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Gain Stage Vintage Clean by Mani Consulting Limited Company
https://apps.apple.com/app/id1508081069
Description:
This plugin sounds totally unlike any existing hardware amp but it also sounds totally different from any other software amp plugin. If you need for a perfect copy of your favorite tube amplifier this is not the amp you are looking for. However, if you want something new and different with a warm, softly saturated tone and none of the harsh fizziness found in badly-designed software amps then you will love Gain Stage Vintage Clean.
Gain Stage Vintage Clean has a unique feel that becomes warm and punchy as you increase the input gain. The unusual design of this amplifier eliminates more than 99% of the unpleasant aliasing noise typically associated with software amps. Compared to other amp sims, listeners immediately recognise that is has a sweeter, more natural tone quality. Compared with real guitar amps, it takes more gain to push this plugin into distortion so when you increase the gain it will become warmer and more but it won't easily go into heavy distortion.
When we started work on this plugin we intended to build a software amp that handles every style from clean country to hardcore and metal but when we discovered that its design doesn't handle high-gain distortion tones, we started working on a new design that more closely resembles real high gain guitar amplifiers. However, since many of our beta testers liked the clean and low-gain distortion tones that this design makes, we are releasing Gain Stage Vintage Clean as a separate software amp with a sound that you can't get anywhere else.
Gain Stage Vintage Clean includes six amp models: Four clean amps, one blues amp and one crunch-style amp. It also has everything you need to get a basic clean guitar sound: two five-band equalizers, stereo cabinet simulation, reverb, and a peak limiter.
NOTE: GAIN STAGE VINTAGE CLEAN IS AN AUDIO UNIT PLUGIN. IT RUNS INSIDE A HOST APP SUCH AS GarageBand OR AUM. IT DOES NOT RUN AS A STANDALONE APP.
Comments
Congrats @Blue_Mangoo 👊🏼🙃
Here is my demo for Gain Stage Vintage Clean, no other effects applied just the tones from the App
This is crazy good. It can really transform a synth sound into something that sounds like a guitar. I just spent two hours playing with any kind of instrument. Very impressed. It can even turn Geoshred output into something enjoyable !
I’d love to hear it on synth sounds
Nice... the development model for this app was go great! I owe you and it's time to settle the bill.
Amp Sim's are a crowded marketplace but tis is really a tone changer like ReAmp that benefitted from real amp targets. It will come in handy to add "Room", tube like processing and a lot more.
I hope it finds the right audience and delivers a fast pay back and hopefully profit to encourage more
tone targets in updates or companions or IAP's.
Lovely. I do not play guitars. Just poke at synths sounds, preferably lo-fi pianos and such. Bought this because there's a Y in the day, and ran it up straight away in AUM with dear old Thor. Lovely. I mean, really. And that's without getting past the first preset which I would've paid the 5.99 for, sufficient pleasure did it give me and, more importantly, immediately does it make me want to write a miserable song. No higher praise.
Loving it - adds a wonderful character to all sounds that I am throwing at it; not used it with a guitar yet. It makes everything sound like a live recording - in a good way.
Well put.
This has now become my default amp(?) for my guitar. Didn’t realize I’d been looking for this all my life. I wonder what this’ll do singing?
@Blue_Mangoo i went to buy this app, but it shows I have it through the beta, for free. Will the beta expire eventually? I would like to purchase.
Look for the App called "Gain Stage Vintage Clean" and NOT just "Gain Stage". It's nice if they actually left the beta open a bit longer while you collect the coins from the sofa cushions.
This is not an intro price, correct?
@bcrichards Most betas expire after 90 days.
I like it. Audio starts around 30 seconds, sorry.
I’m having difficulty with managing the presets for this app.
If I create a preset in AUM and ‘save in plugin’ (rather than ‘save in AUM’) I can’t access that preset outside of AUM, eg. In Cubasis.
Have I got the wrong end of the stick?
I've been building some very elaborate guitar rigs in AUM but yesterday I went back to mu iPhone
5s and realized that nothing works as well as Gain Stage Vintage to give me a great practice tone
and still have the extra CPU I need to play an iTunes backing track.
