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Now, the inspiration for the TSB-1 Tyrant Screamer should be clear, but its features have been extended to increase versatility and make it usable with down tuned guitars. This pedal is perfect for adding a bit of dirt to clean tones, or even for tightening up lead tones. Which pedal is it emulating you might ask?

The same as the TSB-1 a certain green overdrive. The HyBrit is basically two Marshalls in one. Sure, the HyBrit might not sound exactly like a tube Marshall head digital emulation will only get you so close , you can do a lot with IRs, layering, and standalone effects pedals like the ones already introduced to cook up a guitar storm.

Download: Grebz. The Lepou LE emulates an Engl Powerball amplifier, a monstrous four-channel tube preamp with insane power and tones.

And what Lepou has been able to achieve here is beyond what anyone might expect from an amp sim. The LE does, in fact, sound quite close to the Engl Powerball.

Its graphical user interface is a little different than the real thing, but it still boasts close to the same functionality and level of versatility.

This thing does crunch. It does heavy. And you can dial in a variety of tones just by messing around with the knobs. This amp sim comes with knobs for input, drive, low, mid, high, contour, presence, and volume.

There are also switches for channel red and green , mode lead and rhythm , tone stack, routing stereo or mono , and quality high or low. This VST has got some serious warmth and roundness to it, which can make it great for heavier genres, but highly usable for rock and blues too. Again, what Lepou has been able to accomplish here is impressive to say the least. It has a bright switch, and knobs for crunch, overdrive, contour, bass, middle, high, power, and master. Despite its basic user interface, it will still have a certain appeal to home recordists.

Download: TSE Audio. This one is perhaps a little more on the nose, though, at least in terms of design. Even its design is quite close, with its three-knob setup — drive, filter, and volume. It includes three amps labeled classic clean, classic drive, and modern drive. The classic clean is a lot like a Fender, the classic drive like a Marshall, and the modern drive somewhere between a Dual Rectifier and To me, the clean sounds excellent. The classic drive is surprisingly versatile, and with it you can get everything from classic rock crunch all the way to saturated lead tones.

The modern drive is quite heavy as you would expect, even without cranking the drive to Download: Blue Cat Audio. The TubeDriver is a tube amp emulation plugin for Windows and Mac and is quite basic in its design. Download: Nick Crow Lab. The Wagner Sharp is another tube guitar preamp emulation with low, high, drive, bass, mid, freq, treble, volume, quality, and power controls.

And, to my ears, the Wagner Sharp does a good job of emulating a tube amp. There are some good tones coming out of this VST! But what about all those beautiful, vintage, clean, or partially crunchy tones?

Its controls are basic, with knobs for input, volume, feedback, and output, as well as switches for oversampling 2x, 4x, 8x , mode A or B , cab on or off , and stereo on or off. Especially for, well, 'djent' sounds, the 'thall' preset sort of does what it says on the tin, for very little effort. One of the cardinal sins of bad mixing is a boring stereo picture. However, it's understandable why many choose not to experiment with their stereo placement — it's easy to cause phase issues when placing tracks.

Moreover, some classic tricks like using a short delay line to increase stereo spread can store up problems for the mono mix. Luckily, Wider is designed expressly to not introduce phase issues when summed to mono, and allows you to push a mono sound source beyond the normal stereo field. The effect is hard to describe, but when working with more impressionistic genres, being able to place wet guitar parts wide in stereo space frees up the center of the mix for leads, vocals, and bass.

It's the sort of plugin that, once you have it, it will crop up on every song you make from then on. Though it's based on the legendary chorus in the Roland Juno 60 synthesizer, the Magic Switch isn't a straight-up clone. It's a little darker, a little more characterful, and it also sounds fantastic on guitar. It's got a wide, lush stereo image, and is fantastic for adding some movement to a rhythm part that needs to elevate a track.

