Can we make the amp sim sound more "tubular"?

I play live instruments exclusively, and a rack-mounted mini + a MOTU 828 has replaced all the stage amps, pedals, preamps, etc. It's fantastic.
The one thing I'm not happy with is the guitar amp simulator's inability to re-create the valve amp (a.k.a. "Marshall Stack") sound.
The "American High Gain" sounds, to my ear, like a classic 1980s solid-state amp.
The "British High Gain" sounds to me like a classic 1970s... solid-state amp.
I don't want the flat-line "crunch" of solid state, I want the SCREAM of over-driven tubes!
In every other way, the signal processing capability of GarageBand is a dream. I like the stereo chorus effects, the reverb, the compressor, the gate, the EQ... It's just this one small thing I'm lacking that is the thorn in my side.
I can't afford a vintage Marshall Stack. I can probably afford a pretty good knock-off tube amp and a couple 4x12 cabinets, but I don't want to haul all that around to support one instrument.
Heck, I don't even want to mess with a RP200 or Guitar Pod. I shouldn't have to! If a $120 stomp-box can re-create an enjoyable illusion of tube distortion, the magnificent Mac mini should have no problem doing so as well.
Anybody have any luck getting a top-notch tube amp sound out of GarageBand? If so, would you care to share your settings? If not, are there good third-party patches and/or "Jam Pack" offerings which can get me there?

Golias wrote:
For cheapskates like me, are there any really great free (or reasonably cheap) amp-modeling plug-ins that anybody can recommend? I've experimented with a few now, and most of them don't sound that much better than the ones that come with GB.
Count me as a cheapskate guitarist as well! OK, while I'm not necessarily adverse to shelling out for the likes of AU versions of Amplitude, Guitar Rig, or the Line6 stuff, I'm definitely adverse to shelling out for it without being able to road-test it rather better the last demo versions of any AUs for these I've seen allow. It's a fair pile of money to drop on something that I'm not sure I love, might not be able to sell on easily, and could be "obsoleted" by an OS upgrade ....
So far, I've stuck with the stock GB amp sims, doing my best to tweak settings to my tastes. Even with my limited experimentation -- and abilities -- I think that the (relatively limted range of) amp simulation built in the GarageBand at least may be much more capable than it appears. I think the shipped presets are spread too generically thin to be very interesting of themselves. Clearly, Apple assumes that more serious guitarists will go off and purchase specialized AUs, and hasn't spent a lot of time getting serious gearheads in there to come up with more and better presets (or basic amp models). There is also a dearth of documentary info about how the models were designed to behave and how to get more out of them.
But what about all us cheapskate guitarists? Or at least those of us unwilling to part with so much cash for a 3rd-party digital amp model on what is, basically, a dare?
I really, really, really wish Apple -- or someone -- would set up a web site that facilitated a GB user community where people could upload and download user-made presets. (This would be useful not just for guitarists, but other presets as well.) Apple has always had a strong user community, and it seems to me like a forum like that would be a relatively cheap way of enhancing user experience and building user loyalty. The installed user base for GB must be enormous, so why this hasn't been done is beyond me.
Anyway, my stuck the info related to my (so far) most successful (in my mind ;)) GB amp sim tweak to my own web site: <http://www.carlaz.com/music/gb_presets.html>
Dubbed "El Sabado" it was aimed at a relatively modern Tony Iommi-ish tone -- which I won't claim it achieves but when I've posted some of my short demo clips to guitar-oriented forums, some listeners have been impressed that such a tone came out of the built-in GB amp simulators. (With some neck humbucker examples, some listeners also compared it to a Slash-like tone.) I'm sure other more knowledgeable than myself could improve on this or better it; and I tweaked it up in GB 2.x. I've only just been playing with GB '08 in recent weeks, so I haven't made any definite changes using the additional controls available in GB '08. The .pst file is downloadable, and there's a screenshot of the (GB 2.x) settings in case you can't use the .pst.
Obviously, the sound coming out of amp sims will depend on your indivdual guitar. The above one was designed around a LP-style twin-humbucker guitar. I've been working on a couple of bass amp sim tweaks, though my bass is an old Rick 4001, which starts off sounding a bit different from more common and more modern basses, so anything I can eventually post in the bass amp sim dept. might be a bit weird when used with, say, a Fender Jazz or Precision type bass ....

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