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Any free VST amp programs out there? for guitar?

I just want to play some metal and i dont want to pay for pedals and stuff. I want to use my computer as the pedal and the speakers as the amp

You mean your computer’s speakers, right? Or do you mean you want to use your guitar going into your computer going into a power amp of some kind going into a stack?

There are two basic ways of getting your guitar processed, as far as vst goes at least. One is to do it piece by piece, the other is to have one vst that does it all.

A program like FA3 will do it all… noise gate, distortion, eq, effects, speaker simulator, etc. It sounds pretty decent. SimulAnalog has a few different amp simulators that have dual channels, reverb, and speaker simulation. They actually sound quite good, as referenced to what they’re modelling. An absolute bare bones amp simulator is Saro… it was input, gain, output, and a simple speaker simulator. For as primitive as it is, it doesn’t use much resources (good for complex projects) and I use it regularly.

Your alternative is to do it piecemeal. This is a little more difficult and a little more hit and miss, but you have the most flexibility. Basically the idea is to combine saturation, EQ, compression, harmonic exciters, clipping/distortion, transient shapers, speaker simulator, etc to achieve your end result.

Some guitar distortion plugins I’ve found are Voxengo Tube Amp, the Extremist, FuzzPlus2, and the High Gain and Vintage Overdrive by BTE Audio. I’ve found that these all benefit from additional EQ and other plugins.

Check out the Christortion plugin … it allows you to edit the harmonics present in a tone – really cool stuff. Want to add more 2nd harmonic for sweetness, or a higher odd harmonic for edge? Bingo.

You can add chunk into your sound by including a transient shaper – these modify the attack and sustain of your sound.

It should almost go without saying that EQ is a good thing – you want EQ, you should be using EQ, especially if you want to run multiple distortion plugins after each other. The most important thing is to limit the amount of high and low end between gain stages… mostly below 300 hz and above 3 khz, but it depends on the signal and your desired result, of course.

You aren’t restricted to using “guitar” plugins, of course… essentially any plugin could be used to get some crazy result. A lot of the lo-fi plugins are pretty cool, they can give more of an industrial feel. Check out Sumo… basically it just adds warmth and bottom end to your signal. It’s good as a first-in-line for a trebly/thin guitar, or an end-of-the-line to fatten up a thin sound.

The link below is a great source of vst plugins… go through the search, it’s pretty sweet.

Also check out SIR and Rayspace. The first uses impulse responses to add reverb or make it sound like you’re playing through a crappy speaker, or inside a box, or from in a cathedral, or as if you were playing it through a really good microphone, etc etc. Impulse responses are cool… check them out, it’s amazing technology. Rayspace is one of the coolest reverb plugins I’ve *ever* seen… the richness in detail, and the level of adaptability, is unparalleled. Even the impulse responses I’ve made from Rayspace are amazing (although nowhere near the same rich quality! =( ).

Hopefully that’s enough to get you started.

Saul

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