Horganovski
Experienced
I do find that the Axe has always had this really strong/chunky attack in the notes (great for Djent/metal tones, palm mutes, etc), but I don't particularly care for it and it seems to be replicated in all of the amp models to some extent. I could partially get rid of it with a character adjustment but not completely and decreasing pick attack parameter, etc... I am looking for that super smooth Alan Holdsworth violin like lead tone that that lets the attack kind of swell in rather than sound like a heavily compressed attack on every note. Anyway, just hoping it clears up those issues somewhat.
That's a much more succinct way of describing what I was trying to get at I think, I hear that too on more distorted tones, the Axe seems to have a particular character of it's own that you hear on high gain sounds in particular. Not that it's a bad thing, but it seems less than 100% transparent.