
Guitar amp simulation has become a battleground for a range of companies, so check the competition, but these are impressive emulations of the wallet-busting ENGL hardware.

I even found dialling in some of the crunch tones on auxiliary channels under vocals and synths extremely effective. Once you get busy, however, you'll discover tones which are perfect for rock and metal styles but can also play an impressive role in pop productions, where the definition, sizzle and drive can produce a great range of colours. The presets don't initially give you that impression, though, and we're surprised that UAD and Brainworx didn't produce a wider range of starting points in this regard it requires some dial tweaking to coax out the full range of the amps' capabilities. The amps' separate sonic options combine to impressive effect - if you can't find what you need from one, the other picks up the slack. The result is a pristine tone-shaping and filtering tool that can do everything from tracking to mastering. Dangerous Music Digital, Brainworx and UAD team up to meticulously model the analog hardware for this plugin. "The amps' separate sonic options combine to impressive effect" THE AWARD-WINNING EQ THAT BROUGHT CLASSIC TONE CONTROL INTO THE 21ST CENTURY, NOW AVAILABLE AS A PLUGIN.


Again, the bottom section is devoted to guitar tone, this time with four channels of settings to compare and contrast, with Clean, Crunch and two devoted Lead channels.Īgain, the mic'ing Impulse Responses are here, alongside the extended FX Rack control set, so in combination with the greater options in the lower section, this is perhaps the more flexible of the two plug-ins. The 646 VS plug-in benefits from a press of its own FX Rack button too as, despite launching more controls, the available parameters actually increase in size, making them easier to read.
