Curious to know how you evaluate commercial profilers. Based on clips? Soloed tone or in a mix? Based on free samples? Price of profiles?
What do you do when you find a pack didn't live up to the hype or the clips?
More questions: how many profiles make a pack? I noticed some sellers use several mics. Does that help your decision? Or do you not care if it's captured with a sm57 as long as it's authentic? Direct, studio and merged profiles better?
Also, does the method of capturing a profile aid your decision? Or could you not care if a virgin was sacrificed during the profiling process to get a good tone?
I've been thinking I could do some really killer profiles of the amps I've got. Cleans, crunch, high gain, drop tuned, etc.
I recently did one called Christmas Clean on the rig exchange. Add a hyper chorus and a reverb and it sounds like the intro to Pull Me Under by Dream Theater (wish I could provide a clip, but my recording interface is down).
At any rate, I'd be making some clips of the kinds of profiles I'd be selling. But if clips aren't sufficient, I could offer more samples. I know some sellers offer "mix ready" profiles. Is that the way to go? Or just authentic tones of an amp, leaving the mixing to whoever is using it in any kind of mix?