The TSE 808 Tube Screamer pedal is one of the best overdrive emulation plugins available. It’s based off a legendary Ibanez Tube Screamer pedal that famous guitarists have been using since the late 1970s.
We've compiled a list of the best Guitar Pedal Plugins so that you can explore a huge range of free & paid pedal plugins designed for heavy metal guitarists.
The TSE 808 plugin can give your amp sim some extra boost on leads and improve your guitar’s clarity and tone, especially on the low end.
One of the best things about it is that it can be downloaded for free from TSE Audio. It works with Windows and Mac OS X and is available in VST and AU formats.
The TSE 808 emulator comes with the TSE X50 amp simulator; that’s how I first came across it, but it’s also available as a separate download for free, and it works just as well with other amp sims like Recabinet and the free LePou amp sims.
The TSE 808 is commonly used in front of an amp sim to get better tone with heavy metal guitars. A lot of times it’s just used as an EQ with the drive turned down.
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The 2.0 version of the plugin was released back in 2013. It offers a basic interface with knobs for Drive, Tone, and Volume. It has an input level dial that can go up to +6dB.
There’s a switch to choose either “Hi” or “Lo” quality (the high setting removes additional aliasing) and a switch to turn stereo on and off. The stereo setting can process two guitars at once, but they must be hard-panned left and right to avoid channel bleed.
The TSE 808 is a good plugin to add to your toolbox and is worth trying out, especially considering that it’s freeware.
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Rangebastard is an emulation of a Dallas Rangemaster. It has added controls for tweaking or for use as a full-range booster, an overdrive, and more. All parts of the circuit are emulated, from the input filtering, to the interaction with guitar pickups, to the germanium transistor, and to the front-end distortion of a tube amp.
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The Rangemaster was a germanium transistor treble boost developed in the 1960s. It and similar effects have been used by Eric Clapton, Brian May, and many more great guitarists. It's most often used to drive a distorted tube amp into more distortion, while boosting the upper-mids for a screaming lead sound.
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Features:
- 2x Oversampling.
- Stereo and Mono modes.
- Main Controls: On/Off, and Boost.
- Tweak Controls: Input Level, Input Filtering, Treble, Transistor, Stereo/Mono, Grid Current, Pickup.
Coded in C++, using VST SDK 2.4 and VSTGUI 4.0.