Linear Phase
I've been know to hang around nude and jam out guitar

<<<note to self......don't ever, ever, ever borrow or use LP's guitars>>> 
 
BTW Bob, I tried that setup using the White Chanel (with the settings you suggested) before the amp sim, and got a very nice full bodied tone......my new (updated) setup.
 
Thanks and I appreciate the tip!!  

JohnKenn
 
Often practice against an mp3 of something. Bit of compression, fuzz box, chorus or flanger nicely done. Background delay or a reverb. Noise gate where needed and some eq to match the file.

Maybe it's just me, but that sure does sound like a lot of effects for general playing and practice.  I used to do that sort of thing when I first started - I remember falling in love with Chorus on my little Crate amp and never turned it off.  It was a big adjustment to realize I was ruining the point of effects - they were crutches now and hiding my sloppy playing.  
 
Now I just play through a Marshall valvestate with minimal distortion, dry but dialed in on the amp - and I still play sloppy, but much less so.  It doesn't take that long to rescue your ego from this discovery.  A couple of months playing dry and you'll back to top form and loving yourself and fantasizing about being interviewed on your technique and all around awesomeness.  

Mesh

Linear Phase
I've been know to hang around nude and jam out guitar

<<<note to self......don't ever, ever, ever borrow or use LP's guitars>>> 
 
BTW Bob, I tried that setup using the White Chanel (with the settings you suggested) before the amp sim, and got a very nice full bodied tone......my new (updated) setup.
 
Thanks and I appreciate the tip!!  

Cool.  Glad it worked for you.  That's what I came up by with following Craig's excellent article.

michaelhanson
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Looks like you weren't the first.  
 

That album's name would be "FOUR VIRGINS", no?
 

Fake it 'til you make it.
 
 

paulo
Fake it 'til you make it.
 
 

49 years for me so far.

Always good advice here. Why I love hate this place. Voda's comments ring true as well as others.
My problem, been banging on guitars for over 50 years. Banging keyboards for over 60 years.
Longer doesn't mean better and often the opposite. Time invested does cultivate getting stuck in ruts that are hard to change.
Decades ago was actually one of the complete oddballs that tried to progress direct in when everyone else was micing the amps. Never learned how to mic an amp to my disadvantage.
 
Found a golden tone with a Ross compressor into an MXR distortion into a Ross flanger I had to modify to get wet/dry balance, into a Ross delay and then a noise gate. Delay hardware of the time was miserable with distortion and noise, but see that it is cool now. What I did was to use the effects as instruments, having to play them as much as the guitar.
 
Now revisiting the dry signal as a discipline. Direct in against a practice mp3 unfairly cursed because you got the mp3 with a limited bandwidth and the direct in 20 to 20k forking up everything in the soundscape.
 
Without the crutch of a line of effects, what you got is what you got, and in my case, it ain't that much.
 
Think Voda is correct that it will take a couple months.
 
John

lawajava
I think Matthew McConaughey made another name for himself playing the congas naked. It might work for you too if you do more of it.

I wish!