in this video I'm going to look at and test three free guitar amp simulator
software plugins for home studio musicians I'm going to be using Windows
10 but I'm pretty sure all three of these plugins are available for Mac as
well so if you're wondering what guitar software to download keep watching
welcome to simple green tech I'm Radio Zane and if you're new here I do audio
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you're not new here thank you so much for returning to the channel today we're
going to be looking at three free guitar amp simulator software plugins on
Windows 10 but I'm pretty sure all of them are available on Mac as well so if
you have a Mac you can download all three of these too so I have my guitar
plug direct into my focusrite audio interface and there's nothing in between
so what you're going to be hearing is the guitar plug direct into the
interface and going through the guitar amp simulator first up we'll look at my
personal go to guitar amp simulator software it's IK multimedia's
AmpliTube custom shop with AmpliTube Custom Shop you get four amplifiers a
couple of fender style amps a marshall tube style amp and a bass amp you can
match the amps with the included five cabinet sims and choose between three
different microphones two mic up your amp plus you'll have access to nine
stompboxes and a couple of rack effect units this is quite a bit of gear to get
you going and you can always add more gear as you go honestly what they give
you for free is more than enough to get a decent guitar tone that will fit in
with many styles of music now let's give AmpliTube a test
now let's move on to our second free guitar amp simulator plugin this one is
Native Instruments Guitar Rig player in Guitar Rig 5 player you get just one amp
sim with the matched cabinet plus 13 effects the amp is based on a Marshall
JMP amp and it sounds pretty decent you do get 50 presets but a lot of them
aren't very good however it's extremely easy to put
together your own rig and dial in the tone that you want if you're a fan of
the marshall sound and you want to take a minimalist approach to recording your
guitar then you can really rock with the Guitar Rig 5 player one of the drawbacks
with this one is that you have to download the Native Instruments
access software and install that then you can install the Guitar Rig player
through that software I'm personally not a fan of all of these extra programs
being installed on my computer but having said all that let's dive into
Guitar Rig player
up next we have our third free guitar amp simulator plugin and this one is
Voxengo Boogex this is a very lightweight plug-in that's super easy to
install and get started with this one certainly doesn't look as cool as the
previous two but it does look decent personally I like the clean single
screen interface and you can get some decent sounds out of Boogex plus it's
very straightforward and easy to use with Boogex you get ten amplifier models
and 61 cabinet impulses plus you can add your own impulses at any time you also
get an EQ and a reverb included plus some presets that are decent starting
points so let's jump in
now I'm not going to say which one's best for you because my sound and my
style is going to be different from yours so download all three and give all
three a try and let me know in the comments below which one you think's
better for your sound also if you use a different guitar amp simulator let me
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