Hi,
wow, thanks fellows for the kind words!
To be honest, I didn't spend much time with the Axe II yet, I just had it in our rehearsal room for a few hours this week to recreate my band / live patches (but those are for 80s hard rock stuff with my Les pauls, I seldom use those sounds for recording) but what I can tell for now is how amazingly easy it is to dial in "your" tone – the amp models all have a greater useable gain range and sound in deed VERY organic, especially the Plexi, 6150 is awesome for fat rock/metal things and the SLO, Bogner and the Marshas (Friedman) are plain awesome!
The Cornford patch I used for this take was just a "headphone" recreation of one of my favorite Ultra Strat patches, I didn't have the chance to set it up in the rehearsal room yet(over my MESA 2:100 and a 4x12, thats how I create my patches normally), but for a headphone setting I think it sounds ok so far! 8)
Andreas