Amps and Pickups from Sonic Implants is a library of all the famous guitars and basses sampled with pristine sonic quality.
Included on this CD ROM In SoundFont format are sampled tones, chords, upstrokes, downstrokes, harmonics, etc. for creating authentic guitar tracks.
Instrument Details
Taylor 810 Acoustic Guitar 1
Know for its pristine yet warm sound. Sampled with a Lawson Tube microphone. Included flat picked, thumb picked and finger picked tones, as well as fret noise, harmonics, up and down strummed chords and muted chord "chunks". Chords include major and minor open chords, major and minor bar chords and dominant7 chords.
Les Paul Power Rock Guitar
Heavily distorted but smooth electric guitar. This sample set features a Les Paul Guitar with Tom Anderson Humbucker pickups run through a 1978 Marshall amplifier. Includes lead tones, power chords, power mutes, plucked harmonics and FX.
Paul Reed Smith Guitar
Hollow body sampled through a classic Marshall amplifier. Single notes PLUS major and minor downstroke chords, upstroke chords, downstroke muted chords and upstroke muted chords.
Vintage Guild Guitar
Late 1960's M65 Guild guitar through a 1960 Gibson GA-5T Skylark amplifier to create a completely unique and very retro guitar sound. Tones include major, minor and dominant chords.
Jazz Guitar
Strummed major7, dominant7, minor7, min7b5 and diminished7 chords, all played on a Les Paul Standard through a Fender Twin. All Chords sustain naturally to silence with no loops. Single Note Tones also included.
Vintage Rickenbacker 12-String Guitar
This famous guitar sound can be found on many classic songs including the Beatles "A Hard Day's Night," "Can't Buy Me Love," "Eight Days A Week," "Ticket to Ride" and others. The collection includes single notes as well as major, minor, dominant7 and suspended chords.
Spector Slap Bass
Recorded using an all tube Ampeg bass pre-amp processor and a Manley tube compressor. Modeled after the legendary Marcus Miller bass sound.
Hard Pick Rock Bass
In the style of Alice In Chains, this bass is heavily picked, heavily amped and heavily played. Hits include both down and up picked tones.
Alembic Bass
Processed through an Ampeg SVT bass pre-amp and the Bellari Tube compressor, this bass is fat, round, yet distinctive in a mix. Articulations include finger tones, picked tones, slap/pull tones and a collection of slides.
Fender Jazz Basses
Processed through an Ampeg SVT bass pre-amp and the Bellari Tube Compressor, these basses are full but distinctive in a mix. Collection includes a Fender Jazz Finger Bass and Fender Jazz Fretless Bass.
Dynamic Acoustic Bass
This bass has spit and attitude which will definitely liven up jazz, pop and fusion tunes. Dual velocity, the soft strikes are clean and warm and the hard strikes punchy and popped.
Hofner Beatle Bass
Recorded into an Ampeg SVT preamp followed by a touch of compression from the Manley Variable MU compressor. The result is a very playable, very useable bass sound.