MeAmBobbo proudly presents...a pack of Line 6 Pod HD patches. I know. Who gives a ____? For a while, I didn't tihnk it'd even be worth doing, and something just to have fun with rather than to make "serious" profiles; however, these came much better than I thought. I strongly suggest everyone give them a run-through. You will be surprised.
There are 62 profiles of the setlist in my Pod HD. These are artist matched profiles - see the list below, but I cover everything from 60's rock to face-melting deathcore. There is no match EQ or anything like that - I did them by ear, and I may have beefed some up according to my personal preferences. All profiles are merged, with a couple of exceptions, which are DA profiles, since there was no amp or cab in the Pod patch.
http://foobazaar.com/kemper/Pod/MAB_PodHD.zip
I will post to the Rig Exchange, but I want to make another pass to do some final tweaks. The Pod has some odd things going on and they show up and sometimes get a bit ugly when profiled, but a little tweaks to some of the amp parameters and some pre-eq can really clear it up. Overall, I was very, very surprised by how good this came out. Some of the profiles came out sounding better than the Pod itself without ANY tweaking. It's like the Kemper made the HD turn ... HD. This was particularly evident on the Treadplate (Dual Recto) model. Even for the ones that sounded identical to the Pod, I had far more tweakability in the Kemper, since most of my Pod HD patches used 4+ EQ's, as the EQ's were very limited in what each type could do. The Studio EQ in the Kemper is basically equivalent to 2 Parametric EQ's and 1 Mid-Focus EQ in the Pod. Plus any EQ's on the Pod patches are now baked into the Kemper profile. The Kemper noise gates are far superior.
The Pod HD's cab/mic simulations are the weak link in the chain; however, I did extensive research on how to pair cab/mic combinations. See http://foobazaar.com/podhd/toneGuide/cabsMics#dualCab . The IR's used were not truncated properly, so many of them do not phase-align, causing comb filtering and transient mis-alignment, which sounds terrible. I use about 6 different 4x12's and about 5 different mics in my patches - that's a total possibility of 30 cab/mic combinations, and 900 cab/mic pair combinations. I used some math and excel to generate a list of the ones that are phase-aligned, and others that can be aligned using neutral EQ effects, which add latency to the signal. It really breathes life into the Pod, but it eats up your DSP, and it's a real pain to dial in a patch. Anyway, you don't have to worry about any of that. The point is that my pack has a very wide variety of tones, but it's all just Pod HD and Kemper - no cab/mic simulators like the Two Notes Torpedo or external IR's. You can hear some ugly resonances in some of the patches, but for the most part, I think the results are very good.
I used a lot of my reverb presets for ambient and lead patches as well.
Have fun and let me know if you have any feedback. I may retweak and re-profile a few of these. Let me know which need the most work.
John Petrucci - Mark IV rhythm and lead, Mark IIC+ lead, Dual Recto/Road King rhythm and lead, Pull Me Under Clean
Joe Satriani - Surfing with the Alien, Is There Love in Space, Fuzz (Overdriver)
Steve Vai - Ultra Zone, Story of Light
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Santana
Jimi Hendrix
Jonny Lang
Eddie Van Halen - VH I, VH III
Eric Clapton - Cream
Gary Moore
Guns n Roses - Sweet Child o Mine, Welcome to the Jungle (crap delay settings...)
AC/DC - Back in Black
Led Zepplin - II
Foo Fighters
Mark Knoppfler - Money for Nothing
Metallica - And Justice for All, Black Album
Megadeth - United Abominations/Classic Thrash Tone, Th1rt3en/rougher tone
80's Lead
60's Clean Fender
Crunches - Marshall, Fender
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
KillSwitch Engage - The End of Heartache (5150 and Recto tones)
As I Lay Dying - The Powerless Rise
Meshuggah - Chaosphere, Obzen, Koloss, Lead, Ambient Clean
Misha Mansoor - rhythm, lead, clean
Lamb of God - Ashes of the Wake
God Forbid - Determination
Scar Symmetry - Dark Matter Dimensions
TesseracT
Veil of Maya
Vildjharta (sp?)
The Faceless - Autotheism rhythm and lead
Attempt at a Diezel-esque tone (Das Pod)
Synth/Chiptunes Patches - 8-bit, 16-bit, 32-bit, Dubstep
Bass - Clean, Distorted, Fuzz, and Metal
EDIT: I updated many of the Pod HD patches on some things I discovered and re-profiled, tweaked, and included these updated ones in the zip. Look for the profiles with "2" at the very end.