Hi all !
Just passing this on in case some of you find it useful.
Back in the day when I first had my Kemper Toaster ... and now today back to the Kemper Stage, I *always* did my Hi / Lo Cuts and always left the "Character" Control at 12.00 / zero - never bothered to then or up until now, check what it does.
I've always used excellent IR's ... custom made and MBritt's [brilliant] 2 x 12 Classic Lead 80 Cab set of IR's from his IR Pack.
I had a perennial problem though .... this applied to my first Kemper ... all my Fractals ...Helix and Tonex in Helix Loop, GT1000 .... no matter how surgically the Cab Hi cut was set ... there was always a left-over [non-musical] degree of [mildly annoying] sizzle / brittleness in the Hi End.
I just accepted it and moved on ... until today.
Having now set up my Stage for Gig use .... and as I still had no idea what the "Character" Cab control does .... I *actually* RTFM ... I thought .... hmmmmm .... interesting....
Long story short ...went to my presets .... left my Hi/Lo Cuts as they were .... and just tweaked the "Character" to 0.8 on the Left of the dial ...... holy smokes ...... all that non-musical, mildly annoying sizzle / brittleness in the Hi End was gone + the low-mids-to-mids got a touch thicker and tighter.
Like I said ... this may very well already be well known ... but just in case .... if you are having similar issues with the Top End on your Cabs / IR's ... give this a go ... such a small tweak but such a big change
All the best,
Ben