I was making a profile yesterday and I had another thought on this topic: Kemper input compression.
The Kemper always sounds compressed to me. The CLEAN sense almost acts like it is a compressor, could just be some added gain, when you max it out you get more sustain.
Having compression before the gain stages will do two things:
- increase the bass/mudiness more.
- increase the attack and create high pitched noises when picking.
These are both things users have complained about when using the Kemper 