Very helpful. I like the idea of saving input settings per guitar (from a suggestion in the comments)… but now that performances are available, it’s probably easier to raise rig volumes accordingly. Great vid as usual, HW. There’s no one making this much quality content for the Kemper.
Your videos have greatly improved my Kemper skills. Some of the uninspiring profiles are now getting tweaked and are sounding more detailed, real, refined and quite kicking and inspiring.
Excellent video. I would add the following additional tip/trick, relevant to your video, which may be of help to KPA owners. You can save the Input Settings as a preset. That way, you can have multiple "presets" of various inputs variations of your Distortion Sense setting, which you can tailor to different guitars. This is very helpful during a live performance, when you switch guitars in the middle of a set. For example, your Tele could be saved as an Input preset called "Tele", and your Les Paul could be saved as a different Input preset called...wait for it............"Les Paul". :)
AWESOME! I'd really like to have 2 input settings saved as you recommend, then be able to pull them globally based on what guitar I might be using. To be independent of the rig? I thought maybe setting up a global mor[hing thing might do the trick as well but maybe unnecessary?
Thanks for explaining this so well. Here's a question. If I have some gain profiles built by adding stomps to a clean starting point, those will not be affected by the distortion sense, is that correct? I have noticed when I sort profiles by gain amount, sometimes the heaviest ones are classified as low gain. Thx
I'm pretty confused actually. The Kemper manual says in painstaking clarity that clean and distortion sens controls do not affect the colour/tone of the signal at all. But when I turn either of them up, my sound is more overdriven, and when I turn either of them down my sound is cleaner. So... huh?
You know what's kinda weird? When is listen to UA-cam video's about Kempers on my tv (or any other tv, i tried) they sound amazing but when i listen to the same video's with my headphone or my studio monitors they don't sound that good at all. I really need to go to a musicstore and try one out... Great video's btw and excellent playing brother!
"Have you ever run into a situation with a clean profile that sounded great but it was just really low in volume compared to your raging Plexi on 10 profile?" I must be the only person in the world who always finds the opposite. Clean profiles blow my head off compared to dirty profiles. Even with my Clean Sens down around -8 I still find I often need to turn down the rig volume on clean sounds to stop them over powering dirty ones :-0
What you are saying is true….. but in 2024 when hooked up to USB the clean sense also has a direct effect on the level of the DI signal going to USB input 1 going to the computer. However, 6y ago the Kemper didn’t work as an audio interface. So consider this an update I guess? 😅
I have high output pickups (air norton and tone zone) but almost all the profiles are going into red light when i play hard, even some clean amp profiles. Can you please help?
Aloooopt of profiles are really dark. But playing with them i get used to it and all my other profiles sound wayyy too open and bright. How on earth can i find what is more or less "correct"? Problem with kemper is we can tweak it so ridiculously much that you lose sense of what sounds good or Normal. I am struggling to find a good setting for luve use, as i have no idea how the profiles are supposed to sound
Very helpful. I like the idea of saving input settings per guitar (from a suggestion in the comments)… but now that performances are available, it’s probably easier to raise rig volumes accordingly. Great vid as usual, HW. There’s no one making this much quality content for the Kemper.
Your videos have greatly improved my Kemper skills. Some of the uninspiring profiles are now getting tweaked and are sounding more detailed, real, refined and quite kicking and inspiring.
Excellent video. I would add the following additional tip/trick, relevant to your video, which may be of help to KPA owners. You can save the Input Settings as a preset. That way, you can have multiple "presets" of various inputs variations of your Distortion Sense setting, which you can tailor to different guitars. This is very helpful during a live performance, when you switch guitars in the middle of a set. For example, your Tele could be saved as an Input preset called "Tele", and your Les Paul could be saved as a different Input preset called...wait for it............"Les Paul". :)
Deuterium2H very valuabley comment! Thanks for sharing
AWESOME! I'd really like to have 2 input settings saved as you recommend, then be able to pull them globally based on what guitar I might be using. To be independent of the rig? I thought maybe setting up a global mor[hing thing might do the trick as well but maybe unnecessary?
How will that work in a live setting? Do I need completely different patches for each guitar with the correct input preset fir different guitars?
Great! Any tutorial about this trick?
Thanks for explaining this so well. Here's a question. If I have some gain profiles built by adding stomps to a clean starting point, those will not be affected by the distortion sense, is that correct?
I have noticed when I sort profiles by gain amount, sometimes the heaviest ones are classified as low gain.
Thx
Very helpful! Just what I was searching for thank you!
Fabulous info, please keep the tips coming. Two thumbs up!
Thanks Joe!
Nice info . . neat sweater. . . you look very relaxed. Thanks
Thanks! Very helpful - clear and cleanly to the point, well done!
I'm pretty confused actually. The Kemper manual says in painstaking clarity that clean and distortion sens controls do not affect the colour/tone of the signal at all. But when I turn either of them up, my sound is more overdriven, and when I turn either of them down my sound is cleaner.
So... huh?
finally got it. thanks for this. I completely misunderstood what Clean Sense is for even though I read the manual :0
You know what's kinda weird? When is listen to UA-cam video's about Kempers on my tv (or any other tv, i tried) they sound amazing but when i listen to the same video's with my headphone or my studio monitors they don't sound that good at all. I really need to go to a musicstore and try one out... Great video's btw and excellent playing brother!
"Have you ever run into a situation with a clean profile that sounded great but it was just really low in volume compared to your raging Plexi on 10 profile?"
I must be the only person in the world who always finds the opposite. Clean profiles blow my head off compared to dirty profiles. Even with my Clean Sens down around -8 I still find I often need to turn down the rig volume on clean sounds to stop them over powering dirty ones :-0
What you are saying is true….. but in 2024 when hooked up to USB the clean sense also has a direct effect on the level of the DI signal going to USB input 1 going to the computer. However, 6y ago the Kemper didn’t work as an audio interface. So consider this an update I guess? 😅
ahhhh so that's why the FART sound! I think they fixed it recently?
Hello, do you think Distortion Sense is basically putting a pure booster in every profile?
I have high output pickups (air norton and tone zone) but almost all the profiles are going into red light when i play hard, even some clean amp profiles. Can you please help?
Aloooopt of profiles are really dark. But playing with them i get used to it and all my other profiles sound wayyy too open and bright. How on earth can i find what is more or less "correct"? Problem with kemper is we can tweak it so ridiculously much that you lose sense of what sounds good or Normal. I am struggling to find a good setting for luve use, as i have no idea how the profiles are supposed to sound
fantastic!!! more please!!!
Thanks Marc
Great info 💯
Thanks Mark!
so clean sense only affects the profile in question ?(versus the distortion sense which affects all profiles)
No. It's called "Input" section, because it is the inputted guitar.
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