Sample Audio

Special thanks to HJ Borutta and Jake Alvarez for these recordings!
Here are seven Velvet Current samples:

Song 1
HJ Borutta plays clean and direct with no amp.

Song 2
Same performance, through the Kalamazoo (Gibson)
GA20. MD421 and R-121 are on and panned. Room mics
are also on, phase reversed. Tone is at 3:00

Song 3
Same signal through the Velvetone Custom 460.
Treble is up a little, Presence on, a touch of Vibrato
and Reverb. MD421 and R121 mics are on and panned,
RE20 is on and phase-reversed.

Song 4
Same signal through the Brownface Vibrasonic.
A tiny bit of Presence, vibrato and reverb.
MD421 and R121 mics are on and panned. Room mics
are up pretty hot, phase reversed.

Song 5 (Velvet Demo 1)
00:00 - Direct Guitar
00:09 - Velvetone Custom 460 - All amp controls at their
default. SM57 and Room mics only, no panning
00:19 - Brownface, Bass cranked, Presence at 1:00.
Trem Depth at 1:00, Trem Spd at noon.
Reverb at 12:00. SM57 (edge) and MD421 (center) panned.
Room mics up and in phase
00:28 - Kalamazoo (Gibson) GA-20 - Tone all the way up
‍ ‍Only the RE20 and Room mics are up, both in phase
00:38 - Brownface - Gain switch on, Bass cranked, Presence at 10:30. Reverb at 11:00
R121 and RE20 mics, both panned slightly

Song 6 (Velvet Demo 2)
00:00 - Direct Guitar
00:25 - Velvetone Custom 460 - All amp controls at their
default. SM57 and Room mics only, no panning
00:50 - Brownface, Bass cranked, Presence at 1:00.
Trem Depth at 1:00, Trem Spd at Noon.
Reverb at 12:00. SM57 (edge) and MD421 (center) panned.
Room mics up and in phase
01:15 - Kalamazoo (Gibson) GA-20 - Tone all the way up
‍ ‍Only the RE20 and Room mics are up, both in phase

Song 7 (Velvet Demo 3)
00:00 - Direct Guitar
00:13 - Velvetone Custom 460 - All amp controls at their
default. SM57 and Room mics only, no panning
00:25 - Brownface, Bass cranked, Presence at 1:00.
Trem Depth at 1:00, Trem Spd at Noon.
Reverb at 12:00. SM57 (edge) and MD421 (center) panned.
Room mics up and in phase
00:50 - Kalamazoo (Gibson) GA-20 - Tone all the way up
‍ ‍Only the RE20 and Room mics are up, both in phase

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PME Records · Velvet Current Demo Songs

VELVET CURRENT

Vintage Jazz Amp Collection

Three more rare vintage amplifiers from the Rocky Mountain Music Museum, meticulously modeled for clean jazz, country, and Americana tones.

The Magnatone Custom 460

The largest and most elaborate of the Magnatone line, this is a powerful amp with a long reach.

Best for:
✓ Jazz
✓ Chord melody
✓ solo guitar tracks

Three Rare Fully-Tube Amps

Most people have never even played through these amps

VIDEO

In the walkthrough, come with us as we go through the controls. You’ll be surprised at how easy it is to get around, and how quickly you can get a great tone!

Meet the Amps

The Fender Vibrasonic ProTotype

An amazing amp, considered the best Fender ever produced. And we included the famous vibrato!

Best for:
✓ Vintage Jazz
✓ Slide guitar
✓ Anything you want crystal clean

Features

The Gibson GA-20

A great little amp with an intimate, bluesy sound. From Gibson’s Golden Era.

Best for:
✓ Country
✓ Americana
✓ Fingerstyle

Movable Microphones

Three of the mics are easily positioned without the need for complicated graphics

Blend Close and Room Mics

Full mixer section allows customizations that would take hours in the studio

Standalone or DAW

Low latency means we’ve got you covered, even for live use

Engineering

Authentic modeling, not guesswork.

Painstaking sampling sessions using neural modeling. Features that couldn’t be captured using this modeling were built with circuit analysis. But that’s only part of the story. We also used the reference mics that are the most popular for guitarists - the Shure SM57, Sennheiser MD421, and Royer R-121 ribbon were used to capture the authentic sound of each amp’s speaker in multiple positions, and the Electro-Voice RE-20 was used as a rear mic, or a port mic, if a port was available. Phase coherency is already applied to every mic, eliminating guesswork. A stereo ORTF pair was also used to capture the sound of the room at Fun House Studios in Colorado, an intimate room that gives a sound perfect for clean guitar. Polarity buttons are available for the rear and room mics, to help shape the sound to your preference, as not everyone wants the phase coherency to be correct.

Bypasses Give You Complete Control

Both the amp section and the speaker mixer section have separate bypass buttons. This lets you use your own IR captures in another plugin, placed right after this one, putting the amp through whatever speakers you desire. You can also bypass the amp, and use only the speaker response on another source. Or, you can record the way Johnny Smith did - direct out from the amp with no speakers at all.

The Rocky Mountain Music Museum

Located in Englewood, Colorado, the museum is home to an amazing collection of vintage guitar amps. We’ve meticulously analyzed a total of nine of these amps, and Velvet Current is the last in a set of three plugins dedicated to preserving their sound.

Specifically designed for clean bright Jazz, Country, slide guitar, accordion, steel guitar, and other instruments and genres that focus on the quality of the amp’s reproduction of the instrument, rather than how much distortion can be produced.

Check out the manual right now!

FAQ

Yes! The standalone version comes with the plugin. You can select which version(s) you want to install, and your authorization covers everything.
Yes to both!
Yes! Windows 10 and 11 are supported, and you can very likely run on older versions too. And any DAW that will run a VST3 plugin will work as well.
You don’t. You can run standalone. But virtually any DAW will work too.
Yes. You’ll need to create an account, and the download process requires an internet connection. Without a connection, you can still authorize offline, and in that case no more internet will be required, ever. If you authorize the normal qay, you’ll need to have an active internet connection whenever you start the standalone OR the plugin version up.

All trademarks and logos are property of their respective companies. No association is implied, or should be inferred. Their presence here is documentary in nature, to convey that Sonatura has used those products as the basis of research only.

MAC:

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

macOS 11 (Big Sur) or later
Compatible with both Intel and Apple Silicon (M1/M2/M3) processors

For Macs, you will very likely need to go to "system settings" and then to "confidentiality and security" and select "Open Anyway." Apple does not have a current method for us to eliminate this warning system.

WINDOWS:

Windows 10 (64-bit) or later

Processor with AVX support (since about 2011)

FORMATS:

MAC
VST3
AU
Standalone

PC
VST3
Standalone