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We found it excellent, with the short plate, churches, cathedrals and big halls all sounding lush and highly useable, particularly on clean and country tones.Īdded to this is the Vintage Verb effect, as well as a new classic compressor model, Fast Comp, both also very high quality. This offers eight impulse responses, all with decay and lowcut control.
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Native Instruments Guitar Rig 5 Pro Acting on impulseĬonvolution reverb is now on Guitar Rig’s effects menu, courtesy of the Little Reflektor. Incidentally, Control Room Pro uses RedWirez impulse responses, which are some of the best we’ve tried, and having them accessible via such a friendly, flexible interface only enhances their usability. By blending tones from differing cabs and mics, we could sculpt the overall timbre of the rhythm guitar tone, so that it would ‘sit’ in the mix most effectively, manipulating the timbre so that our guitars were not masking any of the other instruments frequency-wise. We would first dial in the desired amount of gain and general frequency content using the amp sims.įrom that point on, Control Room Pro became invaluable.
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We found Control Room Pro really useful when using Guitar Rig 5 during the mix stage of a full production. You can balance these eight (often vastly differing) sounds as you see fit via the module’s mixer pane, with pan, level, solo and mute controls. The mic selection was fixed, but expanding upon the concept is Control Room Pro, where you can choose cab, mic and mic position per channel, fade in a room mic and flip the phase, which can be a powerful tone-altering trick.
Guitar Rig Pro 4 introduced Control Room, an eight-channel array of virtual cabs/mics that you could mix to create custom tones. In terms of its amp tones in general, Guitar Rig 5 Pro sounds very good, but it does fall slightly short when it comes to absolute authenticity, responsiveness and real-deal feel you’d get from a great valve amp/cab, which some other products pull off better. GR5 has one up on most amp sims due to its Control Room Pro cab/mic system, which can be most useful in teasing just the right response from those palm-muted chugs. This is an emulation of the Ibanez Tube Screamer, which is often used in the real world to tighten the bottom end up in the same way. However, this was quickly cured by inserting Guitar Rig’s Skreamer overdrive unit before the amp. By running the same drop-tuned, DI’ed guitar parts through both pieces of software, there was no doubt that the Peavey version could achieve tighter note definition and greater clarity out of the box – GR5 was slightly muddy in comparison. Speaking of which, we took the opportunity to compare the 5150 emulations of Guitar Rig 5 Pro and Peavey’s ReValver. Native Instruments Guitar Rig 5 Pro Shoot-out! This is quite unlike both the real hardware and Peavey’s official 5150 emulation in their ReValver software. Surprisingly, there’s little difference in tone when switching between the rhythm and lead channel of the Van 51 once both pre-gain knobs are set to give similar drive. The Hot Solo + provides an authentic mid-boosted AC/DC-style rhythm crunch, while soaring, shredding solo tones are effortlessly had with the Van 51. We found that these two new amps can be used together to great effect. Joining the pre-existing 15 amps are the Van 51, which is clearly a Peavey 5150 emulation, and Hot Solo +, which appears to be a Soldano imitation, judging by the logo – the knob style and labels hint at Soldano’s Hot Rod 50 model. Initially, it might seem excessive that over a third of the GUI is given over to the (hideable) browser panel, but in our opinion, the most effective way of getting familiar with Guitar Rig is via the presets.Ī lot of time has been put into these, and famous tones such as those of Satriani, Van Halen, Rammstein, ZZ Top, Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, and AC/DC are all on hand. It runs standalone or as a VST/AU/RTAS plug-in.
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The software comes as part of Komplete 8, too. We’re reviewing the software-only version here, but don’t forget that there’s the Kontrol edition too, bundled with the Rig Kontrol foot controller. With this latest version, there are two new amp models, Control Room Pro for advanced mix-and-match cab/mic combos, six new effects, and a few crafty functional extras. Guitar Rig is easily one of the most feature-packed guitar/bass amp sims on the market, yet it remains one of the most user-friendly. Real guitar gear is known for its so-easy-a-guitarist-could-use-it simplicity, and yet virtual amp simulators continue to grow in complexity and capability.
Native Instruments Guitar Rig 5 Pro Can this jazzed-up amp sim’s tonal output match its flexibility?
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