I would say overall, Iron’s tonal/sonic quality is better than Sparkle’s, however, Iron is a little too perfect and clean even with its reputation as the metal guy - well, it’s heavy but without the angst. If you haven’t checked out the Sparkle review above, you’ll want to do so as these VSTs are basically twins.Ĭomparing Iron and Sparkle is odd after you move past all their similarities. Short Description of Plugin: Like Sparkle, Iron boasts a fantastic GUI, however, it ups the grit and focuses on heavily polish and crunchy chords wailing through humbuckers. The GUI is geared to key players, but it’s simply fantastic looking, clean, and easy to use even if you can’t play keys that well.īeyond that, it’s smooth sailing! Sparkle is an affordable option for composers and producers looking to create easy high-quality chords and progressions with a number of options - over 90 styles, 1000 phrases, and single-note, octave, and chord riffs. Most guitarists will find it too rigid and write it off, where non-guitarist will want to spend a decent amount of time mastering the expression options. Sparkle works best in the background and will be more suited to non-guitar players that want quality sounding guitar rhythms, but not have them be the focus or overly complicated. You can hear these tones through major, minor, sus2, sus4, diminished, augmented fifth, major sixth, minor seventh, and major seventh chords. Short Description of Plugin: With a brilliant and unique GUI, as well as a treasure trove of pre-recorded rhythm parts, Sparkle is for the those that need quick single coil sound backing guitar parts.Īppropriately named, Sparkle is glassy, chimey, and clean (you can grit a bit), and has the room to go from warm to bright. While the clean guitar side isn’t the main feature, I think it’s important that the user loves it, and will use it from time to time if they are considering this VST. You may find it difficult to justify $400 for swells, pads, and ambiance created by a guitar, when a synth VST could do those better and cheaper. There is little doubt that the swells, pads, and soundscapes are simply gorgeous and believable, but a guitar isn’t the first instrument that most people think of when they see those words. There is one notable negative here, and that’s the price - which may make this a niche VST for many. Your Stereo Spreader, Chorus, Rotator, Skreamer, Compression, Delay, Reverb and Flanger effects are chock-full of parameters and this is all easily accessed on the main screen. Simply put, they are brilliant and perfectly paired with a modern and elegant looking interface - one of my favorites. Swells, Pads, Ambient Designer, Phrase Builder, and Instruments outline our main features in this VST. However, by the name, you can guess the other, more popular side. On one side, we have the gorgeous clean tones that sound great even with little production and effects implemented. Short Description of Plugin: With an absurdly attractive interface, Apollo is one of the best guitar and ambient sound-scraping VSTs available in Kontakt.
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However, while Electri6ity will give you twice as many guitars for the price, Musiclab continues to update their Real line, now blowing Electri6ity out of the water. NKI patches each.Įlectri6ity is frequently compared to Musiclab’s real electric guitar line as they came out around the same time, and while Musiclab delivers better quality in most aspects, you only have one guitar per VST - where Electri6ity has eight. The organization of the library is simple as well- just two sub-folders: DI and Amp, with eight.
The GUI feels the most dated, but it’s still spotless and efficient with easily readable text.
You can jump from funk, to rock, to 80’s metal, back to folky pop. However, few genres are off limits, except for the heaviest of the heaviest. You have eight classic guitar models that compose over 24,000 24-bit high-quality samples, and while the library had to be a complete nightmare for those in 2010, 27GB is usually doable for most home studios.Įlectri6ity has a lot of range in its sound and, even as time goes on, the cleans are holding up better than the overdrives that were originally the focus. Sometimes it’s easy to forget that guitar VSTs have sounded great for a long time, then Vir2’s Electri6ity comes around to knock some rightful sense back into me. Short Description of Plugin: While nearing almost a decade in age, Electri6ity has held up fantastically and still delivers incredible classic rock and hard rock riffs and licks that can turn any key player into a guitar god.
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