You're right , they don’t show accuracy or realism. The point of my clips wasn’t to be a comparison to a real cab ( which I can do if you’d like) but to show the driftwood sounds great and can be dark or bright, and that whatever issue you heard from the EVH and driftwood, is highly suspect and probably not an issue with the driftwood loadbox.
I also couldn’t care less about the amp in the room and it’s response being similar. I literally 100 percent of the time have my amps mic’d up listening in my studio, never “ in the room”, so that’s pretty irrelevant for my tastes and needs. What the driftwood is close to, I’m not sure. But I bet you could ask driftwood and they would explain. All of those clips I posted were either GGD’s Mesa cabs ( which are on the darker side in my opinion it still good) or titan audios Marshall cab pack. I have 2 Marshall cabs with various era Marshall vintage speakers from 1992 up to present. The driftwood loadbox using titan audios IR’s Give me the same feel and frequency response as my real Marshall cabs. And of course all of my Marshall speakers sound different so again, not a true apples to apples comparisons ( titans Marshall celestion vintage speakers used in their pack are from 2005, mine from the early 90s to present), but still extremely relevant to this conversion I think.
Would genuinely really appreciate hearing the Driftwood vs your cab loads, as long as you use the same IR throughout (I can help you set it up so its a fair test/nothing blows up if you haven't done this before). I think it's the best way to understand what impact the load is having, and its helpful if you're using IR's or other gear as many commercial ones have slight "correction" curves applied to compensate for different loads.
FWIW, there was no issue with the EVH and Driftwood - the example was dialled in with the Suhr, and the same settings were left in place for the Driftwood. In that situation you'd just readjust your amp settings for the other load and move on, and thats exactly what the benefit of having different loads at hand is.
I'm in exactly the same boat as far as the whole amp in the room thing (doesn't bother me one bit as I only hear guitar tones in a studio environment) - I just mentioned it because I know a lot guitarists have an issue with how a mic'd cab sounds vs a cabinet in the room. Usually with those, having more low end oomph helps it feel more familiar.
From what I remember, my friend with the Driftwood asked them what it's based on and their response was that it wasn't based on any specific cabinet - they just fine tuned it to sound how they wanted. My question isn't whether the Driftwood is a good load box - clearly it sounds good and many people are very happy with it. What I'm trying to work out is "what cabinet load is the Driftwood closest/most accurate to?"
For an accurate test, you really need to use the same IR's throughout, and I'd recommend making your own purely so you can 100% guarantee that you don't have any unwanted poweramp interactions influencing things one way or another (MANY commercial ones suffer from this - for instance some well known IR's have additional correction to compensate for how the Suhr load is different to a Mesa cab). Happy to help or supply my own (which I have "clean" and "compensated" versions of).
The reason I'm so curious for this is I tend to pair my IR's with the most suitable load - if I'm using a V30 IR, then I'd prefer to provide a load to the amp that is most similar to a V30 cab. If I'm using Greenbacks, then I'd pick a load that's similar to that. There can't be a single load box that is perfect for every situation, as real cabs vary so much themselves. At best you can have some switches to adjust the shape and try to get close to a few different ones.
it’s great and like better than the Suhr I’ve had before 
