I was disappointed in the lack of change in the sound when moving Bias FX’s virtual mic back and forth from the cabinet.

IK Multimedia’s AmpliTube 3 lets you put two mics on at a time, position them where you want, and it gives you 16 different mic choices. Contrast this with Native Instrument Guitar Rig, which, when using its Control Room module allows for seven different simultaneous mic types, although you can’t individually position them. You can move the mics side to side and front to back. You get only two mic models: an SM57 (dynamic) and a condenser (C414).

The amps all have matching cabinets, which can be interchanged with the Cabinet Model drop down menu. You can also select the “Cab” option, in which you’ll see a graphic of a cabinet with a mic in front of it. The latter lets you delay either side up to 30 ms, allowing you to get greater stereo width, and it works great. The two signals are then combined before the output in a Mixer module that offers Level, Pan, and Delay. Dual configurations use a splitter to divide your signal to two separate paths, featuring whatever amps and effects you want. You can choose between a single amp configuration and a dual one by clicking on the appropriate button in the Signal Path. On at least one of the acoustic amp models, the Gain control is not active. On the other hand, it’s consistent from amp to amp, which is useful for settings comparisons. All the models feature this identical control set, which means in many cases, you’re not getting parameters that exactly match those on the modeled amp. The amp defaults to the “Head” view, which features parameters Gain, Bass, Middle, Treble, Presence, and Master controls. For the amps, you get a front or top view, depending on where the controls are on the modeled amp.

When you click on a component, it becomes selected, and a much larger version of its controls appears in the lower half of the GUI, known as the Control Panel, and that’s where you make adjustments. The user interface for all three versions features a graphically depicted signal path across the top half, in which you can add and remove amps and effects, and move them around in the signal chain order.

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