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Built for electric guitar or bass: amp and cabinet simulation, and the pedal-shaped effects that go with them.

Also called cabinet guitar effect pedal stompbox

Includes amp

Related amp distortion

45 plugins in this category. Also as Turtle.

8ridgelite

8ridgelite— James Stubbs

8 string guitar virtual instrument with one extra octave below for good measure!

free open source GPL-3.0 VST3 AudioUnit instrument guitar

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

Black and Green Guitars

Black and Green Guitars— DSmolken

Black Hofner Club and Green Gretsch Anniversary electric guitars.

free open source CC0-1.0 instrument sampler guitar

Breakdowner

Breakdowner— Juan Sebastian Ospina

Distortion plugin with a pedal-style UI

free open source MIT VST3 effect distortion amp guitar

BYOD

BYOD— Chowdhury DSP

Build-your-own guitar distortion!

free open source GPL-3.0 VST3 LV2 AudioUnit CLAP effect distortion guitar

Chameleon

Chameleon— GuitarML

Neural tone matching and model morphing plugin. Capture your own tones or load community models and blend them in real-time using Proteus technology. Excellent for guitarists looking for accurate amp/cab/pedal matching.

free open source GPL-3.0 VST3 LV2 AudioUnit AAX effect guitar

DISTROAR

DISTROAR— Melinte Florin

Heavy, gritty VST3 distortion plugin for electric guitar.

free open source GPL-3.0 VST3 effect distortion guitar

FaceMelter

FaceMelter— Rudro085

This is a distortion pedal vst plugin for guitar.

free open source MIT VST3 effect distortion amp guitar

Guitar Strum Sequencer

Guitar Strum Sequencer— Allen SC Wu

A 16-step MIDI FX plugin that turns held chords into realistic, string-by-string guitar strumming patterns using a chord voicing engine.

free open source MIT VST3 AudioUnit Standalone effect midi guitar sequencer

Guitar Vocoder

Guitar Vocoder— Duncan

Vocoder plugin that combines a voice and guitar input, for Logic Pro, Pro Tools, REAPER, and other AU/VST3/AAX hosts

free open source MIT VST3 AudioUnit AAX effect guitar

GuitarD

GuitarD— TobiasKozel

Node based multi effects audio processor

free open source MIT VST3 AudioUnit Standalone effect guitar

GuitarMidi

GuitarMidi— Gerald Mwangi

Analyses a guitar's audio signal with a bank of bandpass filters and a neural net to extract played notes and outputs them as MIDI, with velocity/expressivity tracking.

free open source LGPL-2.1 LV2 midi instrument generator guitar

GuitPreamp

GuitPreamp— Guillermo Moñino Cánovas

Guitar preamp plugin blending ideas from multiple preamp effects — noise gate, tone-shaping character/emphasis EQ, tube-emulated drive, and a compressor

free open source MIT VST3 AudioUnit effect distortion 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

Kapitonov Plugins Pack— Oleg Kapitonov

A collection of LV2 guitar sound processing plugins, including a tube amp emulator with preamp/tonestack/power-amp/cabinet stages, distortion, and fuzz.

free open source GPL-3.0 LV2 effect distortion 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

LooperPedal

LooperPedal— Rafael Bormann Chuede

Guitar looper pedal plugin with MIDI control — record, overdub, play, and pause loops up to 120 seconds with seamless crossfade

free open source GPL-3.0 LV2 midi instrument sampler guitar

Midi Strummer

Midi Strummer— MrMatch246

MidiStrummer turns incoming MIDI chords into strummed note sequences, with adjustable strum direction, free or tempo-synced timing (including triplets), and note order — inspired by the strum feature on Arturia's KeyStep

free open source GPL-3.0 VST3 effect midi guitar sequencer

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

NEAMPMOD The Tweed

NEAMPMOD The Tweed— Daniel Wray

Vintage tweed amplifier plugin based on the 1957 Fender® 5E3 Deluxe. Physics-based modelling with selectable oversampling, IR/dynamic cab support, and advanced tube simulation.

free open source GPL-3.0 VST3 CLAP effect guitar

NEAMPMOD The Victor

NEAMPMOD The Victor— Daniel Wray

A 1950's era Fender® Champ 5C1 amplifier plugin. Circuit-level simulation with tube models, IR loading support, input/output trim, and circuit stats.

free open source GPL-3.0 VST3 CLAP effect 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

NeuralRack

NeuralRack— brummer10

NeuralRack is a Neural Model and Impulse Response File loader for Linux/Windows.

free open source BSD-3-Clause LV2 CLAP VST2 effect 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

Proteus

Proteus— Keith Bloemer

Guitar amp and pedal capture plugin using neural networks.

free open source GPL-3.0 VST3 LV2 AudioUnit AAX effect 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

Schrammel OJD

Schrammel OJD— JanosGit

Audio plugin model of a modern classic guitar overdrive Pedal

free open source GPL-3.0 VST3 AudioUnit effect distortion 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

Spanish Classical Guitar

Spanish Classical Guitar— Freepats

Spanish classical guitar with nylon strings, recorded with an AKG Perception 120 microphone.

free open source CC0-1.0 instrument sampler 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

The Mono Hawk

The Mono Hawk— NL Sounds

Chromatic tuner for guitar and bass on Linux (LV2)

free open source GPL-3.0 LV2 bass instrument utility 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

VstProfiler

VstProfiler— Quentin Stoll

Open-source guitar amplifier simulator plugin that models the sound and dynamic behavior of legendary guitar amplifiers using impulse responses, circuit modeling, and lightweight machine learning.

free open source GPL-3.0 VST3 effect guitar