I thing Noise Gates and responsive transpose knobs are two features that are good across the board. After trying mixwave Mike stringer, having swapable signal chain is super nice too.
2 years ago
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Maybe add more practice friendly tools. Like Bogren have done with Ampknob and MLC.
2 years ago
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I’m not sure anyone quite offers the experience you get with Fractal yet - where you can adjust impedance curves, add gain stages, alter bright caps etc. And I’m not sure the “suite” plugins are close yet - Amplitube has a lot of models but some bad design choices (and no deep editing). Helix has a good design but less models and fairly basic editing. Softube is even less on both.
2 years ago | 0
If u ask me the amp sims this days are in there best.We just have too many good options-neural,stl,bogren ,you name it.Thats why there is not much hype any more.But there are still little things that can be done better.Input impedance is one of them.Its pure mess as it is thats why some loves one plugin and hate something else cose they just cant dail it.Preamp sections are on modeling level for sure in most plugins but there is something in power amp section -cab-mic-air that they still cant get right.After all the IRs in this form are just like pictures of the cab in one moment only.To this moment i didnt see plugin that sound better vs real amp. And its time the big company to stop with this "100% accurate" marketing for all plugins in general not only for amp sims cose they are just not.I am kinda disappointed every time when i watch videos plugin x vs real deal.I dont know may be my "very very close" is not the same like there. 😁And one more thing to mention that is somehow related some days ago i play top10 ' modern metal" songs in biggest music platform just to find that i actually i dont like how they sound -very unreal in a way nothing to do with the huge guitar sound in some linkin park or machine head albums for example
2 years ago | 0
Definitely feel like the market is saturated, bought many Neural plugins myself back in the day but always went back to Fortin Nameless for guitar and the Darkglass for bass… now I’ve just finished my new guitar setup - PRS MT15 through a two notes captor X!
2 years ago
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Well, I'm a miserly old scrooge and I spend money on nothing if there's something out there like it for free. Like... you can make your guitar sound like literally any song from any band with the Tonebridge effects plugin. And it's free, so..
2 years ago | 0
The Real Steven Ward
What do you think is now the standard for guitar plugins, feature-wise?
I feel like we've gotten to a place where the hype is slowly fading with new guitar plugins. There have been a ton of great plugins coming out, but it seems the excitement isn't there like it used to be just 2 or 3 years ago. Not that this is bad or that the market is "saturated," as I've seen a lot of people mention. I think that the quality or amp modeling and IR technology have just caught up with physical models, so there's naturally going to be a normalization of expected quality. Pick any 5150 modeled plugin and it's probably going to sound almost indistinguishable to the real thing aside from maybe lacking some of the "in-the-room" feeling that would be natural to a real speaker cab sitting next to you.
That being said, plugin companies can't market a plugin to you saying "it sounds so realistic" anymore because at the end of the day, they kind of all sound kind of great. We'll see more innovation and competition going forward, which will be interesting to watch.
So, as we move forward, what features, company offerings, or creative applications are important to you when considering purchasing a new plugin? What do you also think the next step is? Are we going to see a swing back towards physical models? I'd love to know your thoughts if you have any. ❤️
2 years ago | [YT] | 7