Personally, when I think of Fender amps I don’t really think of ‘solid state’ or ‘practice amps’. So why would someone go to the trouble of building a sim of one? It’s a fair question. “‘Huh, a solid state Fender practice amp model. Now that is an interesting choice’ – was the initial response from…
It’s no secret that we’re massive fans of the big brains at Soft-Amp, and the Flextron DC14 just goes to further prove our point. The Flextron DC14 is a virtual-analog guitar amp that was made for one of the KVR challenges, and is unique in that it is designed as a hybrid of two existing…
The NDZeit TubeBaby is a pretty basic emulation but with several different amp types including American, British and Custom. “TubeBaby is a digital simulation of a tube guitar amplifier. As such it features the standard controls found on a real amplifier, namely gain, bass, mid, treble, presence, master and a switch for activating the high…
Nick Crow’s guitar amplifier VSTs are among the finest you’ll find anywhere—free or paid—and the 8505 Lead is no exception. The 8505 Lead is a meaty, thumping high-gain amp VST. If you’re going for those fat, chunky tones that you associate with modern rock and metal music, the 8505 is a good option. But it’s…
It’s no secret we LOVE the VSTs Ignite have been putting out, especially NRR-1 guitar amp and TSB-1 Tyrant Screamer pedal. But surely bassists deserve some love too, right? Well here it is. The SHB-1 bass amp VST. Based on the real SHB-1 “Extreme Bass Head”, built by Ignite Amps for Federico Fulceri, (of the…
Back in the day, if you were after stinky, nasty guitar and bass tones there was one pedal that ruled them all: the SansAmp. If you’re after that same sound these days, check out the similarly-named ‘NoAmp!’ from Mokafix Audio. With a simple layout and a bunch of cool presets, the NoAmp! will have you…
Nick Crow, maker of the well-respected 8505 Lead and 7170 Lead guitar amp VSTs has done it again with the new Wagner Sharp. The Wagner Sharp is a tube guitar preamp emulation plug-in for Windows (VST 32 and 64bit) and Mac OS X (VST and AU 32 and 64bit). Featuring 64-bit floating point processing, two…
Impulse loaders may not be the sexiest part of digital musician production, but if you’re a guitar player using amp sim vsts, they’re almost certainly essential. While there aren’t a huge amount of options out there, the options that do exist differ significantly, so it would pay to get up to play with exactly what’s…
Amp manufacturer Ignite Amps are a pretty forward-looking company, creating highly-detailed VST versions of their products and giving them away from free on the internet (on ya, Ignite!). There latest offering, the NRR-1 guitar amp VST kicks all sorts of ass. Whereas amp simulations often have a tell-tale fizzy quality that separates them from their…
Here’s a low-fi, but cool dual guitar pre-amp from Ronald Passion. The Crunch Passion v1.1 features a sparkling tube-style clean section and a Drive section which, while not modelled after any particular amp, sounds bit like a Laney (according to the author). Bare basics: Shape: controls the tone, from dull to sharp Bass–Mid–Hi: 10dB range…
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