Best Ac30 Plugin

[Rene Seiler]

VoiceDC30 Custom Valve Guitar Amplifier plugin is modelled after a vintage VOX AC30 Top Boost Reverb characterized by its "jangly" high-end sound that's become widely recognized by British musicians and others.

Voice DC30 Custom Valve is capable of both enchanting clean and raucous overdriven sounds, the signature chime of the Voice DC30 Custom valve pairs seamlessly with the intricacies of your playing style, resulting in a sound that is truly your own.

The Voice DC30 has a separate brilliant channel. This has been achieved by adding a gain stage and a "cathode follower" stage, thereby dropping the impedance and bringing up the current and adding Bass/Treble controls to this channel.

With Voice DC30 Custom Valve Guitar Amplifier is possible to choose between eight different guitar cabinets, four microphone emulations with on/off axis position switch, continuous position and distance knobs.

Vox AC30 is a registered trademark of Vox Amplification Ltd. Voice DC30 was developed by Nembrini Audio SRL based on its own modelling techniques. Vox Amplification Ltd has not endorsed nor sponsored the Voice DC30 in any manner, nor licensed any intellectual property for use in this product.

All the Nembrini amp sims are great. They are among the best out there. I have several Nembrini sims both from this site and ones he did for other companies and they are all top notch. Keep up the great work.

Voice DC30 sounds feels just like a real AC30. To my ears. it sounds and feels a lot more realistic than AC30s found in AmpliTube, Guitar Rig or Apple Amp designer. The only other AC30 plugin I have tried that achieves similar realism is Softube Amp Room, but that one makes annoying aliasing chirping sounds. My only criticism of the Vocice DC 3O is that the Vibrato channel is far noisier than the other channels.

At first, I agreed with comments that the Chandler GAV19T sounded overly muddy. After reading the manual and tweaking, my opinion did a 180.

Initially, I was using my PRS Custom 24 and even the presets labeled "clean" sounded unpleasantly distorted. My real break through happened when I tried my Strat. Suddenly, everything sounded much sweeter and clean patches did indeed sound clean. Big, fat, twang began to pour out of my monitors to go with the crunch. Everything clicked and I fell in love.

In the manual, you'll find mention of the input gain control in the FX section and how tweaking it for hot guitars can be useful. Once I did this, my PRS also began to sing beautiful tones too. A super-versatile plugin, 5 stars, no question.

Sounds great as a second amp in the rig with a ENGL. However after reading comments about the Scuffham Amp sim I tried it and bought immediately. It was 100.00 less than the Chandler and FAR more flexible with a ton of headroom.

I've got the ENGL amps but this one is really something. It is the most authentic amp simulation I ever heard (played the real one on Musikmesse, but not to much to compare that but to ask if it sounds like a real amp). The way one can control how driven the sound is simply by playing reminds me of my brothers Bogner Ecstasy Anniversary. This made me want to play more and buy me a new guitar. Although I like its character most of the time I sometimes wish I could dial down the vintage sounds it (ever so slightly) produces in every note.

As much as I like EL84 amps, this amp really misses the chime and clarity that you get from an AC30 etc. found it nearly impossible to get a clean tone. The crunch is ok and I'm sure with a lot of tweaking could be usable but overall this emulation seems pretty underwhelming and CPU intensive.

I found the presets a great place to start, but the real charm to this beautiful amp is in the tweaking! I found myself pulling guitar after guitar off the wall in the studio and found this amp brings out new and exciting things from guitars that I haven't heard before.

This is a very retro sound. Americana / Bluesy sound up to and including a very cool growl! The recording chains are very good and bring out another layer of goodness to the tone you have to sit up in a mix and say HELL YEA!

This is a studio workhorse that offers a completely different sound set from the Engl amps, which also kill me. Brainworks have created something with these guitar amp pluggo's that smoke the competition.

