Fifteen original amp voicings — sparkling clean to modern high-gain, including two all-tube bass rigs — each with a modeled power amp, plus a NAM loader.
A whole wall of amps in one plugin — FOURTEEN original voicings, every name a wink and every circuit tuned against real-amp captures:
– Clean Meanie — shimmering American blackface-era clean
– Crunchy McCrunchFace — hot-rodded British master-volume crunch
– Gainzilla — tight modern high-gain monster
– Doom Daddy — a doom/fuzz grinder with two full channels (Normal + Brite)
– Tangerang — thick, mid-forward British lead crunch
– Beardo BE — boutique hot-rod head with Clean / BE / HBE channels
– Hi-Volt — high-headroom, pedal-loving British clean
– Chime Thirty — chimey class-A jangle machine
– Backline Plus — the scrappy solid-state combo every rehearsal room owns
– Plexiglass — vintage British sparkle with jumpered Vol I + Vol II channels, just like bridging the inputs on the classic four-hole heads
– Cali V — a 9-mode, three-channel Californian switcher (Clean / Crunch / Lead) with its own 5-band graphic EQ
– Diamond Plate — an 8-mode, three-channel chrome-plated Californian high-gain head (Raw / Vintage / Modern per channel) with Bold/Spongy variac and Silicon/Tube rectifier feel switches, tuned against real captures of a legendary high-gain American design
– Tremont 15 — a tight, percussive lunchbox high-gain head (Clean / Crunch / Lead + bright switch) with a gain-riding bright cap on the crunch channel, tuned against real captures
– Citrus 200 — the suite’s second BASS amp: a 200-watt all-valve British bass head, one channel, four 6550s, with a passive Bass / Middle / Treble stack and a master volume
– Blue Liner — the suite’s first BASS amp: a classic all-tube 300-watt US bass head with Ultra-Lo / Ultra-Hi switches, a 3-position mid selector (220 / 800 / 3000 Hz) and a six-6550 power section — pair it with the new bass cabinets in the Cabinet plugin
Every voicing feeds a modeled power-amp section — sag, presence, depth, resonance and selectable output-tube flavors — for real cab-pushing feel and touch dynamics rather than a flat distortion. A shared tone stack keeps switching between voicings fast on stage, a built-in mains-hum filter (switchable for 50 or 60 Hz mains) and decay-aware noise conditioning keep the high-gain modes quiet between notes, and everything is oversampled with steep anti-alias filtering so the top end stays clean.
On 64-bit/desktop targets a Neural (NAM) slot loads your own .nam amp captures alongside the fourteen algorithmic models; on 32-bit (patchbox-os-arm32) NAM is omitted. Works standalone or as part of the Hex Chain suite / Hex Forge.
Free and open source (GPL-3).
Credit: Ryan Powell
This amp simulator is impressive, offering a wide range of options – from clean and high-gain tones to bass amp models – while integrating a NAM loader and detailed power amp simulation. Its support for Linux AMD64, ARM32, and ARM64 architectures within an open-source framework is a significant benefit for the MOD Devices and Pi-Stomp communities. Drift Hunters