Let me preface this question by saying I have not profiled any amps, I just don't own any anymore which apart from the lack of a decent room is why I can't experiment with this myself.
I know the vast majority of modern era guitar sound is tracked in a close mic setup and that as far as I am aware is the method by which all profiles are created. If therefore I am aiming for an old school 50's style roomy sound as heard on many Sun records productions how would I best imitate that with the Kemper and IR loaded Aux sends in my DAW. I'll not direct the topic to the specific choice of amp or mic(s) used as this is more a theoretical question about the wider possibility of re-amping with a combination of different profiles.
Imagine if you will a studio set up with a close(ish) mic, a mic at the back of the live room and then another set on the side wall that picks up sound which is at minimum a first reflection. Currently If I set up this virtual room in my DAW I am only ever sending the specific snap shot of that close mic's profile to the different Aux sends rather than the sound of the whole cabinet as it reaches the rear mic or the whole cabinet sounded as reflected of the side wall.
I know the Kemper profile can't capture the time based aspect of the room but would a far mic'd profile contain all the ingredients of the entire cabinet tonally which could then be routed to the impulse responses of the room I was trying to create? That far micd profile wouldn't be any good of itself but then blended with a typical close mic profile of the same cabinet and amp setting might? I would imagine that any attempt to EQ a close mic'd profile to mimic what frequency content might be arriving at the far mic(s) is wishful thinking at best.
I don't know whether this just nonsense and am misunderstanding what is possible from a profiling perspective. Having never done it I don't know whether there would be enough mic gain from a decent pre-amp - although I suspect there might - or whether the Kemper would even understand a reflected sound signal in the profiling process?
Be interested to hear any views on this.