With respect to all the people who were nice enough to respond to you trying to be helpful it never seizes to amaze me how little people in general know, or probably more accurately, care to know about the amazing guitar sounds guitarists from the early '80's like Stewart Adamson from "Big Country" created and how they got their signature sounds. I always thought there was some kind of stigma put on many "new wave/alternative" guitarists from that area that they were just average guitar players with gimmics, guitar synths and overprocessing in the studio which makes me laugh as many of these guitarists would accurately reproduce their amazing studio sounds in live situations with relatively little gear and no guitar synths at all. When I say little gear, it was about the same quantity as the hair bands back then, just used differently and often more progressively.
I'm afraid most of the advice you got here isn't going to help you get that authentic Big Country sound. You should really know the equipment he was using then and his signal path to start with. For one thing, he never used a guitar synth to get that sound or on any of his awesome sounds so using the bagpipe preset someone put on Axechange while being a great preset for what it is, it's not going to get you that sound since no synth was used. And no, he didn't use any chorus or compression either. He used an old MXR Pitch Transposer (pitch shifter) with the pitch shifted an octive or something like that with some detuning for the distinct modulated effect he had. He combined this with some medium modulation delay via Korg SDD2000. He used sold state Fender Showman amps. These were the Fender amps Rivera designed when he was at Fender and are the best sounding solid state amps I've ever heard aside from some modelers, both in their distortion and clean sound. They have a very warm and unique sound both clean and distorted. I wish these amps were modeled in Axe Fx. His distortion came from his amps which have extensive EQing controls. He also used a duel nose gate. This is all he used to get all his great sounds until their third full album where he expanded his sound canvas a bit and added a few modulation fx.
Guitar players from the early '80s don't get nearly the respect and recognition they deserve for their very cool and unique guitar sounds they had.
Stuart Adamson of Big Country, Jamie West Oram of The Fixx, Paul Reynolds of Flock of Seagulls, Charlie Burchill of Simple Minds, etc all had awesome unique signature guitar sounds but I have yet to hear anyone reproduce their sounds accurately with the exception of one guy on youtube that reproduced the Big Country sound but he is a Big Country megafan who has duplicated all of Stewarts gear to the T. All the presets I've heard trying to duplicate these guitar players sounds don't even come close in my opinion. The funny thing is The Edge of U2 came from this stock of guitarists and I'm sure no one would duplicate his sound either had U2 vanished as a group in the lime light in the mid 80's like all these other bands did.
