Unfortunately not he has and ltd with emg 81/85 pickups I have an ltd with ESP's active pickups but I am considering get emg's and I do need to restring my guitar thinking of putting ernie ball beefy slinky strings on

Ye I  fully understand where your coming from with me comparing a solid state to a tubed amp and I understand there always gonna sound different, I think I might of worded my original post a bit badly basically I'd just like abit of help archiving a heavier tone because At the moment the settings I'm using are giving me a nice tone sound but just needs abit more authority to it,maybe my amp needs a boost but I don't really know alot about pedals is there any chance you could give me some advice on some pedals that would help give it that little boost it needs or do you think maybe just replacing my pickups and re stringing  would work 

Hey,
      Basically I just need a bit of help with achieving a tone, I am in a thrash metal/hardcore crossover band and our previous guitarist had a orange rockerverb mk11 and he had a very heavy but also clear sounding tone and iv recently purchased a orange cr120h simply because I couldn't afford the rockerverb. I am using the exact same setting as he was which were amp on dirty channel with gain on 10, bass 5, treble 6/7 (I have it on 7), mids on 3( but he did say that I might have to boost it abit because of it being ss so I have it on 4/5) and reverb on 2. It does sound close to his tone but it's missing the heaviness to it and I'm wondering if anyone could give me some advice on how to achieve this extra bit of heaviness I need

This is what his tone sounds like

http://drawnin.bandcamp.com/track/nuclear-war