Presumably understanding the way Studio and Merged profiles are produced, If I had a merged profile and a studio profile that were made at the same time, same mics, settings etc, and saved the cab from both of them they would be exactly the same correct? Both cabs would be "figured out" by cab diver and extracted & saved right? The direct signal is the thing that is broken out as separate during the merged profile making process, as then in theory you can just play the head into a cabinet authentically, but the studio portion part of both merged and studio would be the same so extracting/saving the cabs from both should be the same? I found a cab that I really like and saved. it comes from a pack that has a merged profile as well.
I was just wondering if there would be some sonic difference better or worse between them and I am trying to go around A/B testing them if there would be a difference I don't know about.
My assumption is that they should be the same, because the software that decides what portion of the profile the cab is, would be used the same way on both.
Merged profiles have 2 parts, a head part, and a head + cab part, Cab driver (or whatever software breaks out the cab for saving) is what is making the "imprint".