Three days ago I promised to tell you more about the “gems hidden waiting to be surfaced” in Positive Grid® Apps and Plugins !
Positive Grid® has been acclaimed not only for its great sounding apps & plugins but also for the amazing amount of amps available both in its apps and in ToneCloud®.
While working on Ampl4™ amp manager, I realized that some amps were showing in the Bias folders, but were not displayed in the Apps! Why? I have no idea ! I guessed that some amps were included in previous version of the apps and left there for compatibility, but not only: some are recent (1.2+ versions) but still “unlisted”.
I'm personally digging vintage amps, so I was happy to discover a Gibson 1959 GA-18, a Gretsch6156 "Playboy" or a Marshall 255X Silver Jubilee! But you'll find modern amps too, like a Bogner Ecstasy or a DR.Z Route 66 from 2007...
When you gather all amps from the different Apps & Plugins, even after deleting the obviously “bad” and duplicates (using Ampl4 amp signature feature), you end with about 100+ amps to play with! Of course there are still duplicates: different apps might use same amps with different ids (and different signatures?), but also some amps might be modeled on different channels without the name reflecting it.
As always, the amp name were loosely “cryptic”, the following list is the result of my first investigations and deductions.
Like for the default amps, real names & brands of these amps are made available to you through the Ampl4™ "autolookup" feature! A little help to get you started on building your own AmpCyclopedia™
The amp identification and descriptions in the db is still a work in process but for 150+ amps that should save you quite few hours of web research.
I hope you’ll enjoy it…
| Brand | Model | Listed (*) | Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acoustic® | 360 | 1.2 | |
| Aguilar® | Tone Hammer 500 | 1.2 | |
| Ampeg® | B-15 1964 | 1.2 | |
| SVT 1969 (x2) | 1.1 | ||
| SVT-CL Bass | 1.2 | ||
| Bogner® | Ecstasy 1998 | 1.0 | |
| Ecstasy | 1.1 | ||
| Ecstasy 101 | 1.2 | ||
| Überschall | 1.0 | ||
| Cornford® | MK 50 | 1.0 | |
| Diezel® | Herbert | 1.0 | |
| VH4 (High gain) | 1.2 | ||
| VH4 (Lead) | 1.1 | ||
| DrZ® | Maz 38 Sr | * | 1.2 |
| Route 66 2007 | 1.0 | ||
| Dumble® | 1967 -? | * | 1.2 |
| Clean 1967 -? | 1.1 | ||
| Engl® | Fireball | * | 1.1 |
| Fireball | * | 1.2 | |
| Powerball | * | 1.1 | |
| Fender®   | Champion 100 Snow white | 1.0 | |
| Champion 100 Snow white 1972 | 1.0 | ||
| “tweed bass” 1959 -? | 1.0 | ||
| “Vibro” 1965 -? | 1.2 | ||
| Bassman 1959 | * | 1.1 | |
| Bassman 1967 | * | 1.1 | |
| ”Tweed lux” 1959 -? | 1.0 | ||
| “Lux Reverb” -? | 1.0 | ||
| “Lux Reverb” 1964 -? | 1.0 | ||
| Mini Twin Reverb | * | 1.1 | |
| Modded Blues Deluxe | * | 1.2 | |
| Showman 1965 | 1.2 | ||
| Super Bassman | * | 1.1 | |
| Super Sonic | * | 1.2 | |
| Twin Champ 1957 | 1.0 | ||
