Kemper Profiling Amplifier Manual - page 19

FRONT PANEL CONTROLS

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Clean Sens and Distorted Sens

Different types of guitars produce different output levels depending on their pickups and string gauge: for 

example, humbucker pickups generate higher voltages compared to single coils, and active guitars gener-

ate even hotter signal levels.

As we already mentioned, you can adjust the volume compensation of the instrument INPUT by setting 

“Clean Sens” to a level where clean sounds have the same perceived loudness as distorted sounds. “Clean 

Sens” determines the volume of clean sounds, but not the way the amp or the effects are driven. A low 

level guitar output stays clean, a hot guitar will still distort more easily.

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Extremely hot guitars can generate unwanted distortion. To prevent this we recommend a lower “Clean 

Sens” value.

If you feel that your guitar tends to drive the distortion too hot (or too soft) for the majority of preset rigs, 

then calibrate your guitar by setting “Distorted Sens”, to the left or right from the neutral zero position.

Input LED 

(12)

The LED reflects the level of the input signal. Green is OK, yellow is still OK, red is too high.

Noise gate knob 

(13)

This knob controls the NOISE GATE, which eliminates the noise and hum of your guitar in a very smart 

way. Turn the NOISE GATE knob to the right, until noise and hum have disappeared; do not turn it beyond 

that point, as this might alter the sound of your guitar. When set to the appropriate position, you will no-

tice that the noise gate is capable of eliminating noise and hum, even when the strings still sound. There is 

no need for an additional release control as in classic noise gates. The noise gate settings can be stored as 

part of a rig.

With the chicken-head set to Profiler mode, the noise gate will also work with the connected amplifier, but 

without interfering with the result.