AmpliTube 5 MAX – 400+ Amps, Cabs and Effects for $29.99

Guitarists collect amplifiers the way producers collect plugins — one more cab, one more head, one more pedal, forever. AmpliTube 5 MAX is the software answer to that habit: IK Multimedia’s complete guitar and bass platform, with more than 400 meticulously modelled pieces of gear — amplifiers, cabinets, microphones, stomp effects and studio rack processors — in a single package. At $29.99, the MAX edition costs less than one budget pedal and replaces a room of equipment that most players could never assemble physically.

A Complete Signal Chain, Not Just Amps

The platform is built as a full rig rather than a pile of models. Your chain runs from tuner and pedalboard through amplifier and cabinet to a studio rack with compressors, EQs, gates, reverbs and limiters for final shaping — the same order a recording engineer would build with hardware. Multiple amp and cabinet combinations can run simultaneously for blended tones and honest A/B comparisons, and the models are built from detailed study of the originals: dynamic response, pickup interaction and volume-dependent behavior included, not just a static tonal snapshot.

Volumetric Impulse Response Cabinets

IK’s proprietary Volumetric Impulse Response technology is the technical centerpiece. Instead of capturing a cabinet from one microphone position, it models the cabinet’s full three-dimensional acoustic behavior, which is why AmpliTube rigs sit in a mix with the depth of a recorded amp rather than the flatness of early amp sims. Official Celestion speaker impulse responses are included for authentic British cabinet character, a custom IR loader accepts your own captures, and Amp Match can profile the tone of a real amplifier you own and recreate it inside the platform.

Guitar, Bass, Studio and Stage

Because the collection covers guitar and bass alike, one plugin serves the whole session: guitarists building rigs, engineers re-amping DI tracks without a hardware collection, and live players running a laptop rig that sounds identical in every venue. The breadth is the value — clean, crunch, high-gain, vintage and modern voices are all resident, so tone chasing stops being a purchasing decision and becomes a preset browse.

Re-Amping Without the Amp Room

The workflow AmpliTube makes normal is the one physical studios charge for: record the guitar dry, decide the tone later. A direct track captured tonight can be re-amped through a different head, cabinet and microphone next week, when the mix reveals what the song actually needs, and the project file remembers every setting — something no microphone position on a real cabinet ever offered. Silent recording is the other liberation: full cranked-amp tones at apartment volume, at night, through headphones, with the neighbors unaware. Multi-amp rigs let engineers audition a tone against alternatives honestly, and the included rack processing means a finished guitar sound can be built end-to-end without leaving the plugin. For session work, that recall and flexibility is the difference between a tone you hope returns and a tone you can reload.

Bass players should not feel like guests here, either: the platform covers bass amplifiers and cabinets with the same modelling depth, so a single purchase equips the whole low end of a session as well. Guitar and bass, studio and stage, tracking and mixing — the MAX collection was assembled so that no part of the job requires a second platform.

The Deal

AmpliTube 5 MAX is $29.99: over 400 gear models, the Volumetric IR cabinet system, Celestion IRs and the studio rack, in one instant download. It runs in VST3, AU and AAX on macOS 10.13 and later and Windows 10 and later, inside Logic Pro, Pro Tools, Ableton Live, Cubase and GarageBand. For less than the price of a set of boutique strings per model it contains, this is the guitar platform at its most buyable.