Year / Date of Issue : 05.2018
Version : v1.1.1
Publisher : Mercuriall
Website : Mercuriall
Format : VST, VST3, AAX *
Bit depth : 32bit, 64bit
Tabletka : Not required (Team VR)
System requirements :
Intel or AMD with SSE2 support,
2 cores and 4 threads, 2.6 GHz
Windows Vista or newer
RAM 4 Gb
Description : Guitar amplifier built on the amplifier Marshall
Additional Information:
Spark is a VST / AU / AAX plugin that models four Marshall® tube amplifiers, four guitar cabinets, four overdrive pedals and a set of the most common spatial effects.
Modeling
Spark is the realization of all of our latest achievements in the field of real-time electric circuits. First of all, it’s a tube. This allowed us to implement a truly realistic power-saturation (very important for the majority of the Marshall®-based amps), realistic work of the Presence knob and made possible to take into account the influence of the output and power transformers.
Hi channel (switch # 34 = off).
One of more than ten linear circuits modeled for Spark.
We have the improved the cabinet section. Apart from the smooth positioning of microphones, we added an option to mix. This allows you to find pretty much any desired sound. There are four cabs and three microphones at your disposal.
Despite the fact that Spark is an amp and cab sim above all, we gave a lot of attention to the FX section. There is a Noise Gate at the input, as well as a number of pedals: there are currently four overdrives, implemented with our proprietary technology of the electric chain modeling. As for the spatial effects – 1E37A51FF9EE there are Chorus, Delay and Reverb.
Spark’s UI continues our approach of simple usability at no expense to a wide functionality. All main actions require just a single click. We pay a lot of attention to the design, that passes a lot of iterations of adjustments and improvements, offering you a very simple and functional solution.
Key Features
• Electronic circuits of amps and pedals are modeled with our custom technology using Neural Networks
• Pedals, preamp and power amp are working within the same oversampling cycle. Thus, there is no latency build-up and no additional losses when using several anti-aliasing filters
• Realistic and smooth positioning of up to two microphones simultaneously
• Several preamp and power amp tubes to choose from
• Stereo-mode: right and left channels are modeled independently. This mode is useful for processing stereo signals. For example, a panned double tracked guitar
• Delay and reverb can be used in parallel to get a more expressive effect without extra routing
• Plugin supports CPU multi-threading
Amp section:
Based on Marshall® AFD (four channels)
Based on Marshall® JCM 800 (two channels)
Based on Marshall® JMP Super Lead (two channels) with Master Mod
Based on Marshall® JMP Super Bass (two channels) with Master Mod
Tubes: 12AX7 RCA, 12AX7 RSD; 6L6GC, EL34
Cab section:
Based on Bogner® Uberkab 412 – 4×12 Celestion® G12T-75
Based on Bogner® Uberkab 412 – 4×12 Celestion® V30s
Based on Marshall® 1960B – 4×12 Greenback
Based on Marshall® 1960B – 4×12 JBL® K120 (vintage)
Microphones: Shure® SM57, Sennheiser® MD441, Royer® R121
Pedals and FX section:
Noise Gate
Overdrive based on Ibanez® TS-808
Overdrive based on Ibanez® TS-808 Lower Drive Mod
Overdrive based on Ibanez® TS-7 Hot
Overdrive based on MESA / BOOGIE® Grid Slammer
Overdrive based on Boss® Super Overdrive
Stereo Chorus
Stereo Delay
Stereo Reverb
Additional settings:
Oversampling: no, x2, x4, x8
Samplerate: 44.1, 48, 88.2, 96
Stereo Processing allowed
Modeling
Spark is the realization of all of our latest achievements in the field of real-time electric circuits. First of all, it’s a tube. This allowed us to implement a truly realistic power-saturation (very important for the majority of the Marshall®-based amps), realistic work of the Presence knob and made possible to take into account the influence of the output and power transformers.
Hi channel (switch # 34 = off).
One of more than ten linear circuits modeled for Spark.
We have the improved the cabinet section. Apart from the smooth positioning of microphones, we added an option to mix. This allows you to find pretty much any desired sound. There are four cabs and three microphones at your disposal.
Despite the fact that Spark is an amp and cab sim above all, we gave a lot of attention to the FX section. There is a Noise Gate at the input, as well as a number of pedals: there are currently four overdrives, implemented with our proprietary technology of the electric chain modeling. As for the spatial effects – 1E37A51FF9EE there are Chorus, Delay and Reverb.
Spark’s UI continues our approach of simple usability at no expense to a wide functionality. All main actions require just a single click. We pay a lot of attention to the design, that passes a lot of iterations of adjustments and improvements, offering you a very simple and functional solution.
Key Features
• Electronic circuits of amps and pedals are modeled with our custom technology using Neural Networks
• Pedals, preamp and power amp are working within the same oversampling cycle. Thus, there is no latency build-up and no additional losses when using several anti-aliasing filters
• Realistic and smooth positioning of up to two microphones simultaneously
• Several preamp and power amp tubes to choose from
• Stereo-mode: right and left channels are modeled independently. This mode is useful for processing stereo signals. For example, a panned double tracked guitar
• Delay and reverb can be used in parallel to get a more expressive effect without extra routing
• Plugin supports CPU multi-threading
Amp section:
Based on Marshall® AFD (four channels)
Based on Marshall® JCM 800 (two channels)
Based on Marshall® JMP Super Lead (two channels) with Master Mod
Based on Marshall® JMP Super Bass (two channels) with Master Mod
Tubes: 12AX7 RCA, 12AX7 RSD; 6L6GC, EL34
Cab section:
Based on Bogner® Uberkab 412 – 4×12 Celestion® G12T-75
Based on Bogner® Uberkab 412 – 4×12 Celestion® V30s
Based on Marshall® 1960B – 4×12 Greenback
Based on Marshall® 1960B – 4×12 JBL® K120 (vintage)
Microphones: Shure® SM57, Sennheiser® MD441, Royer® R121
Pedals and FX section:
Noise Gate
Overdrive based on Ibanez® TS-808
Overdrive based on Ibanez® TS-808 Lower Drive Mod
Overdrive based on Ibanez® TS-7 Hot
Overdrive based on MESA / BOOGIE® Grid Slammer
Overdrive based on Boss® Super Overdrive
Stereo Chorus
Stereo Delay
Stereo Reverb
Additional settings:
Oversampling: no, x2, x4, x8
Samplerate: 44.1, 48, 88.2, 96
Stereo Processing allowed
Is there for mac? I’d like to get this but I’m a mac user 🙁