I compared it then to one of mbritt s plexi patches on amplifire and i liked the sgear better. Rather, s gear draws inspiration from the best prepower amp tube models available and channels this into original amp models. It combines five classic tube amps, a fantastic sounding effects rack, and a. The more i play with the s gear, the more i like it. Scuffham amps, software guitar amplification, vst, audiounit and aax plugins. S gear brings the boutiquebuilt ethic to the world of software amplifier design, including three original guitar amps, analogue modelled delay effects, chorus and flanging effects and state of the art speaker cabinet emulation. If you choose to copy the dll, remember to update any copies when you install a new version of s gear. You must register with the website in order to post on the forum. For example, i had a komplete audio 6 installed, but the menu said guitar rig io. Sgear is a collection of guitar amps, speaker cabinets and effects implemented in software for use with your computer, windows pc or mac. The stealer amp with red wires marshall 1960g12 ir s is the best sounding marshall.
Sgear brings the boutiquebuilt ethic to the world of software amplifier design, including three. Add the sgear vst folder to the list of folders scanned by your daw. Sometimes this can be difficult because deleting this manually takes some knowledge related to pcs. S gear is the brainchild of mike scuffham, a former product designer at marshall amplification with no shortage of fresh ideas about how to replicate the sound and the feel of valve guitar amps in software.
Add the s gear vst folder to the list of folders scanned by your daw. Scuffham s gear vs ni guitar rig vs ik multimedia amplitube. Interview with mike scuffham of scuffham amps guitar. Select the ilok2 usb key on which you wish to activate s gear. I must say one thing ive liked about s gear is how it has bucked the trend of most other amp sims, and focused on making a few things sound great, rather than try to cover most amp sims and effects. You can move activations between your account and your ilok2 usb keys with simple drag and drop operations. Review of scuffham sgear amp simulation plugin youtube. This section of the tutorials will provide information on the files and impulse response uploading procedures for scuffham amps s gear software. The text above is not a recommendation to remove s gear by scuffham amps from your computer, nor are we saying that s gear by scuffham amps is not a good software application. Scuffham amps has released what i think is the best virtual guitar amp on the market.
I havent tried any other tones amps, but for what i did, sgear was by far the best sounding. I actually had to hack the registry to get the standalone to work. Mike scuffham discusses modeling, modeled versus physical circuits, and tips for. Scuffham amps updates sgear guitar amp software to v2. It feels like an amp, it acts like an amp when responding to guitar volume. With only 3 amps and a few effects, you might think that this auvst plugin would be a tough sell in a market with so many models and effects but when you have the right 3 amps and some great bundled irs from redwirez it s not an issue. To upgrade to a newer version of s gear simply download and run the correct installer.
S gear is available for mac os and windows, and operates either as a standalone application or a plugin in the vst and audio. Marshall and developed the respected jmp1 preamp, scuffham amps currently has just one product, sgear ampmodelling software that. Similar to the general design ethos of say, magix vandal and kansas s amplifikation one, scuffham amps is not claiming accurate emulations of familiar gear. The brainchild of mike scuffham, who previously worked for marshall and developed the respected jmp1 preamp, scuffham amps currently has just one product, s gear amp modelling software that can run as a standalone program or as a vst or au plugin in your daw. Check the left and right channel enable buttons located beneath the input trim knob on the s gear user interface. The best easy approach to erase sgear is to use advanced uninstaller pro. I played with crunchy plexi sounds from sgear, bias amp and amplitube. If you have a windows vst dll placed in a custom directory, dont forget to update that also. The 57 custom is based in a fender type of amp, giving you great old school sounds as well as modern ones. Use the ilok license manager software to manage your s gear ilok activations. S gear is available in two licensing schemes, machinelocked and ilok usb key software licenses. Since w last looked at it they have added the a wayfarer amp, a custom 57 amp.
If this happens to you, you will need to find the registry where the name of the interface is. Sgear by scuffham amps distortion overdrive amp vst plugin. Sgear is an application marketed by the software company scuffham amps. It has a simple interface compared to many others that you can tweak forever in but dont sound any better.
I have played through most of the top modeling software available right now and s gear is hands down my favorite. The stealer amp with red wires marshall 1960g12 ir s is the best sounding marshall crunch i have had out of modeling software to date. Click here for details of s gear files and folders. A common criticism of software amp simulators is that however closely they capture the tonal character of a real amp, they fail to reproduce its feel, the dynamic. The scuffham amps forum is a community service for sharing advice, opinions, tips, presets and soundclips. S gear delivers natural and responsive guitar amp tones in an easy to use standalone application and auvst plug. I actually use the revalver s ir module, regardless of the software that i use to get an amp sim. Have been using s gear for years, so ill chime in here after a few days. If your guitar is plugged into the left channel of a stereo pair, ensure that the left channel enable button is enabled. The actual developer of the software is scuffham amps.
Scuffham s gear vs bias desktop page 3 the gear page. The guitarmuse 10 great products post i wrote at the end of 2011 included this quote about scuffham amp s s gear plugin. That s one of the best sounding guitar amp plugins on the market. Both schemes allow two simultaneous license activations and both schemes offer a free 15 day trial period if you are not sure which scheme will suit you best, the following advice may help. Working with s gear development on this use condition is the. At the time of this tutorial, s gear has a 20,000 sample limit ceiling for ir file loading into the external ir segment. This download was checked by our antivirus and was rated as virus free. Scuffham amps s gear appeared on the scene in 2012, and quickly established itself as offering a lot of amp simulator for a modest price. Two contrasting new virtual amplifiers and a reverb add to the appeal of scuffham amps virtual amp simulator. The sound and feel of the scuffam s gear software is pretty impressive.
Scuffham s gear vs bias desktop page 2 the gear page. The next task is to translate this design into software, and to do that i use various. The software comes as a standalone application and as plugins for use with the most popular daw digital audio workstation recording software. The program lies within multimedia tools, more precisely music production. It sounds amazing and is a fraction of the cost of other software amplitube.
Scuffham sgear vs ni guitar rig vs ik multimedia amplitube. S gear is a collection of guitar amps, speaker cabinets and effects implemented in software for use with your computer, windows pc or mac. Before upgrading from s gear v1, please read the following support article. Paul drew takes the new ilok licensed version of the scuffham s gear guitar amp simulation pugin. Sgear and amplifire sounded good out of the box, with minimal tweaking. This is the official scuffham amps page pro software for guitarists.
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