Virtual guitar rig recommendations – Guitars Forum

At this point, almost everything is good or great. It really depends on your needs. I give Amplitude “best all rounder,” as it has a good amount of flexibility and some fantastic sounding models. Some of the cabinet emulations aren’t great, but you can bring in your own IRs. You can also run Tonex amps and stomp boxes in it. The only main complaint I have with it is that the reverbs can be overbearing.

Helix Native is similar. I wouldn’t bother unless you’re looking for a hardware counterpart. It came free with my HX Stomp XL. Maybe a bit more experimental effects.

I rely like Guitar Rig 7, especially with the new cabinet section (v6) and the new ICM stuff. If you’re looking for advanced effect laden sounds, look no further.

I found MGuitarArchitect to sound generally bad. So much aliasing! Shame, because I generally love Melda’s plugins.

NAM is good for free, but that one could benefit from some oversampling too.

I like the sound of the Neural DSP plugins, but I don’t like the simplicity of them. If they made a software version of their Quad Cortex that included all their models, I’d snap it right up.

Lots of other great options, but generally I feel like every time I compare something to what I have, I feel like it’s not better, just a variation.