tweaking things in the advanced parameter everywhere, but doing this I don’t have the impression to “own” the model in the axe
that's what kemper or QC is for, when you set up
your amp and put the mic where
you want it, the profile/capture (which is not even a model) is
actually yours, it's your gear and it sounds and plays just like it.
AFX3 does have tonematch, which is a 90% solution, even before adjusting any advanced circuit parameters. Tonematch combined with myriad combinations of
bias/sag/impedance/speakerResonance/etc, i guarantee you could match a specific tone to your exacting satisfaction. Tonematch just isn't really advertised as a prominent capability of AFX3, otherwise I think a lot more people would use it. Have you ever done any tonematching? JP2C model legit doesn't even need it, but if you had some old isolated recordings of your roadking or roadster,
you could even use just the audio clips to tonematch a Recto 2. I'd be very interested to hear how well Recto 2 tonematches to a roadster/roadking
the philosophy in the axe wasn’t to have 5 models types and tweak them to hell to have all the others models
funny enough, that's exactly the philosophy. there are only so many amplifier circuit variations, most of those based on a handful of original baseline designs.
Recto 1 is a chrome face early 90's Rev G, Recto 2 is a mid-2010's multi-watt reborn Dual Rec 100w head. There's a reason the original 3-channel solo head wasn't chosen, or modeled, yet, because the solo head red modern preamp is an almost literal drop-in from the Rev G red modern preamp. There's a reason there is no roadster or roadking model, notwithstanding a reliable schematic is probably not available, second to the inability to stomach modelling the circuit layout of an amp as complicated as those...the multi-watt reborn 100w Dual Rec head
is what mesa consolidated and put together after their decade of roadster/roadking work. The Recto 2 circuits
are the roadster/roadking circuits, less infinitesimal voicing changes, or amp transformer differences, or master volume cap differences, or bias differences, etc etc etc ad infinitum.
if you were to take a recording of a roadster/roadking and tonematch it to Recto 2, the EQ match alone would account for 90% of the difference, before you even have to touch any advanced parameters.