One of the best sounding amps respectively amp plugins, which I ever have heard! Basically a very hot-rodded Plexi, which also means, that the "clean" channel - even without activated crunch mode not really sounds very clean, but nevertheless excellent, if you're looking for these magical vintage Tweed to Plexi 60's/70's tones, which easily can be controlled with guitar volume, nevertheless also show some extremely musical saturation and - in a positive way "dirt". I personally would have been happy with this channel alone, but there still are two more channels available here, even with additional boost option as well as an excellent (negative) feedback and deep control. Channel 2 offers more or less classic, very good sounding, reacting and behaving Plexi tones, although already with more gain reserves, with some more flexible fine-tuning options, while channel 3 offers an additional voicing, which seems to have some tighter bass, even some more additional gain and sustain, nevertheless the typical Plexi character still remains well audible and does not change to some sort of JCM or DSL tone, which I never really liked as much as these "legendary" tones. Treble and Presence also work very well, enable enough bite but never sound too harsh, thin, shrill or too digital. Feedback control also works fine, allows some more smoothness and compression or more dynamics and bite, the switchable deep control adds some (more) low end, if necessary. As usual, the speaker/cabinet section is excellent, my personal favorite is the Suhr 212 cabinet with the G12H Creambacks, which anyway are some of my favorite speakers. This for me is one of the more vintage voiced hot-rodded Plexis, which I know, while eg. Friedman amps, which also in general are more or less Plexi based, for me offer their more individual, Friedman typical voicing, than a really authentic Plexi tone. Not bad, of course, but also not completely authentic. The Suhr in my opinion remains closer to the original, it just plays and feels more like a Plexi, but adds more sonic flexibility and gain. One thing, I noticed, was, that the plugin seems to be more noisy than some other Brainworx amp plugins, so I needed to activate the - good working - noise gate more often than I did it if using some other plugins, on the other hand the noise gate anyway works well, so that this is no real disadvantage. The Suhr maybe is not the ultimate high-gain (metal) amp, but nevertheless sonically easily can compete with most more modern voiced amps in my opinion and it is an excellent choice it you're looking for great, legendary, if necessary slightly modernized tones with a typical Plexi "feeling". Sounds to me like the one Plexi, which Marshall (unfortunately) never managed to have built by themselves. Great work of the developer team and the programmer of this plugin! In my opinion as much a reference for British voiced amp plugins, as the Fuchs Overdrive Supreme 50 is it for (more) American voiced ones. Top notch!
Best amp from Brainworx
★★★★★
by Ephreim
Have always been a huge fan of brainworx amps and Pete Thorn. Was waiting for this to come for non UAD platforms. Bought it the moment I got the mail and tried it out. Wasn’t disappointed. This definitely is one among the most natural sounding and feeling amp sims ever.