Virtual Amps/Effects
From left: EM's Mike Levine, and IK Multimedia's Dvide Barbi and Starr Ackerman
IK Multimedia AmpliTube Fender (Mac/Win, $199)
There was also plenty of competition in this category, but the collaboration between IK Multimedia and Fender produced the most compelling amp-modeling product released in 2009. AmpliTube Fender runs either stand-alone or as an AU, VST or RTAS plug-in. It offers 12 modeled Fender amps, both vintage and modern (three of which are bass amps), and matching cabinets for all of them. You can mix and match the amps and cabinets and dial in an array of modeled stompboxes, rack effects and microphones to the signal path. Our reviewer, Michael Cooper, put it this way: "I really felt like I was blowin' out of a real Fender tube amp with vintage spring reverb." High praise, indeed.
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