With only two controls, a mix and a bypass button, it also forces you to use your ears as you dial it in. You'll be amazed by just how much you can get out of it. However, look a little closer, and you'll find that every band has a dynamics section that allows for a variety of gain manipulation techniques, beyond simple level control.

This includes frequency selective compression, wide-band compression and multi-band compression. These are all incredibly useful when bussing up and gluing together guitars in the mix, especially for taming bass-heavy chugs. When bedding tracks into a mix, most audio sources benefit from a little extra saturation, and the guitar is no different. This excellent utility plugin from Softube is a straightforward way of dialing in a little extra saturation on your tracks without being overwhelmed by additional controls, or the urge to overdo it.

Crucially, it stacks well with other saturation tools, meaning it plays nice not only with amp sims, but also emulated stompboxes and other gain plugins. While the Supermassive is definitely the biggest inducer of 'how is this free? The Space Modulator is a simple flanger with great presets — three of which will probably see the most use.

There's through zero, barber pole also known as 'infinite' and doubling. By messing with the feedback and rate, it's possible to get strange slapback echoes and hard-to-describe psychedelic artifacts that warp the guitar signal almost beyond recognition.

Crazily, this isn't even the final free plugin that Valhalla offer — they also give away the Freq Echo, which is essentially the front plate of a Roland Space Echo with some additional features.

It's a dub monster, as well as being ace for generating vintage and psych echo tones on guitar tracks. Although some DAWs like Logic ship with a fully featured guitar pedalboard , you might find yourself needing to push a track a little harder, or indeed smash the front-end of an amp sim into saturation. For that, you'll need some kind of saturator. A DAW's utility gain plugin will often suffice, as will a saturator. That said, level gain is easier when the tool is EQ'd with guitar use in mind, and that's where the Mercuriall plugins come in.

Generally, the TSC gets the most use, adding light saturation to guitar parts, and being used as a clean boost as part of longer chains — especially into emulated amps. It can be used to downsample, distort, and crush any input signal, often well beyond recognition, and it's amazing for creative sound design, whether it's a downsampled sweep just before a breakdown, or mangling the guitar to sound like a synth for a chiptune outro. The IRs and responses may not quite keep up with some of the heaviest-hitting emulations on the market today, but it's doubtful any listeners will notice the difference once they're sitting in a mix.

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Guitar World Guitar World. Sign in. Total Guitar. Guitar Techniques. This company has been absolutely killing the game as of late and this is honestly one of the most realistic plugins that I have come across.

There are 5. When playing with this plugin, you can play it like a keyboard or choose to play it like a guitar. If you play it like a guitar, it will choose certain frets and releases while you play it.

This is meant to completely emulate a real acoustic guitar and it does this well. Orange Tree samples create some state of the art plugins. The sample set has been run through a multi-track tape recorder in order to give it that authentic and old school feel.

Note: You can use this plugin with the free version of the Kontakt player. This is actually really cool seeing how most plugins nowadays require the full version. This plugin is argubaly one of the most realistic sounding currently on the market. This plugin requires the full Kontakt player in order to function properly.

It includes 3, samples with NCW compression. I would say that when you put its features on paper with the other plugins, it really shines. If you excel at ripping melodies on your keyboard, yet want a reliable guitar plugin, check out some videos on this one. Type Of Plugin: Some plugins can be played whereas others are strictly just samples.

I believe that the best types of acoustic guitar plugins are actual virtual instruments, meaning you can play them with a keyboard. Realism: Some plugins are able to capture the realism of a real acoustic guitar, where others just simply fall flat. Over the years, this has definitely approved and most of our selections sound very realistic. Articulations: The articulations that the plugin can do prove to be very important in most songwriting sessions. The more strumming patterns and bends, the better when it comes to capturing the dynamics.

You usually are able to find different presets to spark your interest when you have a large library. Some Libraries will also include electric guitar VSTs as well. Compatibility: All of the following options are compatible with all of the major DAWs.

This is important as you will be able to use these immediately upon downloading.