Does anybody know if a DrZ 2x10 cab would give pretty faithful results if used with profiles of DrZ amps (with the cab turned off, obviously)? I am thinking particularly of the official profiles produced by DrZ himself but I understand that there are other good profiles available out there.
I use my powered toaster almost exclusively for live use and have yet to find a cab that I am particularly happy with. Having owned a couple, I really dig DrZ’s amps and, as I don’t have unlimited resources to explore and experiment with umpteen different cab/speaker combinations I thought this might be a particularly good solution?
One question that has occurred to me is how does the Kemper produce the base-tone (by that I mean the tone that a particular amp produces before it is shaped/coloured by particular cab/speaker/mic combinations) of any given amp? Obviously, when “cab” is turned OFF, the Kemper removes/defeats/bypasses the cab/speaker/mic contribution to the tone but how does it know how to do that? As I understand it, profiling is always done by the Kemper “listening” to an amp at the speaker, or am I mistaken and can amps be profiled just at amp level without factoring in cab/speaker/mic influence?
Gosh, that was longer than I intended!
Thoughts and testimonies much appreciated!
Cheers