Waves Guitar AMP/EFFECT Modeling

[DreamwaveMusic]

Ive been playing with this for a few days now, I really like it. the amps are all open sounding just as if they were mic'd. The effects are clean and simple to use, and the tone generally seems more realistic than Guitar Rig 2, and others. Anyone else try this and have any thoughts or comparisons to other similar products?

[mikegee]

ive tried the WAVES gold package in the recent past, OMG these are the best plug ins ihave ever used, hands down the best. they do eat up your processing power pretty fiercely, but shouldnt be a problem if you have plenty of memory installed on your computer. The effects are dynamite incredible delays, choruses, flangers, phasers... also some of the other guitar effects mimic bells, and chimes, and other not so "easy to find" tones typically used for guitar recording. great plugins!

[dolivas]

Originally Posted by DreamwaveMusic

Ive been playing with this for a few days now, I really like it. the amps are all open sounding just as if they were mic'd. The effects are clean and simple to use, and the tone generally seems more realistic than Guitar Rig 2, and others. Anyone else try this and have any thoughts or comparisons to other similar products?

have you been using the effects with their demo? or do you actually have their guitar interface as well?

Im wondering if you can just use your own sound card, im pretty sure you should be able to, and not have to use their interface in order to use their GTR plugs. Im pretty sure most of us would have better AD converters and inputs in some of the soundcards than their own interface would have.

[DreamwaveMusic]

i do not have their hardware.. it seems to work flawlessly with the firebox ive been using. I guess the hardware isnt proprietary

[mikegee]

ahhh yes, i have been reading about this new Waves GTR Version 2.0, looks great!

http://www.waves.com/content.asp?id=1684

cant wait to try it. anybody know if theres a demo version out there? i'd wanna try before i buy.

[dolivas]

Originally Posted by mikegee

ahhh yes, i have been reading about this new Waves GTR Version 2.0, looks great!

http://www.waves.com/content.asp?id=1684

cant wait to try it. anybody know if theres a demo version out there? i'd wanna try before i buy.

there is a demo version of it found here:
http://www.waves.com/content.asp?id=1696
but it uses that stupid iLok key. You must have one before you can demo it first. Arturia did something similar with their recent Prophet VST but at least they gave you a way to buy a 10 dollar ilok key and get your money refunded if you decide not to buy the VST.

[dagosto]

Originally Posted by dolivas

there is a demo version of it found here:
http://www.waves.com/content.asp?id=1696
but it uses that stupid iLok key. You must have one before you can demo it first. Arturia did something similar with their recent Prophet VST but at least they gave you a way to buy a 10 dollar ilok key and get your money refunded if you decide not to buy the VST.

Groan... I hate those iLoks.

Waves is a great software company though. They delayed the release of this stuff like two years because it wasn't right yet. I haven't tried these plugs but I lie there other stuf and their methodology much more than other modelling companies.

[Nubus]

Originally Posted by dagosto

Groan... I hate those iLoks.

Waves is a great software company though. They delayed the release of this stuff like two years because it wasn't right yet. I haven't tried these plugs but I lie there other stuf and their methodology much more than other modelling companies.

That missing iLok component must be why the SSL stuff wouldn't work on my system.

[DreamwaveMusic]

stupid iloks.... this software is great, there is no software comparison in sound quality, and it certainly beats any of the line6 or vox hardware modeling. guitar rig 2 has more functionality and features, but the Waves really has it beat with realistic high quality amp and effect sounds