hi folks, kemper stage..
audio outputs make a very nasty pop both during startup and shutdown. And i mean nasty.
before folks say "power down the PA first" etc - that's not always possible. I'm doing theatre shows and i'm buried in a pit with no communication to the FOH engineer. The PA is well and truely powered up before I arrive for the night, and various foldback sends around the venue are live, including the rest of the musicians headphone mixers. So me arriving and powering on my kemper has the real possibility of hurting some ears.
In addition, if there's an issue during the middle of the show (accidental loss of power to the kemper, or it has a hissy and needs to be rebooted) - the pops will go through to the massive FOH system to the audience and scare the crap out of the engineer.
We know it's possible to have muted outputs during start/shutdown, plenty of other devices do. My helix doesn't do this.. it's totally 100% silent during bootup and i can confidentally not only reboot it mid show without anyone ever knowing - but even un-plug the XLR outputs and plug back in with zero pops through the PA.
hoping there's a way of achieving this..