Axeman
Experienced
Axeman, I tried your pre set listed on page 1 of this thread and although I Really like your tone and info/playing on the YT clips, this one sounded thin and nothing like the tone you have on YT. You did take the ice pick out but it seemed to have lost girth. I am using real cabs primarily and this may be the problem, but it would be nice to make it work. Ideas? Please post your pre set for bad or any others!!
This is the issue with the Axe in general. It's hard to share presets, especially if you are using them differently (e.g., I use cab models and you use real cabs, or you use totally different pups). The guitar pups matter a lot I think. I have Kinman Woodstocks in my Strat which I used to build my core amp model. So I based the tone off songs like Pride, ISHFWILF, Bad, Streets, etc. If I was to use my Explorer or Les Paul and use songs with this guitar to build my core amp model, I would probably come up with different parameters. But the Strat songs usually are cleaner so I think by using the Strat I get closer to the "real" tone. When I use an LP or other guitar, it's working well even though I used the Strat to build the model. Note my clip of I Will Follow. That's an Epi Explorer with Seymour Duncan pups. But same amp model I built with the Strat. All I did was change the delay and drive and it was perfect.
So it could be either your guitar pups or the live cabs. Turn on the cab model in my preset and use headphones. Is it better? If not, then it must be that the guitar pups you are using are very different. Only thing I can think of right now.