With the history of amplifiers spanning nearly a hundred years, nowadays there are more ways to send an electrical signal from a guitar pickup rattling through a loudspeaker than you can shake a six-stringed stick at. Tube, solid state, modeling, hybrid; heads, cabinets, parallel or series – it’s enough to make your head melt.
For the average home producer, trying out every possible model and mode of amplification would be enough to make your wallet melt too, added to the cost of finding the right microphone, preamp and room acoustics to record your sound faithfully. For these reasons and more, amp simulation has become a hugely popular part of music production.
An amp simulator is a plugin that mimics the sound of a real-life hardware amplifier. With only a laptop,…
