Compressor / sustainer

Quote from Gezza

Hey thanks for the tip.

Tried it in the loop and placed it after the gate, way too noisey, hum static and just noise.

No compressor for me at the moment.

Cheers.

Cheers and best of luck sir!

Your best chance was if you ran battery power only on the external pedal to reduce ground loop and emi noise from the pedals power supply. Could maybe try using the Kemper ground lift options but it may be worse. It also depends on your Kemper model. A STAGE model would be nice and close but running long cables all over to a toaster for instance would be much more susceptible to noise.

Quote from Gezza

Hello All,

I came from tube amp to Kemper.

I play heavy rock with lots of gain, due to Strat single coil.

I used a pedalboard, on that pedal board I had the pedals below.

Noise Gate, Wah, Compressor/sustainer, Distortion, Tuner,Buffer, before the amp.

Then, Delay, Reverb, Boost/buff in the loop.

So that's what I tried to replicate with the Kemper Stomps.

So far I have been happy with everything except the sustain I get from the Compressor stomp.

It Compressors but I don't feel the extra sustain, it sort of dies then kicks in, like a little boost.

before I could hit a note and go in sustain easily with my amp, but I am still struggling to get that with the Kemper.

So if you know what I mean and know what can help please let me know?

Plus, I don't have a lot of stomps free, one downside to the Kemper.

I may have to add my Compressor/sustainer to my rig, but then I have to bring a power adaptor.

So far I have used the following stomps.

Gate, Wah, Comp, Dist, (Amp+EQ), EQ, Boost, Delay, Reverb.

I only kick in the gate on lead tones, so my sound doesn't get away from me.

Cheers.

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Everyone wants more sustain so totally get why you want it, more sustain is nearly always preferable...like more speed :). Sustain is impacted by a number of things in the chain, from the input through to the speakers ( feedback type endless sustain).

Totally appreciate you are looking to replicate but as a few on here have suggested, you have other options.

In most cases, external pedals add what an amp can't give you. So overdrive pedals, boost pedals, compressors etc. are in many ( but not all) there to make up for things missing from your amp.

With the KPA you have the choice of so many amps, so keep experimenting. I don't use any pedals or compression. I use the "natural" compression from the amp profile and is part of my auditioning of a sound.

Not sure that helps!

Try experimenting with the compression value in the amp section.