Last but not least we have the standalone version. You can now choose 2 different mics and move them around independently of each other and move them around in the room to really fine tune the amp/mic/room sweet spot! It really is a gift and a curse now - I don't know which one sounds better! Comparing two sounds from different AmpliTube releases is easy too now that we are able to load the different presets inside of AmpliTube 3's new preset manager! Also Another new thing is the way you can mic up amps. They have brought HEAT with the new bass amps in AmpliTube 3! This is the first time I have used ANYTHING besides Ampeg SVX and been more than happy with it! I brought in a session bass player and pulled up the Phat Vintage Bass preset and was blown away. Don't fix it if it ain't broke right? Wrong. I mean I have IK Multimedia's Ampeg SVX and I loved that sound on just about any song for bass.
AMPLITUBE 3 REVIEW UPDATE
Now in all of the update I love one thing I never fancied about AmpliTube 2 but (which never bothered me at the same time) was - the bass amps. Not in AmpliTube 3! Drag and drop anything wherever you want it! They really outdid themselves with that feature alone! Just taking into account the vast number of effects in AmpliTube 3 makes this a no brainer for normal production and mix duties! If you want to add another distortion before the delay have to delete it, insert new effect and then reinsert the delay after it and recall your settings. When you choose a distortion for example followed by a delay.
Remember when I was all geeked out about STEREO in and out? Yeah you’re getting it now aren't you? You can use AmpliTube 3 and all of its great new amps and effects on anything you want now! One of my mix secrets is taking the reverbs from AmpliTube Fender and using them on vocals and drums but I hated that it wasn't true stereo.Oh wait, now it is! Even better yet for all the producers out there you can use the Step Slicer as an effect on synths and keys for that gated trance sound and it automatically locks on to the project tempo you’re working on! One thing AmpliTube 3 has mastered that I hate about other DAWs is how they handle effects. Now a lot of people are thinking "Why would you need to run more than one guitar gear modeler?".
Well now you just click a button and you’re done! Of course they still allow you to edit all of that in preferences but I find that the ECO/MID/HI buttons do a fine job. They are ECO, MID, & and HI and each mode can help save CPU power when using high track counts or on slower computers! In previous versions, you had to go into the preferences for each AmpliTube and select what was oversampled and what wasn't. AmpliTube 3 now includes 3 three buttons on the top right. One of the biggest changes in AmpliTube 3 besides the sound is the way it manages the computer's processing power.
AMPLITUBE 3 REVIEW SERIES
With AmpliTube 3 there is a new preset manager that makes this easier than ever! They have also taken a nod from their workstation series and made AmpliTube 3 able to open ANY of the other AmpliTube's amps, effects or presets! Now I don't have to load up every AmpliTube to see which sound I want to record with - I can do it all INSIDE of AmpliTube 3!!! Click, arrow, arrow, arrow again if you had a lot of presets and then wait til yours came up. It brought a whole new sound to what they had before! When looking through previous versions of AmpliTube I always hated how you had to browse through presets. I could not believe the sound I was getting when browsing through the old AmpliTube 2 presets I didn't like. Well, I get that same dynamic and open feel here, but now I get Orange, Vox, Mesa Boogie models and STEREO in and out! I can go on forever about the things that excite me in it but lets start at the beginning.ĪmpliTube 3 is the biggest collection of amps and effects released yet with over 160 pieces accurately modeled! 30 of these are new amps and effects, everything that was there before has been reworked to sound a lot better than they did before.
I have been blown away by AmpliTube before, the first time I played it I closed my eyes and smiled. They poised it to be the new standard not only in guitar amp and effect modeling, but as a whole new platform! Sound-wise it rocks. From presets, CPU handling and the sound quality they went above and beyond with this release.
They more than raised the bar with AmpliTube 3 and maybe even improved it. Now after spending a bit of time with it I can say they didn't. When I first heard that there was going to be a new AmpliTube 3 I thought "How can you beat AmpliTube Fender?". I waited a bit before posting my review to get to know Amplitube before saying wether I liked it or not.