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This is how it all started: I remember sitting in a studio in Russia a few years ago, producing an album featuring James LaBrie (of "Dream Theater") and running into a serious problem with one of the mixes we had to finish. The only way to solve it was to use M/S technology, and we went nuts to setup an M/S EQ in the analog mixing room, but somehow we did and it worked just great. "I wished there was a plug-in EQ with M/S features…"

When I came back to Germany I started the layout of the concept that would eventually become the bx_digital V1 plugin and the bx_1 analog EQ later on.

Luckily enough I was able to find the right people at that time to turn the idea into our first BX plugin within a few months only. By now I have a very talented and motivated team around me, and BX has gone a long way ever since.

We hope you'll enjoy the info and the tools you will find on our site, and we would like to say thank you to everybody out there for your continuing support.

Dirk & the BX Team.

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Latest reviews of Brainworx products

Brainworx bx_rockergain100

Reviewed By Faydit [all]
January 16th, 2024
Version reviewed: 1.2.0.0 on Windows

Not only as a plugin, but also in reality one of my all time favorite amps.

Typical Orange sounds, but - if necessary- also much hotter.

Beautiful organically and naturally sounding (British) clean sounds, certainly nothing for Fender clean fans, but with a wonderful bluesy, even jazzy character. There is a reason, why players like Ike Turner or Raphael Saadiq also played/play Orange amps and they certainly are no Rock or Metal players.

Even more interesting is the Dirty channel, classic Orange crunch and overdrive tones of course, but even much more gain, if wished, with a very unique, beefy, but still aggressive, vivid character and wonderful, intense (British) harmonics. A completely different player in the game, without any similarities with amps from competitors.

A unique class of it's own very much instead. The plugin offers exactly this character wonderful and very authentically.

Some players will like exactly this sound, others will not at all. No compromises here possible.

This amp really rocks.

A lot of good sounding, professionally miked cabinet IR's, matching perfectly well to this amp are included (V30, G12K-100, G12M-25, Alnico Blue, G12M-65 CB) and if they are not enough, you can decativate this section and use external IR's instead too. Also the typical additional features of all Brainworx amp plugins in the fx section even expand the sonic fine tuning possibilities.

For me the most naturally and most authentically sounding Orange amp plugin ever.

Also one of my Brainworx favorites.

My only complaint is, that the spring reverb is missing. Maybe also an upgrade to the MK. III version would be nice. Nevertheless awesome sounds, no doubt.

A great alternative for players, who do not really like the sound of a Rectifier, SLO, VH-4 or XTC, whyever and look for wonderful British voiced top notch high-gain sounds.

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UAD Friedman Buxom Betty

Reviewed By Faydit [all]
January 2nd, 2024
Version reviewed: 1.1 on Windows

Does not convince me very much. Every JTM45 offers a better combination of American and British voicing in my opinion.

Much too loose, too muddy bass combined with much too shrill, too thin sounding treble and almost no British mids is not really a great voicing for me. Does not sound like a good Tweed amp, does not sound like a good Plexi to me, much too unbalanced, neither fish nor meat sound for my taste.

Worst of both worlds, so to say. But this anyway is my impression of most Friedman amps. American obviously have not really a talent for British voiced amps in my opinion. They are embossed on typical Fender tones from their birth on.

Germans do a better job, if it comes to British voiced amps, think of Diezel or Engl.

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UAD Friedman Amplifiers Collection

Reviewed By Faydit [all]
January 2nd, 2024
Version reviewed: 1.3 on Windows

The BE-100 is not really my taste, as the basic sounds differ for me too much from a real Marshall. It simply does not "nail the tone".

The DS-40 I like, sounds to me like some sort of Hot-Rod-JTM45. Nice if you are looking for typical AC/DC or ZZ Top tones. On the other hand, it maybe already offers too much gain in comparison with a real JTM45.

Nice Blues-Rock to Hard-Rock amp. A Metal amp it is not.

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UAD Fuchs Overdrive Supreme 50

Reviewed By Faydit [all]
January 2nd, 2024
Version reviewed: 1.3 on Windows

Top-notch plugin of an excellent amp.

I personally prefer this over any other Dumble simulation plugin. Is much more versatile, better adjustable and offers a wide range of very good tones between clean and classic overdrive. With the right settings you can even dial in some Plexi-like overdrive, with maybe a little more American compression but still nicely balanced and biting. The clean and crunch tones anyway are a class of their own and also perfectly adjustable to almost every guitar.

