Johnny Two Tone
Inspired
I've been using my Ultra with the cab sims turned off going straight into my tube combo since day one. I love that my Axe gives me endless options and ended my buying of endless gear but maybe I'm just not that into cab sims or something because I think every last one of them on the Axe sounds like crap ;-) It took finding the perfect patch and then combining it with the perfect third party IR to find anything usable, for me. It's a good thing my tube combo was designed to sound flat-ish to accept pedals well without coloring them (it's a Visual Sound Workhorse Pony).