Great Amp Sim/Synth

I only recently found this this amp sim from Fretted Synth, I think I must have discounted it before when I downloaded Fee amp 3 because this is FreeAmp 2.5 - I figured it was just an older version. Oh no! It's a completely different offering. It has some great presets and speaker sims, doesn't use a lot of cpu. It comes with a bunch of stomp boxes. I prefer this one to V.3 when I want brighter more sparky and clean tones. As a brilliant bonus it has a synthesizer built that sounds incredible - the presets pretty far out, especially like the swell effect. I can't program it yet but I'll figure it out soon enough You can download it here:

This is a new release. It was released a couple of weeks ago, if I remember correctly. The older FreAmp 2 was indeed the predecessor to FreeAmp3.

I've been playing with this amp using my guitar sample libraries (they're all dry DI recorded samples), and FreeAmp2.5, with some of the presets (and maybe a tweak to the tone knobs), is capable of producing some of the most beautiful clean Strat tones I've ever heard come out of my computer (and I own GuitarRig3XE, RevalverMkII, StudioDevil, GXStack and GreenMachineAmp2, and a pile of freebies). Even more so than FreeAmp3 I've never even looked at the synth aspect of the app though...it's strictly an amp and fx rack to me, and a damned good one at that. I prefer the FX view though ;)

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Gracias Merci and more for this one! I tried it with my test tracks and I love the range. Lots of clean and crunch great subtlety Mmmmhhhh!

@StepOne: Depends on what you want. I'd prefer Dig (or some of the amp sims I've bought)over FA2.5 (or 3) for crunchy/heavy sounds, though FA can produce interesting sounds that way, but for interesting and often downright beautiful cleanish tones, FA2.5 really impresses. Just go through the first series of presets (the "Clean" section) and see for yourself...only takes a minute to drop the dll in your vst folder and rescan.

Well, I inserted an instance of FA2.5 into 3 instruments, lead, acoustic and bass, which sounds insane, but unless I'm missing something, seems to work fine. One instance into Sonar8PE causes the program to hang unless I insert Revalver and host in in that, but it seems fine in Reaper.

is that on a dual or quad core processor? Some say they don't experience any crashes, but a large proportion of synthedit users attest to the problem, it's documented and is a major bug.

I'm on a 2.4Ghz Quad core (2.4Ghz). And I just loaded three instances of FA3 into Reaper and that seems to work fine too, so yeah, could be the processor...or my superior Creative X-Fi card (har!)

I'm getting some gorgeous Fendery clean blues tones from this. DIG for me just has too much gain, and the clean doesn't sound much like an amp to me FA 3 is great for getting Vox type tones but it lacks the sparkle of FA2.5, they're just different. I think the problem people have with FA3 is the presets are all pretty horrid, I spent quite a bit of time making my own and they sound great.