Amplitube vs Guitar Rig

I'm not a guitar player, but all my friends are, and I do have a guitar here. I bought Guitar Rig a while back, and my friends chiped in to buy Amplitube recently, so they can lay stuff downb over here. After using both, I'd say that Amplitube sounds more realistic out of the box. Yet, Guitar Rig is far more customizable, and has the way out there stuff, plus the regular stuff. So, if you have the extra time to set up your own rigs in GR, go for it. If you want to just pick a style and start playing, I'd go Amplitube. But, again, I'm not a guitar player, just a drummer. I'm just letting you know my opinion because I have both.

Hello,

I tried both Demo's, and I think Guitar Rig is too complicated, so I bought Amplitube 2 the price was right too, and I thought it sounded better too. Only problem I have is it crashes Sonar PE6 all the time, I've reinstalled everything and still have problems. I guess my next attempt is to go to WDM drivers instead of ASIO. Don't mean to hijack the thread, but if anyone has any suggestions to get it to work, I'd love to hear them. Thanks.

Rockitglider

I have Amplitube2. I really like its sound. I play a Telecaster and I get a nice warm earthy wood sound and clean country twang. I've never used Guitar Rig.

But I have frequent crashes in Sonar PE. The error that pops up names Amplitube as the culprit. The crashes are intermittent and very hard to pin down but I think it occurs more when I have looping turned on. I've got a support ticket open with IK Multimedia but they haven't a clue and claim they can't reproduce the error.

For now, I'm living with it by hitting the save button often.

REVALVER!!!!!

Sorry about the spelling in that last post...

Mike

PODXT!!!!!!!!!!! hands down

Guitar Rig vs Amplitube is sort of an apples and oranges comparison as they sort of do different things.

If you are looking for Plug-ins then Amplitube 2, Guitar Rig 2 and Revalver MKII are all pretty amazing in their own ways.

If you need a hardware box to take gigging then Line 6 is about the only ticket but their Plug-in is not even remotely competitive with the others right now. I would think they are due for some new technology here. Others are going much deeper by modeling various parts of the amplifier and with better algorithms and it shows in the tone you can get.

If your interest is primarily the pure amp tone then Amplitube 2 has the best classic tone to me. It really does a great job of capturing that tube sound.

Revalver MKII is pretty complex but its high gain tone stood out to me running through the presets, it was very heavy and very articulate.

Guitar Rig 2 is simply insane, I am not real hot on the amp models but you can construct some very different stuff and we would all like to be different right They also have a promo going right now that is tempting me - must resist G.A.S.

Bottom line is that you can make some great music with any of these it's what motivates you that matters. All have a demo other than Line 6.


AXE

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As a metal player, amplitube and GR sound like total baws.

I did this with Revalver and Guitar Suite (2 tracks of each)...

http://www.upload.celtiaproductions.co.uk/uploads/enemywithin.mp3

ORIGINAL: barlowjam

Hey, thanks Jim. You comments helped. I had the same impression of Amplitubes' handling of my 335's tone. A good Roland JC simulation would be perfect for a lot of what I do. I need to get something that will give me a direct option (or buy a house in the woods).

Well, it's only money. Nothin' else to loose.

(Now if I could only learn to play a min7b5 chord)

Hi, barlowjam,

First, I would ditto the comments of bluespoet. Guitar tone is entirely subjective (like all other "tone") and, a tone that sounds fantastic when soloed doesn't necessarily sit well in a dense mix.

It seems unfortunate that you would have to spend the money for an entire guitar amp emulator to get just the clean sound you are looking for. This may be blasphemy, but have you experimented very much with going directly from your guitar into your sound card? I've found that when I want a good clean sound, quite often plugging my Strat Plus directly into my Aardvark Q10 provides a very useable tone. Obviously, the straight-in tone can be further tweaked with a variety of plug-ins to get it closer to what you want to hear.

