Good golly, folks. I'm not trying to crap all over Scott here. I'm just not hearing the wow factor in this sound at all. I thought that the whole purpose of FW 10 was to make the modeled amps produce sound that was significantly closer to the way the amp sounds in real life. I thought that new IRs were being made to help close the gap between the amp/IR interaction and bring a better sound to the table for direct recording.
While this sound is an improvement, it's like the emph-as-is is on the wrong syl-a-ble with the way the amp breaks up, in my tiny nobody-knows-or-gives-one-poo-about-who-I-am opinion. Instead of a deep throaty sputter that comes with driven tubes and speakers in this amp, what I hear sounds like a hard drive from about 1,500-4,000 Hz and some chattering fizz on top of the entire signal - simulating breakup. Again, I'm not trying to be a jerk, but I just don't hear what everybody else is freaking out about. I've heard other clips of v10 that sound more like the amps in question that the user was dialing.
It seems that when somebody points out that something doesn't quite jive with an actual amps sound, somebody is quick to point out that their setup is different or that the person is going for "their sound". I have a hard time believing this clip sounds altogether better than your recordings of a real amp and cab mic'ed up - if so, post them up so we can hear how superior it is. If the whole point of this modeler is to get things to sound legitimate, than people should be more embracing of criticism. Otherwise FAS would have stopped somewhere around FW 4-5 and we'd all be wading in the horror that was insanely loud high mids, flubby lows, and ridiculously melt-your-face highs.
Of course, it's all just rock-n-roll right? So maybe we all just need to chill, myself included. I'll go crawl back into my hole to hide from the oncoming rotten fruit and eggs about to be thrown at me.
