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This has been a game changer for my hx stomp. I’ve been using the tonematched presets and the compression tricks have brought the stomp alive, it’s really addictive to play now
Have you tried changing the input impedance to improve “feel”? I think it makes a difference, but it could just be in my head. I set it all the way to the right. 1M ohm
So it’s like a sag control that actually does something perceptible with maybe a little bit of speaker dampening simulation and something like a high SPL effect?
i never had Helix, i play bass and i wanted something that will sound good on both, I’ve tried Helix plug-in and didn’t like it on bass, so i bought Kemper Stage. One thing i hate about it - it’s heavy as fuck and screen sucks too, but we have iphone and ipad app, so who needs a screen.
tried the compressor and it made it worse... I have a distortion pedal on at all times in my chain, and clean up the sound by subtracting the input signal.
I have Kemper and I don’t like this “definition” thing. It just makes any profile to sound the same, it’s very gimmicky in my opinion. If you have your favourite profiles, you have to be very careful using this definition thing on them.
