[LAD] A small article about tools for electronic musicians

[Jeremy]

Tim E. Real wrote:
> On April 30, 2010 10:55:09 pm you wrote:
>> Tim E. Real wrote:
>> Wow, man! I just spent an hour playing with 
>>  Guitarix Distortion (ladspa plugin) +
>>   caps C* Amp VTS  (ladspa amp sim plugin)
>> in MusE's plugin rack.
> Silly me! I missed a piece of the puzzle. The C* Cabinet plugins.
> I was supposed to put a cabinet after the amp.
> Sounds even better now!
> It now approaches the type of sound that the JCM900 vst gives.
> 
>>> Until now I have mostly been using SimulAnalog's famous JCM900 VST
>>>  dll plugin under dssi-vst. (I do wish they would open-source those
>>> plugs!)
>> Aha, it's for free :), http://www.simulanalog.org/GSuite.zip, until now
>> I didn't use VSTs when recording with Linux, but the web says, this VST
>> should be awesome,
>> http://www.google.de/#hl=de&ei=vJLbS_jPJc6YOMjj9JIH&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&
>> ct=result&cd=1&ved=0CAUQBSgA&q=JCM+900+VST&spell=1&fp=af503062d682e13a
>>
> I have not tried their other plugins in the suite yet, but the following 
>  statement probably applies to them as well:
> That JCM900 vst is by far the most absolutely mind-blowingly realistic 
>  recreation of a Marshall amp *ever*. Most people agree.
> It is *THE* standard by which *all* other plugins are judged, commercial 
>  or free!
> 

That must be a real good plugin then because most people agree also that
the JCM900 is the worst amp of the JCM series (except for the SLX
edition) and some even argue it's one of the worst Marshall standard
tube-amps ever made ;) Glad I sold mine years ago. But you got me
curious as I don't use VST's either.

Best,

Jeremy