#Scuffham s gear 2 full#
#Scuffham s gear 2 software#
#Scuffham s gear 2 trial#

Everything to these amps sounds most like a real tube amplifier than anything else I have used, save a couple of settings on the Axe-FX that took me tweaking forever to dial in. Further, the presets respond extremely well to use of the volume control on the guitar itself - roll it back, distortion diminishes faster than guitar volume does.

#Scuffham s gear 2 full#

I might caution those still using the free version of Podium and able to employ only one core with it - the S-Gear, like most good amp sims, is a hungry plugin, some amp model presets with both delay units and flange or chorus unit employed - such as factory Electric Lady 1 or 2 - can be extremely demanding.Д«ut hereвЂ™s the Rub: Unlike most other sims and modelers (my Digitechs often guilty of this), all three S-Gear amps capture the entire full envelope of each note, from first scratch of the pick on into full bloom of the note. IвЂ™ve so far tested the S-Gear 2 pretty well in Podium and found it to work without issue.

#Scuffham s gear 2 software#

(Interestingly, his whole company and resulting products began from his desire to produce the best current software model of an ECC83 tube. Further, I think Mike has the absolute best software modeling of preamp and power tubes that yet exist.

More important, they have a normally-hidden Sag control and Presence controls. HereвЂ™s the thing: S-Gear 2 has several boosts and cuts, and a frequency shift on each of three amps.

You see, IвЂ™ve tried about all of them, both software sim only and hardware - even used to own the Fractal Axe-FX 2 (which, at about $2600US now and a constant back-order wait, is the ONLY product IвЂ™ve found that can do anything like what the three amps Scuffham has so far can achieve). I wasnвЂ™t seven notes into the first factory preset I chose to test, a sort-of copy of a Dumble Amp overdrive setting, when I was suddenly eyes wide, staring at the very large S-Gear UI and saying, Whoa! What the hell!

#Scuffham s gear 2 trial#

I wasnвЂ™t expecting much, but this one comes with a free 15-day trial with no pressure or strings attached, so there is nothing to lose. I came across Scuffham Amps first through either MusicRadar or ComputerMusic magazine in a list of the best free or commercial guitar amp sims available today. Unlike some other DAW forums, where you are likely to be thrown to the trolls while moderators look the other way, or have any opinion you might post shredded by the inner clique, regardless of its merit, this forum has so far been different. The history here of all members is that we have regularly posted our best вЂfindsвЂ™ on the Net, usually freeware but often a few of the very best of inexpensive plugins and items. My other reason is obviously that there is a handful of very talented guitarists here at this forum and who are regular users of Podium. (I have no doubts whatsoever that IK and the other big ones arenвЂ™t ripping his plugins open right now and will attempt to clone.) Mike comes to this after a successful position at Marshall Amps, where he is probably best-known as the designer of the very popular Marshall MP-1 (hardware) pre-amp. And although I can assure you his plugin amps are far better than anything youвЂ™ll find out there, he up against the much larger companies, such as IK MultimediaвЂ™s Amplitube and several others. HeвЂ™s technically running a start-up company right now, having been open for business only a little over a year. However, IвЂ™ve got to know owner/designer Mike Scuffham of the UK recently, as weвЂ™ve been having an ongoing discussion about the future of guitar amplification and a few bits about his software itself. I usually clam up and shut right up about a find like this one, and then thatвЂ™s pretty much the end of it. I almost didnвЂ™t launch this thread, and IвЂ™ll tell you why: The Scuffham Amps guitar amp sims and products that come along with the three amp heads in the S-Gear 2 package for a very modest $75US are so incredibly good that I qualified them immediately under my вЂSecret WeaponsвЂ™ and вЂTricks of the TradeвЂ™ categories.

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