Tiens je copie-colle ma réponse du forum Sneap ici (en anglais désolé !) :
"DYING DEGREE !!! Love that freakin' song and that riff ! NOFX rules !
The guitar tone on this album is very smooth but yours is even smoother (too much IMO). I would say it sounds too polite and compressed (I'd say kind of digital and fizzy, but then again i'm not a huge fan of that kind of tone (for some reason i think the "Legion" ampsim could work nice/better for that context, and HyBrit too for more grit), whereas the original one has more attitude/rawness/pick attack to it. I'd have used a tad less gain, maybe ditched the Maxon, and picked harder or something.
For the other people : this is the original song (sorry for the poor quality, couldn't find something better) :
Funny how you have this signature sound going on recently. I can tell this sound is very close to the one you posted on the Nebula thread. I guess you've found your signal chain and settings now.
Now back to the topic :
-as you said, the comparison is a bit biat here since the clips with more overload needed more gain compensation.
-the default tone with 0 overload was very compressed sounding already, and increasing the overload resulted in a more compressed and less direct/in your face, which is overkill for that song IMO
-i think that feature is better for tones that sound very direct and need to sound more compressed and fucked-up, like tones that are very direct-sounding or dynamic and that could use something to sound more wet : clean tones, crunch tones (to a certain extent), and maybe lead tones
-as you said, i think it's a good feature/tool, but not an essential one (i think the real-time mic positioning and the variphi are much more essential for instance)
Thanks for taking the time to do this btw !
By the way, the reason i left the overload at 0% on my metal rythm main patch was that it was adding some kind of annoying trebly distortion (not surprising considering my amp settings (presence almost dime) and mic positioning (straight in the center, quite close), and removing the in your face-ness of the tone, which is something i wanna keep.
Still, i think that for some other tones/applications this feature can be cool.
I might give it a shot and post something here for other tones : clean arpeggios, bluesy riffing, lead tone, etc..."