Piotr ‘Habib’ Pyrzanowski has released Extremist, a VST plugin for guitars. It’s main purpose is distorting guitar signal to receive extremally heavy sound. This effect is not a tube amplifier simulator, however some methods of altering signal are similar to tube amplification characteristics.

The effect works in stereo mode, without any latency. It uses 15-band stereo equalizer. It’s prepared to use SSE instruction set for Pentium II or newer processors.

Features

• Drive, Dry, Wet, Volume - knobs for regulating amplification & mixing signals
• Feedback - level of feed back signal
• Clip - clipping level
• Reverb - stereofonic reverb effect, adjustable up to delay
• Mod Boost - mid tones amplification
• Eq Q - width of each frequency bin amplification of equalizer
• Post LPF filter Q - filtering of high frequencies of effect output
• Noise gate
• Amp curve - amplification characteristic
• Lock bars - steering of equalizer in mono/stereo
• Post gating - noise gate applied before/after effect
• Smoothing - signal smoothing (hiss reduction)

Visit Habib’s website for more information and a link to download Extremist.