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Simulates a guitar or bass amplifier and its cabinet.

Not lv2:AmplifierPlugin, which means a gain stage — a false friend worth stating, since the names match and the meanings do not. lv2:SimulatorPlugin is the closer LV2 class.

Also called amp sim amplifier simulation cabinet simulation combo head

Part of guitar

Elsewhere lv2:SimulatorPlugin

24 plugins in this category. Also as Turtle.

Altar

Altar— iamlamprey

Modular DSP with guitar amplifier models, cab IRs, NAM (A1/A2) support, overdrive pedals, delay, reverb, chorus, ringmod, cab designer, realtime pitch shifting, tuner, recorder, and more.

free open source GPL-3.0 VST3 AudioUnit Standalone effect amp guitar

Breakdowner

Breakdowner— Juan Sebastian Ospina

Distortion plugin with a pedal-style UI

free open source MIT VST3 effect distortion amp guitar

FaceMelter

FaceMelter— Rudro085

This is a distortion pedal vst plugin for guitar.

free open source MIT VST3 effect distortion amp guitar

Integra

Integra— KαΩSS

A faithful LV2 emulation of the TC Electronic Integrated Preamplifier

free open source GPL-3.0 LV2 effect amp guitar

Kapitonov Plugins Pack (KPP)

Kapitonov Plugins Pack (KPP)— olegkapitonov

Set of guitar sound processing plugins (VST3). Includes tubeAmp (advanced tube amp emulator with profiles), Bluedream, Distruction, Fuzz, Deadgate, Octaver, and Single2Humbucker. Great for guitar tones.

free open source GPL-3.0 VST3 effect distortion amp guitar

NAM JUCE

NAM JUCE— Manos Labrakis

A JUCE implementation of Steven Atkinson's Neural Amp Modeler Plugin

free open source GPL-3.0 VST3 AudioUnit effect amp guitar

NAM On Steroids

NAM On Steroids— ToneScientist

A fork of the Neural Amp Modeler plugin focused on adding experimental oversampling support for NAM models

free open source MIT VST3 Standalone effect amp guitar

Neural Amp Modeler

Neural Amp Modeler— sdatkinson

Plugin for Neural Amp Modeler.

free open source MIT VST3 AudioUnit effect amp guitar

Neural Amp Modeler LV2

Neural Amp Modeler LV2— Mike Oliphant

Neural Amp Modeler LV2 plugin, supporting both NAM and RTNeural models without a custom GUI

free open source GPL-3.0 LV2 effect amp guitar

OmniAmp

OmniAmp— ArborealAudio

Multi-purpose audio tool.

free open source GPL-3.0 VST3 VST2 effect bass instrument distortion compressor dynamics reverb amp guitar

Pandamonium Fuzz

Pandamonium Fuzz— Matt Anikiej

Pandamonium Fuzz is a chaotic and characterful fuzz pedal plugin. Delivers wild, unpredictable fuzz tones with great sustain and grit — perfect for adding mayhem to your guitar sound.

free open source GPL-3.0 VST3 AudioUnit effect distortion amp guitar

Proco-Rat

Proco-Rat— Rudro085

An emulation of Rat distortion pedal using juce

free open source MIT VST3 effect distortion amp guitar

Pulverize

Pulverize— KαΩSS

An aggressive, cutting clean boost LV2 plugin emulating the Fortin Grind

free open source GPL-3.0 LV2 effect amp guitar

Punk Boost

Punk Boost— Guillermo Moñino Cánovas

A JUCE audio plugin that pretends to emulate the behaviour of a bass preamp pedal effect.

free open source MIT VST3 AudioUnit effect bass instrument amp guitar

Punk EQ

Punk EQ— Guillermo Moñino Cánovas

A JUCE audio plugin that pretends to model the behaviour of an equalizer pedal.

free open source MIT VST3 AudioUnit effect eq amp guitar

Punk Muff

Punk Muff— Guillermo Moñino Cánovas

A JUCE audio plugin that emulates the behaviour of the Big Muff pedal effect through a ML model.

free open source MIT VST3 AudioUnit effect distortion amp guitar

SmartAmpPro

SmartAmpPro— GuitarML

Neural guitar amp plugin using deep learning (LSTM models). Includes built-in recording/capture and model training features. Proteus-compatible.

free open source GPL-3.0 VST3 AudioUnit effect amp guitar

SmartGuitarAmp

SmartGuitarAmp— GuitarML

Uses a WaveNet model to recreate the sound of real world hardware. Models a small tube amp with a clean/lead channel. Gain and EQ knobs modulate the modeled sound.

free open source Apache-2.0 VST3 LV2 AudioUnit AAX effect amp guitar

SmartGuitarPedal

SmartGuitarPedal— GuitarML

Neural guitar pedal plugin using Proteus modeling technology. Load and play various pedal effects, amp models, and conditioned Wavenet models. Easy tone capture and blending.

free open source Apache-2.0 VST3 LV2 AudioUnit AAX effect amp guitar

Soundshed Guitar

Soundshed Guitar— Webprofusion

A fully featured guitar/bass effects app and plugin combining Neural Amp Modeler (NAM) with a modern UI and an extensible signal graph architecture

free open source AGPL-3.0 VST3 LV2 AudioUnit CLAP AAX effect amp guitar

Stompbox

Stompbox— Mike Oliphant

A digital pedalboard supporting NAM models, RTNeural models, cabinet IRs, and traditional effects

free open source GPL-3.0 VST3 effect amp guitar

STR-X

STR-X— ArborealAudio

Custom Guitar Amplifier

free open source GPL-3.0 VST3 LV2 CLAP VST2 effect amp guitar

TONE3000 Plugin

TONE3000 Plugin— TONE3000

A JUCE-based audio plugin that loads Neural Amp Modeler (NAM) captures and impulse responses (IRs) from the TONE3000 online tone catalog, letting you browse, sign in, and add tones directly into your signal chain.

free open source MIT VST3 LV2 AudioUnit CLAP AAX Standalone effect amp guitar

TooB Amp

TooB Amp— Robin Davies

A set of high-quality guitar effect plugins for Raspberry Pi with specific support for PiPedal, including a dedicated Neural Amp Modeler

free open source MIT LV2 effect amp guitar