Anecdata: My friends and I will often dial in a guitar or bass tone that is very pleasing when we play individually, but sounds like junk when you have guitar

Anecdata: My friends and I will often dial in a guitar or bass tone that is very pleasing when we play individually, but sounds like junk when you have guitar + guitar + bass + drums. After noticing this we also noticed that a lot of the bands we thought sounded the best used tones that were individually good but not fantastic because the were shaped to best fit the sonic space they existed within than to sound amazing in their own right.