Six Airwindows speaker cab emulations in one! These are tighter and rawer than simple convolution models, and react to how hard you drive them. Six AU Universal Binary plugins. Cabs is $49.99.

You get six different cabinet models built into Cabs, plus a very necessary 'heavy' control that can fill in lows (with a frequency control to go with it) and a control that's not found elsewhere- Fizz Disrupt. This locks on to extreme high frequency stuff and breaks it up (it's like a variation on the freebie Slew2). At full crank it'll mute a lot of fizz. Off, it lets the raw sound through. And set partway, the fizz breaks up and alters in an unusual way, producing a very interesting glossy quality that can be dialed in to taste, basically a totally new type of brightness control with a wide range of uses.

This plugin is specifically designed to work well with Vox Amplugs, because I think Amplugs are an amazing product and a great way to track guitars onto a laptop or over headphones. The cabinet options are:

Small Combo, which is like a little Champ or Princeton. This makes sense with the AC30 or Classic Rock Amplug, particularly if you don't push the gain on the latter.

Large Combo, which is meant to be more like a high-powered clean amp such as a Twin. For cleans it's probably the AC30 Amplug you'll want. Probably will also do well with a classic Rockman clean, retaining a lot of chime but cutting the hiss. This one will put out very solid lows for a combo.

Vintage Stack, which is like an old low-power Marshall cab with Greenbacks. These are LIGHT speakers, very papery and airy for 12", and this is not a rumbly thundery cab, though it will reach low if forced. Clearly the Classic Rock is the best match here- might also make sense with the Satriani Amplug, which I don't have yet.

Boutique Stack, which is darker and beefier and would probably be the ideal match with the Satriani Amplug. It's got less color than the other two stacks, and much heavier bass, though without as much character. It's rather like an oversized stack of extra-heavy construction with extra high power speakers- you lose a lot of color and character, but you get great solidity. Boutique Stack also makes a good alternate bass cab if you're okay with more hugeness than articulation and character- it will sit well with heavy guitars in that scenario.

High Power Stack, which is instantly recognizable as your classic Mesa V30s! This one lives with that Metal Amplug- it crackles with that characteristic energy. Just as colorful as Vintage Stack, but a whole other texture that is classic, definitive metal. If you run the channel with this through TransDesk on the channel into BussColors Rock on the 2-buss, you get a ridiculously convincing big-studio metal sound, with the only real hardware being the Metal Amplug. Craziness from the digital universe.

Bass Cab finishes off the new cabinet line with a cab specifically designed to take a bass DI- or indeed the Bass Amplug, which is a cool DI all on its own- and transform the direct tone into the dimensionality and shape of an amp tone without losing ANY articulation. It's a slightly weird algorithm- all these plugins morph between different cab convolutions on the fly, but with Bass Cab the effect this has is to expand playing dynamics tonally, projecting the attitude of the string-handling outward for more involved listening. It should be inspiring to play through, and sit super well in mixes, no matter what bass or input chain you use. It totally improves the Bass Amplug's overdrive by a huge amount, making that effect more usable.

All of these cabinet models have zero latency, and low CPU utilization for the tone they get, thanks to efficient coding (they're using antialiasing that doesn't recalculate the convolution directly for subsamples, making a huge saving in CPU). They're ideal for on-the-road or bedroom tracking, on studio machines or laptops, and you can track through the same plugin you'll use on final mixdown. In some cases these will outperform real miked cabinets, because the virtual cabinets can do things realworld cabs cannot, like morph between two different drivers for enhancing microdynamics!

Try the demo of this to see if it'll work for you! You're not allowed to use the demo for actual work. It politely mutes itself briefly every couple minutes, and that's the only thing it does to spite you. It won't expire or do anything to you, and when you get the actual plugin, throw away the demo and put the real version in its place and most software should replace saved instances of the demo with the real thing seamlessly, retaining any settings. Please support my cooperative, unhostile demos with sales of the real software.