I actually clicked on the “gate” text, which I assume turns it off as opposed to turning it down. Honestly not sure if there is a difference. But, in my previous post I also used the Steinberg VST Amp Rack and got the same results.
I can hear the higher noise and hiss in the newly posted recordings.
This may be the answer. I take “muffled” to mean a loss of high frequencies, which is where most “hiss” noise comes from. If you really want to keep the UR, you might just try to place a low pass filter in front of the amp sim and maybe start around 5-10K and adjust to see if you can get rid of the hiss without changing the basic tone. I am not trying to talk you into the UR (I do have one but I also have a Focusrite 1st Gen Scarlett!). The UR is a great unit in league with others but the Cubase integration and built-in DSP is what lured me in.
Lastly, I wouldn’t mind having a look at the clean .wav files in these new recordings…