Metal Guitar w/ Free Pedal VST's - Demo & Tutorial (feat. NaLex Amps & Devil's Lab IRs) 

in my humble opinion these plugins sound freaking sick. thanks for the video man

i discovered your channel by sounding like devin townsend with free vst ... seems a lifetime ago ... this is a nice throwback

Hey Ryan good to see you man.🍺🎸🎛🥁🎙💪

The Nalex site was down just a few days ago, and had been for some time. Just checked and it's mysteriously back up now that this video is out! \m/

Man, Pectifier... What a plugin! Really impressed when sounds good. I need to test it myself.

Having used a number of these plugins myself, i can say i'm still thoroughly impressed by what you can get for free compared to a number of the paid VSTs i own. What i'm very much unimpressed by are those IRs. Most of them sound like the kind of thing you'd get preinstalled in a Mooer multiFX unit from 2016. Despite already 18,600 IRs, i don't feel the need to add these to my collection.

the pectifier plugin sounds better than the majority of the paid recto plugins. absolutely amazing.

never thought I'd hear you play Periphery!

Great stuff!!!

Not sure if you've tried or heard of the 'Lost in the 70's' stuff but I found some cool bass stuff in there and it's free. I have to admit I haven't messed with their guitar stuff but it's there and free to boot. Good stuff Ryan! :)

Perfect timing, I was just looking into doing some recording again. Hesitant to spend any money since all the previous gear n software i bought won’t even work on a modern pc. At least with an amp it’ll still work a decade later.

Also, precision drive works surprisingly well as a boost or od for bass. Turn up the gain and either put it in front of the sansamp, or run it in parallel with the gain cranked.

What i kept hearing in my head during all this, was that these wouldn't be the star of the show. However, they are absolutely the perfect thing for adding to a mix for that extra umph. For instance, that capture that feels a little empty if you will. Nice clean, articulate, and perfect, but still lacking that nastiness. When adding that nastiness to the original track, goes way off course. Add another track and use one of these, and at a lower level, just to add that spice...

Thanks for sharing!

Nice riffage bro🤘😈

Right on dude!

cool stuff mate ...ty eh!

I'm on it 🎸🔊🤘

The Klon is awesome! I use it on leads sometimes

If I recall, for the Precision Drive, the Q for the tone knob is more aggressive than on a standard tube screamer, blues driver, or SD-1, and the pedal has more gain on tap than a traditional tube screamer, to point putting it in front of an edge of breakup amp makes full on distortion if the attack is all the way down and the volume and gain are both above noon. That makes it better than any other overdrive and also make it able to pull double duty into the territory of a basic 3 knob, medium gain distortion pedal, and THEN you add the gate.

How funny this show up now- I downloaded the free nembrini pedals last weekend. And yeah, just like their amps, they're perfectly fine but not better than what I'm already using (softube's amp room, usually). Didn't connect with the klon at all; wasn't bringing anything new to the table for me. The TS and rat were cool (as metal boosts), but the softube ones were just a bit more aggressive and alive. I also tried their Quinta and that thing is a mess, but still kinda fun. The pitch shifter in amplitube beat it easily, though it only gives you one extra note, while the Quinta can do three. But it has plenty of artifacts and latency of you're into that.

Pretty awesome stuff. I like the Nalex Amplex quite a lot. It's a quick tone box that gets there with minimal tweaking. Definitely have a look at TrueSim at some point, it's been improved and there's quite a few circuits for it. The Nembrini stuff I can take it or leave it. Honestly Mercuriall and Ignite have better stuff. I've not yet found a convincing Rat pedal in plug format. The NDSP Gojira's Dirt pedal gets most of the way there though. For Klon stuff I like the ChowDsp ChowCentaur. Has a standard analog modeled mode and a neural net trained mode. Use the neural mode for lower noise. Pretty awesome. Cheers Ryan

my current free amp sim I'm using for fun is the NAM capture plugin

You should check out Neural Amp Modeler. All the amp sims pale in comparison.

Nice playing wtf

10:33 escape nice

Todaaayyyyy, the warning came in the flood....

You gotta check out the Bratwurst Fuzz!

Hey, I didn’t hear anything when you first started demoing the BOD bass drive plugin. Did you turn the bass down or something?

Had a personal and health related episode in what is starting to be a saga of shit. Greatly appreciate these back to basics vids. Like warm buttered bread on an empty stomach.

Shame you didn't include the elephant in the room, the NAM.

Escape is one of my favorite Metallica songs

i wonder when your neural amp modeler video is gonna come out. for me it made all my other amp sims obsolete

Not free, but I've been messing with a lot of Audio Assault stuff lately because they have a sale like every other day and so I'll basically get them for free. Good stuff.

12:08 EHG 🦍

what are your fav impulse responses

Nalex used to work on my Mac OS 10.4 Mojave. I upgraded to 10.5 Catalina and it didn't work. So I downgraded back to Mojave and for some reason it doesn't work ☹️

Yeah, that Metal Zone plus Friedman, never thought of that combination. Will try that soon! The Nalex Gerbert with an Ignite Amps TSB-1 in front also creates pretty heavy sounds, worth a try! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-m6lN3dCySuk.html or here dialed in to serve both worlds, crunch and rhythm ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GGjtwWyPcT0.html

The BOD sounds nothing like the Tech21 SansAmp BDDI. The low end is COMPLETELY off, as is the case of pretty much all bass plugins I've tried along the years. I mean, it's free and can be useful, but people shouldn't dismiss the real BDDI if they don't like the BOD tone. In my opinion bass modelling haven't got much better since the original Line6 Bass POD, which is a bummer.