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The heart and soul of the Kemper is its profiling process. It is the source for all the profiles you can play; whether they ship as factory, are posted in the Rig Exchange, or are available for commercial purchase. You don't truly experience its voodoo until you actually profile a real amp or modeler and find how precise the Kemper gets without even beginning to tweak.
The profiling process is not affected by latency. If you have gear that adds latency, the resulting profile still sounds the same and responds instantly. Don't be afraid to route through your DAW for comp, EQ, or similar processing before sending back to the KPA.
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== Profile Process ==
* Tweak the rig more - before storing the rig, you cannot access the full Amplifier and Cabinet profile settings. After storing, you may want to make further tweaks here. While the new rig should sound virtually identical to the real rig, you may find some slight tweaks can help improve things that sounded poor in the original rig, such as reducing mic phasing (using Pure Cab), fattening up the tone (by lowering Definition), or altering the low and high resonances of the cab (low and high shift in the Cab profile). You could also improve the sound of the distortion tone with pre-EQ or a boost pedal. Or some precise post-EQ to really get a nice, full sound.
* Revisit tags and rig name in Rig Manager, quickly typing in the correct tags for all possible parameters.
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== Profile Types ==
The only difference in the profiling process is selecting No Cab on the first page of the profiling dialog. The rest of the difference depends on what the real rig consists of. Merged profiles additionally are put through the merging process.
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== Merging ==
# Check the Merge Cabinet option while in the Cab edit screen
# Store the profile - the merging process will occur during storage
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== Naming ==
When I initially name a rig, I'm not super careful to get everything right or add every detail - I can add that later via Rig Manager. I just need enough to know relate what I did when I created the profile; to remember the particulars or general target tone of the real rig.
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== Tagging ==
Be sure to write whether an amp/cab is studio or merged (or direct). I like to use the amp/cab comments tags for this purpose, so that they will follow the amp/cab as presets.
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