You can tweak the knobs just like the physical amp and get the same results in the model as you would with the actual amp. The reason that I point out Fractal’s flexibility and sound quality is that Fractal models the actual amp including the entire tone stack top to bottom. If this wasn’t the case then vendors would only need to produce one profile for each amp. That’s why there are always multiple profiles provided from vendors for a single amp. Make any changes to the tone stack and it is no longer an accurate representation of the actual amplifier and sound quality suffers. The trade offs are in the UI and the editors IMHO.Ī profile is a snapshot of an amp with specific settings. A lot of folks have issues with Rig Manager. To me, you have to put the time in to learn it. Many hate the way you edit the Fractal products. If the UI does not work for you, the unit will only frustrate you and you will sell it.
My biggest recommendation is to look at the UI and start there. Both units are capable of fantastic tones. I would say that if someone is saying that one blows the other one out of the water, they are not being objective. You can get great tones out of each of them. It really comes down to splitting hairs with the two. I find them to be more accurate to amps I actually own, not that you can't get good sounds out of the FM9 using the models of the same amps. I still feel that the amp sounds are better with the Kemper. Editing on the Fractal devices with the editor has been made easier than it was in earlier times. There are things I like about each of them and is the reason I have kept both.
As stated, they are kind of different animals. I like my Kemper, but it really does not match the flexibility and sound quality of my Axe-Fx III. Frankly, if the same question were put to me you would get the exact opposite answer. If you had nothing yet you could toss a coin and probably you'd be happy with either platform. If you already have Stage I don't think investment in FM9 would be the best move. Overall both are great platforms and you can't go wrong with any - both sound and feel great. KPA it cheaper in a long run (free, high quality updates for last 10 years!). KPA is a stable platform and updates don't change sound which is not the case in Fractal world which tends to do hardware revisions quite often and from time to time releases firmware which changes sound of patches. KPA has more straightforward workflow, at least for me. Editing patches on Fractal devices is miserable experience, in my opinion and to get most out of it you need to connect it to computer. But it is a modeler, so you're stuck with what it models (it models a lot though, so I don't consider it as a huge disadvantage). Looper in FM9 is longer (120 seconds), it has built in synth (you can create drone and jam over it), flexible routing, many more effects.
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