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[Super Joe]

any good vst amp emulators out there?

[Protools5LEGuy]

any good vst amp emulators out there?

Did you tried http://mda.smartelectronix.com/ ?

There you have...

Bandisto - Multi-band distortion
BeatBox - Drum replacer
Combo - Amp & speaker simulator
De-ess - High frequency dynamics processor
Degrade - Sample quality reduction
Delay - Simple stereo delay with feedback tone control
Detune - Simple up/down pitch shifting thickener
Dither - Range of dither types including noise shaping
DubDelay - Delay with feedback saturation and time/pitch modulation
Dynamics - Compressor / Limiter / Gate
Envelope - Envelope follower / VCA
Image - Stereo image adjustment and M-S matrix
Leslie - Rotary speaker simulator
Limiter - Opto-electronic style limiter
Loudness - Equal loudness contours for bass EQ and mix correction
Multiband - Multi-band compressor with M-S processing modes
Overdrive - Soft distortion
Re-Psycho! - Drum loop pitch changer
RezFilter - Resonant filter with LFO and envelope follower
Round Panner - 3D panner
Shepard - Continuously rising/falling tone generator
Splitter - Frequency / level crossover for setting up dynamic processing
Stereo Simulator - Haas delay and comb filtering
Sub-Bass Synthesizer - Several low frequency enhancement methods
Talkbox - High resolution vocoder
TestTone - Signal generator with pink and white noise, impulses and sweeps
Thru-Zero Flanger - Classic tape-flanging simulation
Tracker - Pitch tracking oscillator, or pitch tracking EQ
Vocoder - Switchable 8 or 16 band vocoder
VocInput - Pitch tracking oscillator for generating vocoder carrier input

Also Hughes & Kettner had some type of PRE emulation called WARP, I think.

Steinberg had Karlette/Magneto and Logic Tape Delay as Delays or Tape emulation.

There were also DSound Stomps pedals for OS9 (?).

On Protools there is also TECH21 Sans Amp and for TDM users Line6's AmpFarm





For VST amps, let's wait for DieHard to say something. He surely knows better guitar tools than me.

[Protools5LEGuy]

Also McDSP Chrome Tone

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/apr04/articles/mcdsp.htm

Line 6 had this market pretty much to themselves for several years, but now there's competition. Users of other DSP systems have the reputedly excellent Nigel (for Universal Audio's UAD1) and the hotly awaited TC Thirty (for Powercore), while those with VST-compatible sequencers can enjoy the likes of Steinberg's Warp VST. Sonar is bundled with its own amp simulator, Izotope's Trash is a tempting PC Direct X offering, and Logic users can look forward to the forthcoming Guitar Amp. To my mind, however, the bar is currently set by IK Multimedia's Amplitube. It supports all the sequencers in common use, it offers excellent stomp-box effect emulations as well as its amp simulation, and most importantly, sounds great. The main disadvantage for Pro Tools TDM and HD/Accel users is that Amplitube is available only as an RTAS or HTDM plug-in. As a consequence, it tends to suffer from more latency than Amp Farm, and imposes a load on the host CPU rather than running on Digidesign's DSP cards.

And so we come to the subject of this review. Like Amp Farm, the plug-ins in McDSP's Chrome Tone suite run on Mix, HD or Accel DSP chips, with the benefits of negligible latency and zero load on the host CPU (though RTAS versions should also be available by the time you read this). Like Amplitube, they don't just model amp/speaker combos, but include delay-based effects, wah-wah and compression for greater flexibility. And unique to Chrome Tone are sophisticated envelope followers and LFOs which, as we'll see, take familiar guitar effects into new territory.

The Warp SOS article http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/may02/articles/plugin0502.asp
A WARP video [youtube]sHAvOqyz2cQ[/youtube]

[Protools5LEGuy]

For me, one of the better ones to play "Live" distortion amp presets is Amplitube by IK
http://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php?topic=96.0
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/oct02/articles/amplitube.asp
But that thing eats half mac  It needs a G4 800 to run


One of the best guitar amplifiers is Nigel, only for UAD'1 platform

Nigel Multi-Effects Guitar Processing Plug-In

Features:

    Continuously variable morphing between different amplifier types
    Gate/Compressor for noise and dynamics control
    Phasor capable of modern and classic sounds such as those produced by the Mutron
    Bi-Phase, Small Stone and MXR series of phasers
    Mod Filter: wah, auto-wah, envelope follower, modeled after theMutron III and popular filters
    Tremolo with Classic, Shimmer™, VariTrem™, and Fade modes
    Fade-in for swells and reverse tape effects
    Modulated Delay capable of chorus, flange and vibrato
    Echo Delay up to 1200ms
    Artifact-free smoothing on all parameters - no zipper noise!
    Requires a UAD-1 DSP Accelerator Card for operation (Not available for UAD-2)

- See more at: http://www.uaudio.es/store/special-processing/nigel.html#sthash.s2RNn5u6.dpuf

http://www.uaudio.es/store/special-processing/nigel.html

Once all that is said, I just prefer to record the guitar driven on OS9. It eats too much resources to have any good distortion plug to use it.

In protools I render the distortion and deactivate the Amp because it hardly can run with 2-3 amps in 128 samples (realtime). Then the mac again can breathe.

Take care that a guitar amp is one of the most delicate sounds out there, and that a bad distortion sound can ruin a track, while a good one can give tons of coolness to that track.

I have a H&K tubeman preamplifier, and with that the mac can record dozens of guitars. If I try with virtual amps it can only run a fistful.