FireAmp
TL;DW: FireAmp is a bright, loud, tubey amp sim for leads and dirt guitar.
Hi! Still taking in the incredibly long days way high up in British Columbia, Canada, and though I’m still struggling to get my work done (late posting again, and a woefully out of focus video: better next time!) I do have a plugin.
And it’s a guitar plugin… and though I can’t have a guitar up here, I cobbled together a bit of madness in the tracker program Renoise, mixed it in Reaper, and I’ve got a guitar-driven track that’s stranger than any human would actually play. Bodes well for the ability to do interesting stuff up here… or indeed for anyone on a laptop with a bunch of programs and plugins! I’m still looking forward to having real guitars though :)
FireAmp’s the first in a set of old/new plugins I’m doing. They’re the opposite of your usual guitar plugin arsenal: no multi-effects, no squishy thick tone color, barely even settings. FireAmp is ONE tone, that aligns with some kinds of things I like to do with guitars. It sits in the mix like a classic rock track: you’re hearing it with a set of retro tones that blend with FireAmp (in fact, the bass is a Rickenbacker, and the neck pickup’s through another upcoming Airwindows amp sim but the bridge pickup is also through FireAmp).
If you want to get freaky with it and want a tone stack, you might try putting ZNotch in front of it, or MackEQ… your tone stack doesn’t HAVE to be part of the amp sim plugin. Just sayin’.
It runs zero latency so you can track through it. It’s loud, bright and sonorous, raw as hell, high impact, no gloss or glitz. Even if it’s not your pet sound you might find a use for FireAmp on layered guitars or other sounds… and unlike the original, it has undersampled FireCab built in for its matched tone, and it has a sophisticated dry/wet control that begins giving you raw amp AND raw signal to provide a range of more open tonalities through the high gain amp sim madness. This makes it an interesting choice for dirtying up non-guitar signals: the dry/wet will let you tailor that in interesting ways.
I hope you like it. There’s more to come, all of them just as quirky and one-trick pony as FireAmp. Back in the day, I liked to alternate real miked guitar amp usage, with stuff like the Rockman, to get different textures. FireAmp is one such different texture, and you never can tell when it might be useful :)
download StarterKit.zip for just the basics
download 64 Bit Windows VSTs.zip
download Signed M1/Intel Mac AUs.dmg
download Signed M1/Intel Mac VSTs.dmg
download LinuxVSTs.zip
download LinuxARMVSTs.zip for the Pi
download Retro 32 Bit Windows VSTs.zip
download Retro PPC/32/64 Mac AUs.zip
download Retro PPC/32/64 Mac VSTs.zip
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All this is free and open source under the MIT license, brought to you by my Patreon.
Thank you very much for this! I’ve been waiting for you to realease an amp sim. I’ll try it soon. It sounds interesting in your video. We’ll see how it behaves with a real guitar.
I likey and thank so much
Hey Chris, you’re a wizard!
Gandalf should be either very approving or extremely jealous of your powers.
Thanks so much for all your amazing sonic tools :-)