Metal Guitar w/ Free Pedal VST's - Demo & Tutorial (feat. NaLex Amps & Devil's Lab IRs)

Today in Plague Scythe Studios, these pedal tones on show can be had for no cost with this collection of high quality freebies!

[worldaswar]

in my humble opinion these plugins sound freaking sick. thanks for the video man<3

[litos_mendes]

i discovered your channel by sounding like devin townsend with free vst ... seems a lifetime ago ... this is a nice throwback

[xsonicassassinx]

the pectifier plugin sounds better than the majority of the paid recto plugins. absolutely amazing.

[RubyRoks]

Having used a number of these plugins myself, i can say i'm still thoroughly impressed by what you can get for free compared to a number of the paid VSTs i own. What i'm very much unimpressed by are those IRs. Most of them sound like the kind of thing you'd get preinstalled in a Mooer multiFX unit from 2016. Despite already 18, 600 IRs, i don't feel the need to add these to my collection.

[SerpentsBane]

The Nalex site was down just a few days ago, and had been for some time. Just checked and it's mysteriously back up now that this video is out! \m/

[needsLITHIUM]

Also, precision drive works surprisingly well as a boost or od for bass. Turn up the gain and either put it in front of the sansamp, or run it in parallel with the gain cranked.

[slayabouts]

Hey, I didn’t hear anything when you first started demoing the BOD bass drive plugin. Did you turn the bass down or something?

[angelomiggliori]

Man, Pectifier... What a plugin! Really impressed when sounds good. I need to test it myself.

[needsLITHIUM]

If I recall, for the Precision Drive, the Q for the tone knob is more aggressive than on a standard tube screamer, blues driver, or SD-1, and the pedal has more gain on tap than a traditional tube screamer, to point putting it in front of an edge of breakup amp makes full on distortion if the attack is all the way down and the volume and gain are both above noon. That makes it better than any other overdrive and also make it able to pull double duty into the territory of a basic 3 knob, medium gain distortion pedal, and THEN you add the gate.

[lukebogartmix]

never thought I'd hear you play Periphery!

[jeschitv]

Man thanks to your video it helps a lot😊😊😊

[mojojojo]

Perfect timing, I was just looking into doing some recording again. Hesitant to spend any money since all the previous gear n software i bought won’t even work on a modern pc. At least with an amp it’ll still work a decade later.

[tobins]

What i kept hearing in my head during all this, was that these wouldn't be the star of the show. However, they are absolutely the perfect thing for adding to a mix for that extra umph. For instance, that capture that feels a little empty if you will. Nice clean, articulate, and perfect, but still lacking that nastiness. When adding that nastiness to the original track, goes way off course. Add another track and use one of these, and at a lower level, just to add that spice...

[milankotevski]

You should check out Neural Amp Modeler. All the amp sims pale in comparison.

[squeezenor]

How funny this show up now- I downloaded the free nembrini pedals last weekend. And yeah, just like their amps, they're perfectly fine but not better than what I'm already using (softube's amp room, usually). Didn't connect with the klon at all; wasn't bringing anything new to the table for me. The TS and rat were cool (as metal boosts), but the softube ones were just a bit more aggressive and alive.

I also tried their Quinta and that thing is a mess, but still kinda fun. The pitch shifter in amplitube beat it easily, though it only gives you one extra note, while the Quinta can do three. But it has plenty of artifacts and latency of you're into that.

[lukefountain]

Nalex used to work on my Mac OS 10.4 Mojave. I upgraded to 10.5 Catalina and it didn't work. So I downgraded back to Mojave and for some reason it doesn't work ☹️

[JimboLodisC]

my current free amp sim I'm using for fun is the NAM capture plugin

[BrettVaughn]

The Klon is awesome! I use it on leads sometimes

[smufmigeifmig]

i wonder when your neural amp modeler video is gonna come out. for me it made all my other amp sims obsolete

[cmd_f]

Pretty awesome stuff. I like the Nalex Amplex quite a lot. It's a quick tone box that gets there with minimal tweaking.
Definitely have a look at TrueSim at some point, it's been improved and there's quite a few circuits for it.

The Nembrini stuff I can take it or leave it. Honestly Mercuriall and Ignite have better stuff. I've not yet found a convincing Rat pedal in plug format. The NDSP Gojira's Dirt pedal gets most of the way there though.
For Klon stuff I like the ChowDsp ChowCentaur. Has a standard analog modeled mode and a neural net trained mode. Use the neural mode for lower noise. Pretty awesome.


Cheers Ryan