CRUSHING & CHUNKY New High-Gain Plugin! Kazrog AmpCraft 1992!

[@SonicDriveStudio]

What do you guys think? I dig it!

[@jotunbjorn]

Feels really good. Can't wait for Dual Rectifier and Framus Cobra.

[@SonicDriveStudio]

@@jotunbjorn same! I need a good Recto plugin!

[@dan41287]

@@SonicDriveStudio what do you think of Amplitube 5's Recto sims?

[@KazrogPlugins]

@@SonicDriveStudio Working on Recto as well! :)

[@justin8827]

Sounds good. I think thermionic was really under appreciated.

[@yurikalashnikov2460]

I really appreciate that you showed the clean and crunch channel and that you played both isolated and in context. Great guitar playing. Great demo. Thanks.

[@Terribleguitarist89]

I'm always blown away by how far this technology has come... I remember years back getting an mbox kit and between insane latency plus meh sims, it was barely usable. Now we have full-on albums being recorded video computer plug-ins.

[@WholeLottaBulldog]

Kazrog has always been massively underhyped; the antithesis of Neural. He's been working on this for years, I bet its awesome to play.

[@lostinpa-dadenduro7555]

I own an original 5150. Bought new in in the store with all my summer job money. Along with an original 5150 4x12 straight cabinet. This plug-in definitely does it justice. When I used it as my live setup I added a rack mount BBE Sonic Maximizer and Hush noise gate. Plus my trusty DOD analog chorus and delay pedals. My guitar at the time was a 90s American Fender Strat with a Duncan JB4 humbucker bridge and stock middle and neck single coils. The resonance knob on the real amp was always the secret sauce.

[@Axess-sv8nq]

But, do you live in Independence Missouri? 😁👍

[@lostinpa-dadenduro7555]

@@Axess-sv8nq Damn right I do. I’m at war with the drunk Hoosiers. 😂🇺🇸👍

[@Axess-sv8nq]

@@lostinpa-dadenduro7555 hahahah! Well as long as you have 8 inches, you're good to go! Just make sure you have your MoneyGrip on hand! 😂😂

[@Necronomicon66]

Excellent review and demo! Kazrog’s plugins are amazingly great! Been a user for many years.

[@mikemitchell7529]

That plugin sounds brilliant! . You also really know how to get 8 string guitar mixes sounding awesome!

[@already_dreamed]

All styles were really good but the way this plugin handles 8 string guitar tones is unbelievably good!

[@docw85]

This, i'm almost never a fan of 8 string modern stuff, but this one sounded extremely nice.

[@mrcoatsworth429]

Sounds really Architects-y in your demo with the 8-string! Love it!

[@criddyla696]

Superb demo sir. Sounds amazing

[@Cultifact]

Great demo mate. Need to try it out as well.

[@SonicDriveStudio]

There's a demo!

[@gerrydaly5409]

Hi Jon, I bought the Kazrog Thermionik plugin 4 years ago after watching your kick ass video 'Re-amping and mixing metal guitars & impulses'.

[@cmd_f5]

I am not thrilled the first in this line is a 5150, but the demo I have plays very nicely and overall it's a great sounding emulation. Glad to see Kazrog back in the ampsim game again. Excited to see what Shane does next! Love your demos and how you talk about tone as well. Great work John! 😁🍻🤘🤘🎸

[@CaseySabol]

Fucking awesome video man! And sick mixing!

[@bungwung4797]

Yo John, i like watching you playing, you sound great and calm when you playing. Its help me to improve my guitar technics and overall skills because you film it so well i can watch your playing, continue like thats its great. From a french canadien homie🤘

[@SonicDriveStudio]

Merci!

[@bungwung4797]

@@SonicDriveStudio cela fait plaisirs!! 😂

[@Anon15316]

still the best guitar tones on youtube! Keep it up man. I'd give my left nut to get these tones because I can't afford much else haha

[@Windir-gp8wk]

most people now are hyped by neural dsp stuff...nothing to say about their ampsimps. but to my ears this shit blows away any other 5150\6505 emulation.

[@jchristian515088]

It’s the best 5150 plug-in by far. And the feel of it is amazing, like he said in the beginning. It’s just so much fun to play and the Stock IRs are some of the best I’ve ever heard. I’m always using different IRs in my neural plug-ins and The 5150 in Nolly is good, but Ampcraft still beats it in tone and feel. Yes it is CPU hungry, but I invested in a cheap , powerful, office desktop for 180$ and I have no issues now unless I get stupid. So underrated

[@axelcorvus9443]

I hope they will add rebuild of their Dual Rectifier 2 channel Revision F or even better bring an earlier Rev C or D this time. Looking forward.

