Thanks for the detailed guide, but to avoid all these steps, it would be nice to have a tonematching function inside the Kemper!
profiler + tonematching = killer machine ever!
I've been involved with tonematching ever since Steinberg's Freefilter was released in the late 90s.
I did a lot of tonematching, even commercially for the AxeFx, that was before the first PROFILER hit the market.
It is on paper/in theory a very promising field, but it falls ultimately short in the real world. mainly for two reasons:
1) the sound of the reference only makes sense in that context, it was specifically shaped to fit together with the other, also heavily modified parts to create a working mix.
2) technology won't 'save you', but your ears might - when users apply tone-matching, they often go for the highest resolution the tonematching EQ has to offer (mistake #1) and set the match or mix percentage to 100% (mistake #2)
one can learn a lot from the way guitar tracks were eq'ed, but slavishly following this example (full resolution, full strength) is not the way.
Generally, a 'softer' eq curve sounds much more pleasant then a 120 band zig zag line trying to 'fix' every single discrepancy.
Also, just applying a bit of the EQ strength pretty much always sounds way more musical than simply turning it up to maximum.
There are a few things that become apparent when listening to the results: guitar tracks typically have way too much bass and not enough treble to cut through.
Something that's easily fixed by a highpass filter and a very broad, nice sounding high frequency boost (I like Pultec-style plugins for that, some sound better than others)