SCOTT MIRE: This is Scott Mire from Peave Electronics, and today we’re going to talk about Revalver Mark III, our new guitar amp modeling software.

Revalver is probably the most powerful amp modeling software on the market today. It’s the only package that will allow you to edit an amplifier model all the way down the circuitry. So, what we’re looking at here is this is a 6505 amp, and if I click on the tweak button, it takes me and you see the entire tube structure from the input, tone stack, all the way to the output stage.

Now, you can click on any one of those tubes and you can change the tube type. You can change the plate load, the resistance, the bias, really low-level powerful stuff. So, if I wanted to, I could change the tube to a 6DJ8 if I wanted to or any one in the list, and then tweak the low level settings accordingly.

I personally am not an electronics engineer, but I’m interested in it. I can go in here, tweak a setting, a plate load, and hear how that affects the amp without blowing ant gear up or burning myself with soldering iron. So, it’s pretty cool. If you know this stuff, it’s a powerful tool. You can design an amp that doesn’t even exist.

You can also edit the power supply. If you want a sagging power supply, you can change that, output transformer, feedback loop, so on and so on. Tone stack, you can change your tone stack. I’ve got a 60505 here. If I want to British tone stack, I can do that. Now, like I said, this functionality is in here but if you don’t want to deal with that, you don’t have to. It’s low-level stuff and it’s not for everyone.

The software works the paradigm of a rack of gear. If you want to just load amps and, you know, speaker cabinets, you can do that. Save your rack as a preset, you could tweak the amp, save that as a preset. Now, the software comes with 15 amp models beside the classic Peavey amps. Also, a lot of amps that people know and love -- You can see British amps, so on and so forth, but you can also mix and match preamps and power amps. There’s 12 preamp models and 9 power amp models. So, if you wanted a 60505 preamp but a British power amp, you can do that.

It has 19 stompbox effects and 11 rack mount effects. One of the coolest rack mount effects that ships with the software is the VST host module. The cool thing about that is if you have a third-party plugin like a reverb that you love, you can load it in to the VST host, and it becomes part of your rack.

INTERVIEWER: Oh wow.

SCOTT MIRE: Yeah. So, that’s pretty cool. It expands the software. It’s almost self-expanding depending on your plugin collection. It’s VST and AU compatible. RTAS support is coming soon as a free upgrade. It’s going to be out probably the beginning of next month. It’s available now as a download from the web site. You can purchase it through the web site.

It ships with 150 combinations of cabinets and microphones. So, you can choose one. You can tweak it, EQ it. It has distortion and crunch too, simulate the microphone overdriven. But if that weren’t enough, you can actually design your own speaker cabinet. You can design the box, how wide is the box, how deep is the box, how tall is the box. You can edit the models on the level that no other package can do, but I think the important thing is how does it sound. It sounds and feels more like a real amp than any software package on the market.

Revalver comes in two versions: Mark III which contains all the Peavey amps plus a lot of extra classic amps. It also has the low-level editing functionality, and that Mark III is $299 MSRP. We also have Revalver HP which hides the low-level functionality and only has the Peavey amps in it, and that’s $99.99 MSRP. So, that’s Revalver.