Audio Assault, the plug-in company specializing in everything heavy (and a bunch of other stuff too) has just released a new amp-in, the aptly titled Bulldozer. That’s good news in and of itself, but get this: as an introductory offer, it’s available for a mere $5. When you see – and hear – what’s inside,…
The Emissary is a dual channel guitar tube amplifier designed to model its real hardware counterpart, built for Ryan Huthnance (The Seer / Gaped / Chrome Bison / Emissary Studios) by Ignite Amps, in 2014. “The Emissary is a no compromise custom amp built for the kill. Featuring a very versatile clean channel that ranges…
The team at Mercuriall have just released the Spark, a VST/AU/AAX plugin that models four Marshall tube amplifiers, four cabs, four overdrive pedals and a set of the most common spatial effects. It looks pretty kick-ass. Amps include emulations of: Marshall AFD (four channels) Marshall JCM 800 (two channels) Marshall JMP Super Lead (two channels)…
Here’s a classic amongst amp sim enthusiasts (free or otherwise), the roaring Legion high-gain amp simulator. “This is an original design, it’s not based on any hardware gear. My goal here was to build a high gain sim that doesn’t need any booster in front in order to be tight.” Features: 2 channels, actually two…
The 7170 is a kick-ass emulation of the fabled 5150 amp from Nick Crow and quite frankly, it’s cranking. Make no mistake, this is a white-hot heavy metal beast. You’ve got drive control, low, mid, sweep and high tone stack controls, and a separate, controllable power amp. All of Nick Crow’s stuff is awesome and…
Let’s get it said right up front: this is one of my favourite amp head VSTs of all time. LePou makes great stuff and his amp heads are second to none. Of all of them however, I think this one is the best. The 456 has just the right amount of muscle and crispness, not…
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…
This looks awesome. A clone of the legendary Sansamp PSA-1 Amp tube amplifier, gloriously free thanks to the awesome Alexander Petrov-Savchenko. “SoftAmp PSA is a virtual-analog guitar pre-amp supplemented with noise gate and compressor, all modeled after famous guitar gear that needs no introduction.” “At its core there are 5 distortion stages. First three are based…
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