HoRNet Guitar Kit is a guitar amplifier and cabinet simulator, it also includes a microphone simulator to help you get the same sound you would get when recording a guitar amp.
What characterize Guitar Kit is that every one of the three modules is made of physical models. Many guitar amplifier simulators uses some sort of convolved impulse response in the signal path, while this allows to correctly emulate specific units, like specific guitar amp or cabinet, it greatly reduces the freedom you have in building your personal rig since every model is a static “picture” of the emulated unit.
Guitar Kit on the other hand using physical models can build many type of sounds letting you choose the tubes for each section of the amplifier, the cabinet speaker, cabinet type, microphone type and placement
Each of the thee modules of Guitar Kit can be turned on and off separately so you can create different sounds from the typical guitar sound and also use the cabinet or microphone emulation on different sources.
Guitar Kit works in real time without any latency and can be used in a live situation thanks to its low cpu usage even with “high quality” mode enabled (high quality oversampled the processing 8x)

Presets

Guitar Kit comes with twelve presets made to show how the plugin flexibility can achieve some of the most popular distinctive amp sounds, the presets can be used from your host preset browser (for VST and AU hosts only)

 

Features

• Each module can be turned on or off individually.
• Amplifier simulation made by three tube stage (high gain, preamp, power amp).
• Tubes can be chosen between 6 different models for preamp and 6 models for power amp.
• Tone stack section can be chosen between three models or turned off.
• Amp module can work in standard (4x oversampling) or high quality mode (8x oversampling).
• Cabinet can be chosen between open or closed.
• Speaker model can be chosen between4 different models.
• Cabinet resonance is modeled on the specific speaker chosen.
• Microphone model can be chosen between 4 different models.
• Microphone distance from speaker can be freely adjusted.
• Microphone position on the speaker axis can be freely adjusted.
• Frequency response based on microphone position ant type is faithfully modeled.
• Mac OS X (>=10.5 intel only) and Windows support.
• 64-bit compatibility both on Mac and Windows.
• Audio Units, VST, VST3, RTAS and AAX format.

http://www.hornetplugins.com/plugins/hornet-guitarkit/

All the tech behind it sounds good. Looking forward to hearing about how it sounds. 

And less than $35. Somebody please demo this and report back. (I would do it, but can't risk it. My health insurance premium is due.)
 

Good thing for me my insurance premium come right out of my paycheck.
 
Now about the rent and utilities......

anti_phase wrote:just tried it... well, if you play something like Jimi Hendrix, you`re gonna love it) Extremely fuzzy, reminds me some free vst`s from 2008 or so.
No offense


No offense taken I will prepare some audio demo and video too very soon and I bet you'll change your mind

Saverio
 

Haven't tried it yet myself, but I will probably give it a whirl at some stage, I don't have high hopes, but then again you can get some pretty awesome freebies and low cost units, so you never know. Be interesting to hear the demo's he comes up with. I'll probably buy it if for no other reason than to support a top notch dude who makes some pretty neat stuff that I use, plus it will be light weight and something I can just throw on a lappy when traveling.

The price (especially) and the promise of low CPU usage makes it mandatory for me to test it.

Its an easy amp sim to use. I'm not sure a real gt player will be all that impressed. For the money its a good deal. I would not trade in my NI Guitar Rig 5 for it. It dose have a future I hope. At present I can't see recommending it unless you want something that is very easy to use. I tried the demo. This is a quick first impression.  

I haven't tried it yet, but I admire what hornet tries to do. The guy isn't afraid of nothing. This will be a tough thing to pull off with all of the high quality options out there now.

Waiting for the next 70% off sale ;)

Does sound interesting, I may check this one out, too.