Overloud TH-U Premium Guitar Effects Suite Reviews

There are so many choices of amps, heads and effects. It is almost overwhelming, but also so exciting for me! Instead of packing up my equipment and going out, I can now just use powered speakers, my PC, Presonus audio box and my guitar and then I'm ready to rock! The tones seem to be endless and fun to explore. The Sweetwater team called to see if I needed any help immediately after I purchased the software. What a great company! Someday I am going to visit Sweetwater someday and check out your store! Thank you again Sweetwater for your friendly service and expertise with every purchase I've had with you over the years!

I got th-u on based on Steve from Boston, he was right, preset sounds are excellent and endless I played for a few hours straight. Works with reaper nicely. Amazing sounds. I felt like I just bought 10 amps and 100 pedals, but didn't have to unbox them and get power supplies etc. fingers bleeding...

I'm not a tech guy. I know next to nothing about home recording. I purchased Overloud TH U and I'm just going through the presets. There are HUNDREDS of them and most of them sound so good the hair on the back of my neck stands up. It's insane. Pick a random preset and play random notes in a scale and you automatically have a cool sounding riff. I am pumping out riffs.

I have quite a few amp sims. From Amplitube , to Neural DSP, to EZmix, to Peavey Revalver.
I'm always on a hunt for a great realistic sounding amp sim. This randomly came up in an add on an audio engineer page I was on.
I llooked up some videos and was intrigued. So I ended up buying the whole full suite right away. The layout seems cheap but the sound quality is certainly not. It's awesome and is super user friendly. I've already made a few custom presets.
It may be a little overwhelming for some as there is a large collection of gear and tweaking that can be done. But it's totally worth it.
I don't regret buying the whole suite. It's definitely a useful tool added to my arsenal of amp sims.

I found this because "steve from Boston" on YouTube uses it, so I decided to try it for h9me Pc practice. I love the sound and how easy it is to find sounds and make new ones. It's quite simple and it just works.

Most amp aims I have used, including this one do distorted sounds pretty well. The thing I like about THU is how well it does clean tones or jus slightly crunches tones. Truly sounds like an amp with lots of head room. I am enjoying it more than the others I have tried including s-guitar and amplitude.

I have an older copy of Guitar Rig 5, and 2 regular amps from which im deriving this review.

The overall set of sounds is great, but the presets are somewhat more modern in nature, I think. There are a lot more in the way of rock/hard rock/metal than say, country, RnB, Rockabilly, etc. That's not a hard limitation since you can build the sounds your self, just an observance. "Country", "Rockabilly", etc, for example, finds nothing. The amps section is more rock based with Brunetti, AC30 clones, Marshall clones, Randall, Soldano, etc- not much low gain clean stuff, i.e. Fender. There is one odd one called "Rig Player" and im not sure what it is- seems to be an 'amp' model, but you can cycle through it and customize more of the settings like sag, bias, and whatnot. Kind of a custom amp builder but limited- you can't change the tube type, or the transformer, as an example. Of course, there is Bias FX Amp Builder if you are into that type of thing, but its a separate program and license.

Id like to see more space devoted to the search function, right now its at the very bottom on the left side, and it only lists results as categories of presets in the top, not the actual preset, so you still have to go to the category and open it up to look through all presets in it.Id like more of a pane/window that just shows the presets in them rather than the category. One for the developers, I guess.

The looper is 2 channel, but you still have to use your mouse to activate it- there is no 'auto start on play' option that I have found, which is a bit of a bummer. My RC 30 floor looper has one and its really handy.

The amount of gear in here is staggering and the ability to use the program as standalone or as a VST is pretty versatile, too. I can add it as a VST, then add a synth from my DAW over it and get some really wacky stuff.

Short ver : Great product, Great upgrade, Terrible LOOPER. It looks like a Windows 98 program crippled without a SAVE option. -- More below --

I've been an ardent fan of Overloud professional products since TH2. The upgrade to TH3 included many enhancements and audio quality upgrades, with revamped interface.

This upgrade from TH3 --> TH-U is not as drastic. It does add several worthwhile amps, cabinets, pedals, rack effects, and mics but the biggest addition imho is their new R2M technology and Amp Tweak.

Overloud audio engineers profile high-end boutique real world rigs, including all gear in the signal chain (mic, mic preamp, head/cab/amp, interface, room). Users have the TH-U Rig Player (Kemper looking device you can add into an existing or new patch, and dial in your tone remarkably accurate to your target tone). They then sell Rig Libraries for $19 British Classics if you don't find your particular amp.

Amp Tweak is nice, you can mod tube types, bias, and voltage (Variac) for pre and power tubes, though I've only experimented thus far.

The reason for docking them 1.5 stars is the Looper is a huge step back. TH3 Looper was great, record unlimited layers of guitars, set the rec/play levels, pan guitars left or right, and save the file when done. This version stripped out the polished product we had, and substitutes a make-shift gawd-awful 2-channel looking blob that offers little real-world use. Worst of all, there is NO SAVE OPTION.

Fix that Overloud and you've easily got another 5-star product, best in class wrt digital modelers and DAW plug-ins.