My experience of playing the mid-'60s SG that I’ve owned for 45 years and hearing it nail the sounds of a 1952 Telecaster, Sixties Strat and Gretsch hollowbody was utterly surreal. No special pickups or processors are required. The initial setup takes a bit of time but is simple: choose a favorite guitar, match its body style and pickup configuration, analyze notes at different pickup settings and fret positions, and you’re good to go. The new amps and effects, as well as the expertly programmed and highly usable presets, are so good that you may never want to go back to playing a 'real world' amp or pedalboard again.īut the ultimate mind-blower is the Guitar Match feature, which can transform any one of your favorite guitars into a Strat, Tele, Gretsch, ES-335, Charvel and much more.
The BIAS FX Desktop Explorer program is now open for signup to Mac and Windows users.If you’ve tried or own BIAS FX, you already know that the amps and effects kick ass.
And for the first time ever, you can create, upload and share your dream pedalboards and rigs, and download any other user’s pedalboards and rigs, using BIAS FX with our ToneCloud network.”īIAS FX ($29.99) is now available from the Apple App-Store for iPad. The interface was designed for fast and easy use with both mobile devices and computers, on the road or in the studio. The sound quality is totally without compromise. “We wanted to create something that hadn’t been done before, using today’s most advanced technology. “It’s mind-blowing to see how much better musicians can play when they have great tone, and it drives us crazy to see many are playing and recording with lifeless effects and clunky interfaces,” says Calvin Abel, Product Manager for Positive Grid. BIAS Amp’s groundbreaking Amp Match technology captures and clones the sound of any amp-virtual, live-miked or pre-recorded-and stores it in a profile that you can open for instant use in BIAS FX. BIAS FX and ToneCloud also integrate fully and seamlessly with BIAS Amp Designer, providing access to thousands of custom-designed guitar and bass amp models. Simply scroll through the online images to select the presets of interest, then tap or click to download. Browsing and downloading from that library is a snap: All the effects and amps in each setup can be seen at a glance, because they’re stored as Pinterest-like snapshots. There are already thousands of pedalboard configurations available on ToneCloud for you to own, and the banquet keeps getting bigger and bigger: Positive Grid continues to work with famous artists, producers, and engineers from all over the world to create a massive, ever-growing library of extraordinary virtual pedalboards and rigs for BIAS FX. BIAS FX makes it easy as ABC to go nuts with your tone! And since BIAS FX seamlessly integrates with other audio apps using Inter-App Audio, you can insert third-party effects for guitar, bass, piano, synth, percussion and other instruments anywhere in its dual signal paths.
Patch everything together, including all pedals and rack effects, in any order you wish in dual signal paths running in parallel. When integrated with BIAS Amp Designer (available separately), you can select a different preamp, power amp, cab, mic and eq for each of the two amps. Dual virtual amps provide the resonance and vibrancy of playing through two real amps set up together in wide stereo.
Show up at the studio or gig, boot up and play!īIAS FX is the most powerful processor ever made by Positive Grid, yet its simple drag-and-drop interface makes it extremely easy to use. Throw all that together – it is pedalboard heaven, but without the hassle of hauling around dozens of stomps in a heavy metal box and fumbling with a snakepit of cables. A huge collection of newly developed, high-definition pedal and rack effects is included: Noise gate, boosters, overdrive, distortion, fuzz, equalizers, tremolo, phaser, flanger, chorus, octaver, compressors, delays and spring and plate reverbs-everything a guitar player needs for massive tone, with all the flavor of both modern and vintage stomp boxes.
Recent breakthroughs in technology, particularly with mobile devices’ chip sets, allowed Positive Grid to approach engineering BIAS FX with a no-compromise mindset to produce the best possible sound quality. BIAS FX ups the ante regarding Tone Quality significantly. Seamless BIAS amps integration, dual amps, dual signal chains, and thousands of ultra-high definition multi-effects combinations are instantly downloadable from ToneCloud®, the company’s proprietary social network for musicians.