Metal Amp Room by Softube

Metal Amp Room was designed to bring you the most brutal, evil and aggressive sound that is possible to squeeze out of your DAW.

Co-developed with Patrik Jensen (The Haunted) and tailored to his needs. The continuous mic placement from Vintage Amp Room is back, but this time with twin mics with adjustable stereo panning. Get a huge stereo sound with complex adjustable phasing effects, a plain old one-mic-right-against-the-cone, or anything in between. The cabinets were measured in the In Flames studio (previously known as Studio Fredman) by Tue Madsen and Patrik Jensen.

"I have to say I was very surprised when I heard the results. It really does sound like the way I record guitars and it makes me want to do a lot more setups for them."

Tue Madsen, Producer

Focusing on usability and sound quality, this is a plug-in that is proud not to include a gazillion amps, effects racks, patch cords, or a blow- dryer. Just two channels, two cabinets, two mics per cabinet, and a wickedly fast noise gate for palm mute galore. Every setting is a setting that will sound good, so it's almost impossible to get a useless sound. Metal Amp Room is a real workhorse, a plug-in that will handle all your metal needs without ever getting in your way.

Features

"...this one really manages to convey a sense of power and weight."

Paul White, Sound On Sound (Nov 2008)

A brutal metal amp...
... with a raw & authentic sound
And a program-dependent guitar noise gate
Two cabs with two mics per cabinet
Easy to use balancing stereo mic preamp for balancing the two mics
Flexible & continuous click-and-drag mic positioning
Fully automatable parameters
3-D rendered photo-realistic user interface
Compatible with all effects that work with real amps
NEW in v.1.1! Amp/Cab Bypass possiblities

Controls

Program-Dependent
One-Knob Gate

The gate in Metal Amp Room will automatically analyze your playing. Fast playing will give you an extremely fast gate, while slow playing will yield a slower closing gate. Regardless of playing style, the gate will always react instantaneously and open up faster than any hardware gate, without adding any latency to the signal.

Double mics on
double cabs

Both cabinets have two mics each, one dynamic and one condenser. Fully flexible mic positioning, link mic functionality and realistic room resonance modeling will give you just the result you need, and much more.

Intuitive Stereo Control

The Balancing Stereo Preamp will always keep your guitar signal focused, while giving you easy access to the features you want to use. While keeping the guitar signal centered, you can easily monitor each mic, change the stereo width of the signal, and dial in the sound that you want.

Bypass Amp or Cabinet

By popular demand we have added the possibility to bypass either the amp sim or the cabinet simulation to version 1.1. The most straight-forward use of this feature is to use the amp simulation together with your favorite real-life guitar cabinet, or to use the cabinet simulations together with the line-out signal from your amplifier.

You'll find the bypass options if you open the "About"-box by clicking on the Metal Amp Room logo!

Tue Madsen Signature Presets

Metal Amp Room is now featuring presets containing Tue Madsen's favorite settings from his time with Metal Amp Room and his work with Engel, Heaven Shall Burn, Dagoba, Hatesphere, Ektomorf, and Sirenia among others.

The names of all the new presets start with TM (as in "Tue Madsen"). Tue uses the bass presets in conjunction with a clean DI:d signal, and blends between a clean signal and the distorted Metal Amp Room signal.

Crunch Riff

Scooped Riff

Fade Between Mics