Audio Assault Sigma v2 review (with video sample)

 

Hello everyone and welcome to this week's article!

Today we're going to review the version 2 of a virtual amp which has already been reviewed on these pages, the Audio Assault Sigma!

Sigma is a plugin which is a bit special in the Audio Assault lineup, I think it started a new course in terms of interface, features and overall sound quality, and this version 2.0 adds a new interface, more channels (now they are 3), 2 more knobs (2 independent gain controls for low and high frequencies), a booster, more impulse responses by Seacow Cabs, a Delay and a Reverb. 

The amp structure is basically the same, but these extra features allows you to fine tune your tone much more, adding a lot of versatility, especially in the low gain territories.

The new impulses are also quite usable, as you can hear from the sample (I have used the Sigma 4x12 one), and all in all I think it's a great upgrade which makes it, in its price range, one of the best virtual amps on the market.

Now Sigma comes also with an array of presets which have the function of showcasing the amp's versatility, although I would have preferred to have them called with a name that describes them, instead of a number.

My only suggestion is to add a tuner and to optimize a bit the stereo version: usually one puts the stereo version of a guitar plugin in the guitars stereo buss to save some cpu, but in the case of this plugin it's less cpu hungry if used in 2 mono instances, in the individual guitar tracks. 

This is a really good plugin, especially for metal tones but also for clean ones, and I suggest everyone to download the demo version and try it out!

Thumbs up!

Specs:

- 3 channels: Clean, Crunch and Lead

- 3 stompboxes: Gate, Boost and Drive

- Rack Fx: 9 band equalizer, Delay, Reverb

- Dual cab IR loader with dozens of Seacow Cabs IRs

- Preset manager

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