Product Reviews by KVR Members

Simply awesome, rare gem.

100% Rolls Royce- oh sorry - Oberheim sounds, also the Phasor works and sounds fantastic and can even improve already excellent sounds.

Nice tool for creating a lot of iconic top-notch synthesizer sounds between Zawinul and Jestofunk, I would say.

Also interesting, how fantastic this real vintage gear even sounds today. I always had been a Taurus and Mini Moog fan, an OB-X fan anyway, but this one has something even more special, very simple controls, but absolutely awesome sounds. (Even more, if you do not use a keyboard, but a guitar to MIDI solution... This plugin gives me exactly the sounds, I always had been looking for with this setup.).

What did the rest do wrong since 1974, that they never came close?

Even better, that it's freeware.

You cannot go wrong with Cherry Audio. They do an excellent work and always are capable you with something even better.

If possible, I gave 10 stars.

Excellent plugin of one of the most probably most flexible, best adjustable and tweakable amps ever.

Usually defined as Metal amp, but also the clean and crunch channel are extremely flexible adjustable and sound fantastic. The lead channel anyway.

The plugin itself sounds excellent, also the built-in cabinet IR's are well selected for this type of amp. But also the rest of the channel strip/fx-section with a lot of useful features, which are typical for this series, differ these plugins from a lot of others.

The two other Engl amps in this series do not convince me so much sonically in comparison, sound a little bit too sharp and scratchy for my taste, but they also meanwhile are older ones, but this one simply is a perfect masterpiece without any weaknesses.

If I only had been allowed to use a single amp plugin, I most probably decided to use this one - for almost everything.

Iconic Amp and an equally iconic plugin of it. For me the by far best and most authentically sounding plugin of this amp.

I really like the 1959 Plexi Super Lead, this one I tried to like, but I could not.

Much too shrill, scratchy, sharp, over-distorted treble, which I could not even correct with the tone controls nor with the channel strip equalizing options very well.

The plugin itself also is pretty old meanwhile and obviosuly never really has been upgraded, at least not concerning any sonic improvements.

Urgently needs a quality upgrade in my opinion, which corrects the existing mistakes, especially improves the sound. The basic character is there, but this awful treble rather reminds me of a 1980's Marshall solid-state amp and not of a real all tube Marshall.

I also own some other JCM800 based plugins from competitors, which nail this tone much better. The strange thing for me is, as this in fact is a Softube developed plugin, that the standard JCM800 in Amp Room sounds much better, more naturally and authentically than this separate, more expensive - so called - Marshall museum reference amp plugin. Whyever.

What I expected, was an even better tone, not a worse one.

Also strange, that this amp is defined as JMP, for me a JMP is a 1959 or a 1987 without Master and 2 channels / 4 inputs. But, as far as I could find out, technically there is no difference between this one and a JCM800.

I really am a Marshall sound fan, but any real amp, which only sounded like this plugin, would be an instant return from me.

Nice plugin, I really was surprised, that this plugin sounded better than the real 2554, which I once had.
Maybe because of the 412 cabinet, I don't know. Nevertheless more a Marshall for heavy stuff, the cleaner tones still sound too sharp for my taste, without any of the vintage sweetness, which also a typical 1959 still offers, if properly adjusted.
But sonically nicely flexble for a Marshall.

A lot of amp(s).

Very interesting and sonically flexible, but in some aspects different amp plugin, as this amp is especially built to producea lot of different characters of (British) (phase inverter and) power amp saturation, while the preamp is a very simple, not very much adjustable one.

Due to the numerous tweaking options this in some way are a lot of different amps in a single box.

Also due the all the options not every setting automatically sounds great, but if you know what to do, you can get a lot of different, excellent tones out of it.

The basic are several vintage British amps, which can be tweaked by several boost and power amp behavior adjustments. Works nice, sounds nice. Really clean sounds you hardly get, but this anyway was not the intention of this amp, instead a large varietiy of crunch to overdrive sounds, which you hardly get from a lot of other amps or amp plugins.

The only disadvantage, which I have found, is, that switching from Normal to Intense mode works for my taste a little too intense, as it results in some, sometimes already a little too scratchy if not distorted sounding treble. Some fine adjustment control would have been helpful or also some update, to balance things out a little more. What helps a little is, if you use Intense mode only with the Low input or reduce boost level.

Otherwise a very cool, also sonically very flexible, unique amp, especially for power amp saturation and vintage sound fans.

The plugin also offers a very wide selection of top-notch cabinet IR's, but also allows deactivation and the use of some own external IR's instead. The fx-section/channel strip is the typical Brainworx quality.

Not my favorite guitar fuzz/distortion pedal, but obviously still popular and liked from others.

Good, if not meanwhile legendary vintage Fuzz/Distortion/Sustain pedal with a nicely unique sound, which you can like or also not, the highlight of the pedal certainly is the combined high pass / low pass tone control, called Filter here, which allows a good - or even better, compared with other units from the same time - adjustment to the used guitar and amp.

Nembrini typical very good, authentic and convincing sound, the -15dB option is a nice addition for some cleaner tones.

A Nembrini version of a Small Stone, Small Clone, but also maybe of a Pitch Fork would more be my taste, but this plugin is freeware and (not only) for a freeware the sound and programming quality is excellent.

By the way, this unit also sounds fantastic in front of eg. a Taurus, Minimoog, OBX or other (vintage) synthesizers, but also in front of a Hammond! In front of them I like it even more than as a guitar pedal.

Most probably the only plate reverb plugin, you ever will need.

A lot of useful tweaking options plus some features, a real plate reverb cannot offer and the typical Soundtoys quality.

I upgraded from Little Plate, which I already liked, but SuperPlate is a different league with much more, well adjustable and controllable options. All of them make sense in specific contexts, but I find the Auto-Decay one of the most important ones.

No future wishes, maybe apart from one: A spring reverb form Soundtoys with comparable features and flexibility.

Cleverly designed plugin in the typical, good AO quality.

Separateley adjustable and activatable (or deactivatable) eq- and / or saturation bands are an excellent idea and this concept also works well, after you have learned, how the plugin works.

The frequencies also are well selected. The results sound very natural. Also the blending option is an advantage.

The only things, I would like to see in maybe a future upgrade is a general on/off switch plustwo spearate zero-reset knobs for both the eq and the saturation sections, but as this plugin is freeware, this is complaining at a very high level.

Great idea and excellent realization.

I think, I can delete my other graphic eq and saturation plugins, this one does everything better, at least for me.

Some sort of hot-rod boutique Plexi, I would say. Nice British voiced tones with also more gain, but sonically closer to the original than eg. a Soldano.

A littel more "American" voiced than a real Marshall, I would say, more balanced and not as dirty and brutal sounding than the British original, but a great sounding amp /plugin.

Sounds to me better, than the sonically more flexible PT100, as the tones have - for me - more character.