Either your units are defective or you haven't followed the gain-staging instructions in the manual. At the settings you're describing my CLR would be painfully loud (I generally have my KPA volume at 8.0).
I, you have your kpa
at 8:00 in the master or in the monitor out?
I am the bandmate of Brick top and I feel the
same, when I play alone it's loud and scream very well......when I play with my
band I lose the sound of my guitar sometimes.
But when I play pink floyd and other quiet music
volume is enough, but when I play more agressive sounds even when the master is
not clipping I have to decrease the volume because palm mutting with some amps
makes the speaker fart.