In reading thru the literature I see that when profiling, you want to tell the Kemper which you're doing: a clean profile or a distortion profile. My question is suppose that you create a clean profile. When you dial up the gain on a clean profile, how will this differ from the distortion profile for that same amp?
My guess is that what you're really doing is hearing the effect of saturating the pre-amp tubes on the reference amp as opposed to the power amp tubes. Therefore the quality of the distortion won't be as rich. So separate profiles are created for the Clean, Crunch and Lead channels in order to more accurately capture the various stages of tube saturation of the reference amp.
Could one of you engineering geeks confirm this for me or else set me straight? I imagine this might be useful to others as well. Thanks.