Kemper and Sennheiser EW-D

    Anyone here have any experience with the EW-D from Sennheiser?


    How do you set up your gain? The unity gain settings in the manual doesn't seem to work for me. Even with Aldrich bridge pickup, there is clipping on lowest unity gain setting, meaning that I can't use the 27/18 setting. 24/18 is OK, but then the output suffers. On my EMG equipped guitars 21/18 is the highest I can go for "safe operation". But then it sounds wimpy...


    How do you manage if you use the EW-D? Just use clean sense and distortion sense to make up the unity gain and Bob´s your uncle?

    Hi, dahla.


    27/18 is working fine for me but if you are not, ignore the concept of unity gain.

    Set the AF Out at 18 and then A/B compare with a cable and adjust the Gain 'til you get a close match.


    If you can't get there because it's too hot, then lower AF out to 12 and try different settings for Gain.

    Yeah, it’s not that it’s too hot that’s the problem. It’s the opposite. I have to lower the gain. And since the AF output is capped at +18 it sounds like I’m playing through low output single coils. All the time!


    +21/+24 would be a unity gain setting for me. But that is not an option. I’m stuck at +21/+18. Meaning I can’t achieve unity gain…

    I think I found a way...


    To keep most of my guitars in the safe zone, I´ll use the gain at +21 and AF Out at +18. +24 seems fine on a few of them, but I get the occasional clipping warning if I play hard. To get the distortion to the same level I have to boost distortion sense to +4. Then it feels and responds the same between the cable and EW-D.


    So I guess it works, even though it's not unity gain. Does it matter? *shrug*.