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Swanky Amp Pro

Truly dynamic tube amplification

Touch sensitivity, note bloom and sag, with endless tones from its stages, voicing and blended tone stacks.

The Swanky Amp Pro interface head-on, on its amp tab: pre amp, power amp, tone stack and reverb knobs, a scope drawing the input waveform in blue with the output traced in orange, lit blue and orange level meters beside the input and output knobs, and the gate controls

What people are saying

“It’s been an experience like with no other amp sim I’ve tried … and I’ve loved every minute of it.”

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“Swanky Amp Pro is crazy, crazy good.”

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Original short demo, recorded in 2021, showing the version 1 interface. Read the feature walkthrough.

Intuitive controls, deep customization

Get that clear crisp sound or crunchy distortion with intuitive controls that affect the underlying tube model.

Explore sounds ranging from vintage crunch tones to high gain distortion, all in one seamless workflow.

Build a tone with personality using unique customization options.

Swanky Amp Pro pre-amp controls up close: Drive, Tight, Grit, Stage and Filter with their values, Drive turned up to 9.2 and its orange ring lit, the header and power amp soft beyond

Pedal effects with a kick

Get that solo to stand out with a collection of essential pedal effects.

Each pedal emulates true analogue circuitry: hard clipping, soft clipping, diode clipping, so much clipping! The algorithms have been crafted to capture analogue dynamics.

Control your tone with standardized output level controls and mix controls for each pedal.

Swanky Amp Pro pedal slots seen obliquely, the green and orange shaping fields leading and the lit power icons repeating the accent

Detailed cabinet model

Swanky Amp's unique cabinet model technology ensures you get an authentic and precise cabinet sound. No room acoustics, no recording artifacts. Just the pure cabinet.

When your guitar gets loud, the speaker cone responds dynamically, adding another layer of detail to your playing.

Use the unique speaker controls to sculpt the sound of the speaker cone, enhancing its underlying frequency content.

Swanky Amp Pro cabinet placement: the speaker cone, the dashed placement axis and the microphone at its position, with the position, distance and tilt controls sharp

Simplified gain / drive / volume controls

Dial in the exact amount of tube distortion you want with independent control of the pre-amp distortion and power amp distortion.

Set the input level in the reference range. Drive the pre-amp or the power amp independently, and without affecting the overall volume. Then, set the output as you desire for monitoring or gain staging, without affecting distortion.

Swanky Amp Pro gain staging in one frame: the blue input ladder, the orange output ladder, the combined waveform, and the input and output knobs with their decibel readouts

Bigger-than-life stereo

Hold Alt, or Option on macOS, and drag a knob to start editing the parameter's stereo spread.

This streamlined workflow allows you to experiment with varied stereo configurations. Drive the right channel a bit harder, boost the presence in the left channel...

The cabinet section also offers fully independent configuration of the left and right channels, along with balance and width controls to take full command of the stereo field.

Swanky Amp Pro power amp Drive knob up close, its value split between the channels: a grey track recessed in the cap between the left and right settings, the orange ring lit, and the readout L 3.5 R 9.5 below
A wide band across the Swanky Amp Pro Drive knob: brushed aluminium, the glossy black divot, the lit orange ring and its reflection in the skirt, with the surrounding panel falling out of focus

Technology

It's never been easier to get a recording-ready guitar tone tailored to your playing style. Swanky Amp Pro's unique circuit allows for deep customization, ranging from clean vintage tones to heavy distortion. Swanky Amp Pro adds a layer of nuanced dynamism to your playing thanks to its detailed tube simulations.

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Overview

  • Full recording-ready guitar signal chain
  • Detailed customizable pre-amplifier model
  • Three tone stack models with seamless blending
  • Detailed customizable power amplifier model with voltage sag
  • Plug-in-wide noise gate
  • Easy gain staging, with independent power amplifier drive and plug-in output level
  • Simplified stereo workflow where the parameter spread can be directly edited
  • 6 effects pedals: compressor in the style of the CS-2, chorus in the style of the CE-2, boost with frequency control, overdrive in the style of the Tube Screamer, distortion in the style of the DS-1, fuzz in the style of the Rat
  • Precise cabinet model, based off of detailed simulations
  • Simulation accounts for speaker cone dynamics
  • Unique controls for customizing the cabinet speaker cone
  • 4 microphones and 4 speaker cones to choose from
  • Dual IR loader can be used instead of the cabinet model

Swanky Amp Pro

Pay once, no subscription, free product updates.

A Swanky Amp Pro licence allows you to install the software on up to 3 different devices.

Version 2.0 will be released soon.

Install the plug-in and choose Demo mode on the key panel. The demo is the full plug-in, with five seconds of silence once a minute.