New Gear Alert: Deep Metal from LunaStone, EHX’s 15Watt Howitzer, System 6000 Native Plugins from TC Electronic & More

LunaStone unleashes the Deep Metal distortion pedal.

Keep your distortion as tight as it is brutal with Deep Metal from LunaStone.

LunaStone’s Deep Metal is a hugely scooped distortion tailored specifically for providing powerful and classic metal tones. It is equally suited for creating wall-of-sound-like heavy guitar riffs and cutting-through-and-above-the-mix solos. The low end is kept tight, while maintaining the ability to go really low, which translates into a massive sound—even on small combos.

Deep Metal sounds massive and is rather non-transparent; it will even make poor-sounding pickups sound better, and it is more forgiving if your technique is not perfect.

Check out an introductory video to Deep Metal here.

The Deep Metal distortion pedal is available now, priced at $159.

EHX releases the 15Watt Howitzer.

Can this unique and flexible preamp/power amp from EHX find its way into your guitar rig?

The 15Watt Howitzer guitar amp/preamp is an ultra-compact workhorse that’s perfect as part of a portable guitar rig, or as an emergency backup and gig saver should your main amp break down. It’s super flexible, like a musical chameleon, and depending on the gear you use and your style, will fit in the broadest range of genres.

The 15Watt Howitzer’s Volume and Gain controls let you go as clean or as crunchy as you want while the Bass, Mid and Treble knobs provide plentiful tone shaping. Its FX Loop gives you the option of putting effects like reverb and delay after the preamp. Of course you can still run your guitar straight into pedals and then right into the 15Watt Howitzer’s input jack.

Check out an introductory video to the 15Watt Howitzer here.

The 15Watt Howitzer is available now, priced at $127.80

TC Electronic launches the System 6000 Native plugins.

TC Electronic is now offering the System 600 in native plugin format—don’t miss out!

TC Electronic recently set about re-imagining the legendary System 6000 as native DAW plugins without sacrificing any performance, character, or usability. The Danish engineers, including many from the original System 6000 team, refined audio quality whilst staying faithful to the original hardware version. The development team fastidiously re-engineered these new native plugins, some available for the first time, to offer full support for standard DAW automation and project recall with new optimized user interface ergonomics.

System 6000 Native plugins are fully compatible with all major DAW’s and deliver full support for standard DAW automation and project recall. These native high-end plugins deliver all of the performance of the iconic original with modern-day convenience. The plugins included are: MD3, MD4 HD, NONLIN2, VSS4 HD, and VSS3.

The System 6000 Native plugins budle is priced at $699; for further information and individual plugin pricing, click here.

Softube releases the Volume 5 plugin collection.

Softube distills some of their most coveted plugins into a powerful collection, with tons of savings to boot.

Softube’s Volume 5 plugin collection is a hand-picked anthology of exceptional-sounding tools; a treasure trove of plugins available with huge savings over the list prices on the individual components. With personalized upgrade paths based on ownership of a previous version of Volume or one of the included plugins, the value is further increased.

Volume 5 features four exquisitely crafted additions: the surgically precise Weiss EQ MP, Amp Room pro audio guitar and bass platform, Marshall Cabinet Collection expansion for Amp Room, and Statement Lead polyphonic synth. And they’re just a taste of the wealth of high-quality gear that comprises the bundle.

All the top-notch plugins from the previous Volume editions are included in Volume 5. There are component-modeled analog channel strips, compressors & limiters, EQs, effects, reverbs & delays, special processors, amp sims, and instruments that have been created in partnership with industry-leading brands like Summit Audio, Doepfer, Marshall, Drawmer, Trident, OTO, and Fix. And the best-in-class Weiss MM-1 Mastering Maximizer rounds out the set ready to polish whatever it touches to a high shine.

Softube Volume 5 is available now for a special introductory promo prie of $629 until April 16th (reg. $899).

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