fyi i once mucked around diy dist pedal years ago...used diodes if i remeber.
Do you mean LED's? Those are typically what I find sounds best to my ears, though regular silicon and germanium diodes are also great.
This is an excellent point. Would it be useful to you if you could have two tracks that are exactly the same, but one is the distorted guitar, and the other is the DI? Right now if you put a distorted guitar on one track, then the same guitar but using DI on another track, they'll be generated independently, but a potential new feature could be to have the two tracks linked so that they're both exactly the same performance.
I for one would personally
love that.
i was in a session once in a studio with primo gear and someone used just a baby gtr amp and some pedals and on playback everyone
was rocking out. the lead gtr guy was a genius.
Not sure if you're a Queens Of The Stone Age fan, but Joshua Homme is well known for using the cheapest of the cheap amps. Similarly, I've got a couple cheapos that I regularly use - a battery powered Orange CR3, and a 40-some year old Peavey Audition. Honestly I prefer them to many amp simulators.