Free doesn’t mean bad, it means to attract attention and recognition.
Pay is a reward for your hard work!

 

In this era, recording an electric guitar in a professional  studio or your home studio setup has two possibilities. Recording an amp with a microphone, which needs a soundproof environment or doing it in the digital domain using an amp simulator. 

 

If you are a newcomer to the amp simulators world and trying to move into the digital domain realm, probably the best way to be introduced to it, is to try some free options.

To develop a free amp simulator doesn’t always mean that the developers are cutting corners!

It’s actually a presentation to the world of what your plugins are capable of. It’s a piece of  showcase with just a little less options, but at the same time gives the world of guitar players a chance to try and make a decision for future upgrades.

 

Our amp simulator Amplifikation Lite is exactly that. It’s a piece of our full range of amp simulators, using the same technology and DSP. The design behind the dsp and the modeling of the amp topology is coming from our chairman and dsp guru Arie. His journey started long ago while studying computer programming and engineering in the university while also performing with his band, then his dream to have a studio ready guitar tones in his computer “forced” him to do it by himself.

 

After many sleepless nights of coding, he released some free amp sims to the world under the name Aradaz – his nickname. Receiving feedback from the growing online forum communities and hearing people’s recordings  pushed him to achieve more. As YJM  says: ”More is more!”
He dug deeper and around 2010 the first commercial amp simulator was released under the hood of his dream – Kuassa. In 2022, we reached a point where our products are used by many professional musicians all around the world.

 

Our Free Amplifikation Lite

 

Amplifikation Lite allows you to create ultra-realistic sounding guitar sounds simply by plugging your guitar into your computer’s sound card input., instantly getting high-quality guitar tracks with a simple audio interface and non-obstructive workflow with Amplifikation Lite. Under the hood, this free amp sim is using the same algorithm as our other plugins and delivers the same experience.

 

Link: https://www.kuassa.com/products/amplifikation-lite/

 

Key Features:

  • FREE!
  • 3 channels: Clean, Rhythm, Lead.
  • 9 Parameters: Input, Channel selector, Gain, Bass, Middle, Treble, Presence, Volume and Cabinet On/Off.
  • Built-in Cabinet Impulse Response Loader.
  • Supports sample rates of up to 96 kHz.

 

It’s coming in two packages:

  • As a single plugin: VST and Audio Units compatible DAW oor host software
  • Module in our Amplifikation 360 environment 

User video: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kelrw6nbmmo

You can load the VST and AU in your host as a single plugin. The internal cabinet is carefully selected to match the amp overall tone. The 3 channels are complementing each other. You can disable the internal cabinet and load your own impulse response as well. 

 

Here are a few useful tones to start with:

Clean:

Clean Audio Sample Google Drive Mp3

Rhythm:

Rhythm Audio Sample Google Drive Mp3

Lead:

Lead Audio Sample Google Drive Mp3

 

Another option is to use Amplifikation Lite in the A360 environment and load it as a module. A360 is also free to use, and you can demo and try out our other Amps and Efektors!

You can also use our Free EQ, split the signal in the container and build a more complex patch.
Link: https://www.kuassa.com/products/amplifikation-360/


In this example we will use the Efektor GQ3607 Graphic Equalizer, to boost the amp and shape the input as a clean boost and then split two amp instances of the amp in the container module and achieve a huge and  wide stereo rhythm guitar tone.

 

Link: https://www.kuassa.com/products/efektor-gq3607-graphic-equalizer/ 

Listen to the sample and download the preset:
Google Drive link,  zipped audio and presets: Audio Sample and Preset for A360 in a zip archive  

 

Hear the amp in a full production inside A360 here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJBr4TJ4_d4

The development of amp simulators is almost 20 years old already and they evolved to a point where many professionals are preferring the ease and the quick realistic results that they are offering.

 

The FREE amp sims are giving you a few options:

 

  • Instant reamping. You can change the tone in any time and point of the composing and final mixing process
  • Easy access to any microphone and speaker models. Professionally recorded.
  • Ready presets and settings made from professional mixing engineers and guitarists.
  • Quick recall of your tones for different projects-songs using presets.
  • Happy neighbors and neighborhood…well sort of.

So, go ahead and download Amplifikation Lite.Turn the volume knob on your guitar all the way up and rock on! You will not be disappointed!