It is rather the opposite; the Kemper gain knob only increases or decreases the gain, leaving the tone, compression, response and volume of the amp intact, whereas the gain knob on the real amp will impact tone, compression, response, volume and gain.
This is interesting!
I come from the 'If it sounds good, who cares how you came about arriving at that sound?' camp. So the real question is whether your priority is how it sounds aesthetically vs. accurately. If you only care about aesthetics, tweak away to your hearts content. If you care about accuracy, then you probably need a range of different profiles taken from the amp in question.
Ultimately I care about how it sound, yes 
But I still wanted to know if the KPA gain knob is a KPA modified one and if it colored the real amp tone. Thanks for your reply guys
I have a somewhat strange question. Let's say I take a profile, for example "Matchless SC30 R 2-" which has some gain to it by default. The amp has been captured as is, with it's set of microphones, certain amount of gain etc etc, to become what it is... But if I dial down the gain, will it still be the same amp that I hear clean? Or should I rather capture it with clean profile seperate instead to acheive a clean "Matchless SC30"?
So in other words, does the "Matchless SC30 R 2-" has it's own gain when run default, or is it a Kemper imposed gain?
But is it a way to get this sound with the Kemper alone? I'd rather not buy more gear
EDIT: Ahh "Mouse stomp" is a software pedal in the Kemper? Got it!
Cool thanks. But what is rat pedal?
This dreamy bubbly creamy delicious fuzz sound... Any tips on how to get it?
How do you guys fix this then? I have a pretty new Focusrite Clarett, and the input is set to 0db on all channel. I don't have this pro thing you guys are talking about
Monkey_Man I am actually getting pretty hot signals when I am recording directly from the amp.. But when I am reamping, that's when the signals are very weak. Which I find very very strange
Ah I see. Hmmm.. How are people really recording in studio with the Kemper if it's not possible to acheive this? A reamped track at -16db is way way too low.. My DI output level is already pretty high as it is. I am very interested in hearing how people are recording with the Kemper, and why it does not have a way of getting good signals out. I figure for that price tag, that would at least be a minimum?
No that doesn't work. I always set my DAW at 0db gain. I need the hard input to match about -6db. I can't get it that high without having to adjust Rig Volume, and this feels wrong.. The reamp sens doesn't do anything. I maxed it and still it doesn't affect the input gain volume.
When I reamp, the DI can get correct levels on input. I just turn up clean sens and my DAW will capture it at a wanted loudness.. But the reamp is always stuck at -16db.. Can't seem to get it any higher unless I adjust RIG VOLUME. But is this the correct way of doing it to amp up the gain?
Yes I used to do mic and DI before, many many years ago when I did recording back in the old ancient days I actually tried it yesterday.. I reamped and generated three different amped tracks, tried to pan them out and add a little bit of delay so they seperate.. I think I am hearing phasing, but I'm not sure 
So I tried recording with my AKG P200 and ran an insane compressor on it afterwards.. I got it to sound exactly how I wanted! Thanks for the tip guys.. So lesson learned to never ever record acoustic guitar with DI
Chris Duncan
did you mean this one? https://www.4sound.no/studio/m…r/kondensator/roede-nt1-a
Wonder how my AKG Perception 200 from 2006 holds up compared to this one?
Thanks for the nt1a tip. Because all of the mics I've been watching has been way too expensive.
Thanks guys. paults I don't have an API 525, but judging by his first comment, he only mics the guitar? So no DI at all here? I have a rusty old AKG Perception 200, I don't know if it can compete with the U87 or the more expensive ones.
I'd never DI an acoustic when recording but if you're set on it, record it and a few mics too. You don't need to use them all in the final mix and you can pick whichever combination works best.
The problem I have when mixing is that my initial assumption when recording is that the sound is good. And then I spend several hours mixing and making it sound OK. And in the process I spend so much time listening to the track that it becomes familiar to only me. And because I can hear myself "deaf" on my own mix, I then later finds out that I could have done it better.. That's why I ask here before going down that road, so I know the best basis for success before starting.. If miccing is that much better in the end, I'd rather do it right from the start.
I'm in the process of recording our last alt-rock song before sending it to master. This particular song has a very familiar vibe as the Coldplay - Yellow song has. The intro acoustic guitar on the Coldplay song is very heavily compressed and lows gone, and that type of sound would fit perfectly in our track!! All the guides and online tips suggest that I should record one track with DI and one track with a condenser microphone on fret 12.. But my own logic says I can just settle with a DI recording through my Kemper for this particular usage.. That I don't need an extra micced track to mud up my mix.. If you listenin to Coldplay - Yellow, would you say the Kemper alone can achieve this, or would you have a micced track aswell? If only Kemper, should I go DI cab bypass, or should I run it through a simulated amp?
We all got "shit ears". Take Steven Wilson for example, he records and masters everything himself, but for his guitar part, he sends it away for others to mix it, because they sound shit to him no matter what he does
Display MoreThere's nothing wrong with Cubase 7, I ran with it for a long time and I can assure you that it does everything you need, including reamping. Think positive, dammit!
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Honestly, given the challenges you're having with technology, here's what I'd suggest as the best path. First, screw spdif for the moment. Let's just get you working analog. There are enough fundamental concepts that have to be sorted out with that alone. Once you get analog reamping working and it's all good, then Step 2 can be changing to spdif.
Remember the basic rule of debugging, keep things as simple as possible. You're grappling with too many things at once and getting overwhelmed. So, let's simplify it and start by getting reamping working, analog style.
- In VST Connections, set Mono In 1 Device Port to Input 1
- For Mono Out, set your Device Port to Output 1
- On the back of your Kemper, connect a cable to your Main Output left
- On the Focusrite, connect the other end of the cable, which must be TRS, to the front panel channel 1 input.
- On the back of your Focusrite, connect a TRS cable to Line Output 1
- On the back of the Kemper, connect the other end of the cable to Return Input
- Press the Kemper Input button
- Turn the knob for Input Source until it reads Return Input Reamp
- Press the Output button
- Turn the knob for Main Output to Master Mono (in this test we're not recording stereo)
- In Logic, if you originally created the Amp track as Stereo, create a mono track for this test, otherwise use the one you have
- For the Amp track, set the input to Mono In 1 and the output to Stereo Out
- For the DI track, set the input to not connected (since you already have a DI track) and the output to Mono Out 1
- Arm the Amp track , press Record
This is exactly how I have my setup and it works great.
Let's get you going in analog, make sure everything's working and that you understand the concepts, then you can move to spdif if you really feel the need (I don't), which shouldn't be hard to do once we have this part worked out.
That worked! Thanks. Now for the S/PDIF setup. This helped me narrow it down to maybe a routing problem on the Focusrite Software. I'll not bug you guys more about this, since now I know it works the analogue way.
I somehow managed to be able to have the AMP channel listen to the DI channel. It now inputs signal from DI, but it's clean signal. Not amped or distorted, like it should be
EDIT: It seems that the manual is wrong when it comes to output. It says to put it in Git Studio, but that's wrong, no amped sound comes through there. If I set it to Git/stacked, I get amped sound. I'll experiment a little bit more
The Kemper front input is working at all times, not matter if I chose another input source. This issue got introduced today and makes it a little more difficult to troubleshoot.. Cubase is not letting me chose DI output as the other spdif cable, and my Kemper is not letting me chose spdif as input source. I tried restarting the KPA and reinstalling OS also
EDIT: Setting KPA output to Stack instead of Git Studio had another effect. Now I can hear the amped sound, and the front input and spdif section works.. Still problems with reamping though. No way to get the DI signal to play back to the KPA.
