Presence: pushed or pulled?

[ultra high gain]

For tight heavy metal rhythms, I prefer pushed. I seems crunchier, better suited for thrashy tight metal for me. Watching the JP2C launch video with Petrucci, I notice he prefers pulled for his rhythm tones. The manual says that the pulled is the original IIC+ tone. So I might actually prefer the JP2C to even the re-release of the Giboogie IIC+, sonically, for rhythm. Feel-wise, I never played a real IIC+, and I have heard a comparo clip that stomps the JP a little, so who knows?
For leads, I prefer the pulled tone, as it seems to be thicker, with more lows, and rolled off highs, and overall maybe gainier? It reminds me of the pushed mark IV (I don't like the pull presence on that one, it scoops a lot).
So I thought it was interesting that the JP2C has that cool pushed presence trick in its bag, makes it just a little cooler to me.

 

[bandit2013]

Depends on the cab or cabs I am using. I may prefer the presence pulled out. If you run two cabs loading the amp to 4-ohms, the tone will drop some of the top end so the presence pull may gain some of that back. Just a single cab, presence pushed in works best when there is an 8-ohm load on the amp.

 

[ultra high gain]

That's interesting about the impedance/number of cabs tonal differences combined with different presence settings. I use the 16 ohm, so never heard that yet. I use a marshall cab, but I put mesa 16 ohm v30s in there, seems warmer and tighter.