Guitar Gear Forum

Doesn't have to be guitar specific. I just downloaded a bunch of free ones to play with. But just wondering what everyone likes free or not.

Been using Native Instruments' Guitar Rig 5. It's OK but, kind of dated.
It came with a bundle of NI plugins, that I purchased in 2013.
I still prefer mic'ing but, VST's are cool and very useful.

I have S-Gear that comes with my Slate bundle. It's better than Guitar Rig.

I don't have any clips to back it up, but Mercurial.

ajaxlepinski wrote:Been using Native Instruments' Guitar Rig 5. It's OK but, kind of dated.
It came with a bundle of NI plugins, that I purchased in 2013.
I still prefer mic'ing but, VST's are cool and very useful.

Yeah, I have just been using DI pedals or my Zoom MS 60B for bass and recording either directly into the 1/8" stereo jack on my laptop or now into my behringer audio interface.

For guitar, I have been using a Zoom MS 50G and Digitech RP1000 the same way.

But, as I have been building up my recording setup, I discovered the concept of recording a dry signal along with the effected signal and reamping the dry signal, so I am wanting to experiment with using the VST's to reamp. I also want a better selection of effects that I can add afterwards or use for finishing touches on a track or the final mixdown.

waves NLS
waves API 550b
nomad factory british eq
nomad factory magnetic ii
waves 1176, la2, la3, and api 2500
soundtoys decapitor, radiator, echo boy
waves l3
waves meq5
waves h-eq
waves j37
bricasti impulses!
also love amplitube

Dick Butter Nuts wrote:I don't have any clips to back it up, but Mercurial.

I need to make a proper song with their ReAxis plugin. It's amazing how quick I was able to dive into it and just knowing how to dial in a Mark series amp in general made it super easy to work with. I bought that during the same time I was doing the Helix trial and comparing their Mark IV to ReAxis, it's good but ReAxis is better (That being said I love Helix Native for other amps). Spark is the shit too. Downloaded the demo to fuck around with.

Recently got some really good Marshally tones with Bias Amp 2.

Two Notes Wall of Sound is also excellent.

Waves api 2500
Waves Gchannel ( while it becomes a bit cumbersome to load this on every channel and mix that way, I do load it on all guitars, bass and vox. Once you get the hang of the power and tricks of this plug, it makes mixing so much faster and easier for me.

Soundtoys Decapitator is awesome.

Those 3, plus a final limiter would be all I need to mix and “master” an entire song. And pretty much are 60-70% of all the processing I use

Amp Sims:
• Neural DSP
- Fortin Nameless
- Fortin NTS
• Line 6
- Helix Native
• Audio Assault
- HellBeast (Randall Satan)
- Dominator (Killer for thrashy tones)
- Emperor (modern Metal)
• Brainworx (UAD only)
- Engl E646VS
- Friedman Suite

Everything else
• Slate Digital Bundle
- Most everythignin here is killer
• UAD
- Studer Tape Machine
- SSL Console
- 1076 Bundle

It Might Get Loud Productions
- DieSwitch drums ($10 and sounds killer)

ReAxis, Helix Native and U530 are the only 3 I've really dug into but MAN they are awesome.

Love the izotope stuff. Regularly use:

Ozone
Stutter Edit

...and the Toontrack Stuff, specifically:

EZMix2
Superior Drummer 3
EZKeys

Other than that, 99% of my mixing plugins are UAD platform. Get a UAD2. Go nuts....almost everything on that platform is really good.

EndTime wrote:Soundtoys Decapitator is awesome.

Also this...