Howdy,
I just bought a used Rocketfire Strat with handwound pickup, the model is 1954 s series. Great bell tone and twang and everything. Tried with Kemper: nice clean and distorted sounds.
The problem occurs with overdrive sounds: as you can ear in the attached clip, the Kemper makes a horrible clipping noise if I pick just a bit harder. I'd like to know if the problem is related with the vintage pickups, which don't produce a high output but are very sharp and the attack is pronounced. So I attached the unprocessed guitar sound, played with similar dynamic. Can someone be kind enough to reamp the signal through the same rig (Ceriatone SSS SRV by Einar Nysted on rig exchange)? Thank you very very much.
troubleshooting:
I tried to lower the clean sens, (though both leds stay green) up to -12 db, no change at all;
I didn't touch anything on the original profile; some other overdriven profiles have the same behaviour, including commercial profiles;
Soundcard input is fine and I can hear the noise with the headphone output of the Kemper too;
With other guitars I own the problem doesn't occour.
Already tried a system reset;
Guitar action and pickup height are fine and if I pick open strings the issue is still here. Strings are brand new; I also tried to dampen the tremolo strings. Unplugged, the guitar doesn't make any strange rattle sound. Truss rod is fine too.
If I fiddle with the low cut on the graphic equalizer, the noise reminds a ring modulator effect.
With my cheap zoom g2 unit, the guitar seems fine.
Please help me! Thanks again!