Kemper Debuts New Overdrive System

Kemper Profiler 8
(Image credit: Kemper)

Kemper has launched Version 8.0 of its Profiler Operating System, promising with it tones that range from “vintage to raunchy uber-blues to ultra-tight djent.”

Currently in beta, the overdrive system was inspired by classic overdrive pedals, from your OD-1 and SD-1s to your Klon Centaur, King of Tone and Tube Screamers.

The drives are combined into a single "pedal" via an advanced algorithm with added parameters. This allows users to blend sounds and create their own unique tone for any guitar, amp and cabinet combination.

The update also features an OCD-inspired distortion, 20 quick-start presets and improved sound quality.

The new update is free, and you can grab it at kemper-amps.com.

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Jackson Maxwell
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Jackson is an Associate Editor at GuitarWorld.com and GuitarPlayer.com. He’s been writing and editing stories about new gear, technique and guitar-driven music both old and new since 2014, and has also written extensively on the same topics for Guitar Player. Elsewhere, his album reviews and essays have appeared in Louder and Unrecorded. Though open to music of all kinds, his greatest love has always been indie, and everything that falls under its massive umbrella. To that end, you can find him on Twitter crowing about whatever great new guitar band you need to drop everything to hear right now.