I may have originally posted this in the wrong forum, apologies!
So I've been a Kemper user for a little over two months, mostly live, and it is incredible, as expected!
I mainly use a Telecaster. I also use a Strat from time to time. They sound great, mostly, I'll get to this.
I also have an Ibanez JSM-10, essentially a 335, and a Gibson SG. Now, both of these guitars sound great through valve amps, my previous amp was a Two Rock.
I am having real problems getting the Humbucker equipped guitars to react how they would through real amps. I'm tweaking all the parameters, Definition etc as opposed to drastically tweaking the EQs, and I'm drawing blanks everywhere, mainly clean sounds. Using exclusively Britt profiles, as I haven't been impressed with TAF profiles I've tested, open to suggestions of course!
I like Fender type Cleans, and the low gain fender cleans don't have enough punch/power to cut through like a real amp, and the ones with a tad more gain have more gain and makes its more of a crunch sound. My Dad's 67 Deluxe reverb, has this powerful tone at about 5 on the dial, but still clean, and doesn't break up like the profiles tend to be. Am I expecting too much? any suggestions for profiles suited to live use?
The drive sounds feel slightly uncompressed, and under saturated, but compression doesn't solve it, any tips here?
I'm using a rack mounted unpowered head into a Magnum 44 Poweramp into a 2x10 Dr.Z Cab with Dr Z speakers made by eminence (yes, monitor cabs are off). Like I said, the single coil sounds work fairly well, Ive just come to a dead end when it comes to humbuckers. I also have a Yamaha DXR10, which I was unimpressed with, if you have any tips for making that sound sweeter I'm happy to try it out again.
Basically I'm going through a massive learning curve using it, but I'm also steadily gigging between 3-5 nights a week, with multiple bands and artists, expecting multiple sounds. Any tips on any of this I have posted would be much appreciated!
Thanks