in this video i'm going to have a quick look at ik multimedia's amplitube 5 guitar amp simulator
plugin i'm going to look at the interface some of the presets the gear that's included and of
course how does it sound and i'll even do a bit of a comparison between amplitube 4 and amplitube 5
and then i'll get into the different versions that are available including the free version
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i've included a link down in the description to ik multimedia's amplitube 5 so you can
head over there and check it out for yourself there is the free version
and of course i'm going to get into the different versions in a bit but right now i just want to
give this thing a little bit of a listen check out some of the presets so let's do that right now
so what's new in ik multimedia's amplitube 5 well of course there are 129 brand new gear models
including two new stomp boxes five amps two new rooms 19 new rack effects
and over 100 completely recaptured cabinets so i want to just do a quick comparison of amplitube 4
versus amplitube 5. comparing the same amp just to see if there's a big difference between the
two versions and i'll just use the settings available in the free custom shop version
alright so i have them set up pretty much the same here's amplitube 5.
all right and now let's go over to amplitube 4.
all right so yeah i have them set up pretty much the same the same settings in the same amp model
obviously the amplitube 5 is a newer version of that amp model but the cabinet's set up the same
we have the sm57 as mic 1 and the 421 as mike ii and i'm pretty sure that's the same in amplitube 5
57 and 421 and there's nothing else on in here it's just the amp
and the cabinet it's the same for both so here's amplitube4 again
and we'll go back to amplitube 5. so there is a big difference there so now we have this all new
drag and drop signal chain so if we want to add a stomp box in there we just find one that we
own i just drag it and drop it in there and now we see we have our pro drive here
so let's listen to that and of course i can drop in more and they'll all show up in here
could also drop in another amp if i wanted so now i've split the signal and we've got our di
feeding into this amp and this amp and that amp's going to this cabinet this amp's going
to this cabinet and they're both going to the mixer here and then to the output
and this signal chain supports up to 57 simultaneous models in series and parallel routing
with a blended di signal for creative freedom and i really like this new layout compared to
the older one i think it's going to be easier to understand for new users to the plugin and
it makes it easier to route your signal chain plus the new interface looks a lot sleeker too
the new cabinet section has vir technology which is powerful new thing they call volumetric
impulse response and this will transform all the 100 plus cabinets in amplitube 5
with 143 000 impulse response measurements and all and there's also a custom ir loader so if you
have your own irs and you want to bring them in you don't want to use the ones that are included
that's fine you can do that in here as well so let's just have a listen to some of the different
cabinets that are included so this one here is the 412 closed vintage
so just like in real life each of these cabinets has its own unique sound to it
so another new addition is this mixer where you can add some effects into it as well so let's look
at this saturator here and we'll just drag and drop it into the master now we have the saturator
this is what that looks like so let's have a listen to what it sounds like with this one
so you can have some fun with all these effects that are built into this mixer and again it's
just drag and drop into the mixer very easy to do you have your faders here and you can insert
these onto a bus instead and then you can adjust how much of that effect you want to add into the
signal if you have it on the master like i did here it puts it right onto the signal and you
can't really control it another new thing with amplitube 5 is the totally redesigned custom
shop and this is supposed to make it easier for you to test out new pieces of gear and of course
purchase it so now i'm just going to quickly head over to the amplitube 5 website and we'll
check out the different versions of amplitube 5 including custom shop so you can see we have four
main versions here and over here are some packages that are bundled with hardware so we're just going
to focus on the software versions here starting with amplitube 5 custom shop which is free with
this one you get 39 gear models which includes 5 amps and 6 cabinets with 16 impulses per speaker
plus you get 10 stomp boxes and more and then there's the amplitube 5 se and this starts at
around 100 basically and it gives you 79 gear models including 12 amps 13 cabinets and up to
600 impulses per speaker plus you also get 19 stomp boxes and there's more in there
the next version is your standard amplitube 5 version and this starts at 150 it gives
you 177 gear models including 34 amps 27 cabinets with up to 600 impulses per speaker
plus 47 stomp boxes and more and then you have the ultimate bundle right here this is amplitube
max this one starts at 299 dollars and with amplitube 5 max you get over 400 gear models
including 11 brand and artist collections so things like the slash collection or jimi hendrix
collection and brian may joe satriani those types of things plus you get a lot more in there
and you get 107 amps in total plus 101 cabinets with up to 600 impulses per speaker
and 107 stomp boxes plus much more in there so if you're a guitar player and you want lots
of variety amplitube 5 max is for you so right now i'm going to go through some of the presets
i have the amplitube 5 standard edition but i'll just go through some of the presets in the free
custom shop version so you can hear what everybody has access to so let's give this a listen
now
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