Everyone loves a good octave fuzz pedal, but if you’re looking for Hendrixy, Crosstown Trafficy tones, best look elsewhere. The Dirty Octave Fuzz VST (from DaMyfx) is a ratty-sounding, nasty piece of work. I loved it. I put it in the middle of a big chain—2 x tube screamers, Octave Fuzz, then cranked amp— and…
When you think of booster pedals, most of us think of a certain green beast produced by Ibanez. *cough* It would be foolish to think that the Tubescreamer is the be all and end of booster pedals. I mean surely there are myriad ways of increasing the volume of a signal going into an amp,…
It may not be the most attractive interface I’ve ever seen, but by gum does this bad-boy pack a wallop. The Face Bender VST (from Distorque) is an emulation of a Tone Bender and Fuzz Face. (Disclaimer: I’ve never tried the original of either of those pedals). While the Fuzz Face option leaves me a…
The Plusdistortion from Distorque is a bad-ass little emulation of the classic MXR Distortion+. Like the original the front interface is as stripped back as you get, with nothing more than an output knob, distortion knob and an on/off switch. But here the Plusdistortion parts company with its inspiration. Click the ‘tweak’ icon on 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…
If you’re going for a thick, chunky guitar tone, or if you’re looking play the blues à la Stevie Ray Vaughan, you’re going to need to an emulator of a certain famous green pedal (you know the one I’m talking about). Well here it is. With drive, volume and tone controls, and with either 2x…
TSE make damn good stuff and the TSE R47 v1.0 is no exception. The R47 is an emulator of the classic Pro Co Rat distortion pedal, loved by everyone from Muse to Kurt Cobain to Dave Gilmour. I’d been looking for a workable emulation for some time, so was delighted when I stumbled across this…
This is a collection of easy to use plugins fashioned like guitar stomp boxes. I haven’t tried them so let us know what they’re like. DOWNLOAD: http://www.dreamvortex.co.uk/effects/
Here’s an ugly-as-hell, but nice-and-flexible phaser for bass. “Have you ever used a phaser on a bass track and ended up with a floppy bottom end wobbling all over the place? Bass Phaser can avoid that problem by separating the bass and treble frequencies, where you set the cutoff frequency. The effect is only applied…
Here’s a huge bunch of effects all in a single, convenient rack-like package. “LFX-1310 is a free plug-in multi-effector including 24 types of algorithm and 3 serial slots. This freeware is the stand-alone version of effecting module of Ravity-S & Ravity-R. Every algorithm realizes the very effect you have on your mind, and is fully…
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