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  • Mercuriall Audio announces SS-11X - tube preamp sim!
2018/09/07 21:11:08
Barmaleus
Hi everyone!
Awesome news - we've just announced a new product! SS-11X tube preamp emulation. Official emulation of AMT SS-11 tube preamps!
 

Mercuriall Audio, the pioneer of powering amp-sims with neural networks, is proud to present the newest product SS-11X, based on a tube preamp AMT SS-11 (versions A and B). Wonderful Fender®-style clean sound and powerful, roaring crunch and lead channels won’t leave you indifferent! The project is officially approved and supported by AMT Electronics, who supplied us with electric circuits, hardware prototypes and production 3D models. This gave us a possibility to model the SS-11X in extreme detail, making it virtually impossible to distinguish the sound difference between hardware or software. A live comparison video is on its way.
 
One of the aims of this project was to create a very simple and affordable software with friendly and attractive user interface, as well as lower system requirements.
Even though the main objective was modeling the preamp, we included some other important features. The SS-11X has a noise gate, a collection of overdrive pedals, cabinet IR loader, reverb IR loader and an option to choose the preamp tubes. This lets anyone create a solid guitar sound quickly and effortlessly within one simple window.
 
SS-11X opens a new chapter in the history of Mercuriall Audio - it is the first product where we use our brand new, cutting edge technology named Neural Hybrid Engine. It is a much more precise, flexible and faster method for modeling electric circuits. As the pioneers of integrating neural networks in amp sims, it took us 5 years of research and development to create the Neural Hybrid Engine and successfully build SS-11X using it. We also applied our tube curve tracer machine to make sure each tube model is unique, just as in real life.
 
SS-11X release window:
  • Autumn 2018

    Prices:
  • Full price - $39.99
  • Price for existing Mercuriall customers - $29.99



    Product Details
     
    Supported platforms and formats:
  • Mac: VST2 Universal, VST3 x64, AU x64, AAX x64 (Pro Tools 11 and newer)
  • PC: VST2 x86, VST2 x64, VST3 x64, AAX x64 (Pro Tools 11 and newer)


    Minimal system requirements:
  • Intel or AMD with SSE2 support, 2 cores and 4 threads, 2.4 GHz

    Preamp section:
  • Full, official modeling of AMT SS-11A and SS-11B tube preamps
  • Tubes: 12AX7, 6N2P-EV
     
    Pedals and FX section:
  • Noise Gate
  • Overdrive based on Ibanez® TS-808
  • Overdrive based on Ibanez® TS-808 Lower Drive Mod
  • Overdrive based on Ibanez® TS-7 Hot
  • Overdrive based on Ibanez® TS-7 Mod
  • Overdrive based MESA/BOOGIE® Grid Slammer
  • Overdrive based on Boss® Super Overdrive


    IR section:
  • Built-in cabinet IRs
  • IR loader for guitar cabinets
  • Built in reverb IRs
  • IR loader for reverb

    Additional settings:
  • Quality (oversampling): no, x2, x4, x8
  • Sample rate: 44.1, 48, 88.2, 96
  • Stereo/Mono processing


  • 2018/09/08 17:28:14
    RSMCGUITAR
    IR cabinet AND IR reverb loaders. Great idea!
    2018/09/08 19:33:55
    jbraner
    I'm looking forward to this. I like the Mercuriall amps, and this is one set of sounds ("Fender-ish") that they haven't got covered - yet ;)
    2018/09/09 08:49:19
    Barmaleus
    RSMCGUITAR
    IR cabinet AND IR reverb loaders. Great idea!



    It's quite cool, yeah!
    AND instead of the Reverb IR you can absolutely load a Cab IR as well and mix them =)
    2018/09/15 19:29:26
    Barmaleus
    Guys and gals, prepare you ears: SS-11X and SS-11B live comparison video!
    In this technical video we wanted to show what our Neural Hybrid Engine can do.
     
    On the left you can see the real SS-11B preamp and SS-11X.
    On the right you can see the level meter, spectrograph and oscilloscope. Green color is hardware and red is software. Green and red are always displayed, even though just one sample is played at a time. You can see how close the live signals are to each other (hardware/software).
     
    Can you spot any difference in sound on your system? Let us know what you hear!
     
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z_DEphWnrw
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