New profile I created makes loud popping noise only when I dig in on some notes

StoneGroove · Oct 11th 2016

I profiled my buddies Samson era Matchless Chieftain 2x12 last night. We came up with some nice chimey Chieftain sounds which I will be posting later this week.

Problem,

On 2-3 of the 9 profiles I made, I notice a very loud popping noise when I dig in on some notes. This sounds different than the "popping/crackling" artifacts we experienced back a few releases ago....it does not sound digital per se....but definitely is very undesirable and renders a few otherwise great profiles non useable.

other than my Friedman Brown Eye profiles, I don't have that much experience under my belt on profiling...

so

plelase can anyone tell me what this might be, if it's something that can be fixed post profiling, or are these throw away profiles?

Most importnatly, what should I do differently in the future to avoid this.

Details
It was a profile of a Chieftain Head with it's 2x12 combo speakers.
I made a clean, edge and dirt profile for 3 different mic positions (edge off axis, edge of coil off axis, center of coil on axis).
mic as an Audix I-5
I'm using Kemper OS 3.3.0
My buddy wanted to push his head, so the volume in the room in some cases was fairly high

Any help is greatly appreciated

Scott / Stone Groove

cybermgk · Oct 11th 2016

Quote from StoneGroove

My buddy wanted to push his head, so the volume in the room in some cases was fairly high

I'm no expert either. But the above statement makes me think perhaps you had some input level clipping.

Michael_dk · Oct 11th 2016

I think the Kemper should warn you if the return level was too hot.

I'm wondering - is it all the profiles which exhibit the pops? My guess would be that you are clipping the Kemper when playing through it, maybe with some hot pickups and/or clean sens too high. This would be especially relevant for very clean profiles.

Robman · Oct 11th 2016

Yeah , turn 'Clean Sens' or Distorted down on the input section.Its usually my first point of call when this happens

StoneGroove · Oct 12th 2016

Thanks guys, much appreciated..I'll take a look.

flyingheelhook · Oct 12th 2016

I had something similar to this on two (the only two) profiles I ever created. They were clean profiles and for whatever reason, there was no amp compression showing in the stack so I added just a touch and it took the popping away.

Michael_dk · Oct 13th 2016

Quote from flyingheelhook

hey were clean profiles and for whatever reason, there was no amp compression showing in the stack so I added just a touch and it took the popping away.

Amp compression is default at "zero" - it's something you can add in addition to what the amp does by itself. Like power sagging.

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