Jarick
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The best thing to come out of the Liquid Profiling is not necessarily more accuracy, but less fluff. Looking at Jarick's video, there's thousands of captures in some of those folders. That's a ridiculous amount of stuff, nobody has the time to go through all that. If Liquid Profiling means you can have just a handful of profiles of each amp, that's closer to what e.g Fractal or Line6 has with different models for channels/switches/variants.
Exactly!
My biggest issue with the Kemper has been having to deal with so many profiles. Typically you get between 10-30 profiles of a given amp at different gain levels and settings. You can find a few profiles at different gain levels that sound good, but they may sound quite different. One is bright, one is dark, etc.
Now you can adjust the gain levels, but more than a couple clicks in either direction would lose some of the character of the profile. Too little gain and it sounds very flat. Too much gain and it doesn't sound like the amp. EQ can help a little overall but again anything more than a couple clicks would lose character.
For most of the profiles I've tested, liquid profiling does seem to help the gain and EQ work at all settings in a more natural manner than before. It won't change a bad profile into something great, but I think I showed on the video you can take a great profile and make it versatile enough to replace several old profiles.
For me that will mean I can find one really good profile per amp, save it to the Kemper, and then never have to plug it into the computer again. Rig Manager is really unstable with my computer and crashes constantly. Over the weekend it had some kind of memory leak and hit 40 GB worth of usage and crashed everything. It's been like that for years.
But really, it makes it much closer to using an actual amp where I can just tweak the knobs to taste, add effects, and go on my way. That's been my issue with all the modelers, really. And to reiterate, that's more of a me problem than a modeler problem. Having to fuss with the cab block and thousands of IR's and EQ just drives me nuts.