Finding the best electric guitar VST plugins is not easy. There is a ton of bloatware to be sifted through. Which is why, we did the graft to collate this list of the best electric Guitar VST that the depths of the internet can offer.
Many of these plugins sound incredibly realistic and offer a wide variety of sounds that encompass various genres and subgenres of rock and metal. They also boast a melange of heavy, crunch, and distortion amp simulations. So, without further ado, let’s get started fellas.
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5+ Best Electric Guitar VST Plugins 2024
1) Electri6ity
Big Fish Audio’s Electri6ity is every beginner guitarist’s dream come true. Speaking from experience, we know how dialling in great guitar tones is not easy but Electri6ity makes it all an easy affair.
For starters, Electri6ity comes with 8 different virtual guitar emulations (including Strat, Tele, P90, etc.) with carefully crafted Downstroke/upstroke/Picked/strummed patterns and velocity layers that offer realistic guitar recording.
Given the number of features and applicability of guitar in a number of genres, Electri6ity can be a permanent addition to your Guitar VST arsenal for years to come.
2) BlueCat’s Re Guitar
BlueCat’s Re Guitar offers interesting bright, jangly guitar sounds that defined bands such as The Stone Roses, and The Smiths in the 1980’s.
Re Guitar emulates a typical fender stratocaster sound and features a smorgasbord of strumming patterns, and chord variations.
Paired with a guitar preamp VST, Re Guitar can help you craft a marvelous guitar tone with a rich harmonic range in a short time.
Especially, if you are a fan of the bright, and twangy tone of Stratocasters, Re Guitar is one of the best electric guitar VST plugins out there available at an affordable price point.
SEE ALSO: 5 Best Acoustic Guitar Preamp Plugins3) Heavyocity Scoring Guitars 2
We have already covered this plugin in our list of the best acoustic guitar VSTs, and thought it does warrant an addition here as well.
Heavyocity’s Scoring Guitars 2 for Kontakt can dial in some serious heavy guitar sounds reminiscent of Hans Zimmer soundtracks.
Especially, if you are looking for a distinct guitar sound with lots of high gain lead guitar tones, Scoring Guitars 2 is worth its weight in gold.
Heavyocity’s Scoring Guitars 2 for Kontakt is a great addition especially if you are into cinematic guitar music production with ambient background pads as well certain eclectic sub-genres of metal thrown in for a good measure.
SEE ALSO: 5 Free Guitar Amp Plugins4) Electrum
A one-stop destination for everything that a typical guitar VST has to offer and more, Electrum claims to “match any guitar style, tone or playing technique” be it Rhythm guitar or blazing fast arpeggio ridden solos at 220 BPM and beyond!
Seriously, with 5 guitar amps, 300+ cabinets, Electrum does have a lot of firepower for covering guitar tones used in genres straddling jazz, 60s blues to modern metal music.
Electrum also boasts a ton of essential pedal configurations such as Reverb, delay, EQ, and modulation effects such as Phaser, Chorus, flanger, tremolo, you name it.
Dialling in tones is also quite easy since all the controls and parameters are available within a single GUI window.
SEE ALSO: 5 Free Acoustic Guitar Plugins5) Shreddage 3 (Free)
Considered by many as one of the best electric guitar VST plugins for metal music production, Shreddage 3 is a must have for all you diehard shredholics out there who like their distortion cranked to the max with thick gain.
To top it all off, Shreddage 3 is a free guitar VST. Woot woot!
For starters, Shreddage 3 can easily emulate guitar tones of some of your favorite classic metal bands such as Megadeth, Judas Priest, Metallica, Anthrax, you get the gist.
The GUI is neat and intuitive, hence dialling in dirty distorted guitar laden tones won’t be a problem with Shreddage 3 at the helm.
SEE ALSO: 5 Free Preamp Plugins
