Ray,
did you use cab impulses in the DAW or were the sims complete with cabs?
There's a lot of chatter about sims and things - being that most BIAB real tracks are pretty low fi & no one seems to complain about hearing that aspect I suspect it would take very good ears + experience to recognize a good sim these days - the days of fizzy top end seem long gone (mainly due to cab implses I suspect).
Your playing is really good.


Cheers
rayc
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