Recording

I'm running my guitar into my kemper stage which goes into my M-Audio interface via 1/4 jack which then goes to my laptop and I'm running reaper as a DAW, I've been trying to record distortion but it sounds a little bad on reaper and different to when I have headphones in straight to the kemper, is there some setting I need to change? I've turned down gain on my interface n the master volume on the kemper

Yes it does clip, I don't know what output settings I should set it at, I'm recording mono, so I have everything in master mono. It sounds way better headphones straight to the kemper