Has anyone manage to get usable distorted guitar tones?  The clean tones are great.  Just struggling with anything that needs dirt.  Sounds very fizzy.

For a decent dash of dirt try Scuffham S-Gear there is a 14-day demo

help with ampsim fizz http://forum.cakewalk.com/fb.ashx?m=2747138

You should be able to, "use a fender model," lay off the gain, try turning up the amps volume..   use a stompbox comp before the amp, turn your monitors down.  Try, "the bass on 6, the mids on 6, the treble on 8, and the presence on 8."

If that doesn't work...  "use a marshall model," attenuate the gain..  roll it back.  roll back the volume..  use a compressor, into an volume type overdrive stomp...  start with the settings fully to the left, and slowly turn em to the right...  bass @ 6, mid @ 6, treble @ 8!! presence @ 6.

And nothing I am saying, "about those eq settings," is exact, but imho..  that should be dirt!!

Thanks.  That SOS article in the link is awesome!  Printed out and stuck to my wall.

As much as I like GTR for certain things, it can get very ugly - and not in a good way - as soon as you start pushing those knobs on the amp past 12 o'clock - it can totally fall apart.

I prefer to use one of their overdrive/distortion in front of the amp model to get more gain.

I guess, "listen to Rain," I don't have waves guitar, and I didn't feel like dl'ing the demo, just to make my comment above.

Shame, tsk, tsk!!  The amp sim, should totally be able to do what I said.