Conjure tones ranging from “dirty blues to crushing metal” with the new Omega Ampworks Granophyre plugin

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Neural DSP has introduced the Omega Ampworks Granophyre, a new guitar amp plugin that offers up tones ranging from “dirty blues to crushing metal.”

The Granophyre boasts selectable virtual EL34, 6L6 and KT66 power tubes, low and high gain settings and a voice switch that changes the placement of the midrange focus.

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Rich is the co-author of the best-selling Nöthin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion. He is also a recording and performing musician, and a former editor of Guitar World magazine and executive editor of Guitar Aficionado magazine. He has authored several additional books, among them Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, the companion to the documentary of the same name.

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