From what I'm reading and have seen on videos, the Kemper takes a snapshot of an amp with it's settings. In other words, I have a Trainwreck clone that cleans up with the volume knob on the guitar. Just because I took a snapshot of the Trainwreck with the gain cranked does not mean the Kemper is going to behave just like the Trainwreck when I roll my volume back, it's just going to give me the tone I dialled in at capture, with the ability to add more gain or EQ to it later, correct?
correct -ish, you can roll off the volume and it will clean up nicely but maybe not in the same way the amp would.
Display MoreSo if say I take a snapshot of a high gain amp with the gain on 5, is it reasonable to expect the Kemper to sound like the real amp on 10 if you added more gain to the Kemper's profile it took of the amp?
same here, IMO if you add too much gain you'll end up with different sounding amp. not necessarily a bad sounding amp, but different.
I'm just trying to get a better grasp on the concept here - it would be better then to dial in a little less gain than you would normally use because you could compensate by adding more within the Kemper later?
I actually like the sound better when rolling off gain from a profile than adding to it, but that's my personal opinion. I think a little is fine in both directions, but I would rather have 2-3 profiles with different amounts of gain, and then I'd be fine with "filling in the blanks" with the gain-knob
Or, would I be better off taking snapshots of an amp at different gain levels even if they were close - say at gain 7,8 and 10 if I might use those when dialling in the real amp live?
yes,see above
Pete