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Vandal from Magix uses the same amount of CPU as Amplitube in economical quality mode and Amplitube in full quality uses the same amount of CPU as S-Gear in economical quality mode. Furthermore, Amplitube has a lot of amplifiers and a great number of included effects, Vandal has fewer amplifiers and just a few effects but still more than S-Gear. So why is it that I'm lately recording almost all my guitar parts mostly with S-Gear? Vandal and Amplitube are
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Scuffham S-Gear
great virtual amplifiers. They still serve their purpose. Vandal is unbeatable when it comes to distortion and Amplitube is the king of a variety of dark jazzy tones or eternal clean ones. But somehow S-Gear sounds so right, so "guitarish", that it simply behaves like a real classic rock amplifier, like the one you hear from a million rock or indie records. S-Gear has that "brick on your head" sound that you can feel in your bones. Nothing rational here - it
December 2011
simply makes you feel good when you play your guitar. All in all, it has only three different amplifier models, one effect - delay, cabinet emulation, no reverb and no compressor. Looks like that sometimes less is really more. It is some kind of a guitar amp for guitar players. Everything you need is there in the main window, the presets sounds excellent and all you need to do is plug in a guitar and play it. I almost forgot how simple it could be to just play a guitar.
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