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stompboxjon « A good freeware plug in »
Published on 02/13/13 at 00:36The Voxengo Tube Amp is an audio effect VST that can be run as a AU too. It has a drive knob, bias knob, mode knob and out gain knob. This plug in is very easy to use and it is very light on my CPU. It is also a freeware and can be downloaded directly from the Voxengo website and it will only take a few minutes to download. The Tube Amp has a -6 DB low pass filter built into it and switchable saturation.
SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE
Installing Tube Amp was very simple, it will work with just about any DAW and it is compatible with both Mac operating systems and PC operating systems. It allows up to 8 times oversampling and additional output saturation stage all with zero processing latency. I love this little VST plug in because if you know how to use it right it will give you all sorts of cool sounds to work with.
OVERALL OPINION
The Tube Amp does not use much CPU when running it, I even run it multiple times simultaneously and it has never crashed or gave me any issues. I have not seen manual for it and I don’t think they have one available which is ok because there are hint messages within the application, so that it can show you how to work with it as you go without needing to ready a bunch of paragraphs in a manual.
Being that this VST is a freeware plug in I recommend getting it right away. If you decide it is not for you later on then you can always uninstall it. I have not seen any updates for it since I purchased it over a year ago. One thing to keep in mind is to make sure that you download the right version of it because it is easy to download the wrong one. I download the Windows version in 64 bit and needed to download the one for Windows 32 bit. So at first I thought I was not going to work until I emailed them and they sent me the proper link to download the right version.
SUITABILITY/PERFORMANCE
Installing Tube Amp was very simple, it will work with just about any DAW and it is compatible with both Mac operating systems and PC operating systems. It allows up to 8 times oversampling and additional output saturation stage all with zero processing latency. I love this little VST plug in because if you know how to use it right it will give you all sorts of cool sounds to work with.
OVERALL OPINION
The Tube Amp does not use much CPU when running it, I even run it multiple times simultaneously and it has never crashed or gave me any issues. I have not seen manual for it and I don’t think they have one available which is ok because there are hint messages within the application, so that it can show you how to work with it as you go without needing to ready a bunch of paragraphs in a manual.
Being that this VST is a freeware plug in I recommend getting it right away. If you decide it is not for you later on then you can always uninstall it. I have not seen any updates for it since I purchased it over a year ago. One thing to keep in mind is to make sure that you download the right version of it because it is easy to download the wrong one. I download the Windows version in 64 bit and needed to download the one for Windows 32 bit. So at first I thought I was not going to work until I emailed them and they sent me the proper link to download the right version.