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Overloud, an Almateq brand, is based in Modena, Italy. The company's mission is to produce state-of-the-art software and hardware tools for musicians. Overloud is developing innovative signal processing technologies, based on several years of research in the audio DSP field. Overloud products feature intuitive and lifelike user interfaces making them very easy to use.

Products by Overloud

Latest reviews of Overloud products

TH-U Made In Rock Series

Reviewed By Faydit [all]
February 3rd, 2024
Version reviewed: 1.4.23 on Windows

Concerning only the Jim P:

This is a very cool amp.

Much better and more authentically sounding than the stock-Overloud-Marshalls/Plexis, but also seems to have some sort of unique tone. Tons of treble, bite and not as much low-end in Normal channel as I know it from most 1959's. Ok, this is a JMP50 and with this one I had no experience up to now.

You definitely get very typical Led Zeppelin tones out of this amp, but also a lot of different ones, depending on your own settings and adjustments.

A big advantage is, that you can switch between the possible inputs and input combinations, essential for getting great and authentic tones out of these amps.

Cabinet also sounds good.

A must have for Marshall fans in my opinion. Also a big sound improvement, if compared with older TH-U amps. This really is state-of-the-art.

More in this quality, please.

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TH-U Funk and R&B Edition

Reviewed By Rodam [all]
April 18th, 2023
Version reviewed: 1.4.19 on Windows

This plugin pack is perfect for what I was looking for: clean, mid-gain and edge of breakup sounds. The quality of the amp simulations is excellent. I especially liked the sound of Tweed and THD. It is also possible to get heavier distortions using a tube screen and marshal amp. The interface is practical and functional.

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TH-U RockGuy

Reviewed By MRT [all]
March 20th, 2023
Version reviewed: 1.4.19 on Windows

The RockGuy sounds good, and I feel it's a pretty faithful emulation of the hardware. I've rated lower based on my impression of the TH-U interface. RockGuy GUI is harder to read at 200% than it is at 100. I find the scroll box cumbersome and fiddly to work with.

On the upside, they give you a fair amount of amps and effects to assemble a decent sound.

Probably a buy if you're already in the TH-Universe, I suggest the demo first if you're not.

I would like to see RockGuy as VST free of the TH-U shell.

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TH-U RockGuy

Reviewed By carsonics [all]
March 11th, 2023
Version reviewed: 1.0 on Windows

The small number of mediocre guitar presets is a letdown. But I suppose the programming potential brings better results.

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TH-U 60's Pack

Reviewed By Faydit [all]
December 28th, 2022
Version reviewed: 1 on Windows

Really cool addition, with three really essential amps. Ok, the Rock '59 RR is not really Sixties, but rather Seventies, as little as it's G12T-75 speakers, but Input I offers a typical Sixties Plexi tone nevertheless. while Input 2 offers the Hot-Rod tone, so it in fact is two amps in one.

The Fuzz and Treble Booster are essential effects for this era, even more useful is the Magnetic Delay (Echorec 2 - Gilmour/Pink Floyd), as it offers a very unique sounds, a little different to tape echoes, even more to later analog and digital delays and this in excellent quality.

Overloud also offers the Echorec as separate plugin in the GEM series, but this one is more expensive and for guitar use this version offers in principle all you really will need, including all authentic, switchable head combinations plus individual time adjustment, so alone this Echo unit could be worth a purchase.

The AC15 is a nice AC30 alternative, the Super Reverb also does a good job and Rock '59 RR offers a lot more sounds than first expected.

Also the amp deep editing option, which allows the use of different tubes, is a nice feature for some customizations.

The cabinets sound good, but meanwhile I almost always prefer using SuperCabinet (with the TH-U amps, but also with Rig Player), as it even offers more customization and tailoring options.

Recommended.

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TH-U Greg Howe Pack

Reviewed By Faydit [all]
November 30th, 2022
Version reviewed: 1 on Windows

Nice addition to TH-U.

I must admit, I am not the biggest fan of the Greg Howe amps, my main reason to buy this addition was the PlexiPhone / PlexiTone pedal.

I am not really a Tube Screamer fan and of most of my favorite pedals (OCD, Zendrive, Timmy, ..) there are not even any plugins available (not inside TH-U as little as outside) or at least not really very authentically sounding ones, so the PlexiPhone not only fills this sonic gap a little, in fact it is even more, a really good sounding Plexi-in-a-Box, which sounds more convincing to me than a lot of Plexi amp simulation plugins, apart from a few excellent exceptions.

Just add Supercabinet and you get a wide range of excellent Plexi-based tones, from classic crunch to high gain, even without the additional Boost.

As meanwhile also the Greg Howe Lick Box is existing, in principle an even more customized, a little different voiced version of the PlexiPhone / PlexiTone with separate Gain, Tone, Volume controls for both Crunch and High Gain mode, I really would appreciate, if this pedal also could be implemented into the Greg Howe addition in a future upgrade.

But even the PlexiPhone alone sounds more convincing to me than most Marshall models within TH-U, which I find strange. If you can create such a convincing simulation of this pedal, why does this not work with the real tube amps equally good?

But I'm anyway hardly using any TH-U amp models meanwhile, these simulation simply do not convince me very much, but TH-U also offers Rig Player alternatively, and - not all - but some Rig Libraries offer really convincing simulations, also beautiful rarities, which match my expectations on a good amp simulation much more.

The really outstanding exceptions, concerning the built-in models are the PlexiPhone and also the Rockguy / Rockman Sustainor for me.

Highly recommended for all TH-U users, who like good Plexi-based sounds.

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Gem EQP

Reviewed By MattiaSanti [all]
April 13th, 2022
Version reviewed: 1.0 on Mac

The overloud audio tools team has released a new plug-in from the GEM series called EQP.
This plug-in includes three of the most iconic emulations of the famous Pultec passive EQs EQP-1A, MEQ-5 and HLF 3C in one plug-in.

The strengths of this plug-in apart from the great realism of the product are the addition of a Display and Clip Level.
This tool transforms the sound of your drums, synths, vocals or mix in more dynamic and punchy.

Features:
Emulations inspired to Pultec* EQP-1A, MEQ-5 and HLF 3C
Integrated programmable Clipper for punchy tones
Frequency response graphic display for full control of the unit
Obsessively accurate recreation of the original harmonic generation, with the Overloud's Harmonic Matching technique
Resizable graphic interface
Selectable high oversampling mode
Internal operating level calibration
Multilevel undo-redo.

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TH-U RockGuy

Reviewed By G.Quagmire [all]
January 27th, 2022
Version reviewed: 1.0 on Mac

I don't love it, I don't hate it, and I'm glad I got it on sale. For the price, even at full price, you really can't go wrong though. I never had actual Rockman hardware unit to compare it to, so I can't say how it compares to the real thing.

In general, the presets are few and they didn't blow me away. But there *were* a couple of good clean sounds. The good news is, I think if you spend some time tweaking it, you can get some good sounds, and there aren't thousands of options for reverb, delay, etc. that could confound you with option paralysis.

There's a trial. I recommend it before buying anything.

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