+1 to Scuffham Amps S-Gear. My favorite for crunch and clean sounds and Amplfikation Creme for metal. I have Guitar Rig 4 and bought the Rammstein add on and it's pretty good for metal but not as good as Creme..

Glyn Barnes

chuckebaby


im also in favor of guitar rig,its interface seems a little clear to me VS amplitude.
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Another "go figure".  I find GR's interface clear as mud! The signal paths and modules in Amplitube make far more sense to me. Both are great bit of software but I really need to sit down and figure GR5 out if I am to progress beyond the presets.

ya,im willing to meet you half way on that man.  :)
i think as much could be said for me sitting down and learning a little bit more about amplitude.
i do agree with you about the signal paths.
heres what i think happens Glyn,we become compfortable with a plug in and digest it more and learn more about that plug in.
where as amplitude lists a lot of there amps in catagorys,in GR there cats like, "classic rock,jazz,metal and those sub catagory's
but because there always open and in front of you there easier to peel through looking for that right sound for the song.
 
but amplitude has some features that i like even more than guitar rig,and you know it is just personal taste here with me.
for TH2,i havent really sat down and learned about it much so i shy away from it.i rarely ever use it.
 
i think all 3 of these have really good tones,and ive also heard softubes metal amp room and vintage room are quite nice.
my guitarist bought the package(vintage,metal and bass).they have some great sounds.
but for bass,mark bass all the way here.what a kicken plug.

Glyn Barnes

chuckebaby


im also in favor of guitar rig,its interface seems a little clear to me VS amplitude.
.

Another "go figure".  I find GR's interface clear as mud! The signal paths and modules in Amplitube make far more sense to me. Both are great bit of software but I really need to sit down and figure GR5 out if I am to progress beyond the presets.

I always thought GR's Rack model made a reasonable amount of sense.  It only gets ugly if you want to start splitting the signal.  The interface that really annoys me is TH2.  Partly because of the clunky patch management, and partly because of the signal flow.  

don't forget the free options in Poulin's plug-ins http://lepouplugins.blogspot.co.uk/ excellent for metal stuff...

Well, I love Ampeg SVX, but wasn't thrilled with the Metal demos. I did, however, like the Slash models. GR5 is really good, but I find that the presets are sometimes not good starting points, unless I want to use the signal splitters. Otherwise, I feel like I get better results mixing components to find what I'm looking for, though it sometimes takes awhile.

Amplitude seems a bit easier to get a good sound from quicker, but I have had great results with GR5 as well.

Regards,
Dan

mgh, I can't seem to get the Poulin to work, they just sound very distorted and I am not talking guitar distortion, I am talking like bad cable distorted or something. I have tried several times. Any tricks to it?

are you using a cab sim with it?
 i sometimes use the cabs from Guitar Rig or Amplitude, or LeCab with impulse responses http://bedroomproducersbl...net-impulse-responses/ is a good resource for those.
i find it best not to crank up the distortion too much or else it can get a bit mushy.

Amp sims are only good for enhancing a real guitar amp. The amp seems to lack transient response and amp sims have to much. Together they work well.

IMO, all amp sims are the same. They all sound bad by themselves. I use Pod Farm 2 becuase that's what I bought into from the get go. I've used GR, Amplitube and TH2 and to me, their all the same.