Anyone Still Using Guitar Rig 5?

[dfrattaroli]

I bought it back in 2013 and made a few short clips. Then for shits and grins I re-installed it over the weekend and had a blast playing for 2 days over various EZ Drummer beats. It really does sound good. Good effects, nice interface and it just sounds fun and inspiring.

Dave

 

[Just Mike]

I use it and like it. Haven't found anything in the demos form competitors that is enough to make me want to jump ship. It integrates seamlessly with Reaper as a plug in and it also works as a standalone app. Also, the way I've been using it lately is just for the cabinet models and post FX. I play thru my 2204 into a load box and a DI into reaper and use GR as the cab modeller. Pretty schweet!

 

[Shask]

I was never a huge fan of software modeling since I tried it years ago, and everything sounded and felt horrible. Last year sometime I realized that I owned GR5 for years and never opened the program and tried it for guitars, lol. Honestly, I have been pretty impressed with it. I have several very good sounds dialed up on it and it is fun to play.... it is not the flat, fizzy mess many of the programs can be. I really surprised me that I finally started to use it, and apparently everyone else hates it, lol. I have tried some other demos, but have yet to find anything else that I think is that much better, despite the hype online.

I found the #1 key to making it sound better is to use external IRs. I use Reflktor in GR5 to load IRs. Doing this, I think it sounds pretty good overall. I have an Axe-FX II, had PODs, etc.... so I have played a lot of gear.

It definitely makes me want to look int TH3, Amplitube, and some of the other programs out there today. I want to give them a chance, but it is hard when GR5 is basically "free" since I already had it, and I have had good results with it, just messing around.

 

[Kapo_Polenton]

For some reason, any modeler I try just sucks for me.. I recently tried amplitube and I just could not get my levels right or something as it was dull and fizzy or too low and zero gain. When I get modelers working as intended I find them too in your face to be realistic. They sit too up front. I have had better luck lately with just JCM800 into Twonotes reload and into my own IR or commercial IR's.

 

[MKibanez]

I still used it since 2014 and still very happy with it, mostly for solo sound. I got the Rosendigital IR now and it sound 1000 times better with it! The only thing I can complain about it is it's not very responsive with the guitar volume pot but I think it's almost the same with every software. My favorithe patch on it is the SLO 100, great sound.

 

[dfrattaroli]

Cool. I have IRs I could use it with . Will have to try that later. I have Amplitube and the BIAS demo. For me GR5 is just so much easier to get a good sound with out of the box. The presets are actually good starting points. Usually I just have to reduce gain a bit and maybe add some gate but they sound great.

I literally sat next to my daughter while she played Zoo Tycoon and I just jammed with EZDrummer and it sounded great. I was so inspired to play.

 

[metalfan32]

Guitar rig 5 better than jam up/bias? I was pretty impressed with jam up bias. Not too familiar with what else is out there

 

[dfrattaroli]

Guitar rig 5 better than jam up/bias? I was pretty impressed with jam up bias. Not too familiar with what else is out there

Well I don't mean to say one is better than the other. And in fairness, I haven't spent alot of time with BIAS. When I did, I just couldn't get sounds out of it that I liked. I had the same problem with the Axe FX for that matter.

For me, GR5 is easy to get good sounds from so I spend almost no time tweaking.

Dave

 

[CaseyCor]

Check out LePou's free stuff and the Karzog Thermionik sims. Karzog's Mark IIC+ and Mark IV sims are crazy good.

http://kazrog.com/products/thermionik/
http://lepouplugins.blogspot.com/

 

[dfrattaroli]

Check out LePou's free stuff and the Karzog Thermionik sims. Karzog's Mark IIC+ and Mark IV sims are crazy good.

http://kazrog.com/products/thermionik/
http://lepouplugins.blogspot.com/

Will definitely take a look tonight. Thanks.