Hi everyone, I recently bought a kemper lunchbox, and so far I'm not too satisfied with the profiles from the exchange. A couple of amazing cleans, but distorted not too much, so I got my Peavey Triple XXX and an Orange PPC212OB from a friend (since I don't have a cab yet) and decided to make a few profiles. I used both crunch and ultra channels, with gain at 12 o'clock, eq's at pretty much 12 o'clock, channel volume at 12, and master at 9-10 o'clock. No matter how many times I refine the profile, there is a difference in sound, and the amp sounds better - more subs, clearer, less saturated mids and crispier high frequencies. Kemper profile is without those sub frequencies (actually almost every profile from rig exchange is missing those subs for me, except for the ones that are captured with ribbon mics, but that as well may be a different bass response than what cab+mic produces), mids are overdistorted, and highs are missing, like there's a low pass filter present somewhere in the chain.
My setup is: Mayones setius 6 gtm with SD JB in the bridge and Jazz in the neck (or LTD EC-1000 with EMG 81 and 60), planet waves cable into front input of the kemper, direct out (with another guitar cable) from kemper to the front input of the peavey, shure sm 57 somewhere between the cone edge and speaker edge (don't remember, it was a quick test just to compare a profile with the real amp), xlr cable from mic to xlr return on the back of the kemper, main out from kemper into rme fireface, monitoring through a pair of genelec 8040's, and headphone out on the front of the kemper into audio technica m50x. Oh yes, and the cab is in a different room.
On the kemper, input settings are 0 dB for both clean and driven sensitivity, output eq is flat on all outputs, main out is master stereo, direct out is git analog, space is off for headphones, pure cabinet is off. Both insert and fx sections are bypassed on the kemper. I read the manual on profiling and it says that I should find a similar sound to start with, and set the return level to sound close to the profile currently loaded, so I did that, set the distorted mode for profiling, left eq at flat, tube shape at default 3.3, actually everything at their default value, except for the return level, and back to the beggining - I refined it two times in a row, heavily strumming open chords and chords up the neck, and there is no improvement after the refinement.
I got a little better result after turning the master volume from 12 o'clock to 9-10, but this still isn't a convincing copy of the tone.
So...what am I doing wrong? I have the kemper for about a month now, and I'm not too satisfied with it so far. Cleanish tones, gently driven tones are really great (morgan ac20 profile for example), but high gain stuff I just can't seem to find or setup the way I want.
I have a quick demo I made with logic's factory drums where I alternate between kemper profile and reference amp every four bars, first with drums, then stereo guitars, and then mono, centered guitar, if you want to hear those differences in frequencies. Just give me a suggestion where can I upload a wave file and not have it converted as I've got with soundcloud.
Advice, anyone?