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I use it quite well in my Stone Temple Pilots band for full songs (Sour Girl) and for parts (Interstate Love Song, Creep). It took a few breakthroughs to get it to sound right. I can share the blocks of what I have saved if that could help, rather than a full preset. I believe my current 'acoustic path' in my presets where I need it consists of this: Gain Block > Compressor > Acoustic Sim > EQ > IR (I use 2 Acoustic IR's here, one more bright and one more wooly and mix the levels) The trick for me (I have the signature Hetfield EMG's installed) is the gain block. I found that, similar to the poly blocks, too hot of an input will trigger the poly/sim block to be fed too much information. Not that it cant keep up, but rather that too much 'noise' was coming through. By reducing the signal level by about 4-6db, it let me get more of the acoustic attack only coming through and not as much unwanted noise that wasnt needed for the part I was trying to play. You could use the input pad instead, if you arent already, however I prefer having the number of reduction there in front of me, and I had space in the preset, as well as making it snapshot assignable for songs where I split between an electric sound as well. Also the compressor, I feel is important to set right. Too much and you miss the dynamics of the strumming an acoustic. Its a flat wall of sound and sounds like an effect. If you get it just right where it needs to be it helps maintain a consistent signal, without crushing the dynamics. I played with putting this before and after the acoustic sim, and felt it was better before. As far as making any tweaks to make 2 guitar sound closer overall, I would start with whatever acoustic sound gets you where you want on your main axe, then add the EQ or tweak the gain block to help match that one with the 2nd guitar. I'm at work, if I remember later I can share the blocks I use.

Ahhhh I see. Ive also come to discover my m audio is a TRS rather than a TS, so that won't help much! Thank you for your guidance!