OK I got a bunch of grief from people at HR.com for using a Pod for the Strat comparisons so here is a recording with more tubes (not tube emulators or hybrids) than you can shake a stick at !

OK this is either a Variax set to "Lester" "Neck" or a 1960 Re-issue Gibson LP supporting 490R and 498T pickups.

The guitar was run into a TSL100 head (crunch) with stock tubes and recorded with a Shure KSM44 (set to cardoid) at the edge of the speaker about 6" from the cloth of a 1960A 4x12 stock cab. The amp settings were identical for both.

The mic was fed into a vt737sp (also stock tubes) set with flat EQ and no compression. This went into a MOTU 828mk II and recorded in Logic at 44.1 / 24bit

Sorry I couldn't crank the amp a little more but I was already getting grief from the misses !
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FYI I have no shares in Line6 though Im starting to think they maybe a good idea !