Humans perceive clean tones to be lower in volume than high-gain tones. Clean tone profiles always sound too low to my ears, but when looking at my db meters in my DAW, you can see they are the same signal strength as a high-gain profile. So, be careful with clean profiles so you do not begin to clip. I keep my Sens at Zero, and I use cold/hot passive and active pups on different guitars.
Yes, i recognize that, but still.... Too much of a disparity. Seems like there should be a built-in provision for normalizing profiles.
If i install a new pack of profiles, and there's a Friedman Dirty tone, shouldn't i be able to switch to the same amp's clean tone and be able to hear it? Not saying it would be completely inaudible, but it's like if my volume on a high gain patch is 8, the clean will be 2.
Clean Sense only goes so far to get it closer, but i feel like i'm doing something wrong when i use it—as if i'm 'cheating' and adding some sort of technical, digital 'crutch' that doesn't give me the full audio quality. Like when you use the Digital Zoom feature on a camera—you do increase your 'reach,' but the pixels aren't the same quality as when you use an Optical Zoom. Knowhatimean?
I'm not completely new to modeling. I've had an Atomic (2x), a Fractal AX8, and a few software modeler apps. This issue is not entirely unique to the Kemper for me, but because it's not modeling—it's a capture—it seems like 'bad practice' to goose volume like this.
So, back to practicals—do you guys have to do the same thing with every preset you load? If you get a pack, you scroll through them, and for each one, you have to adjust levels? Which 'level/volume' control do you work with FIRST? Which is the LAST resort?
