Ignite Amps TS-999 SubScreamer VST Plug-In

With the quality stuff coming out these days, I'm finding more time to tweek and less time to make music and just play. On the other hand, it's real nice to have these quality tools available.

Enter the newest edition to the Ignite Amps family, The TS-999 SubScreamer. I've not tried it as of the time of this post, but looking at the quality of the NRR1 amp, I'm sure it's pretty rockin. I've also heard some real good things about it such as "Organic", "Realistic sounding", and "Awesome". Here's what the creator has to say about it:


Inspired by the most famous green overdrive pedal (version 808), based on the real pedal built by Ignite Amps for the italian thrashers Subhuman

Features:
- Dynamic 2N3904 BJT input and output buffers analog modeling
- Dynamic 1N4148 diode clipping circuit analog modeling
- Symmetric / Asymmetric clipping mode
- Normal / Fat mode
- Input level control for better response to different pickups
- Internal oversampling (selectable between 2x, 4x and 8x)
- Switchable input and output buffer modeling for better CPU performance
- Mono / Stereo support
- Double precision floating point internal processing

Fully coded in C++ using the Steinberg SDK 2.4

GET IT HERE: http://www.guitarampmodeling.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=13011

Recabinet 3 Announced

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"Kazrog has redefined cabinet simulation once again with the first effects plugin dedicated solely to speaker cabinet simulation. Recabinet 3 makes it fast and easy to find inspiring new sounds, avoiding the hassle of complex mixer routing and folder navigation associated with impulse response libraries. Recabinet 3 also ships with ready-to-rock factory presets designed by legendary artists and producers.

Recabinet 3 will be released on January 18, 2011 and will be available directly from http://recabinet.com. Recabinet 3 is not sold in stores.

New users can purchase Recabinet 3 for $129.99
Users who purchased Recabinet on October 23rd, 2009 or later can upgrade to Recabinet 3 for $59.99
Users who purchased Recabinet between November 1st, 2008 and October 22nd, 2009 are eligible for a FREE upgrade to Recabinet 3 by logging in to the members’ area between January 18 and January 26, 2011 and claiming their free upgrade. Past the grace period, they are entitled to discounted upgrade pricing."

You'll just have to take a look at Recab's website to see all the features, cabs and such. So what do I think about it? eeeeehhhh...well:

I understand I only paid $15 for Recab complete 2.1, I get that some stuff has been updated and improved, I understand that it's designed to be easy to use, and while I do think Recab sounds real good right out of the box....This plug just doesn't have the features or possibilities offered by iFace and Redwirez. I know redwirez IR's have their own problems and I've got to EQ the crap out of mine most of time to get them to sound as I like them. But When I can buy a much more functional iFace for $20 and select which cabs I want to purchase for $8 or $5 a pop plus I get MANY more IR's....

...Recab 3 looks and feels like a toy...not to say that it will sound like it, but come on. I really had high hopes for this before I even knew iFace was in the works. For me to spend $60 bucks on this thing, it better sound WORLDS better and short of a collection of cabs in my living room, I just don't believe it will at this point. Especially since ABG has plans of a similar to iFace plug that will work with Recab 2.

Sorry Recab, I just think it's too little too late and priced too high to even compete.

Acmebargig iFace Arrives

iFace Trial

Support the good people at ABG and purchase iFace here


After quite some time of waiting, the wait is over. Sweet! If you are a Redwirez user, no more fumbling around thousands of files and folders to find the perfect IR (Impulse Response) for your tone. With iFace you can select Cab, mic and go. Actually move the mic on the user interface and the IR changes to that position, off axis, or ambient. It basically makes using IR's much more like a real studio setup and work flow. I know I'm going to put this to use within the next few weeks.

The trial version will work fully for 30 days. But at the low low price of around $20, I'm going to support my friends and buy it if it works as well for me as I think it should. You should consider that too.




***UPDATE***
I took a while last night and reorganized my Redwirez folders to the correct paths and got a few minutes to play with iFace. I'll be purchasing it sometime in the next few weeks. This thing works fantastic. No more clicking through 1000 folders to simply change an IR. Before iFace auditioning different IR's was hard and by the time you clicked through all the folders to a new IR, you forgot what the old one sounded like. Now, just move the mic. Wonderful. As much as I love LeCab, this thing is just too easy to work with to not use it. The only downside is that it takes a little more CPU per instance. Running 8 or 10 amps on one project could be a sizable cpu hit. But as easy as it is to move mics around now, I think I'm going to simply start bouncing tracks down to save the CPU anyway. Thanks Ken and everybody at ABG for this extremely useful plugin.

LeCab2 Is Here!

Lepou has released his updated Impulse Response loader "Lecab 2". I haven't had the chance to play with it yet, but I can't wait. In the past few months I've shifted from using Revalver MKIII as a shell program to simply putting everything single, plug by plug in my effects chain. I've used the first Lecab extensively and it works great. This new version adds 4 more impulse slots for a total of 6, dropdown menu's for easy auditioning, and basically improved control over everything. It's sure to make routing, blending and using your IR library much easier.

LeCab2 is the evolution of LeCab1. It's a cabinet (guitar or bass) impulse loader. LeCab2 offers :
- 6 impulse slots
- Latency control (down to 64 samples)
- Dropdown menu built with the .wav files contained in the directory where the last impulse is loaded
- Next and Prev buttons to navigate through the impulse directory
- Solo button for each slots
- Channel selection for each slots
- Possibility to link the loaded impulse of 2 slots (other controls stay independant)
- High Pass and Low Pass filters for each slots
- Phase, Delay, Pan and Volume controls for each slots


You can see what the man himself has to say about it here:
Lepouplugins.blogspot.com

Look at me Mom, I'm a Ringback Tone!

Ok, a very cool update.

If you are a Cellular South Customer, you can get my songs as ringback tones. There's a $0.99 monthly fee for the service, but the actual ringback is free and not subject to any charges except the monthly fee.

I know most people think Ringback tones are just annoying, which is why I've done it :P But you gotta admit, it's kind of cool too! I mean come on, it's not really that hard to get your stuff up on iTunes and while I do have some industry connections for stuff like this (It's a big part of my job to manage our digital catalog), It's not nearly as easy to become a Ringback tone.

Just search for "A Sonorous Pose" on the Cellular South Ringback web page. I'm under the "Emerge Artist's" category. I guess I should take this time to also mention the Android Emerge App. You can also find some of my music on that. Cellular south created it. It's designed to help promote local unsigned artists. While a good idea in theory, yeah, most of you can probably imagine - and I'll just leave it at that.

So if you're a Cellular South customer, go check it out.