I know this may sound crazy, but when I got the Kemper I felt like... it was somehow going to be bad if I took these profiles of amps and started messing with them. Like Photoshopping an Ansel Adams. I didn't have as much of an issue adding effects before and after, but for some reason I had a strange aversion to messing with the amp itself. There also seemed so many good ones out of the box that not much tweaking seemed needed anyway.
That... is silly. There are also plenty of Rig presets that weren't really doing anything for me. Last night when I came across one that I thought was kind of lack luster I figured I'd see if I could make a silk purse out of this sow's ear. I could! I'm not sure why I was apprehensive about messing with things... especially the gain. Maybe I thought because the interaction of the controls hadn't been modeled, like they are in an Axe FX or in Amplitube, that I wouldn't get good or "true" results, but I see the error in my ways now.
Maybe I'm the only one who's nutty like this but I figured I'd put it out there to the tweakers of the world who might not feel the Kemper is as good a tool as an Axe FX or other "modeler" type of product. Maybe I was getting away from a "true" representation of the amp profile being used, but to that I say "so what?" I was able to take a "meh" rig and turn it into something awesome.