Mercuriall Euphoria $100

How would you like an accurately-modelled boutique amp with a bunch of classic pedals and a fresh new interface? Yes please…

Software developers Mercuriall clearly have a thing about distortion, particularly the kind that’s derived from the world’s most respected guitar amps and pedals. In fact it’s fair to say their guitar amp obsession most likely got them into audio software developing in the first place, and if you fancy trying out some of their early efforts they are free to download from their website. Euphoria (VST, AU, AAX and standalone) is their latest ‘pay for’ release and is based on the Bogner Ecstasy 101B amp.

Much like Reaxis, their Mesa Boogie emulation, the amp emulation is part of a full rig, including pedals, amp, cabinet and post-cabinet effects. However, the big news is Euphoria introduces a brand new interface. Not only does this deliver a step up in realism, but it’s also more flexible, with floating windows handling the pedal, cabinet and post effects modules.

The new interface also adds some further new features including an input Tuner and Undo/Redo, and it can also be rescaled (M, L and XL). We understand that the plan is to roll out this new interface across their existing amplifier plugins, which is excellent news.

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The Bogner Ecstasy 101B is a classic and very expensive boutique amp head first introduced in 1995. The 3-channel design delivers a massive range of tones from clean (CH1) to crunch (CH2) to classic high gain (CH3). There are also some modded versions around as well and here Mercuriall have included the Mark Cameron CH3 mod. However, what really marks this out as a boutique amp are the plethora of available settings that grace both the preamp and power amp sections, and they are all here on Mercuriall’s emulation.