Review: Audio Assault Bulldozer (with video sample)

Hello and welcome to this week's article!

Today we are reviewing a new plugin from Audio Assault: Bulldozer.

Bulldozer is a new guitar amp simulator by the producer Audio Assault, and it's designed to recreate an "early 2000 metal rig", meaning the rig used live and in studio by most of the nu metal and modern rock american bands.
This means that the plugin is modeled after a Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier, and also the pedals, even if not expressely said, recreates the classic Ibanez Tube Screamer and other classic stompboxes.

Bulldozer is a pretty complete suite, made of three sections: the first one is the the pedalboard, which includes 5 slots in which you can choose between 10 stompboxes (to be used in front of the amp or in the FX Loop) with any kind of effect, from all the modulations to a compressor, there is even an auto wah.
The second one is the amplifier, and it's the classic layout of the Dual Rectifier, with 2 channels with independent eq section and two modes for the overdrive one;
finally the last section is the cabinet one, and it features 4 virtual microphones to choose from that can be moved around the speaker, and an IR loader.

By playing around with this plugin I have really felt that Audio Assault has studied the sound of the time (bands from Korn to Limp Bizkit, from Soil to the Airplay Oriented Rock of the early 2000) and captured that very american distortion, thick and bassy, with a hot tube roar and an attack that is slightly slower than the typical british distortion a la Marshall.
I think this model is more similar to the original one than most of the competitors, I just wish they included a tuner, to make it truly the only plugin to load in your guitar chain.

If you like this kind of sound make sure to check out the demo, I promise you will not be disappointed!

Thumbs up!


Specs taken from the website:


- 2 Channels with boost

- 5 pedal slots

- 10 stompboxes to choose from

- FX Loop

- Cab section with movable microphone

- 4 microphones to choose from

- IR Loader

- Built in noise gate


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