Description
This pack captures the sound of a boutique British combo, from one of the greatest manufacturers in the business. The amplifier is completely hand wired from the factory, using top of the line components. It’s makers created an amp that’s pretty much in a class of its own.
Your pack will include the Full Amp set-up, with professionally mic’d speaker-cab, ready to use as a rich, complete, and authentic sound. Matching setting, Direct/DI amp only versions, for use with your favourite Impulse Responses.
The downloadable profiles have been painstakingly created to fully embody the essence of this iconic amplifier. Choose from ToneX, QuadCortex and Kemper.
Simply download and install on your chosen profile type for the classic sound.
Contents
Your British Boutique pack includes:
28 Captures for the Quad Cortex or 28 Tone Models for ToneX. (14 pairs: full + 14 DI).
OR
14 Merged Profiles for Kemper (combined Full Amp/Mic’ed Cab set-up, and Direct/DI Profiles).
Channel variations captured for your use:
11 pairs of Captures or Tone Models or 11 Merged Profiles of the Overdrive Channel, include 3 clean captures. [11 full amp/cab and 11 Direct/DI- amp only.]
AND
3 pairs of Captures or Tone Models or 3 Merged Profiles, of the Clean Channel, including full volume. [3 full amp/cab and 3 Direct/DI- amp only.]
1 review for British Boutique
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Tim Bower (verified owner) –
So… someone has to provide the first review, and it’s looking like that might have to be me. I definitely appreciate other people providing some clarity before I put my money on the table.
I have a Quad Cortex and have just spent some time working my way through the ‘Full Amp’ set with four guitars: a tele, strat, Gretsch hollow-body and a 335-style. (I haven’t touched the ‘Direct/DI’ versions yet.)
I am liking it a lot! The captures run all the way from almost Fender-ish snappy cleans through to a Marshall roar on the ‘Full’ gain captures with humbuckers.
The cleans appear to alternate between a bright, snappy, skanky clean and a full, warm, golden, ‘fresh bread fresh from the oven’ clean where you can feel the girth of the amp as you play. Both will make their way into my setlist, depending on the song and what I am aiming to bring to it.
The gain increases across captures in increments that seem about right – I was able to quickly find the level of gain I was after and then dial it in with my volume knob. By the time you get to ‘Full’ gain, it is huge! With single coils or bridge pickup, it snarls. With the neck pickup of the 335, it sings.
Some noteworthy things:
1. A lot of other captures, and even the built in QC models, can have an artificial top end to my ear – almost like a digital artefact or splatty sound. I didn’t hear that in these captures.
2. There is enough bite on the attack of each note that I can use my tone knob to dial in the level of bite that I want, which I really appreciate.
3. There is a clarity that bring a nice string separation rather than everything blurring together. Each pickup position sounds distinct and variations in your right hand pick technique are reflected clearly in the tone.
4. The captures clean up nicely when rolling back the volume or adjusting pick attack, and dirty up predictably when adding gain before the capture. One could happily use a higher gain capture and just use the pickup selector switch and knobs on the guitar, like people did before we had a sea of pedals at our feet.
Its always hard to know if someone somewhere has a free capture that would work just as well for me. What I do know is that I now have a set of ‘go to’ captures that provide tones that sound excellent to me, and I don’t have to spend hours sifting through the ‘good, but not quite there’ captures that I have downloaded previously. That is definitely worth something! …and they are currently the best Marshall-style tones I have in my collection.