Thanks! Yeah I'd say it's pretty good for the price, and really good if you can't play bass at all like me. The low end and transient detail are awesome, the top end sounds a bit fake but, it's workable. I can't figure out the keyswitching feature so whatever I did this time had no dynamics, that might be why...
Ah I appreciate you saying that, I've struggled with guitar tone literally for years. This one comes from my Axe FX II. The chain I have going for this one is:
TS OD (gain at about 2, drive way up) > Amp (5150 III, red, very low preamp gain) > Tone Match block (matched to "Harlott - Effortless Struggle")
That's all, really. I don't think it's all about having an Axe FX though; the tone match feature opened my eyes to how guitars ought to be equalized and that's probably the important part. I've matched about 10 thrash metal tones and they all have a very specific dip in the mid-range, including anything from 300Hz to 1000Hz. It seems like it'd be obvious to do that for metal but, I don't know, I didn't trust it until I matched tones and saw the same graph 10 times over.
There's some saturation and other stuff going on in post but it's less important. I still have a long way to go with guitar tone but, it's come a long way, for sure.