Someone, anyone... what do you use?

I feel like I should know this, but VST?

VST's are software plugins. To use with most DAW's. I'd like to know where the good guitars are at.

If I'm using a daw I like stuff by archetype. Tailor from there what you will, but for me, nameless and nolly sound great

STRUM SESSION 2
I got it for like $10 on sale

I'm still using Line6's PodFarm. Got it 10 years ago, when they updated from Gearbox, then got a Platinum package because I was promoting them. There are better guitar VSTs for sure, including Line 6's Helix.

The current version of Amplitube is amazing. I’m honestly shocked at how good the amps are. And they have my beloved Mesa Mark series amps! But it’s a cpu hog.

i use guitar rig 6 and reamp studio R1 cant beat guitar rig for effects and what no the only thing it is missing is impulse loading their is a way to do it with the raum reverb but isnt the same as using the ir loaders in other ones i have bias fx and amp aswell but dont really think much of them do you know what kind of sound you are after as some are better than other depending on what your after

To clarify, are you looking for plugins to add texts to guitars, or are you looking for plugins that will "play" guitar for you?

@jlampson - I had the same thought. Makes a huge difference. I haven't found anything I like very much for generating the guitar itself, but there are tons of great free fx if that's the goal. @fatboyjamz

Ample has a quite nice acoustic guitar for free.
https://www.amplesound.net/en/download.asp

I still haven't found any good electric guitar, which is why I decided to learn the real instrument.

Most can sound good until you use more than one key at a time, particularly in any strumming situation.

Certain VSTs (Ample (VST), Orange Tree Samples Evolution, Session Guitarist (both Kontakt)) CAN sound awesome.... and even the latest Session all their strums and such can be dragged into midi and edited but....

In my experience, it's hella easier to play a guitar THROUGH than have the technical magic and detail to make it sound amazing virtually. Like..... a CRAZY amount of tweaking and messing about to get it to happen.

MY current attempt to fix this problem is to use a pedal I've had forever actually and connect it to my DAW.

I have a Boss GP-10 with a GK3 midi attachment.

Supposedly, I can use this to capture the notes I play. I suspect it's not going to work as well as I would like.

FOr me... I'm not that great a player. I would love to be able to play what I want and edit it from there. So it's really about finding a happy place between practical and technical knowledge.

I messed about with the pedal last night but not too much....I have a new computer coming in today so I will mess with it.

The guitar struggle is real, yo.

CLA guitars by Waves is pretty good. Doesn’t cost the Earth either

@jlampson @gslade I guess I'm new to the textual applications of guitars, as I have only used reverb and delay, so am interested in that too. But, I need good guitars as well! Am reading the comments and hoping to find a bit of both!

I am basically looking for an electric guitar to do ambient and chill songs, and am going to check out CLA Guitars and Guitar Rig for starters. If anyone has any other plugins worth looking into for playing the electric, I'm all ears. Thank you!

EDIT: I found this video and am weighing a few options.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuA2izLnvBo

I use Amplitube for one reason. It's simple.
That is Amplitube 4, if you can still find it somewhere. 5 got a bit confusing.

@ianuarius I'm going to check this out. Thank you!

@fatboyjamz have you got Spitfire Audio LABS? They have loads of nice textural stuff fantastic for ambient including some guitar things.
I'd also recommend getting Decent Sampler (a free software sampler) and a free sample library called Peter Flint Red Clay Guitar - available on the Pianobook website - worth checking out the whole site for guitar/textural libraries - all FREE

Check out Native Instruments' Electric Sunburst Deluxe. Good sound. Very versatile. You can get any kind of sound from it, from clean to distorted, funk to reversed. Use it all the time.

@oddbod going to check out Spitfire AUDIO Labs.

@florianhoffmann It turns out I have NI Komplete so an upgrade to that would be fairly seamless.

Thanks all!

@oddbod Spitfire is a find. For sure.

The LABS pedal steel from Spitfire Audio is lovely, and free. As you have NI Komplete, you already have a bunch of virtual guitars to choose from, and @florianhoffmann has already identified the Sunburst, which I think is the best in the bunch.

I tend to use real guitars, because guitars. I used to use iZotope's Neutron 3 on my guitar submix, but these days I pretty much stick to effects pedals on the floor, primarily a Digitech Bad Monkey which is a semi-clone of a Tube Screamer, and a Zoom G6. Ableton's "brute compression" stock compressor can do nice things to distorted guitars but aside from that, these days the only effect I add in the DAW is Valhalla DSP's free Supermassive reverb on my A return channel.

+1 for Ample. I use Hellrazer personally