So, I have been doing some intense testing, learning and comparing.
I am not a overdrive stomp user, but the inclusion of the new Kemper stomps in the beta 8.0 got me curious and I am taking advantage of the situation to learn more about overdrives and what they can give to me.
I will not talk here about comercial profiles, but in one recent pack I have profiles of a 68 Plexi that was profiled both alone and with a Klon Type pedal in front. That gave me an idea.
I would try to mach the baked in Klon tone, both with my real pedal and with the Kemper Drive. So I tweaked both of them until I got them as close as I could with my ears and my modest means (some spectrum analysis, for the graph lovers out there ).
I hope that this makes sense.
There are 3 sound files.
Archer Ikon: this has first the "clean tone" of the '68 Plexi and then with the real pedal in the front input of the Kemper.
Kemper Drive: this has again the "clean tone" of the '68 Plexi and then with the Kemper Drive preset that I created before the stack.
MBritt Klon: this is the reference overdriven tone of the profile that has a Klon baked in.
All the time I have Clean Sense at -12 dB and the base, non overdriven profile has a gain of 2.8.
Here you have the Archer Ikon setting.

And here the settings for the Kemper Drive.

Let me know what you think.