Well, I am about 2 months into my ownership of the Kemper. The honeymoon is definitely NOT over
I had a really busy gig schedule for the last month while using my Kemper with a set of rigs I picked out and put into performances, so I haven't really messed with the tone of the rigs yet.
I found some really nice sounding rigs up on the rig exchange and put them into my favorites to try out.
I setup a few sets of performances to specifically trial the new rigs against the current set of rigs I am using for various purposes (clean, pushed, crunch, heavy).
After equalizing the volumes of each rig, I tweaked the eq on the tone stack to get a pleasing sound with my single coil Lindy Fralin strat pickups.
Then I started playing around in an area I read about here on the forums, but never really tried; clarity and direct mix in the amplifier section.
Wow! What a difference this makes! I have heard some people say that some profiles sounded like the KPA had a pillow over the speaker. While I never quite felt that it was that bad, there were several patches that I felt were just a bit muddy and covered up the wonderful natural tone of my custom pickups.
For those of you that haven't messed with these parameters, I highly recommend it. By increasing the clarity a bit and raising the direct mix a bit, I was able to get more bite and a more natural sounding tone from many of the rigs that I already had as favorites. I was also able to improve the sound of many of the rigs I got off of the rig exchange.
Disclaimer ....
I tend to like a "clean" distortion where the natural sound of the guitar can still be heard. So my new found technique may not be for everyone
Still really lovin on my Kemper after 2 months. It just keeps getting better!