Per talks a lot of sense. There's room for both views here and I hope it doesn't upset And44 because he's clearly put some hard work in here. From a certain point of view what he's done could look like a canny business model - give the first two packs away for free, establish the quality of his work, build up some (deserved) positive feeling, then put up a nice website and forum with a large selection of quality amps - to obtain at a price. And that's perfectly fine. He's not even the first to do this - Armin did this a while ago albeit on a slightly smaller scale. Bare in mind that the moment someone charges for profiles they'll take on responsibility for "customer satisfaction" and will find themselves responding to every little query that a customer has... remember these are guitarists! That could keep him busy for a while. . I wonder what CK thinks about all this... probably thankful that it distracts people away from a librarian requests - although now with these 322 odd new profiles the clamor for one will mount!
Like most things - if people are happy with the quality they'll bite if not then it'll fade away. Most of the best profiles have been released for free and due to the 'black arts' nature of profiling I think that could continue for the foreseeable future. I hope so because this place has consistently put a smile on my face these last couple of months. Thanks to ALL those that contribute here. It's a good time to be a guitarist
Brett