Pretty impressed with TH2 over here. Purchased it with the X2 upgrade presale. Great sounds unnoticable latency as standalone or plugin (I'm using M-Audio Fasttrack C400 interface at the moment ) and compared to GR5 a lot more user friendly. As you can see in my specs, I switch between interfaces.... just for the benefit of no latency when recording guitars.  I will not abandon GR or POD, there both got theire strong areas, but TH2 could become my go-to amp-sim.
One funny little bug I found: In plugin mode I was looking for a bass amp model in the TH2 searchfield, typing in "Bass''. Typing in B opened  the X1 browser, typing in a opened the Audiosnap Pallet and that's how far it let me type "Bass". ...Funny isn't it ? It looks like the searchfunction is not working in pluginmode.

regards,
Daniel

For plugins in general there is a button in the upper right of the plugin window that looks like a tiny keyboard. Engaging that button is supposed to "give all keystrokes to plugin". This might fix the symptom you're seeing now, which is what is actually supposed to happen when this button is not engaged: Sonar is receiving and executing its hotkeys.

I have to agree...having used GTR, Amplitube (on ipad etc) and Guitar Rig, I am in fact more impressed with this product than any modeler I have ever encountered...demo'd and it was enough to sell me on the full package...

I think the GUI is pedestrian.. homogeneous...ridiculous...but I'm not much of a distraction freak...its the sounds I'm after... with smart tools I will not be needing much else...(except a newer battery for my laptop)...

Finally impressed...but maybe thats because I don't really like the messy metal sounds which are all the same to me...this is much more flexible and on a clean guitar it actually sounds rather right.

mikey


I Dl'ed and tried the demo and its gonna cost me now.


I know there are many here who don't play electric guitar, so nothing to see here.
But for those that do play guitar, this is IMO (<<<) the best sounding software amp/fx for guitar (I have heard so far) out there today. 
Organic like syrupy tones are produced that rival my Tonelab desktop,  and distortions that equal my Nova System boxes.


Put a smile on my ugly mug- You could say the demo impressed me. 

Thanks for the hint, ptheisen, but it didn't fix it. Still does the same with "give all keystrokes to plugin - enabeled". I doublechecked and tried a few other plugin's searchboxes and they all behave normal even with  "give all keystrokes to plugin - disabled". I'm running all plugins on my secondary monitorscreen, btw. I never had this happening before.
Maybe someone who's using TH2 can confirm this issue? (or mayby the bug is not in the plugin, but sits in the chair in front of my computer...)

I have podfarm now and am looking at adding revalver to get better amp tones. Does anyone have revalver as well to compare?

@Psychobillybob... Yeah, from the vids I've seen I think this is gonna fill the clean to blues tones that GR5 doesn't seem to handle well. I mean I've gotten some "okay" stuff in that department out of GR but it's nothing I'd really want to put on an actual album. I really hope it will fill that gap. As far as the GUI... yes it is quite silly isn't it? lol

oh and thanks for reminding me about the little keyboard icon, ptheisen. I had learned that at some point but had forgotten.

I downloaded the demo. I have GR4, S-Gear, Amplitube Free and AcmeBarGi and I think TH2 is pretty good, comparatively speaking. However, it has the same high frequency shrillness to it as the others. Well... AcmeBarGig doesn't have that, but the rest do.

Having said that, I will consider getting the full TH2. I need to play with it some more once X2 comes out first.

Thanks for the heads up on trying the demo!

I bought the $99 version with X2 pre sale.
 
It sounds great. Does anyone know if the volume/wah pedals are externally controllable real time?
 
The only thing I don't like so far is the HUGE GUI. It's rather long and drawn out so you have to scroll thru it to access the FXs. The upper screen helps zoom in but it's rather small. I'd prefer a somewhere-in-the-middle compromise.
 
I'm also trying out the SpringAge verb demo.
 
Steve 
  

I went ahead a bought the full version and I am impressed with it. I only have Amplitube 3 with some of the custom shop stuff and the Guitar rig that came with Sonar so I don't have much experience with the stuff out there.

I tried the full TH2 with the Orange Tree Evolution Strawberry samples and it became a completely different instrument. It can be cool and mellow or it can be a Beast.

Like I said I don't have much experience with the amp sims but I really like the TH2. Next test is with some of the Spectrasonics Trilian bass guitar samples... Boom ba da Boom!