Which Guitar VST is Right For Me?

I get lots of requests on my opinion of which guitar is the best for which genre or playing style. That's a hard question to answer since no one plugin is great at everything. But I hope that I can help guide you toward that answer with this Livestream. Disclaimer: I don't own every guitar sample library on the market, so I may be missing the best one in the world and don't know it.
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[@Bmanhaas]

Really appreciate your time and effort.

[@tubecalgary]

14:54 How the heck could you play a fast guitar lick on a keyboard that sounds better and more realistic than being played on a real guitar?!?! A much anticipated video from the viewers of this channel would be: "How to play solo guitar on a keyboard like Ruben". Ruben is the kind of person who can "single-handedly" put people like Slash out of a job, with a simple plastic MIDI keyboard. If Axl Rose had seen this video in the 90's, he would probably hire Ruben as the lead guitarist of his band to fill that vacancy left by Slash.

[@gaminge7462]

Ive been sleeping on orange tree samples they got a good sound, that works for me. thanks for the knowledge

[@hleet]

3 hours ! wow. Interesting subject. gonna watch it

[@motionwindmedia]

hey there. I watched nearly the full 3 hours (only skipping a few instruments that I knew I didn't want). Until now I have only had the Native Instruments ones (I have KOMPLETE 14 Ultimate, which includes ALL of the NI ones you reviewed and I have bought the rest). ANYWAY I was NEVER 100% happy with ANY of the METAL AMPS in NI ... there were ALWAYS some minor but irritating artifacts and harmonics that I could not remove. Today I bought the AMPLE AGLP (Les Paul) Guitar plugin, and have done my first song with it, and OMG I was SOOOO inspired by the sweetness of the AMPLE AMPS that I fell in love with it, and my song ended up TOTALLY COOL. BOTH the SOLO tracks and the CHORD tracks are so nice now. THANKS A MILLION ! Now to fix all my other rock songs :-)

[@hleet]

That video was useful. Now I have a better understanding of which vsti guitar fits each needs. I liked the sound of the amplesound lespaul, it is in sale right now, I might fall for this one too 😋

[@fabfourdub1284]

Thanks for getting deep into that question, very nice !

[@angstromlittle7090]

Bro. U are amazing.

[@bjorn0helander]

The thing with guitar simulations is that I don't think you can make them sound good unless you play enough guitar to understand the instrument - and if you do, you are probably better off just using a guitar. There is a market for these, but I think it is very narrow

[@IPartyWithUrMom]

I'm litteraly the market. I got ulnar nerve damage and cant hold the strings down anymore. Now I play with a seaboard on vst guitars, works out.

[@chrisr7419]

I'm the market I can play but ain't got no money for a Les Paul with the price now 😂

[@joehermanartist]

Great stream man!

[@bluelanterns2982]

Realrick from music lab is one of the best I've heard. It's the richenbacker guitar 6 and 12 strings. Great strumming and I would struggle to tell it from a real guitar.

[@edom4080]

Since you like ambient guitar sounds, if you havent tried Opacity II by Audiomodern I would really suggest. It has both a performance/melody mode and pattern/fill/swells mode. The sounds are really special I think

[@Michael_Lak]

And he did

[@CarlitoProductions]

One thing about Shreddage I discovered is how the samples don't sound 100% clean even when init DI is selected. When you add crunch and distortion it's fine, but clean tones from Electric Mint is way better

[@gwugluud]

I kind of like the slightly synthetic sound of these types of plugins. But I have guitars and amps, so I can see the bit of frustration someone who plays keyboard could have with that.

[@dtrelzmusic]

I gotta check out the course you made I paid for. This stuff sounds wonderful

[@Po1itica11yNcorrect]

This helps. Thanks, Ruben.

[@andrewworld3681]

Hi Ruben, do someday a rewiew about Indiginus guitars. They are cheap in prize, but to my ear sounds not bad and have interesting things and articulations :)

[@dare2win215]

Thank you this and Pettinhouse are my biggest requests; they sound great and are SUPER budget friendly. Pettinhouse is run by a really nice guy who is super passionate about what he does and has come up with some ingenious functions.

[@andrewworld3681]

@@dare2win215 yes, Pettinhouse plugin samples have that sand and micro imperfections that i really like, because that makes sound more realistic

[@hifimidi]

@@dare2win215 I haven’t heard Pettinghouse in such a long time! I thought it went away. Maybe I should reach out.

[@dare2win215]

@HIFIMIDI DEFINITELY. It's a small company from Italy (like a said, with a team of one, but the quality doesn't reflect that). You can literally buy their entire inventory for the price of two libraries from any of the major companies. They don't have a trillion articulations, but he utilizes some clever techniques that make his instruments extremely usable & the quality is top notch (I even layer his bass release library with my Scarbee basses as well). Someone if your advanced skill level could offer great feedback. The FUNKYGUITAR 2.0 (a Strat library) with its arp on is superb! It uses velocity for altered chords and such. Anywho, fantastic company, especially when you realize it's a one man show. He even has a ton of free older libraries to sample his work (that's how I was introduced). Checkout his KZbin demos/tutorials. kzbin.info

[@dare2win215]

@@hifimidi Sorry. I was waking from a nap and read your reply almost completely wrong on my phone! LOL. It was only now, when I saw the notification again on my PC, that I reread it. I'd love to see your input.

