Developer Aurora DSP has released Liver 6, a free VST plugin simulating the early Line6 POD 2.0.
I will readily admit I groan audibly for most of April Fools Day. It used to be more inventive, or perhaps I was more tolerant of things as a kid. These days, though, it’s like folks are just trying to be outlandish on social media for a cheap joke.
However, there are exceptions to every rule. BPB tried to make April 1st epic by offering a free copy of Limiter by Mastering The Mix, and Aurora DSP released a surprisingly cool guitar amp sim.
Liver 6 is an interesting offering, certainly made to tickle that nostalgic part of any guitarist’s brain that remembers early amp sims and better April Fools’ Day jokes.
If you were a guitar player during the 2000s, you remember the Line 6 POD. It was kind of ugly, it sounded bad, and it was cheap. It was a perfect storm of elements if you were after moderately terrible high-gain guitar tones in an affordable package.
Liver 6 calls to mind the nostalgic awful tones of the Pod, albeit with a twist.
There are a fair few funny amp model names given on the rotary dial. To my ears, they all sound pretty much the same, like digital distortion.
This might be by design or some bug, I have no clue. I do know that it makes my Ibanez and Les Pauls sound absolutely terrible like I’m 21 and broke again.
Liver 6 isn’t without its utilities, however. I could definitely see this putting in some work if you’re trying to capture that 2000s MySpace metalcore demo song that you swear will be a hit vibe.
At any rate, it’ll certainly be better produced than whatever we were churning out almost 20 years ago.
Liver 6 isn’t going to wow you like Aurora’s Rhino or Mr Laboga, but it is worth a look if only to see that someone modelled one of the most infamous pieces of guitar gear to crawl out of the 2000s.
You’ll need an account to download Liver 6 from Aurora DSP’s website and the plugin works just fine on Windows and Mac.
At the very least, it’ll give you a good laugh for an afternoon as you try to remember all those Converge riffs you pilfered from Ultimate Guitar back in the day. The page also has an autoplay sample when you load it, so just a heads up.
Download: Liver 6 (FREE)
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