Warming up!

[topaz]

Tip, if you ever find your sound is harsh when using overdrive tones use a lp filter in an insert slot inside kontakt
And filter out highs. The pro53 filter works nice

[Gregjazz]

Cool tip! This is especially useful if you're loading EEG in Kontakt 5 and can access all those additional effects. Bear in mind that any customizations done in Kontakt's back end won't translate when saving external NKA presets. But for your own usage, it should be fine.

Another trick to mellow out the distortion would be to use the bridge+neck or neck pickup selection.