doc-phil wrote:
and FAR FAR superior to Guitar Rig in my opinion
Them's fightin' words. ?
Acmebargig didn't last a day on my computer. Some good sims, particularly on the higher gain side, but the dynamics were not as nice and lower gain sounds were lacklustre. Controller-wise it was like moving from a Ferrari to a Model-T. Simple to use and get a good tone if you don't want to delve too deeply though.
I look at Guitar Rig and the other modellers (Amplitude, AcmeBarGig, et. al.) as created for different applications. Guitar Rig is a studio tool that lets you do anything you want and get an excellent recorded tone. The other modellers let you create a more authentic "live guitar" sound, but one that needs a lot of extra processing to get to finished recording tones - pretty much like a real amp track does.
Native Instruments have also started making their studio plugins (Transient Master, Solid Mix, Vintage Compressors) compatible with GR, plugging right in as an additional effects module. Which means not only can you control them from GR, but you can save completely finished tones including multiple mic setups, console settings and recall them instantly, not having to rely on setting up other track plugins for every project.
