I was trying my DD5, DL4, Aqua Puss etc in front of the Kemper tonight and I couldn't get them to sound right. Do I need to place the time based effects in the loop?
DD5 in front of kemper?
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Unless you're specifically going for a weird tone, delays and reverbs always go after the amp. Use the X or Mod slot with with Loop module.
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Unless you're specifically going for a weird tone, delays and reverbs always go after the amp. Use the X or Mod slot with with Loop module.
Thanks, I'll give that a try. I have never ran time based effects in a loop of my regular amps and have always ran them directly in front of the amp a long with drive etc. Curious to why this doesn't work well with the Kemper... -
Generally the correct way to do delay/reverb is in the loop effects circuit of your amp, not just in line with the FX pedals you're using.
For example, if you pushed your guitar amp into drive mode and had a delay pedal before it ... that would sound pretty messy.
I'm guessing you've only ever use a pedal for distortion and never the amp?
Lokasenna is correct - throw it into the X spot.
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It *will* work, but with either the Kemper or a real amp, putting the delay in front means that the amp is amplifying your delay repeats. It'll be more noticeable if you're playing with high gain, since the repeats won't trail off nicely. The Kemper might be doing more compression and cranking-up than your real rig.
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weird tone ??! ....rockabilly and some of the early U2/Radiohead stuff have delay Before the amp
another reason why I would like the promised 'movable delay ' slot to materialise ... -
The OP is talking about not liking the tone he is generating with the delay in front of the amp's distortion. This is the solution.
The messy/weird tone mentioned is used a bit, but isn't as common.
