Really New to using Pod Farm and Ableton, need advice getting better tone

Nun Stampede!

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This is the first time I tried to program drums in Ableton Live Lite 7. I'm not even using a custom / add-on sample pack on this cause I had a hard time finding a free one. I might purchase one but only if I can find one that is perfect. If anyone wants to send me some, that would be awesome.

Critique on guitar tone, drum tone, or both, please. I'm really inexperienced and need the feedback.

My signal chain is in Pod Farm and I'm using a dual amp set up with:

Noise Gate > Boost + EQ > Brit J-800 and [with 57 off axis]
Noise Gate > Killer Z > Jazz Clean [with 57 Off Axis] > Compressor

I know the Jazz Clean with Killer Z sounds weird, I was using it to try to get some low end, cause the Brit J is too muddy, and then threw a distortion pedal on it and it sounded pretty dece. Its still pretty fucking muddy though.

Also, I recorded some of the guitar parts with the distortion aforementioned, and a second guitar part with

Noise Gate > Tube Overdrive > Brit Gain 18 [with 57 off axis]
Noise Gate > Classic Distortion > Jazz Clean [with 57 off axis] > Compressor

http://www.mediafire.com/?mly0qe5uniz

Its just about a minute long, cause i wanna get the tone better before I record it full. Also, do you think putting the Jazz Cleans on axis would make a big difference?

EDIT: I did a little mixing in Reaper.
http://www.mediafire.com/?dm2zduhxzvi