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STL Tones Colin Richardson - Kemper Pack - YouTube
To be honest the sound of a single guitar sounds mushy anyway. In the context of a recording I suspect it will sound so much better.
I don;t think its the KPA or the profilers issue, it just shows that there is more to this than plug and play Im afraid. I do suspect something fundamental in your set up though is probably contributing.
I think the answer is a number of things:
1) The single chain of the reference - band mix, post production and signal chain etc.
2) Your monitoring. I think to rule out as much as you can, start with decent studio headphones - reduces monitor and room colour
The best "in band" guitar sounds often sound duff out of context.
Also there are a few people on here who are sound producers who can probably help as I think this is also a generic request on recording good metal tones.
Yes. This is one of the videos that i was refering to. As a example, mine sounds much mushier, a ton of midrange ( i love midrange in guitar tones) but this one sounds like i am playing through a radio speaker. I had to bring up the distortion sense, something that worked well on other profiles (having the distortion sense to -1 db), putting a treble booster in the stomp section, moving the cabinet high shift to +0.1 - +0.2, boosting the shit out of the treble and presence, raising the gain and stuff like that. I know that you need to tweak it to your own playing style, guitar, guitar pickups etc, but some profiles are way off the grid. And this is not the only pack that i had "problems" with.
I will try to find that thing that you say it is fundamental, but right now i don't have a clue what it could be.
I once had the same thing that at home a profile sounded bad on studio monitors and i thought i should give a try on the PA at the rehearsal space. Same thing. Maybe i can rule out the guitar + pickups, it remains the audio interface and/or studio monitors.