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electro · Post by **electro** » Fri May 23, 2025 1:06 am

Why is Overloud TH-U v2 so underrated? Premium is an incredible value.
https://overloud.com/guitar-plugins

xphen0m · Post by **xphen0m** » Fri May 23, 2025 1:41 pm

Agreed!

kardio · Post by **kardio** » Sat May 24, 2025 2:56 pm

Yeah, TH-U v2 Premium does fly under the radar. The range of amps and effects is solid, and it runs surprisingly well even on older systems. Curious, have you tried stacking it with any IRs or third-party cabs?

electro · Post by **electro** » Sat May 24, 2025 3:15 pm

It can modify static IRs.

Funkybot's Evil Twin · Sat May 24, 2025 3:34 pm

Likes:

Fluid IR's. By far my favorite IR loader from a sound perspective. Super Cabinet is worthwhile but I wish it was a standalone plugin. 5 stars.

Dislikes:

Almost everything else.

I mean seriously, the FX are ok to good but not amazing. The amps are ok at best. The built in cabs are not at all to my liking at all and I don't like working with them.

The "Made in Rock" amps are much better, but even in the A/B's in the YouTube videos, you hear that they lose a little compression and low-mid fatness. It's small, but it's there. ToneX doesn't do that. And ToneX lets you make your own captures which Overloud, bizarrely, keeps closed. That said, the Made in Rock amps let you tweak settings and respond much better, so they have that advantage. I give that piece 4 stars (would've been 5 if the sound was a little better).

And the workflow of TH-U still sucks in V2. They didn't add lock functionality. You still end up moving things when you don't intend to. The new block locations aren't as flexible as I had hoped.

Honestly, if someone were looking to buy their first amp sim suite, I'd recommend Two Notes Genome. Whatever the premium option is that gets you everything if they can afford it. It's got less stuff, but it's easier to make sound good and the design and workflow are excellent. The few cabinets you get stock sound excellent. It's just a bit of a money suck (buy more cabinets, buy more premium DLC) but it sounds excellent. Note: not authentic. Just excellent. Forget about knob settings and just use your ears.

The Neural DSP and Mixwave suites are excellent but each is much more limited so they could get crazy expensive and you can't combine the models into one package. They both really need to figure that out.

And ToneX is now a possible standalone alternative since they added FX. From a pure amp-sound perspective, I still put ToneX at the top of heap. Best amp sounds in the box (NAM is now probably better but that's not the polished, commercial experience and just a headache).

vertibration · Post by **vertibration** » Wed Jun 18, 2025 12:00 pm

NAM also falls apart with CPU. Any of the NAM plugins, including Genome, are not efficient. I assume no plugin now, or in the future can deal with that because it depends on the capture itself. Tonex is extremely CPU efficient and sounds great.

SCL135 · Post by **SCL135** » Fri Jun 20, 2025 11:27 pm

I’m going to check Overloud TH-U v2 out for the Marshall tones.

Naillerz78 · Post by **Naillerz78** » Sat Jun 21, 2025 11:20 pm

Dang that Overloud GUI is still off putting to me.
It’s so cluttered looking

Naillerz78 · Post by **Naillerz78** » Sat Jun 21, 2025 11:27 pm

I have to ask .. why do these sims still have a big a$$ flashy detailed bitmap of an amp head on screen .. Is that really needed at all now? Seems a bit redundant these days.

Naillerz78 · Post by **Naillerz78** » Sat Jun 21, 2025 11:48 pm

zerocrossing · Post by **zerocrossing** » Thu Jul 03, 2025 7:41 pm

Sound is mediocre, UI is poor, price is high. If anything, I'd call if overrated.

Naillerz78 · Post by **Naillerz78** » Fri Jul 04, 2025 10:32 pm

It’s incredible if your dream is to sound like George Lynch from Dokken in the 1980s.

YnJ · Post by **YnJ** » Sat Jul 26, 2025 8:50 am

I tried hard to sound like George Lynch on the Dokken records from the 80s when I was a teenager

Roger8176 · Post by **Roger8176** » Tue Aug 12, 2025 8:27 pm

Naillerz78 wrote: Fri Jul 04, 2025 10:32 pm It’s incredible if your dream is to sound like George Lynch from Dokken in the 1980s.

I guess it's incredible then. Eighties Lynch kicks ass! The Under Lock And Key album has some of the best guitar tones ever put to tape. The Back For The Attack tone was great too!

YnJ · Post by **YnJ** » Wed Aug 13, 2025 9:07 am

I'm not going to disagree with you when it comes to George Lynch's guitar tone on the Dokken records, I'm not so sure when it comes to the TH-U though. It definitely has some potential, it seems they have gone for quantity over quality though, and when you have played around with it for a while you notice all the amps have the same basic sound, even the captures for the rigplayer. The best feature is probably the Super Cabinet, I have actually opened TH-U with only the Super Cabinet loaded and used it with other amp sims

Overloud TH-U v2 Premium is incredible