Softube also separates itself from all the others by focusing strictly on tone: the careful emulation of a real-world amp, speaker cab and the microphone's placement. Effects like reverb, delay or compression are up to your individual preferences to add but know that the starting sound and tone produced by either Vintage or Metal are some of best I've heard. For that reason, I ask the producers I work with to also record a dry direct guitar signal (DI) along with the amp sounds and include it in the songs they send me to mix. Then I'll have no excuses for wonky guitar tones.

Installed into Pro Tools as RTAS plug-in (or in AU/VST format in your favorite DAW) here at my Tones 4 $ Studios, Metal Amp will turn any guitar recording into the wrath of God instantly. From sweet to satanic, Goth to grunge, Metal Amp lets you go between to two entirely different metal rigs (Metal uses a slanted Engl 4X12 cab and Black uses a Marshall) each with decidedly different personalities that are endlessly malleable using standard amp head controls that actually work like a real guitar amp. You can mix between two different microphones, a dynamic and condenser, plus individually set their off-axis angle and distance from the speaker cones.