I've been trying to capture some profiles of a Marshall 2061x head. I passed it on to a fellow Kemper forum member for some feedback and he made some good points. It sounds very thin vs other direct profiles out there...and the two profiles I took with humbuckers came out dark. I did one profile of single coils with jumpered channels and a couple with humbuckers. I boosted the tone knob for the humbuckers to around 9 and single coils were at around 6 on the tone. Gain was full on to 9. I did one with just the lead channel. Anyway, my chain went like this:
Guitar --> Kemper Front Input --> Marshall input (coming from Direct Output) --> Kemper DI box (from Marshall speaker out at 8 ohm setting) --> split with speaker cable to 2x12 Port City Vertical OS w/ Scumback M75/H75 combo...and...XLR from DI box back to Kemper Return Input.
I set the return level to match up the Kemper and Reference. It was around -5db. I also did use the refining process hitting it hard with both low end and high end chords and some single notes on both ends. Monitor Cab Off is checked and No Cabinet checked on the second page of the profiling process. When I'm profiling, I point the cab into the carpeted floor due to noise. Since I'm not profiling the cab in any way and it's only used as a load, I felt this wouldn't impact it. Maybe it does though? Are there any other gotchas?
In comparing my 2061 profiles going through my Matrix/2x12 Port City combo to a couple of very similar amps tonally from MBritt (the Clampet and London Left Channel), the MBritt profiles sound fuller and have proper bite (keeping in mind these are not direct/merged profiles).
One other odd thing worth mentioning...check out the default definition settings that my amp profiling kicked out. Two are "0" and the one that has a value is 0.8 which seems way low. Obviously I could manipulate those up to solve some of the darkeness but that combined with the lack of fullness makes me think I'm missing something here. I did do one other direct profile in the past. It was an Orange OR50 which is a darker amp and that profiled with 5.6 definition. I believe I made this one the exact same way including pointing the cab into the floor/carpet. Look forward to some feedback