Looking for great guitar tone? Look no further!
Guitar amp modelers are getting more and more popular and are find it's ways from the smallest home studio to the largest stages. Guitar amp modeling gives the tone searching guitarist an ocean of guitar tone to dive into. You get the sounds from classic amps, stompboxes and cabinets at the tip of your finger.
www.ampmodeling.com is the website to go to if you would like to try the sounds that other guitarists has created with their gear or if you would like to share your own tone presets.
But just like with analog gear, the tone you get from plugging your guitar into your computer or desktop modeling gear depends on the gear (in this case, software) that you use to model the amps. There are a variety of applications available for computer-using musicians, and here, in alphabetical order, are a few of the best.
Amplitube
IK Multimedia has made it's range of Amplitube software into a complete franchise. Currently there's six different versions of the Amplitube software: Amplitube 2, Amplitube Jimi Hendrix, Amplitube 2 Live, Ampeg SVX, Amplitube Metal and the all new Amplitube Fender (in close co-operation with Fender).
Gearbox
Line 6’s Gearbox is a flexible piece of software that allows you to configure most aspects of your guitar tone. Using Gearbox you have access to a large number guitar amp models, guitar cab models, bass amp models, bass cab models, stompboxes and studio effects, six mic preamp models.
Gearbox works with Line6's different IO interfaces (such as the Toneport or Guitarport) as well as it's desktop and floor units (POD XT / X3 etc)
GuitarRig
has a user interface that is split vertically between your tone presets on the left and the rig components (amps, stomboxes and speaker cabinets etc.) on the right.
The brilliance of GuitarRig is the ability to create so many different tones. This is basically due to the variety of amps that are modeled in the computer software.
ReValver Mk II
ReValver is a valve modeling package with amps and stompboxes, but it also takes a somewhat different approach than it's competitors does.
In addition to changing amps and adding effects etc., ReValver allows you to modify the power amp rectifiers and output transformers. You can configure basically every single bit of this guitar amp modeling software.
Tonelab
The VOX Tonelab is a desktop (or stage floor) unit but VOX is giving it's users access to a free piece of software that can be used to access all the tone possibilities of this unit and save as presetfiles. These presets can of course be shared at…yepp you guessed it: www.ampmodeling.com
Overloud TH1
The Overloud TH 1 is often praised and loved by it’s users but is fairly unknown in some markets. It's worth to check it out if you're looking for great tone!
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