Acustica have released AQUA Graphite, a bass guitar cab and amp which is available at the intro price if €69.00, increasing to €99.00 after the promotion. The offer ends August 16th.
Designed by Acustica with N4 library developer SoundDrops (http://sounddrops.it/), the Graphite bass amp emulator is fully endorsed by GR Bass (https://www.grbass.com/), the innovative and dynamic Italian manufacturer of bass amplifiers and cabinets. Graphite is fully dedicated to the needs of bassists and is without a doubt one of the most authentic and modern sounding bass amp plugins that you will find on the market today.
The challenge was to faithfully recreate the sound of the GR Bass One head in combination with the AT 212 bass cabinet, both produced by GR Bass. The GR Bass One head is designed according to their ‘PURE SOUND’ philosophy, producing a realistic sound with natural transparency. The AT 212 bass cabinet is the lightest 2×12’’ cab available in the world: it is part of the revolutionary AeroTech series, and an example of the incredible technical advancement that GR Bass has achieved with its Carbon Fiber cabinet line.
Thanks to its intuitive single-screen interface, whatever musical style you are playing, fingerstyle, pick or slap, this plug-in will adapt, providing you with the pure sound and punch of the GR Bass ONE head and the AT 212 cabinet, for a huge amount of ultra-solid bass tones ready for any genre! For any further tuning and sculpting of your sound, please don’t forget to use the powerful 4-band equaliser, then add to the output mix any dose you like of your D.I. signal by using the relevant controls at your disposal.
Features include:
- GR ONE Solid-state amplifier, complete with a powerful semi-parametric EQ section and an adjustable high quality D.I. output.
- Input and Output LED meters.
- AT 212 Carbon fiber cab (2×12″) captured by 2 microphone setups which can be used individually or in pairs, with 4 different mic models each, plus a switchable tweeter emulation.
- Freely adjustable cab settings with independent mic management, closely emulating a real bass recording session.
- Easy-to-use graphical user interface.
- Low CPU usage and low latency.
- Presets available, suitable for different playing techniques.
Head features
Transparency is one of the main characteristics of the GR ONE solid-state head; It includes a 4-band equalizer which allows you to sculpt the sound according to your needs, but that’s not all: in addition to the usual low- and a high-shelf controls, two additional mid-band equalizers allow you to choose from three central frequencies each, and to top it all, deep and bright filters give you control over any extra punch and/or definition you might need.
Cabinet features
Compared to other similar wooden cabinets on the market, the AT 212 (2×12”) carbon fiber cabinet has better focus, sonic detail, richer tone and a more open sound, not to mention its much lighter weight. After careful design, an intense sampling and optimisation phase, and thanks to the invaluable contribution of the GR Bass team themselves, Acustica was able to effectively capture the essence of this cabinet with all its tonal shades, harnessing it all in this plug-in and offering you a sound as close as possible to the original.
Graphite is available to PC and Mac users (VST2, VST3, AU and AAX).
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