I agree, but with the abundance of profiles I find it much easier to scroll through profiles in Rig manager by filtering for the amp type or tone. In this specific example if you put "TSL" in the search field. you will get at least 24 marshalls TSL that reside in Rig Exchange, plus if you have imported many profiles packs in rig manager, you will get more, another click on the gain level filter and you have them sorted by the level of gain from high to low. It takes minutes and you might find the exact tone your'e looking for.
Going through cabinets, I find to be a bit time consuming that's somewhat not inline with the original purpose that I got the Kemper for and in addition to that I get a bit OCD about changing cabinets because the resulting sound will not be the most authentic due to speaker impedance interaction that's captured most accurately and most authentically in the studio profile I'm not saying you won't get good sounds changing cabinets, they just won't be more authentic, unless you're using merged profiles with other cabinets from other merged profiles.
From prior experiences , prior to Kemper, and due to ear fatigue while playing at loud volumes and changing impulse responses, I would end up with, what I thought then, is an amazingly satisfying sound, to come back the next day, with fresh ears, to find that it was actually horrid. Even though I no longer tweak hardly, I have limited my parameters to going though Studio profiles. Aside from little EQ to match to the guitar type I'm playing, It's much less time consuming and the results will always be closest to real world amps.
So this hits on an important point for me. One of the reasons I bought the Kemper was to try and reduce "fiddling" time. I tend to get sucked into this, and spend more time tweaking parameters than actually playing my guitar which is a problem for me anyways. I was hoping to not get into changing cab's , 3rd party IR's , adding eq's , etc to get what I'm looking for. I will admit I'm really anal when it comes to tone though, so maybe the technology available just isn't there yet for what I was hoping for.
I don't want to spend countless hours on tone questing. But I wasn't going to find out unless I took the plunge and bought a unit to try for myself. Not giving up yet, but I will say I'm a bit surprised at out of the 14,000+ profiles my Kemper came with that only a handful really impress me. To me that say that there is a fair amount of studio skill required to do a great profile , and most "lay" users don't have much of a chance of making "golden profiles".
This is just the opinion of a new user who didn't spend much time lurking the forums prior to purchase and didn't know what to expect out of this thing really.
Question - what's a studio profile? Just a "professional" one?
