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hotmitts · Post by **hotmitts** » Thu Jul 01, 2010 9:37 am

I'm building up a super collection of best free instruments and fx (My drumset rocks, broomstick bass, Mr Ray, Classic fx, Cheese Machine are my faves)

Looking for a good guitar amp effect. More to add body and twang, rather than out-and-out distortion/overdrive.

I used one called Cortex (I think that was the name) which was perfect, a nice clean amp effect, but it didn't play nicely in Sonar and support was discontinued unfortunately. It was great for not only guitar but for adding niceness to Synths etc.

Many thanks in advance

nix808 · Post by **nix808** » Thu Jul 01, 2010 9:42 am

LePou,Aradaz and AcmeBarGig
8D

sauli · Post by **sauli** » Thu Jul 01, 2010 9:43 am

Haven't tested that many Free amp sims, but I still dare to recommend these two:

SimulAnalog Guitar Suite
http://www.kvraudio.com/get/465.html
Apparently developed by same people who did Overloud TH1

Fretted Synth Free Amp
http://www.kvraudio.com/get/2426.html
Resource hog.

hotmitts · Post by **hotmitts** » Thu Jul 01, 2010 9:44 am

many thanks nix808 I'll be trying those later...nice one

GeorgeZ · Post by **GeorgeZ** » Thu Jul 01, 2010 9:48 am

SHRED is imo one of the best free ones out there. 1.5x is just in beta stage atm... which will add dual IR cabs and somoe other very nice features. However, give 1.06 a go until 1.5 is released, it's still really good.

Just for fun, here's a couple of things I've been playing around with. Guitar straight into a UA25 interface and then into Shred 1.5BETA:

http://www.box.net/files#/files/0/f/349 ... _442622818
http://www.box.net/files#/files/0/f/349 ... _460023636
http://www.box.net/files#/files/0/f/349 ... _442622170
http://www.box.net/files#/files/0/f/349 ... _415983966
http://www.box.net/files#/files/0/f/0/1/f_442615888
http://www.box.net/files#/files/0/f/0/1/f_442615852

Cheers!
George

sorohanro · Post by **sorohanro** » Thu Jul 01, 2010 9:52 am

Aura Plug Freetortion Series
Acme Bar Gig
LePou Plugins
RevolutionZ amp head
X30 High-Gain Guitar amplifier

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I've seen FrettedSynth mentioned. Those were some of my favorites but their website is down at the moment.

oscarb75 · Post by **oscarb75** » Thu Jul 01, 2010 10:12 am

+1 for:
- Simulanalog Guitar Suite
- RevolutionZ
- Shred ( my favorite, at present )
- Freeamp

Not exactly an amp sim, but you can give a try to Mokafix No-Amp.
In my opinion, it sounds really good.

GeorgeZ · Post by **GeorgeZ** » Thu Jul 01, 2010 10:21 am

oscarb75 wrote:+1 for:
- Simulanalog Guitar Suite
- RevolutionZ
- Shred ( my favorite, at present )
- Freeamp

Not exactly an amp sim, but you can give a try to Mokafix No-Amp.
In my opinion, it sounds really good.

Try No-Amp through LePou's LeCab, with custom (think recab and the likes) IRs, it's PHAT!

bpblog · Post by **bpblog** » Thu Jul 01, 2010 10:33 am

all the recommended ones are great, and don't forget to try amplifikation lite.

helium · Post by **helium** » Thu Jul 01, 2010 10:40 am

timfarman wrote:I used one called Cortex (I think that was the name) which was perfect, a nice clean amp effect, but it didn't play nicely in Sonar and support was discontinued unfortunately. It was great for not only guitar but for adding niceness to Synths etc.

Yep, I lost the sources in a big accident and my backup harddrive died at the same time (bad luck), so there will never be an update for Cortex.

oscarb75 · Post by **oscarb75** » Thu Jul 01, 2010 11:03 am

Cortex is great too. I've forgot it on my previous post.

Did you really lost the source code ?
It's terrible...

hotmitts · Post by **hotmitts** » Thu Jul 01, 2010 6:12 pm

Thank you very much for the replies, I had done some searches myself but as always there are some I've never heard of, hopefully some rare gems to try!

That's very sad about Cortex, sorry that you lost the code.

tomg · Post by **tomg** » Thu Jul 01, 2010 6:35 pm

There are some good ones listed here's another.

Studio Devil BVC - British Valve Custom, FREE tube amp modeler.
http://www.studiodevil.com/download/downloadBVC.htm

and another..

California Sun
http://ncryptoworkz.blogspot.com/2009/0 ... r-amp.html

and one more..

Voxengo Boogex
http://www.voxengo.com/product/boogex/

Mister Natural · Post by **Mister Natural** » Thu Jul 01, 2010 10:35 pm

big fan of Rev Z and A150

Mutant · Post by **Mutant** » Thu Jul 01, 2010 10:53 pm

helium wrote:
timfarman wrote:I used one called Cortex (I think that was the name) which was perfect, a nice clean amp effect, but it didn't play nicely in Sonar and support was discontinued unfortunately. It was great for not only guitar but for adding niceness to Synths etc.
Yep, I lost the sources in a big accident and my backup harddrive died at the same time (bad luck), so there will never be an update for Cortex.

Hey Helium

I just want to thank you very much for Cortex/Guitifier and for the great Gapanessor that i use exclusively for taming my guitar noise to this day.

Good to see that you are still alive !

Best free guitar amp simulators please?