SIMON: Hi. Good morning. This is Simon coming from Overloud. We’re a company developing plugins for any platform, RTAS, AU, VST, and standalone, and we are here to present you TH1, our latest custom guitar effects suite. Let’s take a look at it.

So, what is TH1. TH1 is the not-so-usual effects plugins for -- effects suite for guitar being not so usually and the fact that I feel that this is the first time that we, anybody, tried to reach for musicians rather than trying to be techy when dealing with guitar amp modeling and effects modeling. So, you know, if you take a look at it and it’s very easily laid out, it’s very immediate, you can really easily understand what’s all about your signal path. It just clicks straight and it zooms on the lower window. So here you have, for example, right now I have a rock wah, a compressor, a volume pedal, our amplifier a cabinet with its microphones the we have a set of parallel routing with reverb and digital delay, the mixer to get it back on a serial kind of thing and then out to the mixer, so to the host or to the output.

This is just an example. Dealing with it is very easy. So, you can swap models. So, instead of a reverb, we want a digital phaser, that’s it. Right click. Let’s get another delay, swept delay, that’s it. Even easier, you can swap effects in the signal chain just like this even reaching for the upper view, or you can get rid of them. Just drag them away or you can copy them and if you can, if you drop them on another module you will overwrite that module or you can copy them in an empty spot.

The trick here is that your signal path can be of any size. You can have any number of stompboxes, amplifier cabinets, rack effects going on at the same time in any order. You can even have something crazy like two amps in a row in serial -- in a serial fashion. But, you know, that’s not the point right now.

A couple of neat features we have is our -- the amplifiers. We have SLR. It is a seamless live remodeler. What it is is basically the chance to create an infinite canvas of tones ranging from two different channels or two different amplifiers of choice which is amp A and amp B and then you can create a continuous morphing between the two even live. So, you can even ride it. When you’re playing live, you can create these ever changing tones.

Another feature set which is very cool is the cabinet. We have a full set of cabinets so we’re not skipping anything here definitely but we have ReSPiRe. ReSPiRe is a custom technology which captures the warmth and the oomph, the belly-shaking kind of thing that goes on when you play at very high volume your guitar amp.

You have microphone choice. We have up to two microphones for each cabinet going on. You can freely move in three dimensions the microphones with all that it means when it comes to phase cancellations and sums and stuff like that.

Preset management is very, very easy. It’s directly linked to MIDI program changes, so if you have any kind of MIDI foot controller, you’d be able to control and switch presets and memories directly from your foot controller without any fuss basically.

And then this is the last really great feature which we added, the smart controls. Currently unmapped, I will show you how to easily map them. For example, we want to have a smart control controlling the bypass of the compressor, and just as you send, dragging and dropping it on the first smart control, selecting power, and we’re done, then we’re controlling the power switch of the compressor. If I want to get rid of it, just right click and delete any association, close the window and I can associate, for example, the power of the wah the same way. So, this is very simple, this is very basic but we are doing, you know, we’re going the extra mile here.

So, a great example will be what if I’m using two distortion pedals? So, let’s load up an overdrive and let’s say a distortion like the MetalTone. Well, usually you won’t use them at the same time but maybe into different sections of the song or into different songs in your live set. What you’re doing is mapping power from Diode250 and power from the MetalTone then right click here and then basically instruct the plugin, which is very easy, to bypass one while the other is active, and you can do this with any number of pedals at the same time.

One of the last very nice things for example is something that guitarists want to do. They love to ride the volume of their guitar in order to control the level of distortion of their amps. You can do this even without your guitar volume. So, we can have the amplifier mapped and we can map the drive so the preamplifier drive, and we can map the volume and the output level. So what happens here? Right click, I can tell TH1 to have a minimum setting to have the maximum level, maximum output level, and at the maximum setting of the smart control to have no output level. So, what’s happening here now is that as long as I raise this control, I will raise my level of distortion both from the preamp tubes and the power amp tubes while at the same time lowering the output level. So, this means that you’ll get different distortion levels with the same output level. So, this is basically and briefly what all TH1 is all about. It’s something that is really easy to use in our opinion, easy but powerful at the same time. It’s very easy on the CPU, much easier than some of the competition, and it’s great tone, so just check out the demo as soon as it’s available in a couple of weeks on our web site, www.overloud.com, and thanks a lot for watching.