Now, as you're all probably aware, the Kemper isn't a sim as such, it profiles actual amps by feeding some noise into it and recording the output via a (whichever you choose) mic and back into the machine and voila! you have a profile. I haven't done this yet, nor am I going to. The big attraction is all these tone obsessives out there who generate profiles and put them up in the profiling area and you can just grab them.
Now the thing is, if can't dial your amp in with your guitar, and know where to put which mic, you're not going to get a good profile, and trust me, there are some rubbish ones out there - but there are also some really good ones, and some people also sell the damn things, although I haven't gone down this path. They're also set for specific pickups - a SC profile probably won't sound good with humbuckers and vice versa.
The problem is you have too much choice, so you have to quickly find some profiles you like and just use them, or you can sit there auditioning all day.
Anyway, without further ado, here are four takes of this riffy thing I hope to make into a song one day with four different profiles. I've got bass and simple canned drums in there too and have double tracked each at 70% L and R. I've made a slight EQ adjustment on the profiler between L and R just for the hell of it. Guitar is my new LP Standard, treble pickup. I've done nothing to the tracks in the DAW and have removed any included reverb etc. from the profiles.
Fuchs OD30
Marshall TSL
Cornford MK50
Marshall JCM800
I've just listed the amp type in the link. Each profile (usually) has details of the cab and mic used as well, but I won't bore you with them at the moment. Forgive the scrappy playing - I've found an input monitoring latency issue I haven't worked out yet and it was throwing me off a bit, especially in the second bit. I've just faded in and out a longer section to save you getting too bored listening to the whole thing over and over.
