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I'm someone who favours midrange but what's going on here? I've basically trimmed both the midrange & top end down.

Ditto this setting. Do you, instinctively, make an amp sound like how you want it to sound like, say when you try a guitar at the stores? You'd probably do likewise in the jamming studio; you dial up what you think might work because it worked for you at home. I'd bet you sound awful while you were at it. In fact, this is largely the reason why many people deem a certain instrument below their expectations, it's because they don't hear what they've heard all along at home, it's how they deal with tone. In this light specifically, it's how you handle EQ.

Ladies & gentlemen, the advice here would be to address tone issues that manifest in real time, as opposed to dialing up you favourite settings. It's as simple as trimming down the top end of a bright sounding guitar, for instance, & not insisting on your scooped (excess treble & bass with zero midrange) tone. Just some days ago, this took place at the music store. I walked past someone who was auditioning a semi-hollow guitar with the amp set to a scooped tone. OK, maybe the previous guy who tried the amp left the settings as such but I found that hard to believe because he kept pumping up more distortion after selecting the METAL amp module. There is actually no hard & fast rule as to how you should EQ an amp for the very guitar that's plugged into it. However, there is this thing called glaring ignorance if you try scooping your soup with a fork. Just sharing :-)