Display MoreHi guys!
Thanks for your feedback.
As some of you mentioned, the Full OC is not part of the Kemper Drive, because it does not belong to the family of overdrives, but to the family of distortions. So are all the other distortion models, except the Green Scream and the Fuzz DS.
It is a bit disturbing that the the guitar world in the past decades failed to tell the musicians which devices are overdrives and which are distortions, and to find a clear distinction.
Same with the story of the choice of clipping diodes and their symmetrical or assymmetrical configuration. It sounds like nice marketing to promote different diode choice or topology. Some overdrive pedals even allow to change the setting with switches on the fly. Those differences can be well analyzed analytically, by using sine as a test tone. But once you play guitar, the only change is the headroom, perceived as a significant change in Drive and Volume. Once you re-adjust Drive and Volume, the sound is the same again, no perceivable difference.
You might not find a single person on the internet, who shows the true sonic differences of diode configurations in ODs, while keeping all surrounding aspects neutral.
We could have added an additional switch or selector for these aspects, if they were significant.
We are here in a beta test, so we would be happy to be proven wrong ...
I discovered the same thing, with a pedal that had clipping options, can't remember what it was for the life of me. When just flipping the switch you noticed a difference, but it was only a difference in what Chris said, gain and volume. Now of course, if a certain clipping diode on a real pedal allows that pedal to get a bit more gain than the stock diode with the gain maxed, than it's a useful mod on that pedal if it allows that pedal higher overall gain. But in the Kemper drive, there's enough gain on tap to accomplish the same thing, as I think the TS preset with the gain at 5 represents a real TS with it's gain maxed, for example.