User Manual

KEMPER PROFILING AMPLIFIER28
Compressor and Noise Gate Stomps
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Compressor
A compressor for guitar is mostly used for clean sounds, as the strings of the guitar decay pretty fast. On
distorted sounds, the distortion itself adds compression as a side-eect; this means the compressor could
even be in the way, as additional compression will kill the dynamics and touch-sensitivity of the distortion.
Still, there is always the nice trick of compressing the guitar to the max, then gently driving it just into the
distortion of the amplifier, so that every tone of the guitar gets the same decent amount of distortion.
Clean sounds benefit from compression, as it helps to lengthen the sustain of the strings. Another typical
application is to emphasize the attack of the picked strings with the attack time parameter. In the KPA you
should use the “Pick” parameter in the AMPLIFIER module to achieve this eect. It has been optimized for
controlling the energy of your pick, and does this job much better than a regular compressor.
The Stomp Compressor is a faithful recreation of a vintage stomp compressor. We also added a new pa-
rameter, called “Squash”, to make our compressor even more versatile.
There is no immediate need to readjust the compressor’s volume on clean sounds, as its volume is auto-
matically adjusted to the unity volume of the rig.
 Intensity
Controls the amount of compression applied to your instrument. At zero position there is no compression.
In the first half of the Intensity range the eect will be fairly subtle, as the compressor will only cut the
loud attacks of your instrument. Then, as you increase “Intensity” past halfway, you will start to hear the
soft notes getting boosted as well.