My bandmate was using his Ironheart IRT15 through my Marshall 4 x 10 cab with an EQ in the loop and one in front of the amp, and as usual had an amazing sound.
I took the Direct out to the input on the EQ in front of the amp and then an SM57 was placed by our keyboard player (who is a BBC sound engineer) and back into the return on the Kemper.
I turned the reverb all the way down on the Ironheart.
My Kemper was connected to my DXR10 and I started with an AFD100 rig that is quite aggressive. I turned all the stomps and effects off.
The first thing I couldn't figure out was the return level matching using the soft knob 4....I couldn't match to the sound of my Kemper as the Ironheart was pretty cranked....so I couldn't hear it over the sound from the Marshall cab in the room however much I turned it up or down.
Should I have just turned the master volume on the Kemper up a lot more?
Anyhow, I trusted in the words in the manual that this would auto-adjust. I did look for the Input light going red....but looking again, it says the output light is the one that I would have to monitor....I'm a bit confused...perhaps this stage is where I am going wrong?
Anyhow, I put it through the profiling process. Once finished it sounded like a bass boomy muddy mess....nothing like the Ironheart and lots of fizz. Having refined and then saved the new profile, I could use pure cabinet to get rid of the fizz.....but it just sounds pretty bad....and nothing whatsoever even remotely like the Ironheart.
Any pointers?
Thanks,
Andy