I've made some tones that I enjoy, but not any that I really want to just keep.  I'm trying to find a distortion tone that is nice and bright, but I can palm mute and it sound good and not too weak.  I got the bright side down, but when I palm mute, the low end keeps ringing out.  When I turn the bass down, it just sounds really weak.  I'm using the treadplate model as it seems to provide the best gain and high with the Hi 4x12 cab and the SM57 (from memory as I'm not at my desk at home) on Axis.  I am using a hard gate as well, but I'm still getting some "noise" when a strike a note and it startes to fade out, noise accompanies it.

So, I wanted to see what I'm doing wrong as well as find out how some of the members found "their tone".  The one that they tweaked and said, "Man, this is the one."