Hey guys
When you have a load of profiles, some being clean and some being heavy - how do you balance the volumes?
Newbie question I know. Do you do use Rig Volume? Any other tips on how to balance them?
Thanks!
Hey guys
When you have a load of profiles, some being clean and some being heavy - how do you balance the volumes?
Newbie question I know. Do you do use Rig Volume? Any other tips on how to balance them?
Thanks!
Trust your ears to adjust the balance that suits you.
First make sure Clean Sens is set right which helps balancing clean vs. overdriven.
After that go by ear and use either rig volume or amp volume to level them.
Adjust clean sense to get you close, there is a tutorial by Kemper on YouTube that explains in detail.
Watch for effects , which can add unexpected volume gains.
Use “Rig” volume to adjust as needed to balance against other profiles you use.
Some unsolicited advice based on a problem I had related to rig/performance volumes that may be useful to you or others:
I use one expression pedal as a volume pedal, set post stack and with the range set all the way to the right. I checked the Lock Volume Pedal box so that this would be applied to all rigs and performances. Worked great.
One day, several months later, I was checking to see if anything was locked, and noticed the Rig button was locked. Thinking "I didn't lock that", I unlocked it. I've had some pretty poor experiences because I locked something, and forgot to unlock, and then saved over several rigs, or an entire performance. Well, after that my rigs and performances were really out of balance, volume-wise. After re-balancing several of them, I noticed that the Lock Volume Pedal box was unchecked (you can probably tell where I'm going with this). Turned out that the rigs/performances that were set with any other volume pedal configuration were louder or softer than they were with "my" preferred volume pedal set up. So, once I checked the Lock Volume Pedal box again, and reset the volumes I had changed, all was good again.
A long-winded way of advising, if you are using an expression pedal as a volume, be sure things are set your preferred way before you start balancing volumes.
Similar to the adage "always be tuning", I should also "always be checking to see if anything is locked" !