World's BEST Free Amp Simulator?

Finally checking out Fluff's amp sim after taking far too long!
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The Glenn Fricker IR Pack

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[booth]

Dude, much respect for just going straight with the testing, it's nice to hear a few errors, shows that you're legit just enjoying what you're doing and not re recording a million times to get the "perfect test".

[omegaflameZ]

Also if it wasn't clear, this amp sim plays damned nice with sorts of IRs, Pulse from Lancaster makes it crazy easy.

[Aaron-zhkj]

I'm looking at moving to Japan within a year from now, and I was crying that I was going to have to leave behind my EVH 5150 50 Watt. This give me some hope. Now if I can get a guitar across the ocean, I might just be okay.

[Standbackforscience]

Pretty good amp - I tried the free version only. It's main strength imo is that it works really well on the low end - it keeps both its clarity and "chunk", even at very fast palm mute picking, which is where most amp sims turn to mud. The high end sounds kinda thin, but the general gain of this amp tends to the dry side, so that was expected. Pairing it with another sim like a TSE X50 helps to fill that in.

[MeTuLHeD]

At 4:43...wow! 😳 That is ONE of the best guitar tones I have ever heard on any of your productions...if not THE best. Killer tone.

[matydavus]

Nothing fills my soul with joy more than the sound of a pinch harmonics

[MiguelGarcia-spfb]

Great seeing you've improved your guitar chops Glenn, greetings from Mexico

Glen, thanks for the amazing tips. I was wondering if you'd eventually give us some tips on later stages of mixing and also a bit of mastering. Your videos are an amazing resource to achieve great sounding instrument tracks, but getting everything together in harmony, punch and clarity would make an amazing tutorial.

[jimmytwotime]

Damn... I've been looking for a decent amp sim for weeks! This video came out at a perfect time!

[TBrianOnline]

Thanks for the tip, brother! Works like a charm. :)
If anyone has issues with setting the whole thing up in the program, make sure that your microphone settings in Windows are set to 48kHz, otherwise you'll keep getting an error message from the program.

[timcarstensen]

I have recorded a ton of demos with it and absolutely love it. I have 5 or 6 of the neural plugins and honestly prefer this one more often than not. It handles third party IR amazing and I will even run my Savage Drive from Airis into my interface to tighten it more. Big fan of this plugin and the price, thank you ML!

[ABlankAndrew]

Gave it a shot and At first glance it seems to sound better than my regular full priced metal amp sim. Incredible move by Fluff to release it for free, much respect

[ArielEduardoAlba]

Ze hair flip 4:09
Maybe he's born with, maybe it's SMG.

[palethorn]

Tried this amp sim today, all I can say, they nailed it.

[donk.marijn]

for anyone who’s interested putting the cab knob off and putting on some rev gets an amazing burzum filosofen tone

[ZacharyMoonshine]

I downloaded this today and tried it out and this thing rules! Thank you!

[brandontadday]

I bought the full licence for this beast about a month ago. I can still remember how shocked I was at how hefty and brutal the 5034 sounded straight upon install without any extenal IR's or surgical EQ. I've pretty much disregarded all of my other software amp sims at this point (at least for demoing purposes).

[damientoth]

this is truly amazing with the pulse ir thanks glen this helped me much

[jonnykanesantos]

I've been using this paired with my lelead preamp pedal so that I have 2 pretty different tracks on each side left and right, which is resulting in a really cool quad tracked sound and it was a free way to upgrade my tone. So grateful for this thing!!!!

[miguelowls]

Dam Is no one going talk about how much better Glenn is getting with his guitar playing! :) love you man you Rock!!