The PROFILER Head comes with classic curves. It makes a perfect silhouette on a 4x12 cabinet. Yet it's so light and compact that it can be taken onto a plane as hand-luggage. The footprint of the Head is tiny - perfect designed for the desk of your project studio, right beside your computer. The PROFILER Head is available in black and white color.

THE KEMPER PROFILER
The KEMPER PROFILER™ is the leading-edge digital guitar amplifier and all-in-one effects processor.

Hailed as a game-changer by guitarists the world over, the PROFILER™ is the first digital guitar amp to really nail the full and dynamic sound of a guitar or bass amp. This is made possible by a radical, patented technology and concept which we call "PROFILING™".

For decades, the electric guitarist has been shackled to the tube amplifier as the only means of achieving "that sound". This magical combination is by no means ideal - the challenge to achieve a consistent sound from the practice room to the studio, and especially to the stage, continues to frustrate guitarists, just as it has since the early 1940s.

PROFILING
With the advent of the KEMPER PROFILER, everything has changed. For the first time in history, guitar players are free to create their most individual tones - tones that reflect the very essence of their playing style - and then capture these tones exactly into the digital domain with the unique technology provided by KEMPER™.

PROFILING™ is the key!

THE BEST AMPS IN THE WORLD
Feel like you don't have any tube amps worth PROFILING? No problem!

The PROFILER ships with hundreds of amps and Rigs pre-installed, created by professional musicians and engineers from some of the world’s top studios. In addition, you can access and explore another couple hundred Rigs that come bundled in our free Rig Manager software. This premier selection of factory Rigs grants you access to the rarest and finest amps on the planet.
We are constantly refining, updating and extending our free-to-use libraries by fine-tuning the existing catalog and by adding brand new, licensed content. Our goal is to allow our users to explore the full spectrum of guitar culture and heritage, which is why we have strived to create the widest range of PROFILEs in every possible genre.

WHERE DO YOU PLAY?

RECORDING STUDIO
The PROFILER revolutionizes the typical workflow of a recording session. Guitarists can now move freely between projects - the PROFILEs of their guitar rigs allowing them to do overdubs or alternative takes whenever they like. You could rent a professional studio for a day or two to create the best PROFILEs of your amps, and then record in your project studio later - you'll have the exact sound of the professional studio, but with all the time in the world.
Think reamping … Imagine you're working on the final mix of an album - wouldn't it be great to reamp tracks with the exact same sound and response, without having to rebuild the entire recording setup for each song?

ON STAGE
Playing live is where the PROFILER really comes into its own - just spend a little time making PROFILEs in the studio, and you can play live with the exact same sound that you used on your blockbuster hit, only without the need for multiple amp setups on stage. You will sound better than ever before through the PA.

Since the sound of the cabinet you mic’ed in the studio is immortalized in the PROFILE, there is no need to mic a speaker cab on stage. In fact, you don't have to carry a cabinet up on stage at all! You can monitor yourself via the common stage-monitor wedge and save a lot of backache and cargo costs. Not to mention your band mates (and mixing engineer), who might just love you for leaving this very loud sound source at home!

Of course, you might still be drawn to the raw energy that a real cabinet can bring to the rehearsal room and live stage. The KEMPER PROFILER is well prepared for this as well - you can still drive a cabinet by an external power-amp, fed by the monitor outputs of the PROFILER. Or, for ultimate convenience, our 'powered' PROFILER versions are equipped with a built-in Class-D amplifier with up to 600W output. To prevent the amp sound going through two guitar cabinets in a row, the virtual cabinet can be switched off for the outputs feeding the monitor and speakers, while remaining active for the main outputs feeding the PA.

Now, as the real cabinet is only being used as your personal monitor, you can adjust your volume on stage independently, without affecting the signal volume going to front-of-house.

AT HOME
Let's face it - rocking-out at home is difficult for most of us. Analog tube amps only start to sing at levels where the only neighbors who’ll enjoy your 10min rock’n’roll extravaganza will be the ones who live half-a-mile away! The PROFILER, however, sounds great at any level.
Play it through your home stereo or through headphones. Use the dedicated ‘Space’ effect to make headphones a more pleasurable experience, and to reduce ear fatigue. Play along to your favorite music by connecting your MP3 player to the auxiliary in, and then mixing it with the amp signal.

PROFILER ECO SYSTEM
We offer a growing range of accessories, from custom-tailored transport solutions, to a dedicated and highly integrated foot controller called PROFILER Remote™.

The KEMPER Rig Exchange™ provides a free cloud-service for users to share their own creations, where thousands of additional Rigs can be downloaded. Lastly, to keep on top of all this content, there is KEMPER Rig Manager™ - a free librarian for Windows and Mac users.

SIGNAL FLOW
The signal-chain comprises 8 effect modules in addition to the amplifier stack. Up to four effects can be placed "pre" the amp stack, and another four "post" the amp. The final modules of the effect chain are ideal for delay and reverb effects. 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", allowing you to control the effect intensity just by the dynamics of your playing.

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.

RETAIN CONTROL

THE LIVE INSURANCE
The PROFILER has been designed with live performances in mind. Performance Mode provides dedicated memory with which to create and organize complete musical scenes that correspond to your repertoire. Any tweaks you make here will stay exclusive to the Performance. There is plenty of space, allowing you to store up to 125 songs with five musical scenes each. During a concert, you can simply step from song to song according to your set-list.

PROFILER REMOTE AND MIDI FLOOR BOARD SUPPORT
The PROFILER Remote is the perfectly integrated solution to control the KEMPER PROFILER. It connects via a single cable, no additional power cable is required.

Traditional MIDI based foot controllers are also supported, and pretty much every parameter can be controlled.

FREE FEATURE UPDATES
Wouldn’t it be great to beam a couple of new tubes from the 50s straight into your amp? Or for a couple of new stomps to magically appear in your gig bag? In software, you can already do this, and we make extended use of it. Providing free feature additions via firmware updates is a proud tradition at KEMPER. This way, your purchase becomes even more valuable over time.

Tech Specs

• Type:Solid State Preamp
• Number of Channels:1
• Reverb:Yes
• Effects:Yes
• EQ:8-band (Graphic), 4-band (Parametric)
• Amp Modeling:Yes
• Number of Models:200
• Inputs:2 x 1/4" (main, alt input)
• Outputs:1 x 1/4" (Direct), 2 x XLR, 2 x 1/4"
• Headphones:1 x 1/4"
• Effects Loop:Yes
• MIDI I/O:In/Out/Thru
• Other I/O:2 x Digital S/PDIF (Coax) (in/out), 1 x RJ45
• USB:1 x Type A, 1 x Type B
• Footswitch I/O:1 x 1/4" (expression), 1 x 1/4" (single/dual switch)
• Footswitch Included:No
• Power Source:Standard IEC AC cable
• Height:8.54"
• Width:14.88"
• Depth:6.81"
• Weight:11.73 lbs.
• Manufacturer Part Number:Profiler BLACK

If you own a Kemper Profiler amp or rack unit, then you'll find the Profiler Remote foot controller system indispensable for live performance. The Profiler Remote doesn't just match the aesthetic of the Profiler; it also offers tight integration with all the Kemper's major functions. Five switches let you directly access five program patches or all five slots in a Performance. Four switches give you foot toggling over virtual Stomps assigned to each Rig. And an additional four expression pedal inputs let you control continuous parameters such as gain, volume, wah-wah effects, and delay sends. There are also tuner, looper, and tap-tempo functions onboard. Better still, the Profiler Remote connects to the amp via standard Ethernet cable for added convenience.