see thats what i was thinking--I love my LMII clean sound, but when i use distortion over it, I lose all that clarity. While it may also be an issue of getting the right distortion, I was thinking about if i used a distortion with a clean out, I could send the clean to one channel and the distortion to the dirt and then I could also EQ then separately as well. Making it somewhat of a double LMII setup yet going to one cab. Or I was thinking of getting a sansamp RBI and using it just for distortion, having the clean thru into one channel and the dirty channel into the second channel.