My Kemper will be here in a day or two and I just wanted to get the groups opinion on volume - which always seems to be a struggle with modeling or in this case profiling. I've found the right volume in the right place in the chain or rig can make the difference in a mediocre tone and killer tone - so I wanted to see how you guys approach dialing in your Kemper.
Specifically for this approach I'd like to focus on going direct to studio monitors (no mixer). What I usually do is set my monitors to +4dBu (assume the Kemper outputs pro levels) and set the monitors volume to about %75 percent. Then with my pod lets say, I set it's master voume to about 50% - and dial in the amps channel volume from there. Now I know that with a pod the best signal to noise ratio would be for it's master volume to be at 100% if I was going into a mixer, etc., but that's what works for me.
How do you guys approach the same with your Kempers?
Are the built in and rig manager tones you can access balanced pretty well with volume or are they all over the place?
Do people who create rigs typically keep the eq and amp channel volume at half so you can tweak from there or?