Just saw Per's thread, so I guess I'm not the only one who is having difficulty getting accurate profiles. Didn't want to hijack his thread, so here's my problem
I was micing up a guitar cab today with my Diezel VH4. Mics used on the Diezel were a LD-87 and a RB-77DX on an Emperor cabinet with Governors and Tonkers in an X pattern.
I used a Neve 1073 preamp after the mic to bring out some of the details in the amp. After that, I hit record and did a little double track experiment to test out the tone before I profiled.
Here is the recording.
But whenever I tried to profile the amp, I got really horrible results. I took stock of Mr Kemper's point in the other thread that differences in volume could cause this effect, but I was very careful to ensure that the SPDIF output level on the Kemper was evenly matched with the clip I posted when comparing.
The results of the profiling session were not even worth saving imho, so I junked them after a lot of effort.
I'm not sure what I am doing wrong. The whole purpose of the exercise was to put up some free profiles in the rig exchange, but I constantly seem to be having issues when I profile of getting inaccurate profiles.
This is despite the fact that the recorded tone is not half bad imho. I thought the tone I was getting didn't cut through the mix as much as I would like and was a bit darker, but nothing some tweaks on the amp end won't fix.
The profile I tried to create was godawful. I don't understand it.
If you'd like, I can punch out the profiles sometime tomorrow and have them for you, but they don't seem to sound anything like the directly recorded tone.
For a while I was thinking that perhaps the software preamp I was using was the issue, but that doesn't seem right.