SimulAnalog free Guitar Suite - Is it still good in 2020/2021 ?

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Hey folks! I just published my review and tone test of the SimulAnalog FREE guitar suite! Is it still good in 2020/2021? To me it sounded unbelievably great, you just have to get used to the GUI!

https://youtu.be/p_APTjLK4Pw

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Yes, Twin and Marshall always worked well, back in the day 20 years ago when I used it.
I will check out your review either way using regular tube amps since long.

EDIT: probably missed something - but which plugins were you testing as playing?
It sounded like Marshall, but could be a stompbox too.
You changed reverb in between etc, everything else the same.

Headroom for improvement maybe...
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Made by the Overloud peeps.
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Overloud TH-U is like the 4th or 5th generation of Simulanalog. Same developer so the newer offerings should be more accurate. I don't think the Simulanlog Univibe was ever remodelled.
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Yes, if you use it with impulse responses after... Overdrive/dist, amp, IR loader...

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I thought they had GUIs now?

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uses default gui in your daw of choice
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I know they used to but thought someone added GUIs a while back...

Edit: http://requietus.blogspot.com/2008/12/s ... e-gui.html

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That might be right.
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That's a FACT Jack.....LOL!! Requietus made the GUI's. You can dld them here:

http://morpho.lanet.lv/vst/Simulanalog. ... te.GUI.rar

Cheers.....CL :oops:
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I recall liking and (still) using the modulation FX.
New, old favourite for clean guitar is Pedals by ToneBytes with this preset I made. Guit1.fxb
Give it a go, and let me know. :?:
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PS. It also seems to work before another amp sim in serial.
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They use builtin cabs that can't be disabled. I thought someone made an IR hack that would somehow neutralize the sound and could be used with a separate IR after it, to kind of change the speaker cab tone/color.

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Ha, good old SimulAnalog! Used them a lot on our first singles & album back in 2003-2004 (no-one has ever complained about those sounds, so I guess the plugins did their job). When I moved to Mac, I switched to Ampltube (v1, mind you), but still liked the PC-only SimulAnalog more in some guitar parts, so I bounced them to audio on PC first. Haven't really tried the plugins since then, but as much I remember, they used to have this "good sound out of the box, not much tweaking necessary" -quality. Listening to the video, it still sounds very usable, alhough it might have a little of this old "static-digital-waveshaper"-vibe.

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^
That's some CV you have there.
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Imho, I still use these because they can actually cut through a mix, unlike quite a lot of ampsims, modern or old.

I mostly just use the jcm900 and the tubescreamer.
The Marshall clean tone on channel A is an acquired taste, but they seem to have nailed it.
Same with the spring reverb. An acquired taste, but it's spot-on imho.
Channel B + the ts9 can get a huge variety of Marshall tones.
Add a graphic EQ, delay, chorus for channel A etc etc

Like everyone else, I tried the "de-cab" thing, adding my own IRs... It always sounds better just using its default baked-in cab.

I also tried the GUI versions, but they were done in synthedit, which kinda defeats the tight concise coding of the originals.

Fun fact: channel B doesn't utilise any actual tube overdrive... It's completely SS, like a big distortion pedal jacked straight into a tube power section. Adding the ts9 in front, that's a lot of distortion :D
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