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AXP has announced the release of CharBooster, a free guitar booster/overdrive effect plug-in for Windows.

The CharBooster is based on the 12ax7 tube preamp and the ATR-102 tape recorder models.

CharBooster is a composite overdrive effect tailored specifically to be used as booster in front of any virtual amplifier model. It essentially consists of a pre-emphasis filter section designed to provide a variation of voicings for your instrument followed by a saturation circuit that excites the signal with harmonics while still being as transparent as possible.

The UI is not trying to look like a hardware stomp box but rather has a range of meters and scopes to provide an insight on what is going on with your signal.

CharBooster is available as a freeware VST effect plug-in for Windows (32/64-bit).

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AXP has released SoftAmp GT, a free guitar amplifier effect plugin for Windows.

SoftAmp GT is a virtual emulation of a well-known analog guitar amplifier simulator stomp-box. The prototype is a solid state circuit that uses op-amps to saturate the signal and moderate filtering to shape the tone throughout the signal path.

The speaker simulation is achieved by a steep low-pass filter as well as some middle-frequency manipulation to resemble different microphone positions.

The plug-in is freeware for Windows (VST).

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