
Review Summary
Mac, PC
Full
Download
32-bit, 64-bit
Account only required
AAX DSP, AAX Native, RTAS, VST, VST3, AU
Intel Processors, 1GB RAM minimum
Intel Core Duo, AMD Athlon 64 X2 or higher, 1GB RAM minimum
OS X 10.8 or later
Windows 7 (SP1) or later
Metal Amp Room was designed to bring you the most brutal, evil and aggressive guitar sound that is possible to squeeze out of your DAW. It may even contain backward messages. Run it in mono for a tight and focused sound or let it take up your entire stereo width by the use of two panned microphones. They should probably add it to their end user agreement that by installing Metal Amp Room to your DAW, you agree to having it possessed by a dark and evil force. Plus you may want to consult an exorcist if you should ever wish to uninstall.
Metal Amp Room won't make your computer screen spin (and you won't want to uninstall it either), but it was designed with the intent of letting you metal heads get the most fiercely brutal high gain guitar sound possible out of your DAW.
The continuous mic placement from Vintage Amp Room is here as well, but this time with twin mics and adjustable stereo panning. Get a huge stereo sound with complex adjustable phasing effects, a plain old one-mic-right-against-the-cone or anything in between.
Included is also a fantastic gate, great for palm muting galore. It opens insanely fast - faster than any hardware gate - and its release (how fast it closes after being opened) is program-dependent. This means that fast playing will give you an extremely fast closing gate, while slow playing will yield a slower release. The cabinets were measured in the In Flames studio (previously known as Studio Fredman) by Tue Madsen (producer of Dark Tranquility, Sick Of It All, Mnemic) and Patrik Jensen. Among the presets, you will find Tue Madsen's own personal favorites.