It’s fair to say that the arrival of the Kemper Profiler amplifier in 2011 was a disruptive event in the digital amp modeling niche market. Up until that point, we’d been happy to take the software and hardware we’d been given by manufacturers and use it with varying degrees of success.
Christoph Kemper’s radical approach was to use his proprietary software to extract the DNA of any amplifier’s sound and save it as a unique model (the Profile) that could then be tweaked with EQ, effects and so on.