[@drrodopszin]

It would be great to have the plugins vs. the real 5150 thing comparison, just like you did with the tonex, Amplitube 5, Amped and the rest.

[@biggles2492]

sounds killer!

[@jorge0358]

The plug-in sounds really good! I’m hoping soon they make a ENGL Savage or SE plug-in, since there’s not too many of those in amp sim form

[@KazrogPlugins]

Thanks! I think you'll be very happy, in that case, as that is planned! :)

[@borhksalduero9259]

Good product for someone who doesn’t want to use real amps and pedals. Nice riffs mate!

[@petruccirocks02]

The riff at 12:25 is crushing!

[@jorismak]

Yes!! Told you, you will like it :). It makes me have more respect for real 5150s :).

[@381nm]

Can you please do a comparison between the older Thermionik Psycho A (I believe it would be the comparable emulation) and this one?

[@andersw2274]

Sounds great! = ) So in the first clean demo.. really liked your bass sound.. Plugin? thanks! =)

[@rhitosparsha]

Hey Jon, great tones as always! Looking forward to try it out soon. I know it's old, but I would love it if you could take a look at POD Farm sometime too. Would be great if you could dial in some tones, or maybe even a run-through of your Clean, Crunch, Rock, Metal project file. One thing about the plugin: I think I preferred the workflow with the older Thermionik plugins better, where they had all the amps and effects as separate individual pluins. Also, if Kazrog is listening, would there be a release at some point which houses this and all the upcoming amps in a single plugin?

[@vdl3984]

May I know which audio interface are you using for recording? It sounds amazing!

[@jorismak]

I don't know if it's the default cab (an engl RC?!) or something, but I just enjoyed playing through the lead channel without a boost. No, it's not 'mix ready' and the bass was 'wooly'.. But I still liked it! That never happened! It has a sort of roar still in the wooly bass. I went and checked to as many ampsims as I have (amplitube Js50 model, Tse v50v2, helix (native)). Helix got close and had a similar thing now that I was looking for it... The others didn't (and I really liked Tse x50 back in the day...). It's also one of the few 5150 Sims where I maybe even like the crunch channel boosted more than the lead channel. Also played the clean a lot (with bright switch) with just the tube screamer in front to get bluesy tones with my strat. Like I said, after playing around with the beta of this I started looking at 6505mh and I for 5150-tube-preamp style pedals to get me something in real life :)

[@MatthiasBuesing]

It's a good plugin, especially with 3rd party IRs. The new GGD Cali pack suits it very well! Other than that it's hard to hold up with the king of ampsims - just one (really good!) amp, no post FX, no MIDI compatibillity, no standalone version for 119$? Even for the introductory price with 50% off it's hard to justify when you already have several great plugins with similar amps being modeled (Archetyp Nolle, Archetype Gojira, SLO-100 etc.)... Still I wish Shane all the best!

[@amunarion]

Shane stated somewhere in a comment on the Kazrog Facebook Page that a standalone version, post FX and MIDI compatibility will follow in a free update.

[@MatthiasBuesing]

@@amunarion Yep. he answered by as well this weekend :-) Thanks!

[@MatthiasBuesing]

@@amunarion It's one year by now...still not updated. Such a gret ampsim though...

[@amunarion]

@@MatthiasBuesing Yes, that's right. I'm curious when we will hear something new regarding Amp Craft

[@alexandrecapelier]

I really like your videos, nice work and great riffs, sounds and tests! I see you usually have 2 stereo rhythm guitar tracks, when I look at the daw. How do you manage it : 2 different stereo takes, using 2 different IR's hard panned L/R? 2 different mic mixes from the basic York audio folder, 1 aggressive and the other more bassy for instance?

[@SonicDriveStudio]

I record my DIs stereo but it's essentially a mono signal. Mono would sound the same. I understand that it can be a bit confusing but I'm used to it. Just a habit

[@alexandrecapelier]

@@SonicDriveStudio thanks! I m watching right now your video about your recording process, very helpful. Next step : use Helix Native amp sims efficiently for big rock and stoner tones. Thanks for your nice work

[@chizzulwinduh1941]

Hey, cool demo, thank you! Just checking, you're stereo double tracking these right?

