ReValver Mk. II | musicradar.com

Alien Connections ReValver Mk. II $149

Alien Connections’ software falls down in the sound quality department but at least represents good value for money.

The MusicRadar Team, Tue 23 Oct 2007, 12:05 pm UTC

Emulations of nine different amplifiers are included.

Manufacturer's description

ReValver Mk II is a second generation tube amp modeler in VST (Windows) and VST/AU (Mac OSX) format. It also contain a Live host ASIO/WDM (Windows) and CoreAudio (Mac OSX).

It models several "classic" amps with a lot of detail, and most of all, capturing the true nature of the vacuum tube sound. Over 15 programmable features of each tube stage can be set with a graphical interface. Every tube in all amps can be tweaked. As many as 17 tube types are included to choose from.

ReValver Mk II also models several stomp boxes, effects, reverbs, compressors etc... Over 50 available modules warrants the use of the word "Multi FX".

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MusicRadar rating

3.5 of 5

Pros

Extremely ‘editable’. The VST host is great Good value for money.

Cons

Sounds are too bright. Can get very complicated. System-intensive. The preset tones aren’t great. Not too many high-gain sounds.

The bottom line

It’s not the best guitar amp/effect simulator on the market, but ReValver Mk II is highly editable and doesn’t cost the earth.

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