Amp controls and first impressions.

[AlDprism66]

Greetings, my first question here about my new Amplitube plug in.

I've been going through all the amp/cab/effects etc. sounds with Amplitube Max, which is my first guitar plug in outside of the crappy ones you get in Garage band, and I have one question for the group. I really like the clean and punchy tube sounds of the Mesa California Tweed amp, but I am not able to change the wattage switch to any other option. I've clicked and pushed and pulled and there only thing that has ever happened is it will jump to the highest wattage setting after a bunch of tries, and then I can't change that. I really want to test drive the two watt setting, but I can't figure it out.

My observation is why is every distortion and overdrive tone setting on 90% of the amps so dang noisy?? Why does there have to be noise when you're trying to make recordings? Yeah, I know you can put one of the two noise gates in there and get rid of it, but I can't believe in real life all these amps made all that hissing noise! I've owned the same amp my whole life, and it's a 65 watt EL34 driven all tube dinosaur, and it's never made any noise at any setting unless I put a noisy high output drive pedal in front of it.

Hate the noise...

[rstubes]

Sorry if this is too simple, but have you tried clicking and holding and dragging down? That adjusts the power on that amp for me. Other than that, not sure.

As far as the noise goes, I find that MANY of the presets are way too loud and over-gained. So many times I'll switch to a new amp and I'm blowing out my speakers. Does turning down the gain and volume help? (you can get some volume back with the master output, bottom right) Also, are you using single coils? Those are going to be noisy by nature and if you run them into any of the higher gain amps they will sound very noisy... as they would in real life.