Clicking on any of five graphics at the top of the photo-realistic GUI provides access to: a 9-band graphic equalizer that builds on the original hardware's 5-band, a stomp pedal board with Compressor, Overdrive-1 and 2, plus a lovely Chorus pedal. There is also an effects pedal board with a stereo tempo-locked delay and reverb pedal with pre-delay and then there is a complete cabinet page where you can choose your favorite microphone and set its exact positioning by dragging it anywhere with your mouse.

I liked that after all these tweaks you can store it all as a preset and then switch back to the main page for both front and rear panel views. This is as close as you can get to actually owning and using a Mesa Boogie amp and it was really what initially attracted me to getting it!

My tests in Pro Tools included using already recorded direct guitar tracks; Neural DSP has mono-to-stereo instances that were great for making a stereo presentation of mono recorded guitar. Both the reverbs and delays project out stereophonically automatically in this mode and definitely sound amazing. In addition, the cabinet page has L/R Room mics you can pan and adjust their levels.

Lastly, there are three more features: Transpose shifts up/down in semi-tone increments up to +/- an octave and then there is the Doubler with a L/R Spread control. Gate is a simple noise gate with adjustable Threshold. All these controls and their settings are fully automatable.

One of many guitar plug-in suites from Neural DSP, the Mesa Boogie Mark IIC+ Suite sells for $99 MSRP.

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