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Toneforge® Menace is a virtual guitar rig plugin designed to give you aggressive metal amp tones that pair perfectly with any guitar lead or riff. As the original Toneforge® model, Toneforge® Menace is the first virtual guitar rig plugin designed to take you all the way from direct input to final mix.

Toneforge® Menace is guitar tone simplified.

Ultra High Gain Amp

Who doesn’t love the ultra-thick, uber-distorted tones offered by a high-gain amp head? In metal and hard rock genres, there’s no substituting that kind of tone.

Toneforge® Menace contains a proprietary design for ultra high-gain amp tone designed by metalcore producer, Joey Sturgis. Having worked with dozens of modern metal amps on albums for artists like Asking Alexandria, Of Mice & Men, The Devil Wears Prada, Miss May I, Emmure, Attila, and countless others, Joey has a unique perspective on studio guitar tone. Paring down his engineering and mixing chops to a single plugin, he was able to create the most comprehensive, mix-ready virtual guitar rigs for metal musicians.

Classic Overdrive

Toneforge® Menace offers a mild distortion/overdrive pedal that enhances the dynamic response of the plugin to a guitarist’s playing. The overdrive sits in front of Toneforge® Menace’s amp head and can be used to push the amp further into breakup and saturation.

The overdrive pedal is a great option for when you’re looking to squeeze more out of the amp, but it also supports software-enabled true bypass when you’d rather get that straight-from-the-amp tone.

Cab Room

Toneforge® Menace features a flexible cab room, capable of producing a wide range of mic’d up cabinet tones. Users can leverage the JST Matched Cabinet with four different microphone pairings, or import their own cabs using Toneforge® Menace’s convenient IR Loader.

JST Matched Cabinet

To perfectly pair the cabinet with Toneforge® Menace’s amp topology, Joey Sturgis Tones developed a proprietary matched cabinet emulation that responds and reacts to changes to the amp’s settings and player’s style in the same way a physical cabinet might. This closed loop is one of the biggest benefits to having a virtual guitar rig - by controlling both the front-end inputs from the amp and the output from the cabinet, great tone can be more than captured; it can be reproduced time and time again!

Pair it with any of the following microphone options:

Condenser

An expensive-sounding microphone capable of capturing the full frequency spectrum in a detailed, transparent manner.

421

A classic dynamic microphone with more focused midrange and extended low end.

57

A studio workhorse dynamic microphone placed on-axis for direct, straightforward tone.

57 off-axis

The same studio workhorse placed off-axis for a slightly darker, rounded tone.

Not finding the right combination? With Toneforge® Menace’s Impulse Response loader, you can import any of your favorite cabinet/microphone combinations from your collection. Check out our impulse response packs to learn more.

Studio-Grade Parametric EQ & Limiter

A huge part of achieving mix-ready guitar tones comes down to the post processing, which is why we’ve included a Parametric EQ and Limiter with Toneforge® Menace.

Both processors are studio-grade effects units that could go toe-to-toe with the best dedicated EQ or limiters on the market, but we’ve chosen to pair them with Toneforge® Menace so we could fine-tune them to work their best with this amp. Rest assured you’re getting a fully optimized, end-to-end guitar tone solution with this plugin

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What You'll Get

Single-User Perpetual Software License
Audio Plugin in AAX, AU, & VST3 formats
User Manual

Requirements

Mac or Windows computer with supported OS and supported DAW

Supported Operating Systems

Windows 8.1+ (64-bit): VST3, AAX
macOS 10.14+ (Intel or M-Series, 64-bit): VST3, AU, AAX

Supported DAWs

Cubase
Reaper
Pro Tools
Logic
GarageBand
Ableton Live
Studio One
FL Studio
Digital Performer
LUNA

Legal

Copyright © Joey Sturgis Tones. All rights reserved.
Toneforge is a registered trademark of Joey Sturgis Tones, LLC
VST and VST3 are trademarks of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH.
Mac OSX and Audio Unit are trademarks of Apple, Inc.
RTAS and AAX are trademarks of Avid, Inc.
Windows is a trademark of Microsoft, Inc.

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