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by Unknown
Agus Hardiman, the developer behind Monster Piano and Monster Synth, also makes Monster Guitar — a preset-based electric guitar plugin covering a range of styles from sparkling cleans to heavy tones. The interface changes skin depending on the preset, which sounds like a gimmick but is actually handy because you can tell at a glance whether you’ve loaded a clean chorus tone or something more aggressive. Tone, envelope, and reverb knobs handle the basic sound shaping, and that’s usually enough for sketching guitar parts into a mix.
I’ve used Monster Guitar as a placeholder electric in several projects, and I keep it around for rock, pop, reggae, and indie demos. The CPU usage stays low across multiple instances, and the 2 GB sample library loads quickly. To be perfectly honest, this doesn’t even compete with Shreddage 3 Stratus FREE on realism. For that kind of detail, use Stratus. But for dropping a clean or slightly driven electric into a song within 30 seconds of opening the plugin, Monster Guitar is my go-to.
Links to bedroomproducersblog.com — the article includes the official download links.
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