Time for folks to readjust their conventions. Set the master volume correct for the amp type - start at 9.00 for non-master volume amp types and 5.00 for master volume (modern) amp types. Then start with the Drive at 0.00 and adjust to taste. If you get a Fender Twin for example and get the volume up over 3.5 with single coils or over 2.00 with humbuckers.... it's out of control loud and distorts (in an ugly way) every time.
The only consistent control in the Axe-FX now is the Master Volume. The rest are adjusted to match the taper and gain slopes of the actual amp types. It's far more accurate and logical for guitarists once you 'get it'.
I know its a perfectly silly question, but I was born in the woods and our house never had a bathtub. (We do now, thanks for the concern BTW.) Also, I wasn't taught to read until I was 14 and 1/2, and up 'til that time I was never allowed to listen to any music except fiddle, and songs of our homestate Kentucky birds like the "Lesser Yellowlegs". So the question is, is there a way for a non-amp nerd to know such as by looking at the 1st amp page, whether an amp model is a non-master-type? I sort of get that the early Fender varieties were not master volume types (I think...) but what else? I've seen reference to this in discussions, but can't remember If its all in one place in a simple list.
This is what I found, please check my work if you like, but if I'm wrong don't force me to drink from a rusty sprinkler hose like I did throughout my childhood:
NON MASTER Volume AMPs:
Bassguy 59
Bassguy 65
Vibrato Verb
Deluxe Verb
Double Verb
Jr Blues
Class A 15W (AC15 Vox)
Class A 30W (AC30 Vox)
Class A 30W TB (AC30 Vox)
Brit JM45
Plexi Normal
1987X Normal / Treble
Wrecker 1 (Trainwreck Express)
Jazz 120 (Roland JC-120)
Buttery (Budda Twinmaster)
Blanknshp Leeds (Blankenship Leeds)
Hope I missed a couple and I you find them. Its nice when someone else is being corrected and YOU'RE DOIN' The
Correcting.
Oh, I realize that if one were to reset the amp block and the MV goes to 9, it is a non-master type. But that means one might be eliminating some tweaking work or some such. This is mainly for complainers who are too lazy to redo that and just want to "get it" and not feel left out of amp nerd-dom.