I feel ridiculous. Been having so much trouble with getting my input settings right. The most noob issue anyone could have with the Kemper. I'm guessing.
Yet it's likely to be the first problem faced by anyone new to the Kemper. I got my unit in the middle of this week and out of the box I had a superb experience.
Then came my first update and things became confusing. I was convinced that the input settings had added gain to my signal. The reason? My input LED was clipping.
I subsequently lowered my clean sense, as any good user should in such a situation. Right? Apparently wrong. The feel went right out of the Kemper. It became like any modelling unit in terms of the playability, though the sound was better than what I've been used to.
Today, I was screwing (believe me, the right word) with the input settings and raised clean sense. And man, what a difference it makes to playability, feels so lively and bouncy. But my LED was clipping...
Or was it? I think a lot of the confusion stems from the difference between yellow and red. Green is easy to understand, but when the yellow flashes, I thought it looked a bit red
But when red flashes, it looks really red
So is it clipping super fast and therefore I see a little red in my yellow (orange)? Or does a red clip LED only count when you see it as clearly as a OD/Distortion LED?
Or maybe I'm just colour blind