Overloud THU

I purchased the premium bundle and the description said “this is the most complete pack and includes everything in fx, amp, cab and distortion packs”. But there are standard rock and blues items like American super 66 amp & cab and some pedals that require separate purchases again and are not included in premium - most people buying a premium pack would expect this and you wouldn’t know about it unless you go compare some comparison tables somewhere even if it was linked to - and it’s not. Even items created with some artists are not included in premium. If it wasn’t for this issue, I would have been satisfied with my purchase.

I have been a pro for almost 30 years and am a tube amp nut, play 3 instruments and mastered two. I don't have a problem with the cost.....about 20 bucks for the metal pack, and I think it is an high quality amp sim, so I don't understand the cheap tightwads who whine about "cost". You don't have to buy everything on offer, with a couple of tenners you can get all you need. It would be like going to a guitar shop and blaming the owner about how it would cost you too much money to buy all the amps on display. Just stupid. If you don't want or can't buy all you see for sale, then don't, people are free to put for sale any products they want to sell. Just as dumb, is how the nuggets don't realize that the desktop version of this software costs A LOT more, and you are getting same quality and sounds even on an old iphone, if you have an interface like the Irig HD. 20 years ago I would have paid 20 times as much for the Metal Pack only. Ironically, these people are probably the same ones who would spend 2K on an Axe FX or a fancy guitar mainly because of how it looks. The interface is a bit awkward compared to other known amp sims, but what it matters is how it sounds and how it feels, all else I can live with. I still detract one star because there's no manual, the lack of which is as dumb as brick, I had to figure out how it works and I still don't know how to save a preset I have modified, into an empty slot, so I have to overwrite the original, etc. However, I am impressed by the sound, feel, and huge amount of gear and 'rigs'. The cost is reasonable. ---- Update: detracted another star because of no manual. I can't even figure out how the super cabinet works. Just dumb, and that ain't me. ----- after fiddling around a lot, I finally found the well hidden tutorial videos on the website. The devs might think they are easy to find but they aren't, the buyer should be made aware of these IN THE APP, at least a frigging sign that says: "check our website for tutorials". For this once I am leaving 5 stars just because the product itself deserves nothing less, but all this other stuff is poor. ----- update: my fav amp sim is now THU, because it is Auv3, which matters as otherwise you have to manually reload stuff into the Garageband projects, has all I need, and quite frankly it is a very high quality product.

FEB 25th 2023: Overloud THU now works again as a plug-in in GarageBand on my iPad Pro M1 12.9”, and after testing, I know what’s happened, and why it went AWOL previously. Sometimes early in AUv3 development, the Dev makes a change that somehow alters the ‘ID’ that DAWs like GB iOS recognise the plugin by. This might have happened when Overloud did something, but they corrected it I think. Unfortunately, GarageBand at least, is left with a ‘hangover’ where it STILL cannot find Overloud THU on the iPad, but ONLY IF YOU OPENED THAT SONG FILE DURING THE TIME OVERLOUD THU WAS ‘MISSING’. In other words, everything is now fine, THU is visible as a plugin, UNLESS you happened to go in GB, open a song file to edit, and this was during the time THU was seemingly (to GB) ‘not identifiable’. In that case, even when THU has reappeared, the instance of THU in your FX list of that GB song, does not self-heal. However if you go and re-put THU in the song again in this ‘unlucky’ song file, it will happily appear. So, I only happened to open ONE single song file in GB during the time THU was ‘not identified’ by GB as being there, and therefore, all my other songs, are fine, but that file, I couldn’t make it exactly the way it was, after this spurious GB error msg ‘Overloud THU not found’ happened, so minimal disruption in the end. take care all. OLD - FIXED, No longer a FAULT ! … FEB 17th 2023: I can only review on the basis of reality. I went on Overloud’s website. I sent them a technical support slip or whatever. This was weeks ago. Still GarageBand does not believe Overloud THU is on my ipad. I also updated GB to the very latest iOS16.3.1 version I could, NO DIFFERENCE. This was great when it worked as an iOS AUv3 plugin. Now it doesn’t. In all my tracks, ‘THU’ sits there in the FX list, in greyed-out text. Please fix it Overloud, there isn’t much else I can do. Unseen by the major app I use, means unusable, hence one star, and I don’t like to do this either. Take care all. OLDER… Just an update to the main review/rating I left two days ago - this is an underrated Effects Processing System, no doubt about that. The only negative in iOS, is ‘undo’ and ‘redo’ are impossible for me to find! Read the manual, searched browser and youtube - the problem of course, is nobody demonstrates their ‘mistakes’, hence the one thing I now want, I cannot see demonstrated. It’s possible, if a mouse is attached to my iPad Pro M1, a ‘right click’ will suddenly bring undo and redo

