Amps was a strange experiment. It’s six different plugin amp simulators… not cab, mind you, just digital amps. I don’t really use digital amps now. I like real tubes, and the stuff you can do with a guitar seems very hard to properly represent in software, which I’m okay with. But at this time, I had […]
Tremolo is from way back. It works in a rather special way. Rather than simply modulate loudness, Tremolo modulates spatial depth. That’s done through exploiting the qualities the ‘Density’ algorithm has for pushing stuff back in space (and making it thin and wiry) or bringing it forward (and making it fat and distorted). Tremolo puts that […]
Crystal was the colorless version of the Character plugs, Airwindows ‘Virtual Console Collection’ years before anyone else was doing it. The idea was, make a ‘colorless’ version with all the same functionality, so people could try it out. The Character plugins grew into BussColors, which let you switch between them and is still around and popular. […]
Elation is a curious thing: a compressor that doesn’t actually compress! Well, not much. The intention was to use LA-2A impulses, like I used to make many Character plugs, to produce a LA-2A emulation. What happened? Dunno. Maybe I’m just not familiar enough with the thing to recognize whether it worked? Elation does do a good […]
