Your fav Amp Sims as of 2023?

[bulevardi]

Are you refering to the models or the rig player?
For me the models sound similar to other quality stuff like Kuassa and Kazrog but the rig player sounds as real as NAM with much less cpu hit

I think I was happy with both.
I just tested it last week for half a day, tried lots of presets from the demo version, also with the rig player included yes.
I love the warm jazzy sound you can get out of it. Most modern plugins seem to focus on metal and tones for shredding and have not much variety in clean tones. I'm into metal too, but there's much much more than that.

Apart from the sound, there's other stuff to mention.
It's a Win/Mac-only plugin. As a Linux user was able to install it quite easily, just run the .exe and that's it. No iLok, no separate program that you need like Native Access at NI,...
(https://linuxmusicians.com/viewtopic.ph ... 33#p171033)
On my system it seems very lightweight from first impressions.
Can't say that from Amplitube or Bias FX that's pretty slow (on a recent computer).
The user friendliness is really great. Although I prefer the preset search options in Guitar Rig over this one.

I don't know if it's the demo or not, but it was mentioned over 1000 presets. I only see around maybe 100 or so... If you install the full version, do you get it them all seen?
I also noticed acoustic possibilities seem great. They offer 2 specific expansion packs for that.
I'm wondering if you can't recreate these sounds with the Premium version only?

[Scrubbing Monkeys]

Are you refering to the models or the rig player?
For me the models sound similar to other quality stuff like Kuassa and Kazrog but the rig player sounds as real as NAM with much less cpu hit

I think I was happy with both.
I just tested it last week for half a day, tried lots of presets from the demo version, also with the rig player included yes.
I love the warm jazzy sound you can get out of it. Most modern plugins seem to focus on metal and tones for shredding and have not much variety in clean tones. I'm into metal too, but there's much much more than that.

Apart from the sound, there's other stuff to mention.
It's a Win/Mac-only plugin. As a Linux user was able to install it quite easily, just run the .exe and that's it. No iLok, no separate program that you need like Native Access at NI,...
(https://linuxmusicians.com/viewtopic.ph ... 33#p171033)
On my system it seems very lightweight from first impressions.
Can't say that from Amplitube or Bias FX that's pretty slow (on a recent computer).
The user friendliness is really great. Although I prefer the preset search options in Guitar Rig over this one.

I don't know if it's the demo or not, but it was mentioned over 1000 presets. I only see around maybe 100 or so... If you install the full version, do you get it them all seen?
I also noticed acoustic possibilities seem great. They offer 2 specific expansion packs for that.
I'm wondering if you can't recreate these sounds with the Premium version only?

Awesome you got it working on Linux. I working on transfering over myself. This and XLN AD2 would be big considerations to make me venture outside native linux.

[SiliconDeath]

Neural dsp Nameless X, Abasi, but sometimes ML Sound Lab's Block Leter, Triple Rev G, Fluff 2C or ML5 .. great on extended range guitar

for me, the amp needs to be high gain, but also not too high on CPU usage (X fixed the original nameless CPU usage, so I'm hoping Abasi will get the same treatment eventually).

IRs seem to play huge role on the sound, so I'm hoping we'll eventually get more of dynamic IR/proper speaker movement emulation plugins (which only celestion seem to be doing now?)

[electro]

Its a great time for being ITB. These are probably the best.

UAFX Ruby 63
UAFX Dream 65
UAFX Enigmatic 82
Overloud Premium
Overloud TH-U Rockguy
*Overloud Made In Rock Series
Kazrog Airline 15
Kazrog Ampcraft 1992
IK Multimedia ToneX

[simon.a.billington]

Its a great time for being ITB. These are probably the best.

UAFX Ruby 63
UAFX Dream 65
UAFX Enigmatic 82
Overloud Premium
Overloud TH-U Rockguy
*Overloud Made In Rock Series
Kazrog Airline 15
Kazrog Ampcraft 1992
IK Multimedia ToneX

Yeah, I had noticed recently that UA was bringing their stomps to the DAW. Good move on their part.

[electro]

Its a great time for being ITB. These are probably the best.

UAFX Ruby 63
UAFX Dream 65
UAFX Enigmatic 82
Overloud Premium
Overloud TH-U Rockguy
*Overloud Made In Rock Series
Kazrog Airline 15
Kazrog Ampcraft 1992
IK Multimedia ToneX

Yeah, I had noticed recently that UA was bringing their stomps to the DAW. Good move on their part.

Enigmatic 82 should've been typed Lion 68. These are the Amp Sims. The stomps beyond Roland FX Bundle might follow afterwards

[pekbro]

Kazrog is good, THU has a good speaker sim, thats about it afaic. Pretty much over UAFX,
even tho i have one of the pedals.

I like Nembrini a lot, light-weight is a big
one for me. Tho i think the best thing he
makes is the nine gates pedal sim which is
an original design of his.

It would be interesting if Strymon got into
the amp sim plugin game as well i think.

[electro]

Overloud TH-U is an underrated powerhouse, I think a better option than Neural DSP and others. TH-U Premium effects are excellent and will pair nice with the UAFX sims and ToneX profiles.

[dannyhawaii]

I just wished they'd split it into separate pedalboard and amp plugins, but also allowed you to get hide the browser/chain area. Minimising the amount of "noise" on the UI helps to stay focused I feel.

If it doesn't need to be there, then it shouldn't be, especially when it can be just now click away.

You can hide the browser and the signal flow. The buttons are in the header.

[electro]

The definitive guide on how to gain stage AMP Sims!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ59h7xfvdI

[escalona]

Overloud TH-U is an underrated powerhouse, I think a better option than Neural DSP and others. TH-U Premium effects are excellent and will pair nice with the UAFX sims and ToneX profiles.

I agree with this. Particularly, in my opinion, some of the 3rd party or in-house captures for its rig player are just unbelievably alive. For the last several months I keep trying out all the very expensive amp sims I own with a deadly high CPU usage -which let's be honest, sound really good too-, and then I switch to th-u rig player (a usually lower than 3% cpu) and the difference is immense: way less hissing, way less resonances, way more clarity... and when playing/performing, it almost feels like playing through my kemper, it's extremely responsive (much much more than other ones).
So yes, I agree, it's an underrated, amazing plugin.

[kevinsparks]

Bogren AmpKnob MLC S_Zero 100 is currently free.

https://bogrendigital.com/products/ampk ... s_zero-100

[Monsieur_FyP]

Bogren AmpKnob MLC S_Zero 100 is currently free.

https://bogrendigital.com/products/ampk ... s_zero-100

Thanks

[panspOrmia]

PRIMO (APFX)

[DCrown]

ToneX