When, 12 years ago, I purchased the KPA the direct profiles were designed exclusively for live use with a guitar cabinet.
Today, with the level reached by IRs, with the advent of the brand new dynamic IRs, with the spread of hardware IR loaders of all types and sizes, with various increasingly credible cabinet simulators, direct profiles could have their revenge,also in studies and recordings.
E.g. Personally, using both the York Audio impulses and a UAFX OX Stomp, instead of the cabs present in the various profiles, I almost always obtain much superior results.
And that was just the premise...
So I wonder why in the packs on sale, for each amp studio profile with a certain setting and a certain cabinet, the corresponding direct profile done properly is not given.
That is, complete with counter-reaction and mutual interaction between the power amplifier and the speakers of THAT CERTAIN CABINET with THAT SETTING.
So not a direct profile obtained through any load box, thrown there among dozens of studio profiles.
As all profile producers know, to achieve this it would be enough to insert a DI Box suitable for the purpose, at least such as a BSS AR-133, into the speaker cable (kept as short as possible).
So that every time a studio profile is finished, the output of the BSS is sent to the KPA return instead of that of the mic preamps. In 2/3 minutes each profile would have its direct version, on which specific IR or cab simulations could be added.
Why not do it?
And it would be great for liquid profiles too!!!