Hello,
I'm a new Kemper user. I did a profile a couple months ago (my first one) and it was quite straight forward and sounds nearly identical. That was fantastic! Now I'm finally having some time to play with it again after some studio work, and I'm having the opposite experience - no matter what I do, I can't get the profile to sound accurate to the reference amp.
I'm trying to profile my Mesa JP2C+. The profile has 1) too much bass, 2) either too little gain or the gain structure itself is quite different.
Some things I tried, if it's helpful:
- I'm using the same set up as the previous profile I made, so I don't think it's a connection issue.
- I've tried multiple guitars (6s and 7 strings), passive and active pickups. Same issues.
- I've tried refining it several times: basic chords. Lots of hard transients. Lots of dissonant chords. Chugs. Single notes.
- I've played around with the Tube Shape parameter and the Clarity parameter. It modifies the sound, but doesn't really get much closer to it.
- I started the profile on OS7.5. After not being able to get it right, I tried to update to the latest OS as well, but having the same issues still.
More details on my setup:
- I use a load box with IRs (Boss TAE)
- I'm routing things through my Apollo. I'm routing the output of the TAE imputes channel into the return of the Kemper. This means I'm not hearing it unless the reference amp is selected (my understanding anyways, so it should be a true A/B comparison..)
- I don't have any effects turned on in the Kemper.
Any ideas on what could be skewing the results?
Thank you!