Review: Vadim Taranov Raven Volcanic (with video sample and free VST download)

Hello everyone and welcome to this week's article!

Today we're going to review a new VST amp simulator from the producer Vadim Taranov: Raven Volcanic!

This free plugin seems to be the emulation of the boutique amp Omega Ampworks Obsidian, and boy it sounds good!

The Raven Volcanic plugin is a 2.5 channels head, which means 3 channels with the rhythm and lead channel that share the same eq (the clean one has a separate eq section), and which offers also a power amp section with the equivalent of the usual Depth and Resonance controls present in, for example, the Peavey 5150.

The 2 overdrive channels also share 2 vocing switches, one for the voicing of the mid frequencies, one for the voicing of the high ones, allowing us to fine tune our tone by making it more or less scooped.

In the video sample I have used this amp sim both for the rhythm guitars and for the lead one (obviously the lead one had different settings), and I must say the amp responds very well, it has an enormous amount of gain and it doesn't need a booster even to go into death metal territories, if the guitar pickups have a decent output.

All in all, in the recent years free plugin creators seems really to have taken a quality leap, between Vadim Taranov, NaLex and Ignite amps, allowing really anyone to have fun playing and recording with the computer, and I can only suggest you to try out this amazing piece of software and pair it with some quality impulse response, it will grant you hours of killer chugs.

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