I had a look.. not sure why I would want to use those other VST things you linked to. Tracktion, Amplitube and SampleTank all come with heaps of plugins.. are the ones you linked to better somehow? I'm new to digital recording, so I don't really know.

I've finally found a decent tone to play on my August solo.. I like how you can play on to 2 different tracks at once, and have two completely different tones for each track, and then pull the volume back on the distorting track so you can hear the true sound of the guitar more with a distorted background effect..

I haven't really fiddled around with the settings much.. just using the presets at the moment.. it's all a little bit overwhelming to be honest.. it's bad enough having a single multi-effects processor, let alone 30 or more of them all integrated into a single application.

It also comes with some strange EQ thing for mixing the master track.. I'll have to look at that later though.