Guitar Amplifiers Amps

Yup – we all love the ease of use of our amp sim plugins – & yeah – some of them do sound kinda ok – but! In a real recording studio like This – we like to deal in reality & move a bit of air.
For us – amp simulations are either a sticking plaster for badly recorded guitar tracks we’ve been sent as part of a session to mix, or we like to use them as effects to enhance our properly recorded guitars and basses.
Amplifiers are big, heavy, clunky things to have around & require a lot of support & attention to keep them in tip top condition – but – you need them to get real guitar tones.
We seldom use just one amp on guitar regardless of style – we like to use Two for the initial rhythm – there’s just something about the mixed tone of two amps playing the same guitar line at the same time, plus the mic phasing options give one a lot of tonal variation & control.
Overdubs are different – generally you’ll want a thinner tone with secondary parts to help them fit into the scope of the audio field or mix – so one amp usually does the trick, and you can spatialise the audio with delay, chorus or reverbs at production time.
Here’s our (constantly updating) collection of guitar & bass amps.