are twenty Guitar speaker options, eight Bass
speaker options, seven Gear options and six
different options including Telephone & Horn.
Each speaker cab can be open back or closed.
There are also mic placement options, L/R
Blend, Phase and the ability to delay one side
for a wider stereo field. There are eight storable
presets that you can customize any way
you like.
I set Cabzeus up in my studio on some overdubs
I was doing. There are a lot of creative choices.
My first set up was a Marshall type stereo cab
for crunch. It had a crisp top and the bottom
pushed plenty of air with the closed back setting
and mics placed close to the center. It’s easy
and fast to try different speaker combinations.
The Delay feature made the sound get super
wide. The results were fantastic and better than
my software GTR emulations.
For my clean parts, I used American Vintage
30 12” speakers. Again, they were entirely
believable and close to my studio amp setup.
For my final test, I bypassed my nice vintage
amps and speakers and used only the Cabzeus.
I was curious if my picky producer friend would with how great it sounds. I’ve tried Cabzeus modeling on the fly. The fact that I fooled my
notice. He loved the tones, so I never told him. with and without actual amps. At Lakewood producer friend is scary impressive. It would be
I usually have my amps up loud, so it’s hard to Church, we currently have two sets of stereo an excellent DI for synths and analog keys. I’m
work late at night in my home studio. With the cabinets for two guitar players. We plan to sure any studio would find a ton of uses for it.
Cabzeus, I can now work late as I want and not move to Wet Dry Wet for the front of house With the ability to store patches by name, you
wake anyone up. engineer, giving him the option of adding a dry can save the settings for quick recall months
beefy tone to cut through the mix. We guitar later. I have to match my old parts sometimes
I tried it on bass, and I love the Jenson Punchy players love to hear lots of FX in our mix, and for clients, and it can be challenging but this
mixed with a DI. It’s super fat with the right this way both guitar player and FOH engineer solves that problem.
amount of crunch. The bass sits well in the are happy. Cabzeus is a perfect solution track and should be one of my go-to setups for this.
Cabzeus is an excellent addition to any live
from now on. There are some crazy Impulses
or studio set-up. I’m super happy with its
like Telephones and Horns; that might be CONCLUSION: reliability, versatility, and ease of use. If we
cool for some quirky guitar parts. I think it’s a Up to this point, I haven’t been a big fan gave out awards, it would get one. I highly
great show of creativity that Cabzeus has so of Cabinet simulators. I have some amp recommend it.
many options. simulators in my Computer, and they are all
good for certain things. Cabzeus impressed
For live, you could use Cabzeus in place of me. I like it better than anything I have software–
speaker cabinets. I think you would be happy wise. It allows me to try some creative cabinet
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