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Note that some presets might be dialed in to sound good at band volumes so they won't sound right at low volumes.
If you hear the same presets in videos and they sound fine to you, then no, they are not muddy and your issues are what I detailed earlier in this thread.
But if you are having issues with stock presets, just build your own or tweak them to your liking. I've had good results out of multiple modelers and I largely ignore factory presets. I don't feel I do anything particularly fancy in my presets. My go to process is to pick an amp, find cab sims I like with it (usually just SM57+160 mixed together or panned) and then tweak the amp block settings, adjust cab block high/low cuts and add fx.
I do not have issues the stock presets, with my own presets, or with the presets from Austin Buddy, Fremen, Brett Kingman, Leon Todd, Marco Fanton, Moke, Camilo Velandia, etc.
It is just curiosity about why the default AMP and CAB blocks without any tweaking sound so muddy when combined together, but they sound good at that YouTube video (using the Axe-FX as audio interface for YouTube, through the same monitors, so it is not a question of high or low volume).
So far we have 3 persons saying it sounds muddy (one Tele, two non-Tele), and one saying that it sounds like the YouTube video (Tele).
edit: I thought it could be a unique magic of the Telecaster, but I've just seen that the OP also used a Tele
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