Valves

What it does

A valve emulation in four blocks. The valve stage runs in triode or pentode mode with drive, bias and an internal low pass tone control. A cabinet section holds eight modelled cabs with a two-band EQ. A multimode filter modelled on a ladder design offers two and four pole low pass, high pass, band pass and notch, placed before or after the valve. The master block adds mix and a soft clip, with oversampling up to 16 times.

In the demo

Jade runs it on blues guitar through every cabinet, then on a noise source from AudioThing Noises, showing the mix control blending dirt back against the clean signal. She modulates cutoff and resonance from an external LFO over MIDI CC and works through the factory presets.

Worth knowing

It is a single-stage colour box, not a full rig, so there is no pedalboard or IR loading. A Mac and Windows version sells separately for around 20 dollars.