Mercuriall Audio Releases SS-11X Amp Sim

Hollin Jones on Tue, September 25th 0 comments

Get a Fender-inspired sound for your productions with this attractively priced amp sim from independent developer Mercuriall Audio.

Independent Russian developer Mercuriall Audio, the pioneer of powering amp-sims with neural networks, has released the newest product SS-11X, based on a tube preamp AMT SS-11 (versions A and B) providing Fender-style clean sound and powerful, roaring crunch and lead channels. The project is officially approved and supported by AMT Electronics, who supplied them with electric circuits, hardware prototypes and production 3D models. This gave them the ability to model the SS-11X in extreme detail, making it virtually impossible to distinguish the sound difference between hardware or software.

"One of the aims of this project was to create a very simple and affordable software with friendly and attractive user interface, as well as lower system requirements. Even though the main objective was modeling the preamp, we included some other important features. The SS-11X has a noise gate, a collection of overdrive pedals, cabinet IR loader, reverb IR loader and an option to choose the preamp tubes. This lets anyone create a solid guitar sound quickly and effortlessly within one simple window.

SS-11X opens a new chapter in the history of Mercuriall Audio - it is the first product where we use our brand new, cutting edge technology named Neural Hybrid Engine. It is a much more precise, flexible and faster method for modeling electric circuits. As the pioneers of integrating neural networks in amp sims, it took us 5 years of research and development to create the Neural Hybrid Engine and successfully build SS-11X using it. We also applied our tube curve tracer machine to make sure each tube model is unique, just as in real life."

Features

Preamp section

Full, official modeling of AMT SS-11A and SS-11B tube preamps
Tubes: 12AX7, 6N2P-EV

Pedals 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 Ibanez® TS-7 Mod
Overdrive based MESA/BOOGIE® Grid Slammer
Overdrive based on Boss® Super Overdrive

IR section

Built-in cabinet IRs
IR loader for guitar cabinets
Built in reverb IRs
IR loader for reverb

Cabinet IRs provided by (in alphabetical order)

George Constantine Kratsas - (Mercuriall Audio artist)
Morton Studio (Mercuriall Audio endorser)
NC-REC
NRQ’s Studio
OwnHammer
Sound Way Records
TA Production
USOUNDWORKS

Additional settings

Quality (oversampling): no, x2, x4, x8
Sample rate: 44.1, 48, 88.2, 96
Stereo/Mono processing

Supported platforms and formats

Mac: VST2 x64, VST3 x64, AU x64, AAX x64 (Pro Tools 11 and newer)
PC: VST2 x64, VST3 x64, AAX x64 (Pro Tools 11 and newer)

Prices

â-   Full price - $39.99
â-   Special price for new customers for the first 48 hours after release - $35.99
â-   Price for existing Mercuriall customers - $29.99

Web: https://mercuriall.com/cms/

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Hollin Jones

Hollin Jones was classically trained as a piano player but found the lure of blues and jazz too much to resist. Graduating from bands to composition then production, he relishes the chance to play anything with keys. A sometime lecturer in videographics, music production and photography post production, Hollin has been a freelance writer on music technology and Apple topics for well over a decade, along the way publishing several books on audio software. He has been lead writer at a number of prominent music and technology publications. As well as consultancy, full-time journalism, video production and professional photography, he occasionally plays Hammond, Rhodes and other keys for people who ask nicely. Hollin is Contributing Editor at Ask.Audio.