A cabinet simulator is made of 2 things:
- An IR loader, which is a plugin with various options,
- An IR, which is an audio file. This audio file is the sound print of the gear you wish to emulate. The IR is what will allow you to simulate the sound of the chosen cabinet, so its quality is essential if you want a good result. In fact, your cabinet simulator is merely an IR loader. Then you choose what type of cabinet you want to emulate.
How to use it?
That's simple. You pick one of the plugins below, for example LeCab 2, then you place it after your amplifier simulator, and you load an IR in it.
The cabinet simulators you can download below are provided without any IRs, so you have to find or buy them and load them in your cab simulator.
You may download free IRs, below, find some on the Internet (free or not), or make them yourself...
NadIR is a free plugin from Ignite Amps. This Italian company makes and sells real guitar amplifiers, and they develop excellent amp simulations (demos on this page). NadIR allows you to load an IR in either available slots and modify the settings as you see fit. You can pick a mono, double mono or stereo signal, set the processing quality depending on your computer ressources, use high-pass and low-pass filters, set the delay and panning of your IRs.
Downloads
Please use the (official web site) to download the latest version, or download the older versions below.
PC VST 32 bits (Ignite Amps NadIR 1.0.2 VST PC x86.zip, 3.41 MB) PC VST 64 bits (Ignite Amps NadIR 1.0.2 VST PC x64.zip, 3.45 MB)
Mac VST (Ignite Amps NadIR 1.0.2 VST Mac Universal Binary.zip, 6.65 MB) Mac AU (Ignite Amps NadIR 1.0.2 AU Mac Universal Binary.zip, 6.73 MB)
This plugin was offered to anyone who bought the complete collection of Redwirez impulses. It's now been replaced by Mix IR3 that you can buy for US$ 52.95.
Please also note that Redwirez Impulse Responses are among the best on the market. Not free, but excellent.
