
The tone is accurate but not too artificial.

With an ESP or an Ibanez in the lead channel, the amp was much more convincing.

Even if the amp wasn’t conceived with clean sounds in mind, we tried it out with a 335 and a Telecaster, and the results are quite ok even if not jaw-dropping. The rhythm channel features two switches: Bright and Crunch, while both channels share a 3-band EQ, a Post Gain control (master volume), a Resonance control (low frequencies), a Presence control (high mids) and a Hi-Gain switch. This amp, appropriately named “Van 51,” has two channels. Van Halen, famous for his high-gain sound, palm muting and tapping, and his drop-D tuning. The first one is an emulation of the famous Peavey 5150, the amp of Mr. I'm Donald Bell, and now we had a first look at Guitar Rig 3 Kontrol Edition.One thing must be clear: if you don’t like distortion, the two new simulations aren’t for you. I'm still going to stick to Guitar Hero because I'm just not nearly as good a guitarist as Guitar Rig will demand of me. So that pretty much sums it up for Guitar Rig 3. You've got hundreds of presets to choose from that are all divided into different genres. So you get this virtual rack of gear that you can drag and drop different amplifiers, different guitar effects, and you can see them.
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The Guitar Rig software itself has been around for a pretty long time and on its third generation it's really well developed. This is a really cooler little idea that keeps you rocking.

I don't usually go all gaga about USB connections but put this little hook on top of the USB connection that prevents the cord from being ripped out accidentally. You can see all kinds of quarter-inch inputs and outputs for plugging in a guitar, playing in multiple guitars if you want. > It also acts as a high-speed USB 2.0 audio card. > What makes Guitar Rig software even better in some regards than having the dream setup of all your vintage amplifiers is that you can do stuff with the software that you really wouldn't be able to do easily in real life. So one of the great things about Guitar Rig, the software, is that it's not only just capable of really to store the guitar tones or kind of garage band guitar tones that you're accustomed to you can also do really authentic emulations of clean guitar tones from vintage amplifiers. The hardware, aside from looking really cool, is actually really road-worthy and really rugged something that I can actually imagine musicians wanted to use that has a foot pedal that you can use with all kinds of effects and then you've got 8 buttons here which you can assign to either kicking in distortion, turning on a reverb, turning on or off a delay, so you can make your dream setup in software and exactly what you'd like to use with the hardware. This is a really cool 500 dollars solution for anyone who wants to have unlimited access to all kinds of cool emulations of amplifiers, effect pedals, different recording situations, different microphones, and different speaker cabinets, all of these stuff is included in Guitar Rig.

We're talking about Guitar Rig, which is a program for actual guitars. And today we're not talking about Guitar Hero. Hey, I'm Donald Bell, Senior Editor for Digital Audio and MP3.
