Ample Guitar TC
by Ample Sound · Instrument · Sampled electric guitar (Fender Telecaster)
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Ample Guitar TC is a sampled Fender Telecaster (John English Masterbuilt) that runs in Ample Sound's own plugin.
It has neck and bridge libraries, 10 articulations, a built-in amp section, a riff editor and Guitar Pro tab import. It costs $149.
Best for: Guitars. Genres: Rock & Indie, Pop.
Keywords: guitar instrument, sample-based, clean, chord generator, crunchy, monophonic, bright, leads, polyphonic, sequencer, smooth.
What it does
Ample Guitar TC is Ample Sound's sampled Telecaster. The developer's aim is to bring "a Fender Telecaster (John English Masterbuilt) sound" to your studio, with its own amp section on board.
- Two pickups: a library with separate Neck and Bridge sample sets.
- Ten articulations: sustain, palm mute, natural harmonic, hammer-on and pull-off, legato slide, slide in, slide out, pop, pinch harmonic and dead note.
- Realism: left-hand performance noises.
- Legato and tuning: a polyphonic legato and slide smoother for legato at any interval and speed, and drop tuning with the lowest note down to D1.
- Riffer 4: a MIDI riff editor that switches between piano-roll and guitar-tab views, treats chords as single Strum Note objects, stops two notes landing on one string, has CC and velocity editors, and comes with hundreds of riffs.
- Strummer and Tab Reader 4: the Strummer detects chords in two modes (or takes custom chords) and plays them through a strum sequencer with a rhythm library you can drag out as MIDI; Tab Reader imports Guitar Pro GP3 to GP8 files with fingering and articulations kept.
- Amp and effects: an amp section with 7 heads (Metal Double, Metal Treble, Lead 800, Jazz 120, 65 Twang, 65 Delight and 57 Delight) and 8 cabinets, each captured with 8 microphones, plus 8-band EQ, compressor, delay and convolution reverb.
The product page shows no version number.
Source: Ample Sound product page
When to use it
Ample Guitar TC is a focused Telecaster rather than an all-round electric guitar. It is about clean and crunchy single-coil twang, where Heavier7Strings (Three-Body Technology), the rated guitar instrument on the site, is built for seven-string metal. It also suits a different part of the arrangement from Tonalic (Celemony, rated), which plays recorded acoustic performances. Its nearest rivals in approach are MusicLab RealStrat and RealLPC. Bedroom Producers Blog noted it is not suited to a mellow jazz tone; for that, Ample's Semi Hollow is the better pick.
- Best for: twangy clean and crunch rhythm parts, chicken-picked lines and funk chops.
- Genres: country, funk, indie rock, blues and pop.
- Look elsewhere if: you want warm jazz tones (Ample Guitar Semi Hollow), humbucker rock (Ample Guitar LP) or modern metal (Heavier7Strings).
- Tip: use the Strummer's string-ring control to go from sustained indie jangle to tight, percussive funk, as Bedroom Producers Blog suggests.
What producers say
Reviews of the TC II generation were positive about the authentic twang; the main gripe then, a missing neck pickup, has since been fixed.
- Sample Library Review gave TC II its Top Pick award for electric guitar, praising the expressive clean tone, realistic string noise and tab-to-MIDI; it preferred third-party effects to the built-in ones.
- Bedroom Producers Blog (2016) found it "very Telecaster", bright and twangy with clean samples and light RAM use; it wanted more simple strum patterns and noted only the bridge pickup was sampled at the time.
Where to buy
- Ample Sound: $149
- Plugin Boutique: $149
Tutorials and reviews
- Ample Sound – Ample Guitar TC (Fender Telecaster) All Presets…
- AMPLE SOUND GUITAR TC - TELECASTER - ALL PRESETS
- Ample Guitar TC Demo - Tele Funk
- Ample Guitar TC Demo - New Guitar
- Ample Guitar TC Demo - Live House
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