I have had my x3 Live for about six months now and I am finding it hard to translate some of the tones that I built in my xt Live over to the new unit.  Many of the models seem to have a much more bass and sometimes much more gain than in the old unit.  For example, in my old unit, I was able to build a tone around the Solo 100 model that pretty well approximates the clean tone that I can pull out of my Soldano Astroverb set with a lower preamp.  On the x3, using the same model, even with the drive set around 5%, the level of gain produces distortion that make it difficult to replicate one of my favorite clean tones.  Another example:  In order to use the model of the JTM 45, I almost have to run the bass control near zero to keep the sound from getting muddy when I use one of my guitars with humbuckers.  Most of my guitars have medium to high gain humbuckers in the bridge position like the DiMarzio Breed, Super Distortion, PAF Pro, Seymour Duncan Pearly Gates (not Plus) and PRS McCarty Archtop (probably the lowest output).

Maybe I need to experiment with other models and re-think my conceptions, or go back and trade in the x3 for another xt.

Any suggestions are welcome.