As far as getting more distorted tones, I've gotten some amazing blues tones out of the Revalver LE that comes with Sonar. I'm not talking heavy distortion (I've not tried to get this sound out of Revalver), but the mild overdrive one often associates with classic blues guitar tones. I'm a blues player, myself, (well, I *try* to be a blues player) and I own some very cool blues amplifiers, including a 1952 Fender Deluxe and a Mesa Blue Angel. Both sound fantastic when recorded, of course. But I still have to eq the recorded tone to fit into a mix. And the Revalver can make some tones that come remarkably close to the "real things". In fact, as hard as it is to believe, I've gotten tones out of the Revalver that I liked better than any of the amps I own, on certain songs.

I realize that this doesn't help you decide between Amplitube and Guitar Rig, neither of which I've used, I'm just offering my perspective on the subject. I'm also jealous that you have a 335 and I don't. I've wanted one since I started playing in 1970. I *will* get one some day......

Bill

+1 Amplitube

I use it on lots of stuff, not just guitars. Slayer and Amplitube together were my default "fake guitar" for a while.

I have both, and pretty much agree that they are good for different things (to be really specific here).

However, I'm having trouble with Amplitube crashing Live 6 (and Live 5). I recently purchased Revaver MkII which can be used as a VST host, in addition to its role as a VST Plugin. So I started Live, intiated and instance of Revalver, and inside of THAT I initiated Amplitube 2.1. The result was no crashes for 48 hrs (which is when I turned off my computer for awhile - everything running at max resolution, minimum latency, all normal startup services running, etc....

I also have a ticket into IK Multimedia; I'm sure it is an AT2 issue, and not my computer system or Live (since it runs everything else).....
IK has been pretty good about communicating with me; so there will probably be a bug fix sooner or later. In any case, if you have Revalver MkII you can try this solution to use Amplitube 2.1.......:-)

ORIGINAL: RandySeed

I have Amplitube2. I really like its sound. I play a Telecaster and I get a nice warm earthy wood sound and clean country twang. I've never used Guitar Rig.

But I have frequent crashes in Sonar PE. The error that pops up names Amplitube as the culprit. The crashes are intermittent and very hard to pin down but I think it occurs more when I have looping turned on. I've got a support ticket open with IK Multimedia but they haven't a clue and claim they can't reproduce the error.

For now, I'm living with it by hitting the save button often.

wow GP8 users I had one for years and loved it (I went to a gt5 then a gt8) the reason it sounded so good is that apart from the delay and chorus it was analouge)----It was noisy though.


(I sold mine for big bucks to a guy who wanted to sound like me, even though I told him its not the gear its the fingers he offered me double the price if I didn't wipe my personal presets)

The Fender Twang Combo came free with another NI product and I found it different from the Twang in GR2. Partly due to the different reverb, but they just seem to give different sounds when dialing around.

I prefer the GR2. You could find exactly the opposite. Point being that you might find them different (in case you're looking at both for the difference in price).

ORIGINAL: Love Buzz

I have both Amplitube (1.0) and Guitar Rig 2 and Guitar Rig is far more superior. Although Amplitube has some good hard rock presets, the functionality of Guitar Rig is amazing and really not that complicated. I use the Digitech/GNX4 as well sometimes, and that is more complicated to create custom patches than Guitar Rig.

In addition, the support and tools that come with Guitar Rig are far better than Amplitube. I had some issues with Amplitube and although I sent several e-mails to Support, they were ignored. IK does have a new product called Riff Works that looks interesting, but I will never purchase from them again due to the poor customer service and on-line support.

Good luck.

Amplitube 2 is a completely different beast to amplitube 1

IK Multimedia were pretty good with me when i had an issue with one of their products.

Riff Works is by Sonoma wire works ...IK are distributing it bundled with amplitube 2 live

Amplitube 2 originally require Ilok, but they have done away with that now as users (inc me) complained and would not purchase.