[@Nightowl427272]

1:06:25 - Re: RealLPC: “I want it to go a little softer than that.” I’ve said that to myself about RealGuitar’s libraries for 10 years, well over actually. I can’t believe they haven’t updated their sample set with better/more velocity layers after all this time. And I just love their UI too. I’ve always wished for a plug-in with RealGuitars’ interface and Ample’s or Orange Tree’s sound.

[@MrBluLite]

How about covering the acoustic stuff next time like you did the electric stuff this time. Loved this insight. Helped me narrow down some choices.

[@hifimidi]

That's one the next ones. :)

[@ozcansezgin50]

Perfecttttttttttttttttt.

[@steelkeez7700]

1:36:33 👏🏾

[@theboofin]

Amplesound VC for me. Better tone than the LP. They screwed up with Riffer though. Look how great the EZ Bass editor is. No more remembering keyswitches. That's the way forward.

[@simonzhu5810]

Hey man! just watching this video now. Do you mind explaining what the Mod Range and Mod Rate in the settings does? And what about Auto Mod? Thank you!

[@gulbeturbo]

11:27 47:11 Les Paul

[@user-pq9ub1py9r]

why is that. when im using strum mode. so many annoying frequency starts to pop out how to fix that? please reply thank you

[@tz22222]

Can I make a guitar sound similar to marvin hank in the song Apache by The Shadows?

[@c2labonne215]

the big blue

[@nathanlee6099]

Ample Guitar Martin is the most realistic acoustic guitar VST that I’ve come across - and I’ve tried quite a few. It can be a little harder to use but it’s definitely my favorite.

[@energytrail315]

Did you mean ample sound? because right now it says apple sound in the stamps

[@darrenbrook4641]

Have you tried OTS Evolution Rock Standard? Or V-Metal by Prominy?

[@lemon6320]

Can I know the name of master keyboard you're using in this video?

[@hifimidi]

Kontrol S88 MKII

[@LukeWatts85]

I have RealEight and AMGH (HellRazer) and neither sound good clean I find. I cannot seem to get the sound I want. I only have free Guitar Rig 6 and Audiority Solidus VS8100 amp VSTs. Can anyone recommend a good VST (6-string is fine) for clean guitar sound? For metal mainly. (think Opeth, Be'lakor, Agalloch...so melodic Death Metal I guess)

[@mikemu9897]

Is the lag that I see on video with the MIDI the same in person?

[@rammsteriaxddd2147]

no probaste el shreddage 3 hydra ? o no lo recomiendas?

[@Luis-bz4iz]

what do you think of : Odin 2, heavier7strings, cabal8 for metal music ?

[@StonerSquirrel]

Odin 2 is great but plain suck for clean tones and require more effort to get the tone you want. Heavier7Strings is KING but it's an abandoned project and suffered from instability with Apple silicon processors and immediately crash when loaded in logic pro, haven't tried cabal8.

[@stupidcat8589]

which do you recommend for people who cant play the keyboard and want to solely program on the piano roll?

[@truthmanifestingtruth]

Probably music lab’s Realguitar series. They can do everything you have heard the pros do in records and more.

[@DjorMil.CineMusic]

I was surpriced that you preferred AGLP over OT Strawberry… I thought that OT guitars are like..one of the best guitars out there and they were not even in your top 3 pick :)

[@mrdali67]

Agree. The OT libraries are so well programmed and you have so much control over how you wanna use it, which can be overwhelming to learn, but I remember first time I tried how easy I could get a dull and simple midi guitar track just by using velocity art switching to sound anazingly realistic with Evo Strawberry. Huge fan of OT. Ample Sound has evolved a lot over the years, but OT is still the King of plucked instrument libraries, and personally I have only scrapped the surface of what you can do with’em. I agree that the rhythmic strum coding is not optimal, but Imo that is because the idiocratically old and stupid ui of Kontakt up to ver. 6.x. I would have gone insane as an IT developer if I had to work with such an ui for coding. At least the have done something about that with ver. 7. It was about time.

[@truthmanifestingtruth]

OT is the best to me!

[@yvesduke]

Whats your thoughts on Electri6ity

[@davidviera3347]

Impact Soundworks Shreddage and ThreeBodyTech Heavier 7Strings (not reviewed) Are the BEST REALISTIC Virtual Electric Guitars on the market, but yes...the presets of Shreddage SUCKS! and to achieve a great sound takes to long to understand the behavior of the sofware maybe they are more useful for programming and not Out-of-the-box or live performances, but trust me...are the best ones in most aspects

[@StonerSquirrel]

Thank you for sharing your experience, and I would advise anyone from using Heavoer7Strings since it's an abandoned project and no longer updates. Mine immediately crash when loaded in Logic Pro.

[@hzkharzack5660]

no UVI ??

[@rammsteriaxddd2147]

didn't try the shreddage 3 hydra ? or do you not recommend it?

[@hifimidi]

You can get great sounds out of it, but in my opinion, it’s pretty complicated.

[@CarlitoProductions]

​@@hifimidiI own three of their guitars and it's hard to wrap my head around the strumming system. Definitely not intuitive compared to how Ample sound does it.

[@jasonwitt8619]

Dracus ruled them ALL

[@mirsonhansey3360]

How can I get this plugin?

[@WildAnalog]

Buy them.

[@goactivemedia]

Half way in watching and everything is sounding like a keyboard with effects on it and far from a real guitar.