New owner. First impressions

[guitarded]

Very positive so far.
Got the unit a couple days ago... Haven't had a lot of time to work with it.
I had an hour or so Saturday, so I was going to take it to our church and set up a couple quick patches.
I plugged into my amps return, booted the eleven and disabled cab sims.
Then I started out by just running through some of the factory presets.
I was digging some of them, some were kinda Meh...
I was going through them pretty quickly until...
Patch C1-Crunchy
It was pretty stinking cool... so I dialed in the eq and wow!!
I spent the whole rest of my time jamming on that plexi model.
It was quite nice
I had to get up quite early this morning to run back to the church to set up my controller to use with the unit!
I stayed on the Crunchy patch all morning.. using the guitar volume and the "Green" model pedal for the whole service. It was awesome! It cleaned up so well It passed for a clean sound (well clean enough) for the mellower stuff.
Only thing I really had trouble with was...

1. I had to re-position the volume pedal after the amp block... That really help made it more responsive to the guitar volume knob...

2. the friggin NOISE GATE!!! GGrrrr!!!
I hope I have found the answer to this...

I couldn't find it this morning in time, so had to suffer through it.
But then this evening, I read in another thread it is part of the amp controls?
I hope so... I never looked into the amp controls, I just tweaked the eq from the main screen and got lost jamming!!

I went through my chain 3 or 4 times this morning looking for it, but never thought it might be part of the amp controls!!! Will have to correct this asap.

Anywhoooo... That is my first impression and use of the 11R