So the developers response to the global economy being on its knees, is to raise prices. If the app was significantly better than everything else, it would be understandable. But it isn’t. This is clearly a desktop company using IOS as advertising, with no real interest or comprehension as to what makes the App Store work or who potential customers are.

I have owned half a dozen good valve amps & own a couple now. I've tried almost every iOS amp sim. This is the first iOS sim I have used which both sounds excellent, saves state in AUM saves, & is crash-free when hosted in AUM, perhaps because it is AUv3. I use the app mostly for clean or mildly overdriven tones. The free 'Darkface' amp is great in itself for this, the Caliper & Marcus II superlative (which I bought in the Funk bundle, which includes compressors, a gate/expander denoiser & plate & room reverbs along with much else). The interface is not entirely intuitive (I was slow to find that clicking the logo top left opens global setup, looper & tuner) & there seems to be no dedicated manual for the iOS version of THU, but I have it all figured out now, it delivers just what I need, reliably, and I really have no need of any other sim or FX for my purposes. Incidentally I'm building setups using ‘components' - akin to how most sims work, chaining FX, amp & cab individually. There are also 'rig' sims which others speak highly of, which integrate multiple components & their interactions. The difference is not well explained, but fairly clear through experimentation.

As others have said way too expensive. You’d make more by having reasonable purchase prices.

I was initially unhappy about the need to register via facebook or google, but now that requirement seems to have gone (I hope it was something I said :D) I can repeat the other part of my initial review by saying that these amps do sound pretty damn good. I haven't yet bought any of the packs but the base ones sound good enough to extend the collection, and it's only shortness of xmas cash that stopped me getting some in the recent sales. Also, I don't think they are particularly expensive - not that dissimilar to Bias or Tonestack. Just because a full range of gear is provided, it doesn't mean you have to actually buy them all, that's like criticising a music shop for having too much stock...

So the app is easy to use, adding and tweaking “gear” is quite clean and the tones you can get from it are just ok. The app does disappoint with a lack of impulse response support (overload claims it will be added sometime in the future)nor you can use IAA to load IR using something like Fiddlicator. It’s very expensive and even after buying the “full” license you still not getting all the gear. Rig player included is a sudo kemper but you are limited only to in app profiles (these are like dlcs quite costly) and you can’t create your own, I believe this is why there’s no impulse response support so people would start buying these “dlcs” to expand their amp/cab library’. Signal splitter is a nice addition if you plan to use it in live application. I tried to like this app but mooer’s gelabs is just better and FREE!

I’ve used every amp sim on iOS going back to 2012, and for the sound I’m after this app offers by far the best tone. It’s now AUv3, which is essential, and even the free stuff is excellent. The IAPs are a bonus in my view, and while they seem expensive that’s only because of the sheer quantity of included gear. Don’t take my word for it, download the app and give it a spin at no cost. If you’re not blown away by the tone you haven’t lost anything. I’m glad we have such quality on the App Store. After eight years of waiting this is finally a top-tier amp sim.

Great amps cabs and effects. It's Free!!!!! No complaints