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Hello everyone! I am just getting started with Pod Farm and love it so far. I have several years of experience with home recording, but this is the first time I have used a guitar amp modeling software, and so far I have one major question/issue in getting my metal guitar tone set up. (I have seen several posts that seem to be related to what I'm about to ask, but I wanted to discuss and ask in my own words.) I am getting very decent tones but here's the deal: After recording into my DAW (Reaper), on playback, I am hearing the dry (clean), unprocessed guitar sound along with the wet signal and it's affecting my tone. It's not very loud, but it's definitely underneath, and it's affecting my overall tone. I would guess that there is a way to minimize this somehow. What I would like is some pointers/solutions/settings on how to properly adjust this or compensate. Is there an optimal setting for the wet/dry signal or is this dry tone something that's always going to be underlying as a subtle thing? It's really awful sounding once you pinpoint it because it's just raw, electric guitar with no distortion. Now, what I HAVE tried is creating a buss and routing the dry signal pre-fader, but this doesn't seem to sound quite right either, but I could simply be setting something up wrong since I have little to no experience with modeling software. So in summary, I'm just looking for advice on how to set up the tracks within Reaper to record metal guitar with the metal shop pack in Pod Farm, and get a tone similar to Pantera, Metallica, Megadeth, Avenged Sevenfold, etc. Not really looking for extreme distortion, just a good "clean" distortion like the aforementioned bands have/had.