Getting Virtual Guitar Amps To Sound More Real

If you’ve ever recorded through a virtual guitar amp plugin or box then you might have noticed that many of the overdrive settings can sound a bit, well, fake.

Now, this is a subtle problem but a problem none-the-less, especially on some of the free emulators out there. What about them sounds fake? The exaggerated top end.

Today let me show you a simple way to tame that sometimes “fizzy” top end and make your virtual guitar amps sound more real.