Speaker Compression and Speaker Constants have quite obvious influence on "feel". From the manual I quote:
Speaker Compression – Even if you never touch most advanced parameters in the Amp block, don’t overlook Speaker Compression, aka the “chunka chunka” parameter. It models the interaction of the power amp with the power compression of a virtual speaker. Typical guitar speakers compress between 3 and 6 dB depending upon construction, age, volume, etc. The default value is conservative and yields about 3 dB of compression. Master, Presence, and Depth will interact considerably with Speaker Compression, with higher causing more compression. A gain reduction meter shows the amount of Speaker Compression when this parameter row is selected. Note that this parameter does not reset to its default value when changing the Amp Type.
However, according to the Gain meter, the default settings (usually between 1 and 2) rarely yields nearly as much as -3DB compressions, as a result, the amp by default often feels a bit stiff especially on the clean and edge of breakup tones. Patches which would have volumes quite high in real-world likely would have caused much more compression than the default settings here, and that seems an obvious mis-match. After dialing up the Speaker compression, I found some of my patches much less stiff and reacts more spongy-ly, again especially more obvious on clean, and crunch tones.
What's your sweet spot settings on these two params, e.g for clean, crunch, drive and lead tones?
Speaker Compression – Even if you never touch most advanced parameters in the Amp block, don’t overlook Speaker Compression, aka the “chunka chunka” parameter. It models the interaction of the power amp with the power compression of a virtual speaker. Typical guitar speakers compress between 3 and 6 dB depending upon construction, age, volume, etc. The default value is conservative and yields about 3 dB of compression. Master, Presence, and Depth will interact considerably with Speaker Compression, with higher causing more compression. A gain reduction meter shows the amount of Speaker Compression when this parameter row is selected. Note that this parameter does not reset to its default value when changing the Amp Type.
However, according to the Gain meter, the default settings (usually between 1 and 2) rarely yields nearly as much as -3DB compressions, as a result, the amp by default often feels a bit stiff especially on the clean and edge of breakup tones. Patches which would have volumes quite high in real-world likely would have caused much more compression than the default settings here, and that seems an obvious mis-match. After dialing up the Speaker compression, I found some of my patches much less stiff and reacts more spongy-ly, again especially more obvious on clean, and crunch tones.
What's your sweet spot settings on these two params, e.g for clean, crunch, drive and lead tones?