm-sounding emulation of a bucket-brigade circuit, the Phaser allows very complex modulations by using up to twelve phaser stages. The distance between the peaks and notches of the Phaser can be controlled by the unique "Spread" parameter.
The modulation rate of the Phaser and Flanger can be linked to the song tempo.
Phaser Up to 12 filter stages for each stereo side
Phaser Vibe inspired by the Univibe
Phaser Oneway
Flanger
Flanger Oneway
WAH
The wah effects are a collection of different filter and lo-fi effects, have in common that they are automatically linked to your wah expression pedal without further hassle. Control the various colors with your pedal or alternatively by the dynamics of your guitar using the Touch Wah function. Each wah effect features an optional auto-off function that triggers as soon as you stop moving the wah pedal. You will find a number of preset wah effects that simulate your favorite wah pedals:
Wah Wah The classic
Wah Low Pass DJ-like wah effects
Wah High Pass
Wah Phaser Phaser and Flanger are controllable by your wah pedal
Wah Flanger
Wah Rate Reducer Lo-Fi sample rate reduction by pedal
Wah Ring Modulator Two outstanding Sci-fi effects
Wah Frequency Shifter
Wah Formant Shifter Shifts the formants and character of your instrument
COMPRESSOR AND NOISE GATE
The compressor features the full compression bandwidth of well-known compressor pedals, but without further coloring the signal. Our unique "Squash" parameter controls the sponginess of the compression.
The noise gates are not an alternative to the main noise gate, but a complement, especially for expertly shaped metal palm-mutes.
Compressor
Noise Gate 2:1 Soft expander, expansion ratio of 2:1
Noise Gate 4:1 More aggressive expander, expansion ratio of 4:1
EQUALIZERS
A set of parametric equalizers as well as a graphic EQ helps to shape your signature sound. As with most effects, they can be placed before or after the amplifier.
Graphic Equalizer 8-band, octave equalizer, with fixed frequency bands
Studio Equalizer 4-band parametric equalizer, adjustable frequency/ bandwidth/ Q-factor
Metal Equalizer inspired by the equalizer of the Boss Metal-Zone
Stereo Widener Creates a subtle stereo effect by using equalisation
LOOP
To connect external gear, the PROFILER offers a hardware effects loop on the rear side of the amp. You can apply the hardware effect loop in any of the effect modules A-DLY.
Loop Mono
Loop Stereo
Loop Distortion
