RETAIL SOFTWARE AMPLIFIER SIMULATIONS

There are lots of retail amplifier simulators on the market. Some of them offer dozens of amp sims from many brands, some others offer only one type of amplifier, created from scratch and not based on existing gear. The most complete simulators include stomp boxes (distorsion, overdrive, fuzz, wah, etc.) and effects (echo, delay, reverb, etc.), noise gates, tuners. All of them include cabinet simulators, so they are very thorough and usable out of the box. Some may even be used as stand-alone software and thus don't require to be inserted as plugins in a D.A.W.

LIST

Here is a non-exhaustive list of brands that offer amp simulations. These are only software amp simulations, to be used in a D.A.W. as plugins, or as stand-alone applications in your computer. I have excluded software that are too old, not sold anymore, and I keep only those that are available in a 64-bit version.

AEGEAN MUSIC - Amp Vision
AUDIFIED - AmpLion Pro
AUDIO ASSAULT
AXP SOFT AMP
BLUE CAT AUDIO - Axiom
BRAINWORX
HORNET PLUGINS - Hornet Guitar Kit
HOTONE AUDIO - Vstomp Amp
IK MULTIMEDIA - Amplitube 4
JST
KLEVGRAND - Stark
KUASSA
MERCURIALL
NATIVE INSTRUMENTS - Guitar Rig
NEMBRINI AUDIO
NEURAL DSP
OVERLOUD - TH-U
AUDIO MEDIA RESEARCH - Revalver
PLUG & MIX
POSITIVE GRID - Bias Amp 2 / Bias FX 2
SCUFFHAM - S-Gear 2
SKNOTE - TwinR / R200 / Deluxe 1
SOFTUBE
STL TONES
TSE AUDIO - TSE X50

MESSAGES

Stanman
le 16/04/2019 à 06h56

Just wanted to thank you for your time organizing this. It took me days to compile all of these in the past! I am switching to a new workstation. This will be very handy.

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You're welcome. I'm sorry to say that I don't have much time anymore to update my website, and some information are getting a bit old. Some day, I'll make new tutorials about mixing a song, with better techniques than currently available at the moment, but they're still valid to some extent. Thanks for your support!

alessandrolima
le 31/01/2019 à 23h24

Dude, thanks a lot for this tutorial. It really helped me a lot. God bless you!

slashburn
le 02/12/2018 à 19h53

Bonjour,
Sur le "jcm 800 mercurial", quelle différence entre la 12ax7eh et la 12ax7rsd ?
Je trouve la rsd plus "grasse" et plus disto, votre avis ?

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Bonjour,
Effectivement, comme ça simule 2 variantes d'une lampe 12ax7, le son change un peu entre les deux, ce qui permet d'étendre les possibilités du simulateur.
La RSD est un peu plus pêchue et un peu plus brillante, alors que la EH met plus les basses en avant.
À choisir en fonction de ce qu'on cherche comme type de son.
Grebz

Manouzot
le 07/08/2018 à 21h58

Salut !
Tout d'abord UN GRAND MERCI pour ton site et tes plugins. Sincèrement, c'est top !
Je suis sur Mac : j'ai téléchargé ignite_amps_nadir_1_0_2_mac et les amp Mac AU.
Bien mis dans le répertoire de mes plugins et components et aucun n'apparaît dans Logic Pro X ?
Quelqu'un sait pourquoi ?
Merci pour l'aide

patvan
le 27/06/2018 à 12h50

Hi, I just stumbled on your website. Very impressed I must say. I'm planning to buy TSE X50 also. I'm currently owning a squire Strat and was wondering how I would get a warm jazz tone out of the guitar. Any idea what settings on the TSE X50 could work ? A tone like here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkW8gKsZiVk

Cheers,
Patrick