We saw them earlier this year at Temecula with Lit and Fuel. Good times! I remember back in the day (80's) I saw Dean carrying 2 purple AC30s into Guitar Trader and thinking how fun that rig would be to play through.
I've never used the direct outs. I will say the headphones out sounds great; BTW these also take pedals like a champ. I sold my AxeFx2, the rack case, the Fractal foot switch and 2 Friedman ASM-12s when I got this and haven't looked back. I play Friedman's, Bogners, Soldanos, Diezels and this is...