Thanks for listening and sharing your thoughts, guys. I appreciate it.
No extra compression was applied. Just sparingly used Limiter#6 on Master bus, with signal barely touching thresholds. It's the nature of extremely overdriven sounds that is perceived as compression (which it is in a sense). I didn't even compress bass or drums, just applied some EQ and that's it. )
stevec
Hey, Amplion free sounds pretty good! I've messed with it some but it never did much for me. I think you've done a great job getting something good sounding out of it. Loved the squeals and legato lines... is that a Tele?
AmpLionFree sounds amazingly good. I've tested it against all major competitors and it turned out to be the second best among Rectifier amp sims.
Well, it could've been Tele, but no, it is my new Micheal Kelly Patriot Glory. Beautiful guitar.