Guitar Amp/FX simulators

[mazz]

Mar 31, 2009, 3:09pm, slideboardouts wrote:Hey Mazz,I just downloaded the demo of Peavey's Revalver and this thing F***in' rips dude. I've just messed with the presets so far but I can say I'm pretty pleased. I very well may purchase this. It has very good preset distortions for rhythm and lead work.On the "1982" preset I was able to do all of my stupid eddie and yngwie tricks without going "this sucks, I'm plugging into an amp." It really responds well to intricate work like a good amp/distortion pedal. I don't think you would be disappointed with this thing. It sounds pretty damn convincing.I am in love with this plug in. Thanks for introducing us, mazz! -SteveWow, Steve, you're easily pleased! Maybe you should buy it for me because I was such a nice guy and introduced you? Your enthusiastic recommendation is duly noted. I may go for it on that alone, I'm easily influenced!! Thanks a ton!!Mazz

[bigbluebarry]

Mar 31, 2009, 3:04pm, yammer107 wrote:Mar 31, 2009, 11:34am, fusilierb wrote:I personally settled on Guitar Rig 3 and really like it. It's got a ton of usable presets, can be almost infinitely modified, has a very easy user interface and is very stable.BMe too... I love it. Very easy drag & drop effects routing... I've ran up to 3-4 instances of the plug-in with no issues. And they offer a $99 dollar minimalist version.......http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/GuitarRigXE/But I dont think you can go wrong with the $69 Revalver HP version your already looking at..... ...ChrisYou can put me down for Guitar Rig 3 as well. I have the Line6 POD Farm, but I don't use it right now, except to act as a DI box so that I can split my signal and have one going direct to my Pro Tools rig and the other going to a SM57 pointed at my half-stack - Big Blue

[slideboardouts]

Mar 31, 2009, 3:13pm, mazz wrote:Mar 31, 2009, 3:09pm, slideboardouts wrote:Hey Mazz,I just downloaded the demo of Peavey's Revalver and this thing F***in' rips dude. I've just messed with the presets so far but I can say I'm pretty pleased. I very well may purchase this. It has very good preset distortions for rhythm and lead work.On the "1982" preset I was able to do all of my stupid eddie and yngwie tricks without going "this sucks, I'm plugging into an amp." It really responds well to intricate work like a good amp/distortion pedal. I don't think you would be disappointed with this thing. It sounds pretty damn convincing.I am in love with this plug in. Thanks for introducing us, mazz! -SteveWow, Steve, you're easily pleased! Maybe you should buy it for me because I was such a nice guy and introduced you? Your enthusiastic recommendation is duly noted. I may go for it on that alone, I'm easily influenced!! Thanks a ton!!MazzYeah man I dig this thing. The "1982" preset is definitely my favorite because by dialing the verb back just a hair it sounds almost exactly how my live rig sounds. I think that the name "1982" might be a little misleading as it doesn't sound like most of the "hair bands" from the 80's. It definitely has more of a "Brown Sound" quality to it which, IMO, is what a lot of the sounds from the different modern rock genres are built on. For the REALLY heavy stuff you might want to beef it up a bit but I don't think it would take much. I'm playing a strat style guitar that I built with a duncan PAF copy in it tuned to 440. I bet you could plug in a lespaul, drop the tuning a step, make a few tweaks and you would get a pretty chunky sound.It also has a preset that sounds like it came right off an AC/DC album if you're in to that. Good clean sounds too.-Steve

[mazz]

Steve,I'm going to plug in my best Les Paul and Strat samples because I don't play guitar (although given enough time, I can locate and strum a mean first position A chord. I don't suck at 12th fret harmonics, either, which isn't all that useful, I guess ).But I'm still going to check out the Peavey on your strong recommendation!Mazz

[t4mh]

I can't speak to the useability of any of these as I don't use them. However, most of the guys I know in recording studios use a combination of the real thing, very expensive compression and a DAW with either Revalver or GR 3. This is mainly to create the more modern FIP Guitar sounds. I've heard some of BBBarry's stuff and it sounds pretty good! I think he uses GR 3.Hope this helpsKeith

[mazz]

I don't know what FIP stands for, please translate! Mazz

[t4mh]

Oh sorry Mazz. Fizzle & Ice Pick. The newer guitar sound popularized by newer bands like Nickleback. There is a fairly exact formula used in studios to create that sound.Hope this helpsKeith

[partyofone]

Mazz,I don't want to cause you any option anxiety but I'm really impressed with the demos of sims at softube.com

[partyofone]

Also FWIW Sweetwater reduced Waves GTR to $135. Sounds pretty good as well..http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/GTR3soNat/

[anotherdan]

I use Waves GTR3 and Amplitube2 hendrix edition - both is used in the track i have added to the review forum...I went through every single plugin I could find in the market at the time and ended up buying these two... Should I select only one afterwards it would be Waves GTR3...I have since then found this: http://www.softube.se/metal_amp_room.php which I have been able to catch some of the thick distortion that i like... It's a bit pricey though...Waves GTR solo a downscaled GTR3 is free of charge for a year i think... http://www.wavesgtr.com/html/product_gtr_solo.html try that out.