This amp plugin takes some tweaking, but with an echoplex in front and about 3 hours of initial learning curve, you can make this sound very realistic and useable. Don't get turned off on first use as you can make this plugin sound horrible. It's very versatile and takes a bit of your time to dial it in. I have a Vox AC30 and Friedman Brown Eye as my main amps and this thing leans definetly more towards the EL84 based mid gain Voxy more than Marshally sound. Highly recommended. I purchased without a coupon and don't regret it a bit! And I don't really care for amp plugins! I'd rather turn my amp down to nothing and crank a mic pre, but this plugin will change my late night recording methods fer sure! 4 out of 5 !

Much better than the other guitar amp emulations. Just pure tone that makes you want to play. I don't particularly like the way they have done the presets. Had to to find what you really want. Sometimes I just want to change the cab -- not the entire recording chaining.

I'm a mid-gain type player. Roots-Rock, Classic Rock, Country, Blues, etc.... I play a Tele mostly. My initial impression is that this plug in sounds very real and amp like which I haven't gotten from Guitar rig 5 or GTR 3. Probably the best emulation I've heard for the type of stuff I play! I haven't dug into this plug very deep, but I'll likely pick this one up if I can stretch my ASCAP quarterly payment a little further!

The only gripe I have is that the delay sounds a little dark and muddy, as I haven't done anything but run through the presets it may not be an issue if digging deeper!

That said this is a great plug for guys playing rock, blues, country, americana! Not so much for metal or jazz!

What I've been doing recently is using Logic's Amp Sim to record, the swap it out for Amplitube when I mix. From what I understand Tonex and Amplitube use the same amp sims, right? I could use a Tonex pedal to offload the processing when I record. I just wouldn't be able to change virtual amps when I mix unless I recorded a dry signal.

Tonex is a completely different product from Amplitube that can be used within Amplitube. Tonex has very limited FX, so I suppose throwing it into Amplitube makes sense on that account. Tonex is not a sim. It uses machine learning to 'capture' an amp at a particular setting. I had Tonex setup within Amplitube, but felt the fx weren't good enough, so bought a few VahallaDSP plugins to give me the delays/mods/ reverbs I wanted.

No idea, sorry. I had a PODxt 17 odd years ago, and haven't bothered with Line6 since. I don't get along with digital multifx boxes at all. Scuffham will beat just about any sim I've heard, and Mike's presets are well thought out and useful off the bat.

If not for my history of boredom with multifx boxes, I might have a look. But as things stand, I rarely use my VOX AC-15C these days. Any tone I would ever need is now ITB.

GAS has given me some hard, fast rules on what works for me and what doesn't. And multifx boxes are definitely on my 'avoid' list.

I used to have a Marshall Bluesbreaker that was 80lbs! Too damn heavy and loud for anything I do so I sold it. Recently my local shop was closing down and they had an AC30 priced to go. I've ALWAYS wanted a VOX so I tried it out. It sounded great. I was about to buy it when I tried to pick it up. HA HA

I am averse to such finessing. Which is why I avoid them. I didn't really try all these fx until I was around 29-30. Until then, I just plugged in and played, with maybe a wah and a Big Muff. So, I'd equate my basic needs with someone like Keef, who generally just plugs in and plays. The wilder fx like shimmer reverb and deep mod stuff I use very sparingly.

I got a Pod Go. At Thomann. A few weeks ago. I'm not a huge fan of the amp mods but then again that's not what I got it for and admittedly I didn't spend much time on them, so I may not be the best source. I got it for the effects and I connect it straight into my Marshall DSL40CR, so I'm using the Marshall for the distortion.

I don't seem to get along with digimultifx boxes. I find they get in my way.

I think the Tonex pedal has some real potential, but I'm happy enough with the software. I haven't played live with an electric guitar in a long time. Take something with the amp captures of Tonex combined with decent time-based fx, and it would be a winner. For gigging.

It's not realistic these days to use my VOX at any meaningful volume. Our new upstairs neighbour is a music-hating Gen-Z'er.

So yes the Pod Go was a choice for a live gig where I need different sounds for each song, a whammy, etc.. so it just fits the bill for me. I don't like the way you have to go through menus to switch patches though, that's just plain silly since it's designed for live gigs. Just give me a + and - pedals to go to the next or previous patch and I'd be happy.

3a8082e126