STARK Amp Simulator for iOS

STARK is a fully fledged amplifier simulator consisting of four modules: Amplifier, Cabinet, Room and effects slots. These modules are processing audio separately, which makes it possible to combine different amplifiers with different cabinets and rooms.

The amp module offers 12 different amplifier profiles. It has both a clean mode and a overdrive mode, an equalizer functionality (including presence), and a booster controlling the end stage amplification saturation.

Cabinet simulation consists of 10 different cabinets of various sizes and sound. This module also offers a stereo width knob that simulates the distance between two microphones put in front of the cone.

Room simulation offers 6 different kinds of rooms, where each room size can be changed between Small, Medium and Large. Theres also a decay parameter controlling reflectivity of the walls and a dry/wet mix.

The pedal board contains 4 slots where any of the 14 effects can be inserted. The order of the pedals can easily be changed using drag and drop.

Available amps

American Guitar 1 - An edgy amp that rounds of nicely at the top

American Guitar 2 - Similar to American Guitar 1, but with some more presence

British Guitar A 1 - Gives a full sound with crisp

British Guitar A 2 - Similar to British Guitar A 1, but with more body

British Guitar B 1 - A slightly saturated amp with nice character in the high mids

British Guitar B 2 - Is just like British Guitar B 1 a bit saturated, but with a more linear frequency response

Vintage Guitar - Gives that perfect thickness when playing jazz and soul

General Tube Amp - Low saturation with a fairly linear frequency response

Garage Sale Amp - Limited frequency response and saturates. The obvious LoFi choice

American Bass - A versatile pro bass amp

British Bass - Works fine for more edgy bass playing

Vintage Bass - Perfect for soul/jazz/RnB

Available cabinets

Wide Small - Small speakers, lots of resonances

Tight Small - Small single speakers, few resonances

Wide Combo - Medium speakers, lots of resonances

Tight Combo - Medium speakers, few resonances

Wide Normal - Medium speakers, moderate resonances

Tight Large - Full range speakers, few resonances

Wide Large - Full range speakers, lots of resonances

Radiola - Small (broken) speakers, moderate resonances

Bass - Low end speaker/Medium speakers, few resonances

Passthrough - Full range speakers, no resonances

Available ambiences

Normal - A good sounding recording room

Dark - A room that gives attenuated high frequencies

Bright - More significant reflections at higher frequencies

Cold - A room with attenuated low frequencies

Warm - Gives a livingroom:ish sound

Boomy - Loud and lots of resonances

Available FX pedals

Delay - Digital stereo delay

Chorus - Classic chorus

Flanger - Flanger with feedback, tone, speed, mix and amount

Phaser - Classic phaser with the option to decide how many stages to be used

Reverb - Digital reverb

Vibrato - A stereo vibrato with reshapeable curve

Tremolo - A stereo tremolo with reshapeable curve

Equalizer - 6 band peak filter with fixed frequencies

Compressor - Simple one-knob compressor

Booster - Signal booster (gain, bass and treble)

Distortion - Simple distortion pedal with tone control

Distortion+ - Complex distortion pedal with optional distortion algorithms

Gate - Simple gate

Multiband Gate - Four band spectral gate

There are also about 100 predefined factory presets covering most scenarios.

Full documentation available inside the app or at https://klevgrand.se/downloads/stark-docs/

Audio examples and more info at https://klevgrand.se/products/stark

Obs! STARK consumes a lot of CPU and RAM, so if youre having trouble using multiple instances at the same time, try to freeze some tracks and/or increase the buffer size.

STARK is an AUv3 plugin that only works in an AUv3 compliant host like Garageband, AUM, Cubasis, Beatmaker 3, Auria etc.