It has all the strings sampled on every fret, and in all sorts of ways including staccato notes, power chords, unison bends, the list goes on! Most of the time, you will probably be using the Shreddage IIX file, as it has the main guitar sounds that you’d use in your songs. Alternately, you can use Shreddage 2X as a standalone plugin using the Kontakt player.Īfter you get it running, you then have a choice of three different instrument files to load into either Kontakt or Kontakt Player. I used SONAR X3 Producer as my DAW for this review. You can also use the full version of Kontakt. Peavey’s ReValver HPse is included, and requires a VST or AU compatible host to use it with Shreddage 2X.įor my review, I used the free Kontakt player which can be downloaded from the Native Instruments website. For the Mac, you’ll need an Intel-based Mac with OSX 10.7 or higher, and four gigabytes of RAM is recommended. It uses a serial number for copy protection, and you will have to enter that number in the Service Center that Kontakt uses.īesides the hard drive space, the requirements that you need are Kontakt 5.3 or Kontakt Player 5.3, a PC with Windows 7 or 8 (32-bit or 64-bit), four gigabytes of RAM is recommended, and at least a Core 2 Duo processor. It does take a while to download Shreddage 2, and when you install it, it will take about four gigabytes of hard drive space. Shreddage 2X is priced at $139 USD, and there is an upgrade price of $99 USD if you own the original Shreddage. So how was it recorded? The guitar they used was a Musicman JP12 (seven-string guitar) going through an Avalon U5, then in to a RME HDSPE interface, and recorded in 24-bit audio. The first time I heard the demos for it, I thought there was a real guitar player going at it in the studio, as there is just so much realism in its sound.

It has built-in effects, many articulation controls, and is very easy to use. What exactly is Shreddage 2X? It is a sampled electric guitar that can be loaded into either Kontakt or the free Kontakt Player. With Shreddage 2X, they’ve added even more useful features. The original version was released in 2010, and later on it received many improvements for v2. For this issue of SoundBytes, I will be reviewing another product of theirs that is called Shreddage 2X. Impact Soundworks are the producers of many fine sampled instrument libraries, including Vocalisa, Juggernaut, Celestia, and many more.

Those words are a lot to live up to, and our reviewer thinks they might have actually delivered on that claim. Impact Soundworks claims Shreddage 2X is the “Absolute Electric Guitar”.

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