laxu
Fractal Fanatic
I see profiling/captures as making an easier to transport facsimile of some gear that is not already modeled. At the same time, I don't see a point capturing either of my amps because I can just use Vox or Matchless models for one and Fender and Marshall models for the other. With some tweaking I can get the models to my liking and I see no benefit for having a 1:1 replica of my real amps. Which is why in the "new amps" wish list threads I'm trying to tell people to just work with what is already in the unit (and it's a lot) rather than asking for a preset of whatever boutique Marshall or Fender variant you are interested in.Personally I'm not interested either..though tone match gets close already.
I came to the conclusion a decade or so ago (whenever kemper came out) they are 2 different products for 2 outcomes.
Profiling is for people who "hear a sound and want that sound". A copy of something specific.
Modelling is for people who hear a sound in their head and go out to make it reality.
I'm firmly in camp 2. Real amps frustrated me for years. No matter how great the amp evey one had something I couldn't quite dial in, or dial out, or shared eqs between channels, or compromised clean for drive (or vica versa). I couldt make them like the sound I was hearing in my head. Modelling done well does this.
I get why some might prefer profiling, I get some uses (real amp players who don't want to haul them on tour for instance). Just not my way.
I think of profilers as copiers and modellers as innovators kind of.
But if I had something more unique that I love like a specific overdrive pedal or a rare amp that is not easily replicated by existing models, then I could see the benefit of capturing that.
I don't see a capturing feature being much of a benefit for the Fractal system. They already do way more than any player would ever need and having thousands of captures of some obscure gear is not going to change that.