[@SonicDriveStudio]

Thanks? Yeah one left and the other right

[@asymmetrymedia9838]

Funny, tested this yesterday. The default setting was disappointing when I opened it up. But then i changed presets and it blew up. It's a really good plugin. I'm happy to say so cause Kazrog's true iron and true dynamics are pure gold as well. I think they really nailed it in terms of feel. Only thing it needs is some nicer visuals.

[@ChrabM]

what drums do you use?

[@rossbalch]

This sounds really good. But I'm sort of bored of yet another 5150 or Recto etc. I really want to either so something unique and ground up designed for digital, or maybe a rarer more interesting amp.

[@SonicDriveStudio]

More amps will be added

[@KazrogPlugins]

The 5150 was my first proper tube amp back in the day, and I felt the need to represent it properly in the digital domain. It's such an important sound - often it's the amp that saves a project - and after an exhaustive competitive amp sim review (including my own amp sims of the past), I came to the conclusion that it was possible to do better still, hence the 1992 was born. To be sure: there were already too many 5150 sims before I even got started working on Thermionik back in the day, but is it really a 5150 sim if it barely resembles the sound of the hardware at all (which is so often the case?) That said, there are a lot more amps on the way, spanning different eras and styles, including some stuff that's never been emulated by anyone before.

[@rossbalch]

@@KazrogPlugins Well whether I'm bored of 5150s or not. You've done a great job here. This sounds amazing. And following your passion is way more important than listening to some idiot on the internet :D

[@najinelson6742]

HH Electronics emu would be cool and brave :)

[@nobot99997_xxl]

there is linda rock stack. the linda rockstack have all best of amps. there is switch for metal, rock, clean, tight, fat,body and a low mid high eq before distortion. this additional knobs help alot to create best sound of mutes. I like this because i like mix ready sounds. i need not exact a amp because in the mix always need tweek. the linda rockstack have only 2 ir or can cabinet switch off and a chorus and a delay. so need with this too other effects. i like amp sims that have mix ready sounds more when can get them

[@acinemastare]

What DAW can this work on? Kept on crashing on Reaper.

[@KazrogPlugins]

We support every major DAW. It's funny you mention Reaper, as it's the primary DAW we use for testing during development. If you're experiencing issues - even with the demo - you can use the support form on our website. Sorry it crashed for you, that's definitely weird though!

[@mrcoatsworth429]

Hey Jon, are you gonna try the new Orange Super Crush? I'm a tube amp guy, but this one is getting me really excited! You could do a blind test with the Rockerverb:)

[@SonicDriveStudio]

Would love to but no immediate plans

[@mrcoatsworth429]

@@SonicDriveStudio maybe we need to send a few e-mails to the orange guys;)

[@SonicDriveStudio]

@@mrcoatsworth429 always worth a try although I already offered a review before the release

[@hellc590]

Whenever I watch a video like that , I say to myself WOW this sounds amazing. When I buy the thing, it's a whole diff story. How much post do you have on these guitars? The Slaughter Souls setting is mostly noise and unusable.. Thanks

[@SonicDriveStudio]

NO post processing on the guitars

[@xangrycatmanx5104]

The Slaughter Souls sounds perfect for old school swedish death metal imo. It's sounds like Dismember but slightly cleaner

[@bungwung4797]

Dude why dont do an albulm with your sound demo records, your composition are so epic men 😅😂😂

[@garrisonaudio7877]

Great amp sim. Just a heads up tho. It's a very resource hungry vst. If you're running an older machine, I'd skip this one..

[@AnimeAsLeaders998]

this plugin consumes too much PC power compared to NeuralDSP (on my pc anyway). I experienced lags, latency which do not exist when I use NeuralDSP

[@nobot99997_xxl]

I try it some days before your test. sound not good for me. so intresting that you test it. I try then your settings and sound much better but not so good as in your video with my guitar. I need reduce 650 hz -6 db and 5.2 khz -3.2 db in the Lo Mid Hi Mid setting in the cabinet. but good they have a choose. so i compare with my favourite plugin. the linda rockstack and i like linda rock stack even more, maybe because it simulate no amp. it have all best of amps. there is switch for metal, rock, clean, tight, fat,body and a low mid high eq before distortion. this additional knobs help alot to create best sound of mutes

[@FRANZARIAS]

I think STL Amphub 5150 amp sim is better than this

[@jorismak]

It's a 5153 vs an original 5150 :). And try to dive into the lower mids and compare it there. I have both, and I like playing through this most of th e time.

[@FRANZARIAS]

@@jorismak can you put a video? please!! How do you think about the high end in this amp sim?

[@Francisco17Berrios]

@@FRANZARIAS Try it yourself, they have a very good trial version! :)