When I choose rigs built from cranked amps, that sound natural, some kind of consistent sound, all the "details" of the sound work in a very harmonious way. But when I use overdrive /distortion from the effects part, It seems to me like I get the original sound and some crappy noise in the same time. I watched guys on YT setting nice sounds using stomps. There's surely something wrong in my settings ... 
Distorsion stomps have all weird sounds
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graoully -
January 20, 2021 at 7:19 PM -
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Probably. Well, sometimes you just pick the wrong drive too..
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I compared (good) bare amps vs pedals...amps always win. I thought setting up would make a change...nope
Any advice is welcome.
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For my tastes, the distorted amp profiles always sound better than any of the distortion stomps. Try using the Pure Booster to drive the profile harder.
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Im totally an amp gain person partially for this reason. I've never been able to balance the edge of break up sound with an OD pedal and get pleasing results with a valve amp.
Ironically I've been getting more success with the KPA but not heard any weird issues. couple of things to check out:
1) Try with different profiles ( Im sure you've done this)
2) No strange noise gate interaction?
3) you are using it in the "pre" section not post?
4) You on the latest version - some changes were made around volume compensation. Probably not related but worth a check?
Otherwise suggest you post some sound clips so others can try to understand if its "normal".
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V8guitar mention of
"pre" section not post
(which I think means put the distortion before the stack) made me remember to mention something that I just discovered: changing the stack eq position from post to pre makes a significant difference in tone. This is not really related to the distortion stomps, but does make a difference in tone.