Review: Native Instruments Guitar Rig SESSION Full

Posted at April 21, 2010

The award winning Native Instruments Guitar Rig series has been popular amongst musicians who are now opting to utilize their home computers more than ever in the creation of music, ad in some cases, aiding in performing live. The Native Instruments Guitar Rig SESSION hardware bundle retails for an amazingly low $129 bucks and provides a player with everything they need to access the fantastic guitar rig software and plug directly into their computer.

The Guitar Rig Session includes a small but powerful USB powered hardward I/O which has good quality 24-bit/192 kHz converters for great sound and is constructed out of high quality aluminum chassis (like Apple).

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While Native Studios could have put a guitar input and stopped their, they realized that many people also need vocal solutions and included phantom-powered studio-quality microphone preamp in the back of the device. This allows for just about anyone to go forth and plug a mic into this monster and start laying down vocals over their tunes with Guitar Rig 4 Session. This does make sense though, as Guitar Rig 3 and 4 by Native Studios include many new vocal and live effect patches.

Guitar Rig 4 software is nothing short of amazing. For anyone unfamiliar with Guitar Rig, basically, using modern software technique, this company has ben able to emulate hundreds of quality effects, amp, and mic sounds using powerful software. The resulting sound in Guitar Rig Sessions is convincing, cutting, and recorded in high fidelity. Aside from all that power, it is simply very fun to scroll through the many cool effects and patches which will make your guitar sound like anything you want it to. Basically, if there is a sound in your head, Guitar Rig Session 4 can get it for you.

The full spec inputs for Native Instruments Guitar Rig include: 2 balanced inputs: 1 Mic/Line/Hi-Z (phantom power supplied) and 1 Line/Hi-Z; individual gain controls with activity and clip LEDs.

Software in Guitar Rig 4 Sessions includes over 27 crafted effects, 8 guitar and bass amps, integrated metronome and tuner.

If you are new to this you must realize one thing though- Guitar Rig Session software does not record your music itself, but rather is a plug in which works with your own multi track software recorders, such as Pro Tools, or my personal favorite, Cubase. Thus, in connection with these powerful recorders, Guitar Rig provides some of the best sounding effects and modeling of amps around.