Try This with your AMP SIM to get Your 'Feel" Back 

It's an interesting topic, small things can change the sound. I have the same setup as you, real amps, load box, and Kemper but now only use amp sims. Have quite a few and like Neural DSP. I also believe in analog part in the chain, my set-up is Carl Martin Ranger - just the treble boost - into UA 710 preamp DI. I think everything sounds better and gives a more distinct tone. Thanks

Hey Dami! Great video as always. Thanks for the shout out! What is the name of that volume pedal you showed? Looks like it might be a worthwhile addition. Keep up the good work!

Hi, have you tried IRDX Core from Bogren Digital ? Some will say it helps some others don't that's why you have to try if you haven't already. It was build with the intention to breath life into the amp.

"Amp sims will never replace tube amps". They already have. Almost all big bands are touring with modellers now, almost no one is still shipping tube amps around. The change that is happening right now is how many of these bands are also using just modellers in the studio. The audience live/on record cannot tell the difference, so why spend £1500 on ONE tube amp, when you can spend the same or less and have almost all of them. You can then turn up to every single show and have it sound exactly the same. No risk of tube failure, no carting around special microphones, no expensive effects units. I played tube amps for 20 years, until two years ago I got a Quad Cortex. My amp hasn't been out of the case since.

I have news for you...take even an older style effects/amp like a Digitech GNX3 and play it through an amp or use it as effects in a loop and it sounds like garbage...BUT>>>YOU HOOK this same unit up to a massive stack of speakers in a pa system and it sounds enormous....EXACTLY LIKE AN AMP SHOULD>>>>>so even the worst gear if used correctly can do the trick!!!!!(Tube aqmps sound better...PERIOD>>>but they have limitations and certain situations they do not serve well and sims works quite well...high end sims can get close but there is always a compromise....like you have to switch a channel to go from rhythm to lead mode....instead of just sweeping the guitars volume in a real tube amp!!!

the "in the room" thing again. Did you know you can run a modeller through a power amp and cab and blast it "in the room"? I doubt you'd be able to tell the difference either. People just misconcept AMP and CAB so easily.

Has no one said anything about Tonex, like any captures? Running them to a computer and overlaying, one negative, what's left is the difference. TINY, tiny tiny tiny. You hear what you want to hear. I guess "fizzing" may either be in your ears or in amp "modelers" doesn't seem to be in "captures" have you ignored that end of the technology?

This might be a skill issue on my part, but I’d rather spend time learning a skill I want to learn, like miking a cab than trying to fix my amp sim/IR tone to be usable.

Amp Sims are terrible. Feeling comes from being able to push your equipment (Tube amp) harder when needed; you cannot do this via digital. This is coming from a guy that has been gigging tube amps since the early 90's and has a lot of experience trying to get a modeler to sound right. In 1998 or 1999, I stood in line for hours to get that "Red Bean" pod 2.0. Since that time, I have owned every modeler that has ever come out (currently selling my quad cortex....recently sold my fractal and helix....and the HX stomp XL). They all do the same thing...its a "FIZZ" that comes after the digitally produced sound...Once you CAN hear it; you CANNOT unhear it. By far, the Quad Cortex is the WORST of all the modern modelers....FIZZ CITY!. I believe most who cannot hear it or want to argue it out have never played a real tube amp in that way...that's the truth....most of you are disconnected from it and you spend countless hours chasing something via "Digital" that you will never achieve. Analog is wave form...Digital is square. Then you have the converters that are screwing the sound as well....not to mention latency.