"Input clipping"-like Issue When Picking Hard

[GreatGreen]

THAT, is the right answer. I challenge anyone to prove that the models don't clip the same as the real amps. Put your amp in isolation or use a load box and then do an A/B test with the model. You'll be surprised. It's a far different experience playing through an amp when it is right next to you. Our hearing is nonlinear and logarithmic so when playing very loud all these fine details are masked.

I can back this up. I have an EVH 5150 III 50 watt head and just got a Suhr Reactive Load a month or two ago. I put the amp and RL in one of the Axe's loops and decided to AB the tube amp's Blue channel with the matching Axe's model. I was really close for a while but not exact... until I wondered if maybe the Suhr Reactive Load might be just a bit different than a Fractal load box would be so I adjusted the impedance curve in the model by turning up the HF Resonance just a bit and... there it was. Literally, exactly spot on.