What;Using a clean sound with a distortion pedal for metal sounds;This way you will always have a lots of "work" to make it sound good with the KPA.I dont like this at all.Just does not sound good for me.Is this where you´re "comming from" before you bought the Kemper;Than just start to think about to change your "philosophy"..
A bit of a misunderstanding. The last thing you said in your last post was to take a considerable distorted rig and tweak from there, and I answered "Yes, that's actually how I try to do it always." So, THAT is how i try to do it.
Thanks for the suggestions, I will check them out.
4, 5, and 6 all sound perfectly fine to me.
1, 2, and 3 sound like you don't have a cabinet module turned on, so there's nothing to filter out all the harsh noise and fizz from your pedal/amp.
You can't just take any old clean profile, throw a metal distortion in front of it, and expect a good sound. There's a reason nobody in the real world buys a Metal Zone and plugs it into a Blues Deluxe. When metal guys talk about using a distortion pedal with a "clean" amp, they usually mean taking a good metal amp, like a JCM or a Recto, turning the gain down to be fairly clean, and then boosting it with a pedal. The amp and cab are still giving you the same voicing, but the distortion gets more clarity and the low end is usually tighter because the pedal is rolling it off beforehand.
The cab simulation was on. But again, this was just to test if the distortion in my Kemper was functioning as it should. I thought a simple way to test it was just to take a 0 gain profile and turn on the gain, just to see if the sound alters according to the way a healthy Kemper should work. So, apparently it went just as it should.
Thanks for your advice.
Difficult to say whats going wrong there. In the past i had harsh tones with my Strat too. I change to Humbuckers
and it was a different world.
I you want, you can chose a free profile (which make harsh tones to you) and send me that saved profile. Also send
a record made with spdif.
Then i will load this profile and will do a SPDIF record too. So we can see if it is something with your Kemper or not.
Thanks very much. I already made this with Kemper support and they received the same result with one of my rigs, so I guess my Kemper is working as it should.
Best,
Markus