im looking for a certain type of distortion, i cant find it

[TonyBy]

This one's brill (and free) and I don't think it was mentioned in here yet ...
http://www.voxengo.com/product/boogex/

[metalifuxx]

eq (easier with wideband graphic eq) and a harmonic exciter such as the fishfillets THD will also help sculp the perfect crunch tone. Layering slightly distorted/crunch and different tones/eq over the same track with panning will give you a full crunchy sound also. But as anyone will agree here, you will only get an emulated tone from these amp sims (although amplitube 2 sounds a little promising) and not the response and dynmaic/transients you get from micing a real amp with an awesome mic pre, or mixing different amps and mics if you have that luxory.

[metalifuxx]

If anyone here has heard of Porcupine Tree and the work of Steven Wilson, his Blackfield album electric guitar tracks were recorded entirely direct, using Guitar Rig, POD2, V-Amp sims. Theres some real heavy crunchy sounds in there.

[jacksplat]

If you have a distortion, or more importantly an overdrive pedal, run those through the computer to the amp sims, which can give a raw crunchy sound. Even any cheap mic or computer mic recording one track with that and a duplicate DI track can give some hefty crunch and realism.

Howdy,
i did that. i bought a cheapo 'metal' distortion pedal and plugged it into my cheapo computer the other day. i really liked the sound but it took a little while to balance the distortion, as it was way too much (the distortion).

metal isnt known for 'light distortion' though.
but as a side bonus, my background noise seemed much much lower. when i'm plugged into the computer, i battle with a 10ms latency. which is utter crap.
i'd be happy to post a short mp3 of the sound though.
--------- cya