Topic: "CharBooster" Anyone? AXP Is at It Again

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  • January 28, 2013 at 23:27 #2885
    The Telenator
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    I haven’t even tried this one yet. It’s still zipped and on my flash drive. Perhaps later tonight. If it’s anything like his first two plugin releases, then this one will be a hit as well.

    Note also, for all of you 64-bit users, that he is now in the process of bringing all three plugins up to 64-bit availability. We agreed that it it a rather tedious chore, but 64-bit plugins really seem to be ‘coming of age’ now, with more and more of us switching to 64. I’m considering the switch to 64 sometime this year, as almost all of my favourites that I just can’t live without are or will be in 64 soon.

    Anyhow, do stop by here and report your thoughts on his latest freebie if any of you try this new one. Enjoy!

    http://www.kvraudio.com/news/axp-releases-charbooster-1-0-0-for-windows-vst-free-21388

    January 29, 2013 at 00:57 #22783
    The Telenator
    Participant

    More about CharBooster:

    “AXP has released a new free VST plug-in effect for Windows: CharBooster, a guitar booster effect, with a character. It allows to shape, overdrive and boost the guitar signal before hitting your favourite amplifier VST plug-in.”

    –quoted from BPB site, originally from KVR post (I think)

    I didn’t even notice what this newest plugin was exactly about until just now checking my other daily news and saw this quote above. This is precisely the issue with so many of even the best full-featured amp sim packages. It’s an issue that’s been discussed a lot, and now it appears AXP has tackled it head-on. Everybody has issues, needs, problems about that ‘one extra stage’ of gain needed or that they want to add on the front end. Even the very finest of amp sims — and I’m now using what I consider the very best, Mike Scuffham’s S-Gear 2 — can benefit from placing and tweaking a bit of certain ‘stuff’, such as this new plugin, before heading your signal into your awesome amp.

    January 29, 2013 at 14:16 #22786
    alex
    Participant

    I new you was gonna post about this one (found out about it yesterday) 😀

    Didn’t have much time to play with it, but I like it very much, so far.

    Cheers, Alex

    January 29, 2013 at 14:54 #22789
    The Telenator
    Participant

    I haven’t had much time, either, but I know Alexander, been working out the bugs in these, been discussing what players are searching for to improve their sound and setups, what features they are looking for, etc.

    This one attempts to address that common refrain of ‘need one more gain stage for my setup’ that almost everyone, from the metalheads on up, cry out when trying to find their sound using each new amp sim.

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