

You may have to turn up Master or your external monitor to hear the tone clearly. First I'm going to turn down Volume to make sure the clipping is occurring at the Input, not Output - the Output LED should be completely green, not red. With Clean Sense set dead center (0 db), I usually get clipping (I use high-output pickups). The way I like to set Clean Sense is to take a clean profile I actually use, set the Gain all the way to 0 if it's saved at like 1-2, then strum about as hard as I ever would with the bridge humbucker active. Some of the distortion effects will distort slightly even with Gain at 0%. If you're sure you're getting input clipping in a distorted tone, adjusting here won't help anything - you will want to make sure the distortion you think is input clipping is not output clipping or the profile itself or a rogue setting on a Distortion effect (or a strange combination of multiple distortions). At gain settings above ~4, this setting has absolutely no effect on the tone. Many people get (rightfully) very confused about this setting and clipping. If for instance you are using a volume pedal or using the guitar's volume knob, Clean Sense will not affect the sound. Note: Clean Sense should not be used to try to volume-level different rigs (use the Volume Knob instead), and it does not impact changes in gain other than changing the Gain setting on the KPA. Clean Sense can be adjusted to make these roughly equal. From about 4 and below on the Gain knob, the profiles are blended inversely, and these can have a radically different volume level depending on how hot the pickups you use are. To do this, each amp profile contains a kind of parallel pair of clean and distorted profiles. The KPA can only capture a profile at a certain gain setting but allows editing the gain on the resulting rig, all the way from completely clean to fully-saturated, mushy distortion.

The KPA has a somewhat unusual way of handling a clean tone, which can be confusing. Clean Sense controls the volume balance between low and high gain settings for a particular rig.
