Hi Forum,
Some of you have noticed that the Monitor Output sound has been improved. This has happened without notice, because we had plans to release this in a next Firmware separate from the new effects.
The improvement addresses all of you who like to play the Profiler thru a power amp and guitar cabinet.
As you might know there is two ways to do that: Have a direct profile (profiled from the amp's send or power soak, without a cabinet), or take a regular profile and click "MonitorCabOff" in the Master resp. Output section.
In the future we will have a better support for direct profiles. But for the moment I want to emphasize on the latter functionality.
Direct Profiles are perfect when you want to recreate your own amp and play it thru the cabinet that you are familiar with. But in my perception it does not qualify too much when you want to play a varitety of different amp profiles on a gig or in the rehearsal room, as the “matched cabinet” aspect is gone then.
When you have a Marshall 4x12, you will not get an authentic sound when you play a Vox or Fender direct profile. In this case it might be impossible to achieve a perfect recreation even with the perfect direct profile or even the real amp, because the real cabinet does not match. You will probably have to equalize the sounds to make them convenient.
The improved solution in the Profiler makes your cabinet match easier to the profiles that you like to play. (I meant “match”, not “much”). If you want to use a guitar cab e.g. for monitoring on stage, there is no need for direct profiles.
When you run a regular profile in the KPA with "MonitorCabOff", the virtual cab is separated from the amp. There is an additional adaption taking part, creating an algorithmic improved direct profile so no heavy equalizing is necessary among different profiles.
Of course you will have to adapt and compensate for the frequency response to the real power amp and cab that you use. This is done by the global Monitor EQ. Once this is done, every profile should sound elegant with your cabinet. I have improved the Monitor Eq, I am sure you find the perfect sound without the use of a larger Graphic or Parametric Eq, that is much more complex to handle (and not usefull for everybody)
To anticipate a question here: I do not see a valid algorithm yet, that will automatically adapt the monitor eq to your cabinet. But it is easily done by hand and ear anyway, I think.
Have Fun!
PS: Please tell me the your optimum settings for the Monitor EQ. I want to evaluate tendencies in the perception of the frequency response.