I don't know what given you this impression?
Do you think that Andy deliberately makes inferior profiles?
In his free packs I find there are often less profiles of an amp than in his commercial offerings, but IMO definitely not inferior.
No i'll never say that for many reasons :
I have huge respect for Andy's work and I own many commercial profils from him (and got like 15 more in my "ToBuyList") to think that he's doing nice job
And I dont know why XTC Profiles are free and how he worked on.
I've bought some amps which are in his free pack too (AC30, some fender amps for example) and for me, commercials are way far better.
Better dynamics, way more definition and amp character. Gain knobs act better too.
I am not saying that all free profiles are bad, I've played 2 month on andy's free profiles and really liked em, but after trying commercial ones I've just found em better. But I keep trying free ones on RE and still founding some really nice ones (as the JTM 50 from Joptunes)
Raoul> Try Green or Blue Channel. Green is Clean Channel but it have nice gain too. Blue has naturally more gain.