How/why do you use overdrive/distortion stomps in front of the amp?

i use a vfe focus pedal, it's killing it for high gain sounds, but there's one thing i still haven't figured out, when i use a wah in the stomps section of the kemper , the wah isn't almost hearable, with the focus pedal off the kemper wah is perfect, in my old settings the wah was before the focus , i could do this again but then it adds a pedal to ground, would rather love to have only my fcb1010 on the ground , oh well, keep on searching for the hoy grail of tone

Is there any need for the VFE Focus lloco? I used to have one for my tube amp and it was great, but I would have thought that the Kemper could do the same??

well, i had also one for my tube amp, and use it now with my kemper, i still have the impression it adds that little more as in comparison to the gain or stomps of the kemper, although i haven't profiled my tube amp with the pedal in front, maybe then the vfe will become useless

Still run my full pedalboard into the front of the kemper, always on a cleanish/edge of breakup profile. A lot more flexible than programming everything into the kemper.

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The Kemper really helped curb my pedal and amp buying addiction. I have tried ODs in front of the Kemper, and it sounded great, but now just use tweaked profiles switched with the remote to keep it simple and stage setup clean and fast.

This pic is a few years old now, taken back when I first got my KPA unpowered head (has since been changed to a powered rack KPA). Many of the pedals have been sold... and many many new ones have been bought.. lol.

I did say the KPA only curbed my pedal addiction - not erased

(quite a few home made fuzz, OD's and boosts in this pic that I'd forgotten about. I really should pull them out again and give 'em a whirl)

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I love this real Wha, it never failled !!!

I use a Donner "blues crab", which is a cheap Marshall Bluesbreaker pedal clone.
It's only use is as a "dirt boost" (a slight boost that makes your signal more dirty). I have tried to reproduce this effect with the available stomps in the kemper or by fiddling with amp settings, but with no success.
I hope the stomp section will be improved in the future for OD, the green scream is pretty cool so i think most of the "classic" OD should be implemented.