I saw one of the stores (can't recall which one) that called this a "sun/Moon" finish! They must have thought people were gullible enough to believe it was done on purpose!
A great deal on these profiles. Doc is taking control of his own tone before someone else does - a very smart move. If this goes over well, Doc has asked if he can borrow a few of my "vintage" Zs to profile.
Great to hear surgery went well! With regard to doctors' I've run into a number who I wouldn't let restring my guitar much less than cut into me. As my mother says, "Doctor's PRACTICE medicine" -
Outstanding! The profiling process operates as I suspected - a sequence of impulses to measure the time-frequency domain, and various forms of pink and brown noise to measure the EQ curve. Are these test tones generated by the profiler, or via the laptop? I can capture a mic'd response to these ton...
For those of you that have not seen the Kemper profiling process here is a video that was shot on the run in my mancave - I know it's profiling some of my "classic" Zs and not my Marshalls but hey, that's what he wanted!