This question has been bothering me for a while. I find many, if not most, profiles are dark and muddy (clean amp profiles excluded). This makes me wonder if profilers are just practicing with their amp and say, "I like that sound", and then just hook up a mic to it and profile it. I understand that low frequencies on a guitar are satisfying when no mix is playing along to it but that makes it pretty hard to fit into a mix. It just seems that profiling outside the mix is a waste of time unless you only play for yourself.
I personally would like to only have profiles that were made along with the mix. It seems like there are only a few of those. Or maybe I am doing something completely wrong. I depend heavily on the Treble boost or to raise the high frequencies of OD/Dist stomps.
Does anyone know how most profiles are made? In the mix or outside the mix? Or am I doing it wrong? Wouldn't profiling in a mix be the preferred way?