Guitar amp simulations can turn your clean, weedy-sounding DI guitar into pretty much any guitar sound you want. They often incorporate multiple amps, miking options and pedalboards and have become a standard toolkit item. Even so, options, sound and of course price vary considerably from one plugin to the next, and if you’re a newbie, you may be cautious about shelling out on features you won’t use.
Enter this month’s addition to our evergrowing Plugins suite of free instruments and effects: Stark CM. It’s been built exclusively for Computer Music by Swedish developer Klevgrand, home to class creative processors such as DAW Cassette, Degrader and more.
Stark CM (PC/Mac, VST/VST3/AU) is an algorithmic guitar amp simulator with four modules: Amp, Cabinet, Ambience and FX. It includes two amps (Guitar and Bass), each with clean and overdrive channels, and both preamp and master amp gain controls (Gain and Boost respectively). There are two cab types (Guitar and Bass) with amplifier stereo width, plus a room effect (Ambience). Rounding things off is a pedal effects slot (FX) with 14 effects.
In our tutorial, we’ll walk you through Stark CM’s features, showing you how to dial in terrific tones for guitar, bass and non-guitar use. We’ve even included Tutorial Files to help you follow along with our walkthrough and video.
Fancy more features, AAX support or an iOS version? Then check out the full Stark (PC/Mac $79.99, iOS $19.99). And get 50% off the desktop version with code CM2019 – see p57 for more. klevgrand.se
Step by step
01. Getting started with Klevgrand Stark CM
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