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Waves GTR Solo Amps and Effects Software

Powerful and affordable, GTR Solo delivers the sound of real amps, cabs, stomps, and mics—in your computer. Just plug in, fire it up, and experience precision models of amplifiers by Fender, Marshall, Vox and others. Then take it to the next level ...

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I received a copy of Waves GTR Solo on a one year free trial directly from Waves. I thought it would be a great way to play guitar quietly, and still get the sound of a cranked up tube amp.

GTR Solo is a condensed, "light" version of Waves GTR package, and contains 10 amp models, and 13 effects pedal models, as well as a range of cabinets and microphones. The amp range are as follows:

* Clean
- Clean Based on a 1959 tweed Fender® Bassman®
- Sweet Based on a 1968 Gibson® Skylark

* Drive
- Edgy Based on a 1980 Vox® AC-30 TB-2
- Drive Based on a 1964 blackface Fender® Super Reverb®
- Overdrive Based on a 1980 Marshall® JMP

* High gain
- Crunch Based on a boutique amplifier from Paul Reed Smith's personal collection
- Shredder Based on a Marshall® JMP1 preamp
- PRS Scorch Based on a boutique amplifier from Paul Reed Smith's personal collection
- PRS Crush Based on a modified 50W Marshall® MK2

* Solid state bass
- SolidState Based on a Hartke® 3500

Each amp model has it's own distinctive tone, and when you can pair them up with any speaker cabinet, ranging from 1 x12s to 4x10s and 4x12s, and an array of microphone it opens up a whole world of tone. And don't forget all the standard effects too.

I personally favoured the clean amp models hit with an overdrive pedal model, and the noise gate/compressor pedal to cover up the extra noise that the models generated. Yes! That's right, this software acts just like real amps and pedals. Cranking a clean amp model such as the Sweet Gibson Skylark, and hitting it with an overdrive pedal resulted in awesome tone, but as it would be in the real world with these amps a high degree of noise was generated too. This all adds to the authenticity of the models.

I also quite liked the 3 Drive amps. They were capable of generating awesome rock and metal tones. I found the high gain models are little too much for my tastes, and I didn't really play with the bass amp model.

Changing the cabinet and microphone also offered a huge array of tonal variations with the amps, and all react much like the real thing.

One thing I was a little disappointed with was I could not find a way to open GTR Solo in an audio recording program. I'm not sure if this was because GTRR Solo, being a 'light' variation in the GTR range of software didn't have the functionality, or if I just could not work it out. Either way I think it would have been fun to record with this package.

Liked about it	Great tones available from all the amp models, effects and speaker/mic models * Easy to use interface, and sound bank storage * Amp models paired with effects acted just like the real thing
Didn't like	No easy way to record with audio application like Cubase, etc * Fairly slow to load up (and I have a fairly robust PC)