Kemper Amps Forum

In my humble opinion those problems (including the direct out clip) are caused by some issue with your sound card. I may well be wrong, but do you have a chance to borrow a different one. Just gut feel, no knowledge behind it...

Ok, thanks for clarifing! Could you post the profiles used so that I can check if I get the same here? At the end you could really have a faulted D/A converter...

Mabye i'm not hearing exactly what your'e hearing, but that's the point of that particular kind of two finger bend, the idea is to play with the phase between the strings and create a ringing/warbling tone, so what you're hearing is phase interference between the two strings amplified by compression. You get the same effect with a real amp, though a lot depends on your guitar and it's pickups. Have you tried recording just your guitar dry signal?

Here's an example of what I mean, in case this is what you're hearing : http://www.peranders.com/general/bend_phasing01.aif

The first time around is just the guitar direct in through the interface, you can hear the phasing/resonance if you listen carefully. Then to make it easier to hear I recorded again but this time with a compressor on it, and finally i played through the Kemper and one of it's profiles.

I recorded using the neck single-coil pickup which is brighter and accentuates this sound, if i use my bridge humbucker then it's more muffled and becomes less obvious, but this is a sound you'll get with an acoustic guitar too as the two strings go in and out of phase.

Yeah, I'm hearing what Per is, i.e., the "beating" you get when you bend two strings an asynchronous amount. Just like when you are tuning a string against a reference pitch. Some distortion pedals make it more pronounced than others but I have never thought the ones that make it pronounced were "wrong".