They can sound like a perfectly voiced or customized Fender amp, but also completely different, depending on your personal adjustments.

Also the cabinet/speaker selection matches perfectly well and offers above average quality, just like some other typical features of this amp plugin collection.

Maybe some roughness and dirt might be missing, depending on what you are looking for, but if you look for really beautiful, well balanced, nevertheless perfectly and flexibly adjustable, very naturally sounding tube amp tones, this is most probably one of the best sounding plugins for this job.

A real gem in the digital world of - for me mostly - fake tones. And also much cheaper than the real amp....

Highly recommended.

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UAD Diezel Herbert

Reviewed By Faydit [all]
December 25th, 2023
Version reviewed: 1.4.0.0 on Windows

Excellent plugin of an excellent amp.

Not only, but mostly a good choice for modern high-gain to Metal sounds, as the Clean and Crunch channel sound very modern, dry and maybe also a litte "sterile" and neutral, if compared with vintage tube amps, which is something, you may like or not, but both channels neverthess sound good. The lead channel is top-notch, a very aggressive, biting, but well adjustable (mostly) hard-core-Metal sound, also due to the activatable, individually adjustable mid-scoop.

I personally nevertheless prefer the VH-4, as it is more like a hot-rod Marshall voiced, while the Herbert sounds more modern, even more brutal and has it's own character, also due to the KT77 poweramp.

Best and most authentically plugin version of this amp for me! The fx section even offers more features than the real amp, such as power soak, delay, adjustable hp and lp filters and a lot of excellent, professionally captured, matching cabinet/speaker/mircrophone IR's, which even make the use of external IR's unnecessary, although even this is possible.

Very professional, if not perfect work.

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UAD ENGL Savage 120

Reviewed By Faydit [all]
December 1st, 2023
Version reviewed: 1.2 on Windows

Excellent plugin of one of the most probably most flexible, best adjustable and tweakable amps ever.

Usually defined as Metal amp, but also the clean and crunch channel are extremely flexible adjustable and sound fantastic. The lead channel anyway.

The plugin itself sounds excellent, also the built-in cabinet IR's are well selected for this type of amp. But also the rest of the channel strip/fx-section with a lot of useful features, which are typical for this series, differ these plugins from a lot of others.

The two other Engl amps in this series do not convince me so much sonically in comparison, sound a little bit too sharp and scratchy for my taste, but they also meanwhile are older ones, but this one simply is a perfect masterpiece without any weaknesses.

If I only had been allowed to use a single amp plugin, I most probably decided to use this one - for almost everything.

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UAD Diezel VH4

Reviewed By Faydit [all]
December 1st, 2023
Version reviewed: 1.4.0 on Windows

Iconic Amp and an equally iconic plugin of it. For me the by far best and most authentically sounding plugin of this amp.

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UAD Chandler GAV19T

Reviewed By Faydit [all]
September 20th, 2023
Version reviewed: 1 on Windows

A lot of amp(s).

Very interesting and sonically flexible, but in some aspects different amp plugin, as this amp is especially built to producea lot of different characters of (British) (phase inverter and) power amp saturation, while the preamp is a very simple, not very much adjustable one.

Due to the numerous tweaking options this in some way are a lot of different amps in a single box.

Also due the all the options not every setting automatically sounds great, but if you know what to do, you can get a lot of different, excellent tones out of it.

The basic are several vintage British amps, which can be tweaked by several boost and power amp behavior adjustments. Works nice, sounds nice. Really clean sounds you hardly get, but this anyway was not the intention of this amp, instead a large varietiy of crunch to overdrive sounds, which you hardly get from a lot of other amps or amp plugins.

The only disadvantage, which I have found, is, that switching from Normal to Intense mode works for my taste a little too intense, as it results in some, sometimes already a little too scratchy if not distorted sounding treble. Some fine adjustment control would have been helpful or also some update, to balance things out a little more. What helps a little is, if you use Intense mode only with the Low input or reduce boost level.

Otherwise a very cool, also sonically very flexible, unique amp, especially for power amp saturation and vintage sound fans.

The plugin also offers a very wide selection of top-notch cabinet IR's, but also allows deactivation and the use of some own external IR's instead. The fx-section/channel strip is the typical Brainworx quality.

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