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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.
== Hardware Setup ==
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The hardware setup is simple.
# Connect the Kemper's Direct Out/Send output to the input of your real rig, such as your first pedal in the pedalboard, or your amp's guitar input. If you have a noise gate, it should be disabled - you may want to simply remove it from your signal chain.
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 ==
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Before beginning the profiling process, it's wise to select a rig that is as similar as possible to the rig you are profiling. You will often have the same stomp and post effects as you want in the new rig, and some of the tags may match as well, not requiring to be altered in the new profile. This doesn't affect the result of the profiling process, but can save you time finalizing the rig.
* 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 ==
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Here's a list of the different kinds of profiles you create:
* '''Studio''' - a set of amp and cab profiles created using the traditional profiling process
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 ==
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OS 3.0 introduced '''merging''', which is designed to more faithfully isolate the amp and cab profiles' respective impact on the tone. This means swapping cab profiles on merged profiles sounds more realistic; however, its design is really to accommodate running a real guitar cab off the cab profile while simultaneously sending the amp + cab profile to a PA or DAW. Merging will guarantee the PA sound and live sound are as close as possible.
# 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 ==
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I like to conform to the following naming format:
<pre><AUTHOR INITIALS>
<AMP>
[<ChannelCHANNEL>]
[<CAB>]
[<MIC>]
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 ==
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'''Do not overlook tagging, especially if you plan to share your profiles with others.''' This is how you fully document what you have profiled. It also allows much easier searching for profiles via Rig Manager, which looks at ''all'' the available tags in addition to the rig name.
I like to enter all the tags for a new profile immediately after creating the profile in Rig Manager - this is far quicker and easier than using the soft knobs. ''Be sure to press <code>enter</code> after completing a tag, or Rig Manager won't write it to the rig.'' If you are doing a profiling session with most tags exactly the same, be sure to do the tags for the first one before moving on to the rest of the session. New profiles will carry forward the tags from the current rig (in this case the first profile). If you forget, Rig Manager can allow updating tags on multiple rigs simultaneously - select multiple rigs, then edit them as usual.
Don't just fill out the rig section. If you save the amp or cab profiles as presets, they will save their respective tags, so that if you load them on other profiles, you can see the exact details of how the amp/cab was profiled.
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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