I don't care about replicating an amp, my point is "profiling" could be a new creative musical tool.
I already can change tone-stack, and tube amps. But I have to choose between existing option. If I want something between them? How I can achieve the sound of a non-existing tetrode and a half, or exhode (the element number is e)?
Given a dinamic transfer function, we could mod it in a creative an musical way not bound to any existing phisical device.
The first step could be "fuse" two or more "profile", given birth to a new transfer function.
Than split the function in bands, mix different "splitted" profile. In a intuitive way.
No need to know how a device work or the math behind... only some parameters (band, gain, level). The concept is the same as mixing IR, the only difference is the we should mix "dynamic transfer function".