I would have already been sold on Vintage Amp Room if it wasn't for one problem that I couldn't get around during the testing: I found Vintage Amp Room's amps to have a little usable 'headroom' (if one can speak about headroom in a software amp). I just couldn't come close to the sound of VAR AC30 when using Amplitube no matter how much I tweaked it. I played with various mic positions in both Vintage Amp Room and Amplitube and found Vintage Amp Room to be superior in this aspect even with its limitations of not having the ability to use multiple mics or to change them. In other works, a single convincing emulation of AC30 would do it, all other features being inessential (for me, anyway). I did like some of the Line 6 effects but as I'm most interested in raw guitar amp sound, it doesn't do me any good if out of 100 included amp emulations, I can't find one that is convincing and usable. This was something that, for instance, I find to be seriously lacking in Line 6 emulations. It was that physical aspect of amp response as well as a sense of being right there next to an amp.

As I noticed, its footprint was very small and it was very light on CPU, which I suspect contributed to latency figures lower than Amplitube or Line 6 that in turn translated into instant, more amp -like response.

I didn't try Guitar Rig yet, but from my experiences with previous demo versions of this software, it's always fallen short.īeing most interested in Vox AC30 and Fender amp sims, I quickly realized that the only of these emulations that had the immediacy of response and dynamics similar to a guitar amp was Vintage Amp Room. After using Waves GTR3 for past couple years, I downloaded demos of three amp simulators (Amplitube 3, Softube vintage Amp Room, and Line 6 Pod Farm Platinum) and tested them out last night.

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