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Old 02-06-2011, 09:23 AM   #3
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Originally Posted by Silo Ted View Post
Been playing around with the vst's to try and create a guitar tone purely within Reaper, and find that it's quite poor, especially with overdrive & distortion tones. As a general interest question (not a complaint, nor really a future requirement for me) do any guitarists depend solely on the bundled plug-ins, or even after-market vst's to get a great sound?
Are you using a cabinet impulse plug after the sim? The sims alone will sound like ass. Also put some sort of distortion plug in at the beginning of the chain.

Check out the link brucie mentioned. Lots of us are getting great sounds with free sims.
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