Great product... 
by Chuck Hutcheson from McRae / Baxley, GA, August 2008
Music Background:  Pro This & That - Producer / Engineer / Performer / Pro Home Studio Owner

I'm not a full-fledged guitarist, thus the 4.5 rating, BUT, I am a 26+ year multi-instrumentalist with a Pro Tools studio and formal music AND audio production training. I downloaded the demo for Amplitube 2 recently and put it thru the paces, and I was very pleased with what this program does. As one user mentioned in another post, this program will do wonders for not just your guitar sounds, but other sounds you'd want to process, as well - snares, kicks, vocal fx, keyboards, you name it. Hey, it's a plug-in, so you CAN apply it to any audio track!

Writing from the standpoint of a local studio owner, I would highly recommend this product. Often times, by being in a small town and rural area, I don't get to work with the best guitarists, and their ideas of tone quality are less than stellar. Y'all know how it is, the more the guy tries to find his "holy grail" of tone, the worse he sounds! Amplitube gives me more options as far as creating a fuller, deeper sound (the low-end is great on this program) and being able to run two different setups / heads / cabs / effects, well, your tonal choices are nearly infinite.

I was impressed at the general quietness of the setup on most presets. In the past, I'd use the Amplitube lite version included with Pro Tools, or the lite version of SansAmp, and I never was completely satisfied with those tones, especially with the crunch & other parameters cranked. However, I immediately noticed the lack of floor noise that I expected - or was accustomed to - with Amplitube lite.

There are a LOT of presets to choose from. The layout is easy to maneuver, the tones are really good, and overall I have no complaints. I just purchased the Muse Receptor, and added Amplitube's Jimi Hendrix and Metal versions, so I'm excited to get them in & try them out. I'm becoming more and more of an IK Multimedia fan, as I've toyed with Sample Tank 2 & heard some great samples from their Mirsolav, Tron & Moog libraries. Good stuff...

Bottom line, this is a great buy, and I don't think a serious recording or performing guitarist would be upset with this purchase.

  ALL THE SOUNDS YOU’LL EVER NEED 
by brianbfw from Alexandria, VA, April 2008
Music Background:  classical guitarist, composer, and recording engineer

Amplitutde2 is a great plugin. Huge amount of sounds. It would be a weekend project to go through all off them. Most sound good. Some of the heavier distortion sounds are a little questionable as to the realism, but this gets real subjective. The clean and “brown” (lightly distorted) sounds are great. The rack and stomp pedal effects are also great, very real sounding. Pretty much all the amps and sounds I could ask for.

  Its Great! 
by Eric Palmer from florida, February 2007
Music Background:  Professional Composer

This guitar plug in is Fantastic! I demoed Guitar Rig 2, Waves Gtr and Amplitube 2 at the same time, and I decided on Amplitube 2. It has the most convincing tube amp emulation in my opinion. Really heavy distortion is where it stood out, Able to get that really meaty guitar distortion, which i could not get satisfactory in Guitar rig 2. Guitar Rig 2 has more variety of very usable effects, and for clean guitar, it is fantastic Waves Gtr sounded good as well, but not nearly as simple to get going right away. overall, Amplitube is just amazing. Easy to use too, good presets as well.

  Amplitube 2 vs. Waves GTR 2.0 vs. GuitarRig 2 vs. Logic Guitar Amp Pro 
by Nathanael Davenport from Rexburg, ID, August 2006
Music Background:  Recording Engineer, Rock House Recording.

This review is a quick blow by blow of four of the major amp simulators out there. I spent about a couple of hours doing A/B comparisons of these different products. My first impressions are that:

1. GTR (Waves) and Amplitube (IK Multimedia) have the clearest, sweetest sound.
2. GuitarRig has the most versatility, and variety of presets, but the raw sound of it is kind of cheap sounding compared to GTR and Amplitube.
3. Amplitube and GuitarRig 2 have the best interfaces because they are integrated, and in terms of size, Amplitube wins, but in terms of interface usability, GuitarRig 2 wins hands down on all of them. Its window is huge though.
4. Amplitube has the most inspiring and most accurate presets, especially for signature styles. GTR has individual presets for each component of it's package, but not having an integrated plugin is a serious drawback in terms of being able to find the sound you want FAST. So Amplitube and GuitarRig win with their presets.
5. If you run Logic, you can better your guitar sound with any of these packages. Guitar Amp Pro sounds cheap compared to the rest of these, and Logic's built-in E-Guitar presets (channel strip settings) are equally bland.

In my opinion, Waves GTR is overpriced for the only slightly sweeter sound it has than the next sweetest (Amplitube) simulator, and is a pain to use compared to the more elegant interfaces of GuitarRig and Amplitube. However, if you don’t mind taking your time to find your sound, GTR may well be your best bet.

GuitarRig 2 may be your best bet if you want tons of presets and lots of effects. With a little work with good audio mastering plug-ins, you could make it all sound better. Plus you can get it all (with stomp/pedal controller) for $500, make it an exceptional value. But the raw sound quality is just a little bland compared to Amplitube and GTR.

All in all I would recommend Amplitube 2. It has plenty of presets, a more compact if not as elegant user interface than GuitarRig, and bottom line, I think it sounds the best. Every preset sounds great. Though it doesn’t come with a stomp setup, multi-trackers won’t mind this, and with a little clever MIDI programming you can have it change presets like a stomp box.

However, look for the next upgrade to GuitarRig 2. If Native Instruments can simply brush up their amp and speaker modeling algorithms, they will dominate the market in the next revision. I would go with GuitarRig if only it sounded better.

Guitar Sounds R Us 
by Jim Richman from Woodbridge VA USA, June 2004

My brother told me about this program after hearing my less than perfect guitar recording for my band--I'm the drummer.



Anyway, this plug-in is similar to the Protools Amp Farm, but it is VST and Audio Units compatible. It works with most audio software, and DP4(which is what I use)



There are so many sounds you can get from clean to crunch. It is VERY EASY to use. And you can drastically change your sound by tweaking a knob or two in each patch. Record your guitar direct with a decent direct box like the AR133 from BSS, and you have a guitar track in your recording that you can change at will. Extremely conveniant.



It's got great sounds, but best of all, you are never stuck with any one sound in your recording. Works great for bass, as well as fattening up the snare. Amplitude is saving my life.



Good Times!

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