High gain guitar effect plug-in with low CPU consumption...
- Beware the Quoth
- 35449 posts since 4 Sep, 2001 from R'lyeh Oceanic Amusement Park and Funfair
edit : i dont think this specified 'guitar effect' when I composed my original reply.
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"In some cases there is an object called red that contains everything that is red. In much the same way a pot is a plate."
"In some cases there is an object called red that contains everything that is red. In much the same way a pot is a plate."
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- KVRian
- 891 posts since 22 Jan, 2022
Low CPU recommendation? Freeze/bounce your tracks after recording.
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RipleySterling RipleySterling https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=563791
- KVRist
- 37 posts since 9 May, 2022
I use the native guitar amp sim in my daw while tracking which actually sounds great, but I usually switch it out for something else after. I just get the basic vibe with something like a mesa rectifier or jcm type emulation from the stock one, which is low latency/cpu, and worry about dialing it in later.
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- Boss Lovin' DR
- 14312 posts since 15 Mar, 2002 from the grimness of yorkshire
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- KVRAF
- 1542 posts since 16 Jan, 2018 from Portland, OR USA
For me TH-U with any rig on it (rather than sims) is the king. 1% cpu in my 10 year old system (even if you add pedals and FX racks to the chain).
“In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.”
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- KVRer
- 13 posts since 7 Feb, 2021
How have I missed this? This thing is awesomedonkey tugger wrote: Tue Mar 04, 2025 2:05 pm Old, but still immense for the METEL;
https://www.kvraudio.com/product/flextron-dc14-by-axp
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- KVRist
- 69 posts since 15 Jul, 2013 from Tirol, Austria
Airwindows GrindAmp is one of my faves. Incredibly simple, quite unique sound and unbelievably light on CPU.
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- KVRist
- 148 posts since 16 Sep, 2023
Hardclipper without oversampling will do the job

