This is a important issue to me. Testing the HD I thought I had a bad unit. Some amps were incredible low volume sounding, so what was happening?
Although L6 presets the unit with 16 amps, it has a variation for each amp, called "Pre". In that case, the poweramp section was not modeled, so you could plug it in your preferred real poweramp.
So, don't worry with low volumes to the "pre" amps. If running directly, just pick a "standard" amp e be happy!
You'll also notice that the pre's have less gain available than the full models. Maybe the full amp models take the power amp distortion in account. Anyway, it's still working like the X3: The volume controls the actual volume and you get as much distortion as you want from the gain knob.
ResponderExcluirAll in all the pre's are really good for sparkling cleans! If you are going for distorted, it's better to have a real power amp section cranked.