Softube Amps & FX Explained

DAW and guitar master Doug Zangar presents a series on Softube's Vintage Amp Room and Effects bundles. Have a seat and get ready to learn these guitar amp room modelling and effects plug-ins inside out.

Interface Introduction

• Intro to Amp Rooms (07:47) - Doug takes you on a tour of Vintage, Metal and Bass Amp rooms. See how to activate the plug-ins and set your preferences.

• Intro to Effects (03:30) - Get a quick tour of the Acoustic Feedback,Tube Delay and Spring Reverb plug-ins.

The Amp Rooms

• The Vintage Amp Room White Amp (08:10) - Doug takes a look at all the amp's settings. You will learn how the gain and volume settings work.

• The Vintage Amp Room Brown Amp (07:39) - Discover all the amp's settings, including the bright switch and the tremolo feature.

• The Vintage Amp Room Green Amp (08:50) - Take a tour of all the amp's settings and features. This amp has three channels as well as tremolo and vibrato.

• Metal Amp Room (09:33) - The Distortion, tone, two cabinets, mic blends are all explained here.

• Bass Amp Room (09:44) - Learn how the amp and DI settings work and how to blend them. Doug also shows how to Choose from the four cabinets.

The Effects

• Acoustic Feedback (06:18) - In this video, Doug shows the settings and audio routing for this plug-in as well as the MIDI setting for using with a MIDI expression pedal.

• Tube Delay (06:19) - Learn the audio routing and parameters of this plug-in, which can also be used as a tube pre-amp.

• Spring Reverb (04:04) - Doug shows the various audio routing and parameters of this plug-in including 'shake'.

Music Demos

• Southern Rock (07:47) - Doug dials in some sounds using Softube's Amps and Effects for a Southern Rock sound.

• Metal Rock (06:08) - Watch Doug get a metal rock sound using Softube's Amps and Effects.

• Surf Rock (08:09) - See Doug cultivate a surf rock sound using Softube's amps & effects.

• Tips & Tricks (06:15) - Doug shares a few tips & tricks such as using two amps, switch amps and cabinets, bussing out to the Tube Delay and using the cabinets for keyboards.