The Kuassa team do ready good stuff. Their amp sims are second to none and they’re really nice guys too. (Check out our interview with CTO Arie Ardiansyah and CEO Grahadea Kusuf if you don’t believe me). Here’s another thing I like about them: They really seem to understand guitarists. You can see that in…
A wicked plugin-in octave divider in the vein of an iconic pedal? Yes please. Built by one Christopher Hooker, the OC-D2 is basically an octave divider – it can generate pitch shifts to either one or two octaves below. It’s also an homage – in look and feel at the very least – to the…
I don’t know why, but whenever I hear the news that Mercuriall has released a new plugin, I just about stroke out – in a good way. Actually, I do know why I do that – their plugins are amongst the baddest-ass of any on the market. Now they’ve gone and done the unthinkable, creating…
Looking for those elusive CFH Randall tones? Look no further! Those who covet Dimebag’s heavier-than-heavy guitar sound are in for a treat with the announcement that IK Multimedia is bringing the Texas rebel’s abrasive guitar sound to their AmpliTube plug-in. “The new collection features models of the exact gear used by ‘Dimebag’ Darrell Lance Abbott…
If you’re tired of the same old same old Tube Screamer-driven tone, hold on to your handbags, because here is a sweet-ass emulation of a Mesa Boogie Grid Slammer overdrive pedal. How dos it sound? Damn good. Check out REAPER TV’s review below. Get it here: https://mercuriall.com/cms/details_freestuff
If you’re looking to drop a little cash upgrading your stock pedal plugins, here’s a pretty good option. With chorus/flanger, boost/distortion, phaser, EQ and sustainer, the Vintage Pedal Bundle looks a lot like what a well appointed pedal board might typically look like. The spiel: “40 years ago our 5-pack of power, the SCF, Booster, Dual…
Here’s a weird one. An emulation of a Digitech Whammy pedal (made famous by the likes of Dimebag Darrell and Tom Morello). Now you can have all those screeching, plunging and just plain weird effects right on your desktop. The Whamdrive is, essentially, a pitch-shifter, but differs from others that you might have come across…
TSE Audio make great stuff, and the new B.O.D. VST is no exception. An emulator of a famous bass processing pedal, the B.O.D. will give you a storming bass tone right out of the box. All the expected features—level, low, high— but the real juice of this pedal is in the drive. A big, fat,…
SoftAmp GT is a sim of “a well-known analog guitar amplifier simulator stomp-box”. “The prototype is a solid state circuit that uses op-amps to saturate the signal and moderate filtering to shape the tone throughout the signal path. The speaker simulation is achieved by a steep low-pass filter as well as some middle-frequency manipulation to resemble different…
More awesomeness here from the righteous bros (and chicks, I suppose, don’t write in) at Ignite Amps. If you’re anything like me, you’re a raging metal monster who knows no limits. Therefore, you’ve probably been on the lookout for a Tubescreamer clone that can provide even more oomph to the front end of your amp.…
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