This is correct, Joptunes.
From the wiKPA:
QuoteDisplay More[[ckemper]] The distorted sens does influence how hot the guitar is driving the distorted sounds and practically compensate for too hot (reduce it) or too soft (increase it) PUs.
These controls are necessary on the Profiler because we offer the volume compensation for clean sounds. That means when you turn the gain to zero, you get a fully clean sound at regular volume. You could not do this on an analog guitar amp. But if your guitar itself is loud or soft, the clean sound would become too loud or soft.
This is what you level with Clean Sens.
It took me a while to create this, and I understand that this might be a bit
confusing, as those controls do not react as you would be used to. But just use it as described and don't think about it deeper.
The default for Distorted Sens is the middle position. If your guitar is quite hot, turn it down: it will be as you would turn down the gain on all profiles.
And yes, if your guitar does not clean out well, there might be too much gain and distortion.
Distorted Sens is just based on this question: when you play this particular guitar (or this input setting that you are about to save) would you like all of your dirty rigs to sound more or less dirty? Beyond this, there is no reason to use it at all. It does not improve or colour the sound, it is just a neutral booster.
Those parameters also affect how loud a patch will be when raising and lowering gain. For example, If distorted sens is low as you add gain from clean it won't get louder; but, as you back off gain it will get louder.
Raising distorted sens will add volume as you add gain. Very cool feature actually.
Distorted Sens is something that is adjusted to taste by yourself. If you feel that your KPA rigs have overall less gain than you'd like, you raise it, if you feel the other way around, then you lower it. This simple.
But, be careful:
QuoteThe Distorted Sens will affect the Direct out, too. You should set it to zero, when you run your reference amp for profiling. The Clean Sens has no impact to the Direct out.