Hi everybody. This is probably operator error, but I can't figure this out.
I have a stereo pedal that is properly hooked up in the Kemper Stage UPPER stereo loop. I want to install this pedal in the "X" stereo module, but the Stage seems to be muting the whole signal chain and the screen shows "Effect loop not possible! Aux input is used."
WHAT aux input? Is there a hidden input I don't know about? What's going on?
The connections on the back of my Stage include:
- "Input" (from guitar)
- "Pedal 3" (from expression pedal)
- "Send 1" (to stereo effects pedal)
- "Return 1/2" (from stereo effects pedal)
- "Main out" (stereo)
- "Monitor out" (stereo)
I know the stereo pedal is working (there is an unexplained thing that in certain circumstances/series of button mashes, I was able to hear my stereo effects pedal. However, I was only able to hear it right after browsing to the loop stereo effect and before "selecting" it. The stereo loop "muted" itself when I selected either "load type" or "load default" on the effects selection page. I cannot seem to even get this back.)
Help!
P.S. My cables are very short and I have other stuff in the way on my pedal board blocking Send 2 & Return 3/4). I want to use Send 1 and Return 1/2.
P.P.S. No, my effects loop is NOT connected to the lower loop (send 2/return 3/4). If I select "use lower loop," I can hear the guitar, but the effects loop doesn't do anything (duh, because no signal is going through it).