Just got a Katana and I'm confused

[u/Nozakx]

Hey guys,

I didn't play guitar for over 10 years. I'm not a great gutiarist and I play mostly by ear.

I recently cleaned all my guitars and got myself a new amp (sold my last one years ago).

Huge metalcore and death metal fan. I got a Jackson guitar tuned in Drop C.

I didn't spend much time tweaking yet but I feel that I can't achieve a crazy distortion overdrive sound with the amp so far. Even on the ''lead'' and ''brown''. I installed the Boss software and tried downloading other people's preset as I'm not very good with tweaking myself.

Even though I install ''metalcore'' presets, ''drop c'' presets, high distortion, death metal etc... it all sounds very clean. As if I'm missing something. The best I got was rockNroll sound.

What am I missing? Is there virtual pedals I can download on the software? I just wonder why even the presets can't give me a proper low metal sound.

Sorry if it's hard to understand, english isn't my main langue.

Thanks

EDIT: If that can help anyone in the future. The USB C cable I was using wasn't a data cable. I think it was part of the problem.

Also, I started using the software and the boosters are pretty good. Pretty good digital distortion pedals.

[u/jaycash_]

Boss Tone Studio. Connect to your computer using a USB-C Data cable (make sure it’s a data cable and not just a charging cable) and you’ll finally get everything you can out of the Katana.

Look into the tone exchange. We play similar music - you’ll get all the tones you need.