Wow Farview, I typed this before dinner and didn't end up hitting submit until now. I think we were on the same page here (and Sonixx, your edits added some very helpful advice as well):
Oh great, here we go again...
We already spent 4 pages of another thread defending the credibility of "less distortion, more mids" as a remedy for beginners recording distorted guitars who end up finding out (just like our new friend TylerDrums did) that the way an amplifier sounds to ears in a room is different than how an amplifier sounds to a microphone stuck right up against the grille cloth.
A close mic picks up more of the fizziness of preamp distortion than ears in a room do. Decreasing the gain somewhere in your signal chain before the power section of the amp will help alleviate this. My recording rig is currently dismantled so I can't provide the "picture" of a recording, but I hope the preceding "1000 words" will suffice.
It's a tried and true way to remedy one of the most common points of dissatisfaction of beginner home recordists who mic a guitar amp. So when we throw that out first, even without actually hearing Tyler's current distorted guitar tone, there is a pretty good chance that it will actually help. Maybe it won't help. All it takes is a very small amount of effort to see if this technique helps your particular situation. Once knobs are turned, you can always turn them back.
