I can't remember, nor can I seem to find a post that I thought was from this summer where someone preferred turning down distortion sense and (I believe) locking it this way. At first I thought, this is odd. The only "sense" controls that I've used are on Clean Sense and that was to try and level the volume between clean and distorted rigs and then saving a setting for each of my guitars so that they are all relatively close to one another in terms of perceived volume.
I "primarily" gravitate towards low gain profiles that are very dynamic. I certainly like cleans and mid gain as well but really like profiles that can reach into both clean and dirty just by how I play. Just for the heck of it I gave turning down distortion sense a try. I experimented with locking it in place anywhere from -2 to -8. When you play with this, some profiles seem to get the life sucked out of them as you take the setting further negative from 0 but overall... I sort of like it in the -2 to -4 range. On one hand I think it is sort of like lowering your pickups a little away from the strings but not exactly - and in a good way. The effect I've found is that many profiles leaning away from clean and more towards mid gain end up getting a little more dynamics to them, which as I explained is a plus for me. You do have to be careful because some profiles do get a little sterile because their EQ's were set based on a certain level of distortion but what I'm learning as I experiment is that there are certain guitars - single coil strats, my Gretsch w/ TV's, my Jazzmaster, etc. that I tend to play different kinds of music anyway than I would with my solid body humbucker equipped guitars so leaving distortion sense alone on the guitars that I tend to rock out more on is fine and coming down into around -2.5 or so with my single coil guitars has been a very nice combination. Having this unique setting on the profiler allows me to have a customized little tool to apply to all rigs that better suites specific guitars and the type of music and tones that I go after with those specific guitars. Furthermore, I don't feel one single bit like I'm not getting enough crunch when I play those guitars with the clean sense lowered and I have a higher gain rig loaded up so I don't feel like I can't reach anything on rigs that are meant to reach high gain.
I sort of doubt that applying this sort of concept across your guitar stable/input setting presets is what was in mind for this distortion sense parameter but it certainly is an effective usage to consider if you fit a similar mold.
Just wanted to share.
Peace,
Buckeye