
Other more compact view modes are designed for use on stage. It is here that amp, cabinet, mic and effect parameters can be adjusted, and any setting can be assigned by the user to appear in a strip of ‘smart controls’ along the very bottom of the GUI.

In the main view, called Edit mode, the top half of the GUI shows the layout of the entire signal chain, while an in-depth view of a user-definable area of the layout is shown below. The plug-in’s Graphical User Interface (GUI) can be set to display a number of views, all of which feature a strip that contains a tuner and level meters for the input and output. User patches can be saved, and MIDI commands can be used to switch between banks and presets automatically. The plug-in comes with 12 banks of presets, comprising 93 signal chains and 462 variations, but every parameter of the selected preset can be edited, making the possibilities almost limitless. TH1 features models of eight different guitar amps (with a total of 15 ‘channels’ available), 21 cabinets, and 18 microphone models, plus 50 stomp boxes and rack effects, some of which have been ported from Breverb, Overloud’s reverb software.


Overloud have started shipping their TH1 guitar-processing plug-in, following its launch almost a year ago at the 2008 Winter NAMM show.
