Hi, gigged the Kemper for the first time last night, replacing my (real) ac30 + various drive pedals combo. Got some good comments, enjoyed it. The only 'issue' I encountered was regarding headroom when using boost/od pedals...
For now, I simply had the amp set to a standard clean mbritt Vox ac30 (brilliant) profile for the whole night and ran a couple of OD/boost/distortion pedals in front (similar to my old setup, I'd hoped).
Time generally fine, problem is, with the clean boosts I wasn't really getting much volume boost at all. Rather, it just seemed to compress more and more. It's like there was a ceiling on how loud I could go, and could not go louder (least via pedals). This was the case in my in-ears, and also out FOH apparently
The master volume and all other volumes and gains were all way below 1/2 way. The distortion pedals were a similar story - I like to normally set them with a little boost in volume to ensure ALL frequencies are louder than the clean sound (so there is no 'where did my mids go' vibe) - but again, it seemed I wasn't getting much louder than what I considered to be 'unity gain' (volume) with the clean sound.
How can I resolve this?
Extra info - fender strat, single coils, clean sens on 0.0.
I didn't really notice this at home using headphones (glorious), only really on gig, and also the sound guy later said he had 'a little compression' on my channel at the desk - I would be surprised if it was causing such a difference.
With my real ac30, I've got it set so that its clean, with a tiny little grind if you dig in, but defo still allowing for possible volume boosts. The Kemper (or at least this profile) seems to go from clean to totally compressed (I would even call it 'saturated') in the space of hardly any decibels...