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Profiling with effects in the recording chain
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Many guitarists get their signature sound by combining distortion pedals, booster pedals and equalizers/
filters with a tube amp. If you want to do this, you can keep these in the signal chain during the profiling
process — they will all be accurately profiled as a part of the reference amp sound. However, there is one
exception: some distortion pedals use a special design that cannot be profiled accurately, for instance the
Tube Screamer.
If you do include your effects chain with your amp profile, but are not happy with the result, try again
without the distortion pedal. Remember, you can always use one of the modeled distortion pedals in the
PROFILER instead when building your rig.
Other effects should be bypassed during the profiling process because they will adversely affect the re-
sult, making it sound less natural and different to the original amp tone. These include: compressors, noise
gates, and time/modulation/reverb effects such as delay, reverb, chorus, and so on.
You might also run into trouble when profiling a sound in which both the pre- and power amps of the ref-
erence amplifier are driven into distortion. If the resulting profile sounds unsatisfying, try to reduce the vol-
ume of the power amp. This will make the result sound somewhat more transparent, without significantly
reducing the amount of distortion. The same is true for those modeling amps which offer a separate gain
control for pre- and power amp.
The PROFILER only allows for mono profiling. Stereo profiling is not currently supported, but really, how
many classic guitar amps feature true stereo circuitry, anyway?
Since the PROFILER sends its own test-tones into the reference amp during profiling, it should be obvious
that the sound of your guitar isn't part of the result. The PROFILER is designed to react to any guitar in an
identical way to the reference amp that was profiled.
Monitoring while taking profiles
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The output of the reference amp can be monitored through the outputs of the PROFILER. This way, you
can switch between listening to the original reference amp signal and the profiled version using the soft
buttons in the profiling mode. In fact, we recommend that in order to avoid any confusion between what
you are hearing and what the PROFILER is profiling, the reference amp should only be monitored using the
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