Free Guitar Amp Sim Plugins You Should Try in 2021

In this video I'm gonna be giving you my top 5 FREE guitar amp sim plugins you should try in 2021!

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[bwall]

Great video. I’m very old school when it comes to recording guitars. I have several great amps, both tube and solid state. The other day I was producing a song here in Nashville for a gospel artist. I could not find a tone I liked for the solo. So, I plugged straight in and went into ampire. Took me about 2/minutes to find a tone that worked. First time I had ever even opened it up. So, now I’m headed down into the rabbit hole.

[matthewroach]

Guitar Rig 6 can be used in PRO mode for free with everything unlocked for 30 minutes at a time. Go to File (top left, the three dots to the right of where it says Guitar Rig 6) then click Preferences, then click Library. Where it says "Demo Pro Library" click Activate Demo Mode. You now have the full program unlocked with all of the effects. Sorry if someone else already shared this. Being able to unlock the full PRO mode and try out all of the amplifiers was awesome! The TWANG REVERB amp is what sold me on this plugin. With just a couple tweaks, it sounds just like my vintage Fender blackface with holy grail RCA 6L6 tubes. Without turning on the demo mode, I never would have known. Give it a try, lots of great tones available!

[pretentioushab]

Why was this Exactly What I Needed Thank you soo Much Mike!!

[troyhenjamin]

Thanks brother I really needed that I'm a 35-year-accomplished musician and I've never ever recorded through digital recording I've always had an engineer doing it for me and now I'm on my own so I appreciate everything you're doing man I really needed this one thank you very much

[denisbordage]

I work a lot with the blue Cat VST. But the idea of working with the cabinet vst you mentionned is worth a try. Hours of pleasure.

[MrFacproductions]

Wow thank you so much. Recording guitar couple years at home. The I impulse cab plug in is a gold mine. Its the closest to a kemper for free cheers

[threeforcegaming]

Nalex. His stuff is highly under-rated and pretty good sounding. In isolation, it's a toss up between Nalex and Roots, but within the mix, I usually prefer the stuff from Nalex.

[brettmarlar]

As a Studio One user, Ampire is incredible! I may need to give Amplitube a go. Of course, I usually double track my guitar parts with different signal paths. One using my live rig and the other going directly into my interface. That's where the plugins come into play.

[nikirose]

Blue Cat Free Amp does have an IR loader too. I've always quite liked Voxengo's amp plug in as well.

[nicolawhite]

Many thanks Mike. One thing worth highlighting on the Amped Roots amp is the inclusion of the free pedalboard that includes, Noise Gate, Drive, Delay and Reverb all within the plugin. ML Sound Lab the maker of Amped Roots also do another free Amp Sim called Amped Stevie T which is also excellent. Cheers Jeremy

[BrunodeSouzaLino]

Unless you turn it off, Blue Cat amp does have speaker simulation and can load impulses as well. See that blue wave at the bottom right? That's where you control it.

One of the big downsides of Amplitude which IK doesn't fix is the fact that the reverb on their amps is too excessive. Any setting past 4-5 is too much reverb already. Version 5 is also slower on more modest hardware as well.

You do get Ampire with Studio One Prime and Artist too, but not the full version.

[swivelnek]

Thank you for these videos they have been SO incredibly helpful, I would love to here a FREE LIVE BASS AMP SIM PLUGIN.

[eafrancos]

I've downloaded and installed Amplitube 5. I received the version 3 some years ago with BIAB, but I couldn't know by then what it was for. Thank you for you lessons, and especially for this one. I worked guitar sound for two of my songs with Cakewalk TH3, it was a huge difference to use eq and compressor only. Next step, I will remix other of my songs with Amplitube 5. Thanks a lot, Mike

[robhayes]

Nice selection and another great useful video. I settled on TH-U after using TH3 in cakewalk, I like how simple it is but with so many options.

[jcrosslin]

Just so you know, in the Blue Cat freeamp you can load impulse responses directly. Access this feature by clicking the squiggly blue line in the bottom right hand corner of the plugin! Cheers from Memphis!

[Azfun]

Very cool Mike. Thanks for sharing so much with us out here, you have really made my transition from straight MIDI with rack mount synths to the digital/virtual world so easy and much more fun.

[gratefuloctopus]

Your videos are always great, and this one was extra useful for me right now. Thank you so much for consistently making such awesome content, my dude! You rock! :)

[KennyRayK]

Excellent video as usual, Mike! Always informative and a pleasure to watch and understand. Still just a beginner but your videos have helped me all along the way! Best to you for 2021! Cheers

[fuzzfrancis]

Thank you so much for this! I am currently using Pod Farm, and I am tired of all the crashing despite doing everything from the forums. Downloading the Amplitude as we speak!

[ScottRandall]

Very cool, man! I use the THX in Cakewalk but this will expand my sound!