Wondering why you can't get a good tube amp distortion out of an amp sim no matter what you do? It's because you can't polish a turd and possibly make an amp sim sound good for metal tone. Meaning you are simply digitally clipping the guitar signal and creating an artificial distortion--and the static and harsh frequencies are actually harmful to your ears!

You must use a real tube amp to get get proper metal guitar tone and run a line from the preamp out of your amplifier into your interface, then a load cab IR in your DAW.
Now you can record a proper metal tone in your apt at 3am or quietly reamp your di tracks.

If you don't already have an amp, there are a dozen or so usable and affordable metal amps on the market like Bugera, EVH iconic, certain peavey heads like 5150s and XXX, certain Marshall's like jcm 2000s and used 900s, etc.

Get yourself a noise gate, boost and a load box (if you need to be quiet) and you're good to go! Stop wasting time with amp sims, they are shit!

in this demo I used Reaper as my DAW, with NadIR (cab impulse response vst) and 'catharsis' cab IRs, into a 3rd gen. focusrite 18i20.

Note: I used the exact same cab loader and IRs settings, the only difference was the tube and the amp sim.

It doesn't really matter which amp sim company you go with, they all function the exact the same. So don't say 'oh you should've used neural DSP or ml sound' etc.
It's ALL just digital waveshaping with a tuxedo GUI.

Hope that help and best of luck! Be sure to like and subscribe brothers and sisters!

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