| Tweed deluxe 1959 | * | 1.3 | |
| Tweed deluxe 1957 | * | 1.1 | |
| Twin reverb 1967 | * | 1.1 | |
| Twin reverb 1969 | * | 1.1 | |
| ”Black Vibro” 1964 -? | 1.0 | ||
| Vibroverb (blackface) 1965 | 1.1 | ||
| Gallien-Krueger® | 700RB | * | 1.2 |
| 800RB | * | 1.1 | |
| MB800 | * | 1.1 | |
| Gibson® | GA-18 1959 | 1.0 | |
| Gretsch® | 6156 Playboy 60’ | 1.0 | |
| HIWATT® | DR 103 1968 | 1.0 | |
| DR 103 Clean | * | 1.1 | |
| DR 103 Crunch | * | 1.1 | |
| ”Hiway” Crunch -? | 1.2 | ||
| ”Hiway Custom Clean” -? | 1.0 | ||
| Laney® | GH-50 | 1.0 | |
| LC50 | 1.2 | ||
| Loomis® | Metal | 1.0 | |
| Marshall® | “Plexiglass” 1969 -? | 1.0 | |
| “‘63 Blues J45” -? | 1.2 | ||
| “‘74 Plexi 18W” -? | 1.2 | ||
| Super Lead 1959 | 1.0 | ||
| ”‘59 Super Lead” | 1.0 | ||
| 74X 18W Handwired” | 1.0 | ||
| 255X Silver Jubilee | 1.0 | ||
| Blues Breaker | 1.2 | ||
| “British Clean” | 1.2 | ||
| “British Lead” | 1.2 | ||
| JCM-800 Crunch | * | 1.1 | |
| JCM-800 Clean | * | 1.1 | |
| Lead 2000 -? | 1.0 | ||
| JCM-800 1982 | 1.0 | ||
| ”Lead 900” | 1.0 | ||
| JCM-900 1992 | 1.0 | ||
| JMP-1 | 1.0 | ||
| JTM 45 “Block Logo” 1964 | * | 1.1 | |
| JTM 45 | 1.0 | ||
| Modded Plexi (JCM800?!) | * | 1.2 | |
| ”Plexi 100” crunch | * | 1.1 | |
| ”Super Lead” | 1.2 | ||
| Super Lead 1969 | * | 1.1 | |
| Super Lead 1969 | 1.1 | ||
| Matchless® | DC-30 1994 | * | 1.1 |
| DC-30 1994 | * | 1.1 | |
| Merrow | 5150 | * | 1.1 |
| Fire | * | 1.0 | |
| Mesa/Boogie® | Dual Rectifier | * | 1.0 |
| Mark IIc+ | * | 1.1 | |
| Mark III 1985 | 1.0 | ||
| Modded Mark IIc | * | 1.2 | |
| Triple Rectifier | * | 1.1 | |
| Triple Rectifier | 1.1 | ||
| Triple Rectifier 1993 | * | 1.0 | |
| Ola Englund | War | 1.0 | |
| Peace | 1.0 | ||
| Orange® | AD 200 | * | 1.0 |
| AD 30 1999 | 1.0 | ||
| AD 30 | * | 1.0 | |
| AD 30 | * | 1.1 | |
| AD 30 | 1.2 | ||
| “British Bass” -? | 1.2 | ||
| OR 50 | 1.1 | ||
| Peavey® | 5150 | 1.0 | |
| 5150 2004 | 1.1 | ||
| 5150 MkII 20002 | * | 1.1 | |
| Roland | JC-120 1976 Clean | * | 1.1 |
| JC-120 1976 | 1.0 | ||
| Silvertone® | 1977 -? | 1.1 | |
| Twin Twelve | 1.0 | ||
| Twin Twelve 1965 | 1.0 | ||
| Soldano® | SLO-100 1987 (x2) | 1.0 | |
| SLO-100 High Gain | 1.2 | ||
| SLO X88 | 1.2 | ||
| SLO-100 High Gain | * | 1.1 | |
| SLO-100 1987 | * | 1.0 | |
| SP88 -? | * | 1.1 | |
| Supro® | Thunderbolt | 1.0 | |
| Traynor® | YVM-1 Voicemaster 1969 | 1.2 | |
| Vox® | “‘67 Top Boost” -? | 1.2 | |
| AC 30 1966 | 1.1 | ||
| AC 30 1966 | 1.0 | ||
| AC 30 1966 | * | 1.1 | |
| AC 15TB | 1.0 | ||
| Positive Grid® | Acoustic Amp (x2) | * | |
| Acoustic Sim (x2) | * | ||
| Clean Master | * | ||
| Grid Crunch | * | ||
| High Gain EL34 | * | ||
| Insane SATAN | * | ||
| Snake’s Lead 800 | * | ||
| Supra Bass | * | ||
| Bias Explorer Program | * | ||
| Custom Lead | * | ||
| Insane | * | ||
| Keyboard Amp | * | ||
| Vocal Amp | * |
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