Please don't shoot me for asking this. I've read and read and read and I can't find the answer.
My guitar distorts the KPA on clean sounds. The Clean Sens doesn't help. The only way to fix it seems to be to reduce the volume on the output of my guitar.
I have a preamp in my guitar. It's powered by 18 volts, and the gain is set for an output swing of around 10 volts (peak to peak) when playing hard. Distortion on clean sounds has never been a problem before now. On the AXE FX (as my example) I can set the input trim (or whatever it's called) to prevent distortion. Same on every other digital device I own.
At what voltage do the input electronics clip the input signal? Please don't tell me the guitar output doesn't matter, it does. Surely if I amplified the signal going into the input up to 100 volts peak to peak the KPA would distort, correct? If that's true then what's the maximum input level before clipping supposed to be?
I really don't want to change the preamp gain. If I do, the guitar won't adequately drive +4dB level inputs for a decent noise floor. Using the volume control is no good either since it can't be consistently reproduced.
Solution?