UAD Diezel Herbert

Excellent plugin of an excellent amp.

Not only, but mostly a good choice for modern high-gain to Metal sounds, as the Clean and Crunch channel sound very modern, dry and maybe also a litte "sterile" and neutral, if compared with vintage tube amps, which is something, you may like or not, but both channels neverthess sound good. The lead channel is top-notch, a very aggressive, biting, but well adjustable (mostly) hard-core-Metal sound, also due to the activatable, individually adjustable mid-scoop.

I personally nevertheless prefer the VH-4, as it is more like a hot-rod Marshall voiced, while the Herbert sounds more modern, even more brutal and has it's own character, also due to the KT77 poweramp.

Best and most authentically plugin version of this amp for me! The fx section even offers more features than the real amp, such as power soak, delay, adjustable hp and lp filters and a lot of excellent, professionally captured, matching cabinet/speaker/mircrophone IR's, which even make the use of external IR's unnecessary, although even this is possible.

Very professional, if not perfect work.