![]() In addition to being able to recreate the classic amp sounds, with plugins, you can achieve setups that are impossible or wildly impractical with physical amps. ![]() Simply put, guitar plugins simulate all of the parts of a recorded guitar amp in software, allowing the player to call up any amp they want for recording in a DAW, practicing through studio monitors, or playing live through a PA. All of that guitar amp goodness can be recreated in software form in painstaking detail, resulting in plugins that are audibly indiscernible from their traditional amp counterparts – with some extra bells and whistles to boot. So there are some downsides to a traditional amp setup. However, did you also know that amps are like really heavy, and often need to be really really loud to sound their best? Amps also take up space and cost money, meaning (hypothetically speaking) you can only own so many of them. The classic tones produced by tried and true amplifiers are at the very fabric of what we think of when we think of guitar. Read on to learn about the components of a guitar plugin featuring Neural DSP’s Tone King Imperial MKII plugin. New to guitar plugins and have a lot of questions? This plugin primer is your guide to the basics. Read the first part in a series exploring the fundamentals of guitar plugins.
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