Real world, It has the same amount of actual gain as the Triptik. Way more than most people would need for recording or live playing.
Input gain on 10 o clock, gain on 2 o clock is a 70s /80s lead tone, put the input level up to 2 o click and it's a very sustained lead tone or a very modern heavy rhythm tone. There's a clip somewhere on Facebook of me playing sweet child live with a Tuc 3 . The input gain was in 12 o clock and the gain control on 1 o clock with no pedals in front.
I played around with this amp for a couple hours the other night... Never got a chance to report back.
I also can confirm that it seems less gain-y than the Triptik to me.
I tried setting both the Input Drive and Overdrive knobs about 1 o'clock, Master Volume around 10. It did not seem to have as much gain... I was also playing at gig volume.
But I could get what I wanted, gain wise, with more knob twisting... I am not a high gain guy, so no big deal. I am still feeling my way around this model.
I think it has a distinct sound, and in particular the lower strings have a very different vibe than most other amps - maybe related to that filter you referred to in another post up-thread?
This may be what makes it feel like there is less gain - because the low end is a different beast than most people are used to?
Also, I found it wasn't a tone I was really digging when played solo, but I put it over a loop of some clean chords and it sounded great!
It also seems very sensitive to pickup differences... More so than other amp models in the Axe Fx. I tend to play a lot on my neck pickup (stacked humbucker) but liked this amp much more on my bridge pickup.
I felt like I need to lower the default Presence of 5 to around 2-3 for my tastes.
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