I strap the iPhone 5s on the front of my Telecaster for mobile practice sessions... it helps to also use a battery pack. The IK Multimedis iRig HD is just the right size and weight for an on guitar studio rig.
Gain Stage lets me add an amp model, control over oversampling, control over reverb and has a peak limiter. If I have extra CPU I can add the Magic Death Eye compressor for extra mid-range saturation
or a specific stomp box effect or a more detailed reverb but the core amp sim functions are all covered with the most effective CPU utilization.
I'm sure this also carries over to complex AUM constructions with sequencing, modular synths, etc. You need something that gets the job done but leaves enough resources to do extra parallel work.
I really hope we see this amp sim approach continue with either extra presets, IAP sound tone packs or additional instances. This one got buried in the explosion of Nembrini products and the subsequent exposure of GE Labs and TH-U amp sim products. But it's a real work horse for so many situations and should be a must have for anyone that likes clean guitars.
@McD I agree.
It’s a great app. V powerful tone manipulation and built in IR & limiter.
But I need to be able to transfer my presets between AU hosts please! @Blue_Mangoo
I haven’t yet got any of the Nembrini amp sims yet as they have all been high-gain models.
I’m looking forward to trying the upcoming one which is modelled on the 90s Tonemaster.
Indeed, sounds great. In a way I can’t really explain it doesn’t sound like other amp emulations, to me it doesn’t really sound like a guitar amp!. I find it it sounds more “natural” and lets more of the guitar sound through… makes it fuller, gives a sense of space, but doesn’t the alter the sound in the way regular amp sims do. Maybe that’s what the “clean” stands for.
Being reminded by this post of how much I like this app I wonder why I don’t use it more… because I’m an appaholic and need to use and try whatever I purchased last. In the “real world” I had one guitar (Telecaster) and one amp (Fender Deluxe), and was happy with that. I’m gonna try to stick more to the tried-and-loved on iOS, that means going back more to GS Vintage Clean. It just works.
One of my Fav sims , spent quite some time on this one , very clean tones, has its own sound
Can get some nice amp like sounds if you stack 2 of them
I have Gain Stage Acoustic app from blue mangoo and it really helps Geoshred guitar sound more 'realistic'. Will this Vintage one help Geoshred sound to make it better even further? Any video demo with Geoshred guitar will be helpful.
Yes I love this app 👍
Me too. For a long time.
Do you agree in that it doesn’t aim to sound “like an amp”?. It obviously has a lot of common ground with amp sims but I think it’s a different approach, one I applaud. Instead of trying to clone an amp, it just focuses on making a guitar sound better. Why are we stuck trying to recreate vintage gear?. I’m not saying vintage gear doesn’t sound great, it does. But is it the only way, the only approach?. We’re used to the sound of gear that’s 60 years old, so it’s like the “standard” but maybe it’s time to look past that.
It’s unique flavor is partly that it isn’t an amp sim. The dev explained on the forum that it isn’t an amp emulator. He designed it to have the sort of impact an amp and speakers have on a signal in the abstract without really emulating hardware.
I think partly its unique sound comes from taking a much simpler approach: most amp sims are modelling existing gear, sometimes right down to individual components (this is what Nembrini and Bias do for example), whereas the approach used here is much simpler: just some EQ and saturation stages. But on top of that it also takes oversampling much more seriously than most other sims (some don't do any oversampling at all), and that results in a much smoother and more pleasing sound.
So rather than get lost in the weeds which is arguably what some sims are doing, it just focuses on the important stuff, which is tone.
On the other hand I think for a lead player it might lack some of the feel and touch of the modelled sims, but I think for rhythm playing it definitely has really great tone.
I really enjoy the apps made by Blue Mangoo, really focuses on clean-ness and clarity of sound, makes a great Compressor, Stereo tool(s), Reverb, EQ, Delay… I wonder what else he’s working on.
Maybe a nice LUFS Limiter/Analyzer?
Another thing about Vintage Clean, it takes distortion pedals (e.g. Nembrini) really well.